re: Anybody else just can’t sleep late?

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I have no problems falling asleep. None. But I can’t sleep past 4:30 or 5, even when I’m off. Went to bed last night a little after the ballgame about 10:30 or 11 and woke up about 4. I don’t drink alcohol either. Guess I’m just getting old.

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although I've never been able to sleep in, the older I get, the earlier I wake up.

the absolute latest I'll sleep is about 530am, and that's only if I woke up in the middle of the night and had trouble falling back asleep.

if I sleep through the night, I'm usually up by 4.

It's probably been well over 10 years I woke up after 7am (aside from vacationing in another time zone).

Can't sleep past 5 AM unless I take ibuprofen before bed - which the family physician says is bad for you.

So I usually skip the ibuprofen and wake up at 5 AM.

Naps

I'm kinda like that. My kids are in their mid-twenties, out on their own now,
but I am up at 5-5:30 M-F, and up around 6 on weekends. Every once in awhile I will wake up at 7 am on Sunday and celebrate in my head all day for this.

I'm up at 4-5 daily and am usually in bed by 8-9 for at least 10 years.

I only use an alarm clock (set the alarm on my watch, more correctly) if I have an early morning flight. Otherwise I wake up whenever I wake up.

Usually it’s pre-dawn but sometimes it’s later.

I wake up like an archetype of a fireman: as soon as my eyes open, I am 100% awake, no coffee needed.

I can go back to sleep if I want to, and that’s also true at any time during the day. I can go to sleep within 5-10 minutes at any point. I am crazily zen-like in control of my sleep process.

My heart rate regularly gets down to around 40 bpm during sleep at 3:00-5:00 am.

I am grateful for my sleep superpower.

Most nights I don’t sleep at all. I stay busy running my 10 international companies. I have to be up when they’re up. I’ve grown used to it. I generally take a break about 3:00 am and split a cord of wood or two just to decompress. Generally after that I hit the gym for a couple of hours the a quick 20 mile run to the LSU lakes where I keep my yak for 50-60 laps around the lake. I double up on the weekends. Got a quick trip to Dubai this afternoon in my G7. It’s kind of small but I’m about to get something a little bigger. Elon is always giving me shite about. He’s a crazy man. We’re having dinner before heading back.

OT am I doing this right?

I can sleep until the sun comes up but that's it.

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But I can’t sleep past 4:30 or 5,

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I start work (from home) at 5:30 am weekdays so I'm used to getting up at 4:45 am or so.

On the weekends if I sleep till 6 am it's rare.

Plus my dog usually comes and get's in the bed around 4 am