Is this healthy?? (Sleeping routine)

So I have recently realized that I work my best in the early mornings and this was proven yesterday when I went to sleep at 9pm and woke up at 3am (Exam Anxiety) and revised straight until around 7am without procrastinating and I got a lot of stuff done!

I realize that if I get home (around 5pm) I tend to procrastinate a lot thinking that I have loads of time to study until I sleep. I end up going to bed at 2am with only getting about an hours worth of work done. So this is not productive at all for me and I also always feel so tired when I get back from school so I am too lazy to do any proper work and I relax a lot.

Today I went to bed as soon as I got home (5pm) and I slept 7/8 hours (or maybe a bit more) and now I have woken up and I am ready to revise with a lot of time and energy on me. So now my plan is to go to sleep as soon as I get home (5pm), sleep what I would have slept later on (7/8 hours) then wake up at around 1am and keep studying until 7am and then get ready for school.

I know this isnt what normal people do and its a real strange routine but it helps me revise for exams at my best especially seeing as I am pretty behind. I was just wondering if this will mess with my head or is it bad/unhealthy to have this time of sleeping pattern?

Thanks!

Reply 1

desertlover

8

Personally, i think you should do whatever works for you. Besides its not as if you are losing out on much sleep you are still getting around 8 hours. Just make sure you are eating enough and perhaps taking a few breaks so you don't go mad. I wish I could so this, how do you wake up so early???

Reply 2

muf_mur

19

Actually the exact same method worked best for me but it was hard to keep up since something always came up at least once a week disturbing my sleeping schedule.Also after about 6-7 weeks I was completely burnt out and I was back to my old unproductive method.
I used to sleep at 8-9pm and wake up around 3am.

Reply 3

ilovereading

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Original post by desertlover

Personally, i think you should do whatever works for you. Besides its not as if you are losing out on much sleep you are still getting around 8 hours. Just make sure you are eating enough and perhaps taking a few breaks so you don't go mad. I wish I could so this, how do you wake up so early???

Yes, I need to start eating because so far I am eating only a small breakfast and sometimes a couple snacks for a whole 24 hours which is not healthy at all. I have been relaxing the whole year so I have kind of excused myself from breaks at the moment but you are probably right since I feel the madness coming on. I didnt realize I could wake up this early either but I guess the anxiety of exams made me wake up and I have a permanent knot in my stomach so I thought "why not revise in this time?". I rather do it the normal way tbh but beggars cant be choosers.

Reply 4

ilovereading

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Original post by muf_mur

Actually the exact same method worked best for me but it was hard to keep up since something always came up at least once a week disturbing my sleeping schedule.Also after about 6-7 weeks I was completely burnt out and I was back to my old unproductive method.
I used to sleep at 8-9pm and wake up around 3am.

I know what you mean, this week I have at least one disturbance where I have to attend a medicine event at like 8pm which will mess up my schedule and I'm thinking of cancelling. I have like 3 weeks until exams start so I guess this is just a short term thing. When you say burnt out, was it because of doing so much revision or was it because of the sleeping pattern?

Reply 5

Banana00

21

If this sleeping schedule works for you, I say go for it. Just make sure it's not making you really tired later in the day; maybe this is why you are less productive at, say, 5pm, because your body is abnormally tired after getting up so early.

Reply 6

muf_mur

19

Original post by ilovereading

I know what you mean, this week I have at least one disturbance where I have to attend a medicine event at like 8pm which will mess up my schedule and I'm thinking of cancelling. I have like 3 weeks until exams start so I guess this is just a short term thing. When you say burnt out, was it because of doing so much revision or was it because of the sleeping pattern?

Both I think.

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