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You're never too young or old to have a bedtime 🥱🛌😴

I'm a firm believer that human beings ideally should be going to sleep and waking up with the sun. That means you should be waking up in the morning just before the sun begins to rise so that you do not miss out on precious daylight. You also should begin to wind down after the sunsets and darkness fall.

For me right now, the sunrise is at 7:30 am and the sunset is at 7:40 pm. I do wake up with the sun, but I stay up several hours after sunset. If I didn't, I'd be sleeping 12 hours a day and I just don't need that much rest. I always feel great with a solid 7-8 hours.

There are some places in the world where during parts of the year, there is no such thing as nighttime. In those instances, I imagine people's bodies get really confused about when exactly they should be sleeping. Think of Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, or even Alaska. They are all very north on planet earth and each of them has a time period where it stays daylight 24-7 for a time period. People that live in those areas don't seem to be falling apart because of that, so I assume that we can bend the rules of sleep quite a bit.

I've had a time period where I worked the night shift. Back then, I always seemed to be tired and couldn't ever find the optimum levels of sleep. I was awake after sunrise every single day and it begins to affect me in negative ways. I wrecked two cars during this time and that is something I never had done before. I also haven't done it again since getting back on a good sleep schedule. I blame those car wrecks on long-term sleep deprivation.

One way that I make sure I go to bed and wake up at the same time is Apple's innovative bedtime settings. Your phone will alert you that it is time to start getting ready for bed and then it silences all notifications during a certain window of time. This means you don't ever have to worry about getting woken up by a vibrating iPhone. Once it's time to wake up, your alarm goes off and you know it is time to start the day. I've gotten into such a habit that I usually wake up a few moments before my alarm goes off. I sometimes stay up past my bedtime and get less sleep than I'd like, but I try to make that a rare thing so that I'm always feeling rested.

I'm curious when all of your sleep. I know all of us are on different schedules and some people don't have the option to sleep exactly when they'd like to. I consider myself lucky that I can go to bed and wake up at whatever time I choose. My schedule is extremely flexible and I think that is why it's so easy for me to sleep so consistently.

Comment below with your bedtime settings. When do you go to sleep and wake up?