How to stop setting your alarm clock ahead 10 minutes
If you regularly wake up at the same time in the morning, then you're probably familiar with setting your alarm clock forward. Wanting to snatch at least a little more sleep, we give ourselves another 10 minutes, and then another and another. Needless to say, even after performing this action 3-4 times, we still get up sleep-deprived and broken. Scientists explained why you won’t be able to “get enough sleep” this way and how you need to wake up correctly.
Somnologists say that it’s all about the inertia of sleep and its phases. When the alarm clock sounds and a person moves it forward 10 minutes, he only makes things worse for himself. The brain begins a new cycle of deep sleep, which, according to the laws established by nature, should last at least 90 minutes. But it breaks off after just 10 and it’s unnatural.
Therefore, even if you slept for 8-9 hours, waking up will not be joyful and will be accompanied by lethargy and irritability. But what to do if it’s bad to get up both at the first alarm and at the snooze signal? Doctors advise that after the first alarm goes off, set it to 60-90 minutes. The positive effect of this action will be amazing!
But how can you extend your sleep by an hour or an hour and a half if you need to go to work? The solution is simple - go to bed the same amount earlier. Set your alarm clock in the morning with plenty of reserve so that you can easily give yourself 60-90 minutes to “get back to sleep.” Having deceived the body in this way, you will get up in the morning much more willingly. And it’s best to regularly sleep for 8 hours and go to bed so that the body develops a habit.
If you consider yourself a strong-willed person, then set your alarm clock so that it does not allow you to snooze. To give yourself another 10 minutes of sleep, you will have to go into the settings, after which sleep will disappear. There are also alarm clock apps for smartphones that help you wake up well. In them, in order to move the alarm clock forward or turn off the signal, you need to solve a mathematical problem. What is the dream after this?
The reward method also works well. Think of something enjoyable that you can do for half an hour after waking up. This could be reading a book, browsing social networks, or any other interesting activity. Allow yourself to do it only in the morning, immediately after the alarm clock. You will immediately notice that there is an incentive to wake up immediately, without “getting enough sleep.”