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by fphhotchips 4667 days ago
I hate these articles. Not because they aren't useful, but because I wake up a couple hours before my partner, and she sleeps on a schedule that's so precise I'm not sure she's human. I'm jealous, and in order to not get killed in a domestic dispute, changes like temperature control ("It's too cold!"), sunrise alarm clocks ("Turn that goddamned light off!") and light control ("Those black out shades are ugly!") are not practical.

Tl;dr: if you want to use these techniques to get a good night's sleep, get used to sleeping alone.
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Kequc 4666 days ago
Your SO is oscar the grouch?? Realistically though just alter your schedule or ask her to alter hers.

Switch to a bucket of water being dumped on you to wake you up. After she has a nervous breakdown that the bed is soaking wet suggest that you tried temperature changes, sunrise alarm clocks and darker shades. But she was against all of them.

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fphhotchips 4666 days ago
She's not if I let her keep her sleep schedule! A couple of days off of it and I'm afraid she's going to move in to a tin garbage can though...

I am trying/have tried other methods of sleep optimisation though. I tried Gnaural (brain entrainment software - placebo or not I found it worked reasonably well) combined with Sleep Phones (http://www.sleepphones.com/). The sleep phones also help with an alarm that I can hear and she can't.

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