> 06:00 - 06:03
That's tight. Do you face any resistance and have to train your mind or does it come easy when you sleep timely ?
That's tight. Do you face any resistance and have to train your mind or does it come easy when you sleep timely ?
Sometimes, I feel sleepy at 06:00 but since I clearly got idea of "sleep restriction" into my mind, I actually inverted my emotions about wake up time.
I mean I actually worry if I spend in bed later than 6:03 because I know very well that it's costly to break my sleep schedule.
One day I actually missed my alarm clock because my phone was out of charge.
Since my room is completely dark, I woke up at 7:20 confused about time and with headache (i.e. headache after unusually long deep sleep).
Next 4 days I felt tired and my sleep wasn't very good.
So now, I double check my alarm clock and my phone always charged every evening :)
I.e. most of the time it's easy to wake up at 6:00. When it's not easy, I wake up anyway since I get a lot of negative emotions if I brake sleep restriction principle :)
I thought the signal for good sleep was that you didn't need an alarm to wake up? Can you point to those academic articles you've mentioned?
I often wake up at 5:30 because I slept very well at night. But I stay in bed and waiting for alarm.
If I didn't sleep very well, I could wake up at 6:30, but my alarm triggers at 6:00 and I wake up at 6:01.
In the beginning of my experiments with sleep, I tried to use natural wake up. But my sleep schedule started floating a lot and sleep quality degraded when offset become big.
So I decided to keep strict sleep schedule. It's very balanced. If one night my sleep quality wasn't very good, then next night it's guaranteed that I have good sleep quality. But alarm clock guaranteed that I don't oversleep.
I found "sleep restriction" for the first time here (look at "case illustration" on page 3):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3060715/pdf/nihm...
After I just read another articles which I found by keywords "sleep restriction".
It also contains very useful ideas about mindfulness meditation.
I wrote about it in another comment:
I've found this app has improved my sleep quality dramatically and I never feel tired when I wake up because I'm not torn out of REM.
In general I think it's great you moved your sleeping cycle closer to sunlight sundown than before and am not surprised you feel much better. I just am reticent to get into the hard "clock" game as it's such an artifical, new event for humanity.