If it's a good day and I'm paying attention to my body, I just get up whenever my I first wake up, usually before my alarm goes off. Sometimes I think it is the

If it's a good day and I'm paying attention to my body, I just get up whenever my I first wake up, usually before my alarm goes off. Sometimes I think it is the cats that wake me, other times I think I wake the cats... I can never tell. If it's a bad day I don't get up right away and then proceed to sleep through multiple alarms; often I will snooze them and go back to sleep until I run out of snooze cycles and then wake up hours later wondering why my alarm went off. I sleep snooze. I have noticed though, that when I wake up first without (before) an alarm and promptly get out of bed and start my day I am usually less groggy and more inclined to be productive. My body has ~1.5hr sleep cycles, meaning if I sleep in increments of roughly 1.5hrs I tend to get better sleep. I learned all this about myself when I was practicing a polyphasic sleep experiment. I don't recommend this to anyone as an actual method of sleep or rest (my experiment was less than successful) but I sure learned a helluvalot about my body and tolerances. Read more at http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/ or on http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720 http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720