If you are awake at 4 am, and have to be at work at 7, should you even try to get back to sleep or should you try to do something with your time?
If you are awake at 4 am, and have to be at work at 7, should you even try to get back to sleep or should you try to do something with your time?
Pretty much what I do exactly. I have an app that notifies me 1hr before it’s 8hrs from wake up time. So basically, I get notified 9hrs before I want to wake up. I go to sleep 8hrs before, but realistically fall asleep around 7.5hrs before I want to wake up. Then, if I feel groggy when I wake up, I do a 30min snooze. Sometimes I’ll also take a caffeine/theanine pill before the 30min snooze. Then you reallly wake up.
The option to sleep an extra half hour when you don’t want to get up is key. I recommend it for anyone. It’s so worth it.
I actually do this but for a different reason. I keep an alarm 15m before my actual alarm, which tells me to get ready to wake up. This gives me time to get comfortable waking up and wake up to the time I want to wake up. This works so well because I don’t really want to hear the second alarm go off which incentivises me wake up atleast 5m before my second alarm.