It’s best to follow your body clock, and not force yourself to wake up and go to sleep at times that aren’t natural for you. 😴
Usually, the majority of people wake up around 7 a.m. and go to sleep around 11 p.m., he explained. But some people are at one extreme or the other and have either an advanced sleep phase or a delayed sleep phase .
“We have genes from our parents, but there’s always an interaction between genetics and our environment,” he said. “We often don’t listen to our biological clocks due to work or social events, but there is probably a single gene or genetic variant that causes [these extremes in sleep schedules].” Even though advanced sleep phase syndrome is more common than Ptacek and his colleagues originally thought, this type of extreme sleep schedule is still pretty rare, so chances are you’re probably not 1 out of these 300 people whose body is best served by waking up at 4 a.m. In this case, it’s best not to force yourself to be.
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