I’ve been trying for years to fix my sleep cycle. I’ve talked about it countless times in this blog.
The thought occurred to me today that maybe I’m trying to do too much. If the goal is to get up when the alarm goes off, why would I make it more difficult than that?
I don’t need to also get up really early.
I should be setting my alarm for a time when I’ve had plenty of sleep. basically the time I spend snoozing anyway should just be added to the time I expect to sleep. Then I’ll be in bed the same amount of time but actually be able to wake up when the alarm goes off.
Once I have that established, I can then work on improving my sleep schedule.
If I end up setting the alarm fairly late: no problem! There’s no need to feel guilty. It’s just temporary while I get this habit down.
Saying it now, it seems pretty obvious. I’m going to try it and see how it goes.
And it did work! I waited on it quite a while just to make sure I had it down, but just within the last couple weeks I moved on to fixing the sleep schedule as well.
And it’s going well! So far I’ve woken up at that time every day. I’ve even started waking up before the alarm, which is pretty crazy.
I just need to keep this up. If all goes well, I may even move on to getting out of bed as soon as I wake up, in addition to not snoozing and waking up early.