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Old Sep 12, 2018, 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by BirdDancer View Post
I'm curious, have you tried setting an alarm and trying to get up after fewer hours sleep? If not, it might be worth trying and seeing how you feel once you get up, after doing that for a few days. Nine hours might be a good starting goal. That's a good amount of sleep, but not too much.
Yes, I have been wanting to reduce the amount I sleep...12 hours is way too much.

I think it's part of the depression I'm going through right now but it's something I can control with an alarm. I'll try 9 hours for a while and see how it goes.

The strange thing is that I can get up early (say around the 9h mark of sleep), have coffee, and even drive my wife to the train station, and I am still able to go back to sleep to get to 12 hours of sleep! I'm hoping the Modafinil will help me avoid that if I take it as soon as I get up.
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