If you’ve ever grappled with your ability to move your sleep or wake times, this is for you.
It’s not a high-tech solution. It doesn’t involve grounding. (Though, please, walk barefoot outside when you can!)
I’ve also never read research on this.
It is simply what I do and what works for me.
I call it the 15-minute shuffle. Well, I just started calling it that now because it looked fun as a subject line. I don’t really call it anything.
I just do it.
When I need to adjust to a new wake time, I try my ever-loving best to move up on that time in 15-minute increments.
I move my wake (and, ideally, sleep) time forward or back by 15 minutes per day at most.
Even better is when I’ve had the forethought to move it 15 minutes every two days.
This is:
- Useful coming out of summer holiday mode
- Useful when going somewhere in a different time zone
- Useful when moving clocks back or forward in fall or spring
So, for example, approaching the “Spring Forward,” I would try to start 8 days out. I’d move our wake-up time from 7 to 6:45 for two days, then to 6:30 for two days…and so on.
Until, on the day of the change, I’m waking up at 6, which Springs Forward to 7, as if nothing ever happened.
Basic but helpful.
End-of-summerly,
James
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