Need To Adjust My Sleep Window and Alarm
Posted: January 23, 2010 at 10:30 amAfter two nights of oversleeping at the 2am nap, I think I’m going to shorten my sleep window and alarm.
I have had it set at 30 minutes so that if I fall asleep before, say 2am, and my alarm is set for 2:45 that I should wake up between 2:15 and 2:45. Well, last night my alarm went off at 2:38 and I was still quite tired and didn’t get up.
I think that I just need to not sleep quite so long (from just before 2am to 2:38 is probably over 45 minutes). That’s too long I think. I think that my body is just too comfortable sleeping and doesn’t want to get up. My mind is alert but tired still.
I think that what I’m doing for earlier in the day might be fine for these kind of 45 minute naps, so I’m going just shorten it for night.
I think that the idea here is to get my body to make the leap into going into REM sleep throughout the day instead of just at night and I think that this adjustment will get it to happen.
