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How did you get better at waking up? I’m still in the category of requiring many alarms that take hours to wake me. Have done a lot of stuff like move to a room

How did you get better at waking up? I’m still in the category of requiring many alarms that take hours to wake me. Have done a lot of stuff like move to a room where sun shines on me in the morning, additional automated lights, an alarm playing talk radio. Considering buying a machine for thousands of dollars that will make my bed uncomfortably cold and vibrate my chest.

cercatrova 4y ago
The one thing that worked for me is to go to sleep earlier and wake up naturally. If you're still tired however, see a sleep doctor, many have undiagnosed sleep apnea.
Semaphor 4y ago
Reading an article about 1.5-hour sleep cycles and going to bed earlier. The article said, that your circadian rhythm works roughly in 90 minute increments, since then I set my alarm for 6 or 7.5 hours (9 if I’m extremely exhausted for some reason). I don’t know if that’s placebo, and I don’t care, but it worked for me in a way 8h of sleep never did. While I was getting used to it, I was also getting tired earlier. So everything moved a bit towards earlier times, and I’ve stayed with that. That change happened around 4-6 years ago.
ihateolives 4y ago
I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important. You keep giving yourself second chances with snoozes and multiple alarms. Try not to. What do you do when you need to catch early flight and be in the airport at 5.30? Do you manage to get up in time? Most people do because the cost of missing the flight is just too much. Make waking up for work as important. I went from sleeping in person to wake at first chime person after sleeping in for several important occasions which put other people in bad light. That really made me revaluate my priorities. After a while it become second nature.
- balfirevic 4y ago
  > I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important. But that's obviously true most of the time, at least not as important as waking up for a flight.
- fshbbdssbbgdd 4y ago
  >I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important. You keep giving yourself second chances with snoozes and multiple alarms. Try not to. I don’t think I’m really a fully conscious being during the period when I’m waking up. If someone tells me important information, I’ll forget it. It’s not until I’m fully awake that I remember my priorities and what I need to do during the day. >What do you do when you need to catch early flight and be in the airport at 5.30? I set the alarm at 3 AM, or more commonly just stay up all night.

cercatrova 4y ago

The one thing that worked for me is to go to sleep earlier and wake up naturally. If you're still tired however, see a sleep doctor, many have undiagnosed sleep apnea.

Semaphor 4y ago

Reading an article about 1.5-hour sleep cycles and going to bed earlier. The article said, that your circadian rhythm works roughly in 90 minute increments, since then I set my alarm for 6 or 7.5 hours (9 if I’m extremely exhausted for some reason). I don’t know if that’s placebo, and I don’t care, but it worked for me in a way 8h of sleep never did. While I was getting used to it, I was also getting tired earlier. So everything moved a bit towards earlier times, and I’ve stayed with that. That change happened around 4-6 years ago.

ihateolives 4y ago

I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important. You keep giving yourself second chances with snoozes and multiple alarms. Try not to. What do you do when you need to catch early flight and be in the airport at 5.30? Do you manage to get up in time? Most people do because the cost of missing the flight is just too much. Make waking up for work as important. I went from sleeping in person to wake at first chime person after sleeping in for several important occasions which put other people in bad light. That really made me revaluate my priorities. After a while it become second nature.

balfirevic 4y ago
> I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important. But that's obviously true most of the time, at least not as important as waking up for a flight.
fshbbdssbbgdd 4y ago
>I think you're not committed, you're not feeling that waking at that time is important. You keep giving yourself second chances with snoozes and multiple alarms. Try not to. I don’t think I’m really a fully conscious being during the period when I’m waking up. If someone tells me important information, I’ll forget it. It’s not until I’m fully awake that I remember my priorities and what I need to do during the day. >What do you do when you need to catch early flight and be in the airport at 5.30? I set the alarm at 3 AM, or more commonly just stay up all night.