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by superasn 1438 days ago
Yes one other trick that has worked for me is you put alarm for sleep not waking up.

So i put three alarms in alexa everyday at 7:30pm, 8:00pm and 8:30pm where alexa says "time to sleep, I'm reminding you time to sleep for a great day tomorrow and last is final reminder, it's time to sleep." respectively.

I have seen that 3 reminders to sleep does it and we all go to bed always before the 3rd reminder. I have never slept before 4am otherwise. So weird a robot voice can have this effect, but its the only thing that was able to fix my sleep schedule.

The only con is when you have guests over and alexa starts speaking like this, it can make things very weird and people feel we are trying to make them leave :P

1 comments

Wow, sleeping at 7:30pm or even 8 is super early. Lucky you! I assume you don’t live in a city.
Not OP, but where I am in the tropics it's quite common for everybody to go to bed at 8 or 8:30 and get up at 5. It gets dark at 5:45pm every day and light at 5:30am, so by getting up at 5 you optimize your daylight hours. Also it's cooler before the sun is fully blazing at 9:30am, so the early morning hours are best for jogging, outdoor errands, etc.
Definitely worth optimising for daylight hours if you're only getting 15 minutes of it!
Doh! Edited.