{"id":36440,"date":"2025-07-30T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/delayed-sleep-phase\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:58:16","slug":"delayed-sleep-phase","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/delayed-sleep-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"delayed sleep phase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We all know what delayed sleep phase syndrome is\u2014even if we don\u2019t know it by name. Remember how you felt last Monday morning\u2014when the alarm went off for work? If getting out of bed was a struggle\u2014harder than it is on other workdays\u2014then you most likely were experiencing delayed sleep\u2014brought on by staying up late, and sleeping in, over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The human circadian rhythm is 25 hours long. In a 24 hour world, we continually need to re-set this rhythm\u2014usually by waking up at a set hour every day. If we allow ourselves to sleep in on weekends, however, we begin the process of allowing our natural clock to take over. If we wake up an hour later, we want to fall asleep an hour later. If we fall asleep an hour later, we will want to wake up an hour later. And so on. <\/p>\n<p>The best way to limit the natural tendency of our body to phase delay is to get up every <\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">morning at the same time. If you stayed up late on Friday night, make sure you get out of <\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">bed within an hour of your normal wake-up time on Saturday. Do the same thing on Sunday morning\u2014even<\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> if you stayed up late again on Saturday night. By the time it becomes dark on Sunday night, you will be feeling sleepy, and it will be easy for you to fall into bed early, and get that sleep you need for the work week.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Back to <a href=\"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/other-disorders\/\" id=\"88\" option=\"com_content\">Other Disorders page<\/a><\/span><br \/><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[3220,3238],"class_list":["post-36440","articles","type-articles","status-publish","hentry","category-better-sleep","category-other-disorders"],"acf":{"article_id":"1465"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles\/36440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/articles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/articles"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}