As soon as the sun rises, I hide under my duvet. If I must emerge, I put the kettle in the fridge and wear jumpers inside out. At night, I could run a marathon and write a novel...it wouldn’t be good, but it would get done. Like one in four of us, I’m a night person. An owl, with fewer feathers.
When I worked from home, this wasn’t a problem. On weekdays, I’d write in the evenings, undistracted by e-mails. On weekends, I’d be the last person at a party. But this year, I got an office job—9.30am to 6 pm—and it was miserable. So, when I read about a regime that could turn me into a morning person*, I wanted in.
The plan, devised by experts at the universities of Birmingham and Surrey, UK, and Monash University, Australia, aimed to bring people’s body clocks forward by two hours. After three weeks, night people, they said, would be able to focus better in the mornings, feel more awake during the day, and less stressed. Because as much as I like the nights, they don’t like me—studies show that night people have a higher risk of heart disease, diabetes, and mental health issues. Could I really change the habit of a lifetime? It was time to find out...
WEEK 1
When the alarm goes off at 6 am, I fling back the curtains. Sunlight stimulates cortisol (the stress hormone we need to wake up) and suppresses melatonin (the hormone that tells us to go to sleep). It’s two hours before I need to get up to go to work, and four hours before I’d prefer to get up—at 10 am. I throw on some clothes and dash off to a HIIT class, rushing back two minutes later to pick up my work bag. I’m thankful it isn’t the dead of winter, yet—it’s not quite pitch black, but I have vowed to get a blue light-emitting lamp, as they replicate the effect of sunshine.
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