I used to have this problem. It was absolutely terrible because I like to go out at nights and end up going to bed late, but waking up very early every morning regardless of what time I went to bed. For me it was always around 7am.
There are two things I can suggest that helped me and now I can sleep past the early mornings if I want to, albeit it does take some effort. First is not necessarily a direct trick, but when I work out/exercise consistently I sleep for longer durations and have deeper sleep.
But second, and the more important trick I've incorporated, is finding a way to go back to sleep when I wake up. I still usually get up between 6-8am and have to take a piss or just wake up and lay there, but I FORCE myself to go back to sleep.
The question was how though. I could not figure it out for a long time, I would try to just lay there until I fell asleep but unfortunately the sleep would never come and I would just keep laying there. Like most people, my mind would start to think and ponder anything and everything preventing me from falling back asleep again. I'd put on a show I enjoyed, but then I would get into it and not want to fall asleep.
Finally I figured it out. The trick is to distract your mind for just long enough that your natural tiredness would take over and let you fall back asleep. For me, this was putting on a semi-boring youtube video on a volume just high enough where I could make out about 75% of the conversation. Enough to engage my mind and distract me from my thoughts, but not enough where I would hear every word and then be too distracted by that video to fall asleep.
This happened to me this morning actually, went to bed at 2am and woke up at 7am. Put on Real Time w/ Bill Maher at that 75% volume, got through the first 10-15 minutes of the monologue and some discussions (mind distracted), last thing I remember is they start talking about the Hilary email scandal and poof off to sleep I go. I wake up about 90 minutes later much more refreshed than had I stayed awake at only 5 hours of sleep.
It's a band-aid fix but it works for me. Usually I put on that Neil Degrasse Tyson guy giving a speech on Cspan or something and I'm out in 10 minutes. The only other thing that's worked for me is hungover morning sex with a girl next to me, but that can't be counted on at all times.
It's a terrible curse we have, but for now this method has been working for me. Best of luck.
There are two things I can suggest that helped me and now I can sleep past the early mornings if I want to, albeit it does take some effort. First is not necessarily a direct trick, but when I work out/exercise consistently I sleep for longer durations and have deeper sleep.
But second, and the more important trick I've incorporated, is finding a way to go back to sleep when I wake up. I still usually get up between 6-8am and have to take a piss or just wake up and lay there, but I FORCE myself to go back to sleep.
The question was how though. I could not figure it out for a long time, I would try to just lay there until I fell asleep but unfortunately the sleep would never come and I would just keep laying there. Like most people, my mind would start to think and ponder anything and everything preventing me from falling back asleep again. I'd put on a show I enjoyed, but then I would get into it and not want to fall asleep.
Finally I figured it out. The trick is to distract your mind for just long enough that your natural tiredness would take over and let you fall back asleep. For me, this was putting on a semi-boring youtube video on a volume just high enough where I could make out about 75% of the conversation. Enough to engage my mind and distract me from my thoughts, but not enough where I would hear every word and then be too distracted by that video to fall asleep.
This happened to me this morning actually, went to bed at 2am and woke up at 7am. Put on Real Time w/ Bill Maher at that 75% volume, got through the first 10-15 minutes of the monologue and some discussions (mind distracted), last thing I remember is they start talking about the Hilary email scandal and poof off to sleep I go. I wake up about 90 minutes later much more refreshed than had I stayed awake at only 5 hours of sleep.
It's a band-aid fix but it works for me. Usually I put on that Neil Degrasse Tyson guy giving a speech on Cspan or something and I'm out in 10 minutes. The only other thing that's worked for me is hungover morning sex with a girl next to me, but that can't be counted on at all times.
It's a terrible curse we have, but for now this method has been working for me. Best of luck.