On work days, after your alarm goes off, how long do you remain in bed before you actually get up?
What do you find yourself doing between that first alert and actually getting up?
Do you have wake up rituals?
How long do you let it continue?
2-5 minutes. I also typically wake up before my alarm, in which case I’ll stay in bed until 2-5 minutes after my alarm would have gone off.
I check the first 20 or so posts on Lemmy’s /all.
Not sure what this means. I make coffee and get dressed and stuff, but I don’t really consider any of that a “ritual”.
Let what continue?
Let it continue meaning, staying in bed and snoozing.
I don’t use an alarm (well, I do use alarms when I cook or make tea, just not for getting up). I wake up at the same time everyday. Have been doing so for decades.
That’s legitimately interesting to me. Do you ever try to sleep in, like on holiday?
From time to time I will oversleep, but that’s the exception (and not an issue since I don’t have a 9-5 kind of job) but it’s not related to being on holidays or not.
It’s just that I like to work very early in the morning (late at night?), between 4AM and 8, when the house and the whole city around us is almost completely silent (we live in a busy spot, in Paris)
Ah yes. The silent hours. 💜
Either immediately get up or spend some minutes harassing myself to get up. Non work days way longer to get up.
I am half awake at least 15 minutes before my alarm. As soon as I hear the first 3 notes I sit straight in bed and get up.
I hate being like this.
I’ve spent a couple years now working on being consistent with bedtimes and paying attention to how long I sleep on vacation, so I tend to wake up naturally. It is helped by having my blinds automated to open at the same time so sun shines in too.
If it’s a day I’ve had a drink the night before, it extends my time in bed, maybe 10-30 min, and more if it’s more than a few drinks.
The consistent bed time really helps me sleep and wake better.
I’m not sure I’ve ever experienced sleeping longer because of alcohol though. That’s interesting.
One or two drinks and I’m just lethargic and don’t want to get up.
If I went to bed drunk, I sleep fitfully and wake up, know I can’t really get rest, and get up, start the day, and have a nap later if I can. I avoid that.
I typically wake up before the alarm
By what sorcery is such possible!
Get to bed early. Takes some trial and error to figure out how many hours you need, but once you’ve done that, you can wake up without an alarm.
PTSD in my case
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NEGATIVE latency!
I’m usually already awake by the time my alarm goes off. It’s just a fallback. I start every day the same. I open the window, put seeds out for the pigeons, pet my cat who usually wakes up with me, drink coffee while watching the pigeons together with my cat, then I get back into bed and scroll Lemmy until it’s actually time to get ready. Sometimes past the time to get ready so from time to time I run late despite already being up for several hours.
I have two alarms. The first one is sort of a soft-wake up. Sometimes I’ll wake then and fuss around on my phone for a while, sometimes I’ll just shut it off and go back to sleep, but either way I can’t ignore it or it will start reading news headlines.
Second alarm is a half hour later, that one means it’s time to wake up, and I have 15 minutes to get out of bed if I want to keep my routine on pace, or I need to immediately get in the shower if I didn’t shower the night before.
I technically also then have a third alarm that assumes I’m dressed and had breakfast and everything, and that just means it’s time to pack my shit and get out the door. It mostly just keeps me from stressing about watching the clock.
In keeping with my routine I pretty much always arrive to work in a five minute window, and most of that variation is just how much time I spent petting the cat before I finally went out the door.
I kind of like this initial alarm idea. Sleep if you want. Play if you want. But the second alarm is business time!
Depends on how sleep deprived I am. It was about 30 min today.
If my alarm ever goes off, it’s while I’m in the shower because I forgot to dismiss it.
My alarm is set for 6am but my dog wakes me up at 5 every day
Dang dog.
I usually wake up multiple times before my alarm goes off, so usually I call it at an hour before and just turn off my alarm, then stay in bed for about an hour until my alarm would have gone off, sometimes 30 minutes past that, then I finally get up.
I’ve been waking up almost an hour before my alarm lately. I don’t mind ~20 minutes early, but an hour is too much. Time to reevaluate my bedtime and prep.
So currently, I wake up too early, toss and turn a bit, start the coffee maker from a phone app (so stupidly extra but I love it), and toodle around on my phone.
When you wake up early, are you not able to fall back asleep quickly?
Nope, not if it’s only an hour until I would be up anyway. If I try to go back to sleep, I end up just wrestling with my blankets.
depends, is it my first alarm or the 30th alarm?
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If I was between rem cycles then immediately. If it caught me mid cycles im going to struggle to get up for about 30 minutes.
That’s a really good observation.
45 minutes. I remember a Japanese study from years ago concluded, that 45 minutes was the optimal amount of time needed to waken
Then I’m doing excellent!
