Some of it is genetic but mostly it’s conditioning, like in the Military.
EDIT: To clarify, veterans often (but not always) wake up before dawn consistently for decades after their service. I don’t really recommend it as an option, but it’s proof of concept.
Yeah, I got the conditioning during college. Work 32 hours a week while taking 15 credits, you won’t have time for sleep. Work 7:30am-4pm MWF, go right to campus for some homework and dinner before class 6pm-9pm. Then go home and do homework/sleep. Tu/Tr have class from 10am-2pm and work 3pm-7pm and then work on homework, housework, gym. You won’t have the energy to stay up late.
OK, so what you want to do is stay awake for atleast 20 hours, sleep for like 5 hours then wake up, do this for a while then pick a time to go to bed, now you gotta drink some sleepy time tea, set a few alarms and fall asleep, you should sleep for about 8 hours, and wake up refreshed, now repeat this every night until you don’t need the tea.
You gotta overload your circadian rhythm to reset it.
Every time I try this, I usually just end up passing out at like 4pm and then just crashing until noon the next day. It never works. Making up for sleep debt, is what I like to call it.
The only thing that helps is getting a job that requires me to wake up at 1am, but even then my body still doesn’t want to get up before 12pm on the weekends.
Currently up while my baby sleeps next to me. Some of us put the baby to bed and then lie in a dark silent room for two hours then wake up at 4am to feed the baby and are up 2 more hours.
Ooh, I have an answer that works. Get really fucking drunk over the course of a couple of hours starting around 8pm. Then take a moderate sleeping pill. You might need to train for some years, first, to not wake up with a hangover.
Source: wake up between 530-630am naturally on weekends.
For anyone reading this - do not do this. There is a huge risk of aspirating on your own vomit and dying because you don’t wake up due to the sleeping pill.
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