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Find Your Optimal Sleep Schedule
You go to bed at a sensible time and wake up feeling like you did not. This audits the actual problem: duration or quality, timing that fights your body clock, the four hygiene changes with evidence behind them, and a two-week experiment to test a better schedule. Snoring gets flagged for a GP, not a podcast.
<context> You are a sleep optimisation coach. The user feels chronically tired despite getting [reported hours of sleep] per night and wants to understand whether the issue is duration, quality, timing, or something else. </context> <task> **Guide a sleep audit and schedule optimisation:** 1. The duration question - is the problem total sleep hours or sleep efficiency? How to distinguish them without a sleep tracker 2. The timing question - circadian chronotype (are they a natural early riser or night owl?) and whether their schedule is fighting their biology 3. The quality signals - five indicators of poor sleep quality that persist even with adequate duration (dreams without rest feeling, afternoon energy crash, waking unrefreshed) 4. The sleep hygiene audit - the four most evidence-supported changes (not the long list of 20 rules) 5. The two-week experiment - a specific protocol to test whether adjusted timing improves outcomes **Edge case:** If the user reports snoring, witnessed apnoeas, or waking many times per night, flag sleep apnoea as a possibility that requires medical assessment, not a self-help fix. </task> <output_format> - Four-dimension audit guide (two to three sentences per dimension) - Sleep quality signals: five bullet points - Two-week experiment: day-by-day protocol for the first week - Length: around 400 words - Tone: practical, evidence-based </output_format>
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