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I absolutely hate alarm clocks and have gone years without needing to set one. A trick which my uncle told me in my childhood works wonders for me. He said "thi
by 0xcafecafe 8y ago
I absolutely hate alarm clocks and have gone years without needing to set one. A trick which my uncle told me in my childhood works wonders for me. He said "think real hard what time you want to wake up in the morning, and say you want to wake up at X, 5 times". The internal body clock has not failed me yet (regardless of whenever I sleep or how tired I am).
- yosito 8y agoI don't even have to say it five times. As long as I go to bed knowing what time I want to get up, I very reliably wake up exactly 10 minutes before that time, as long as I've had at least 6 hours of sleep. The challenge is, if I don't "need" to be up at that time, I'll often roll back over and sleep for several more hours.
- 0xcafecafe 8y agoYes, over the years it has become more of a subconcious thing rather than having to say it. Like you, if I know I have to be up at a time, I get up by myself.
- dingo_bat 8y agoThis exact same mantra was told to me by my father and it is effective af!
- egypturnash 8y agoI do this too! I tell myself several times, “it’s X right now and I want to wake up at Y”. I’m pretty much always at the “awake but not getting out of bed yet” stage when the alarm goes off.