Thanks for the post! What makes me skeptical of utilizing this is that it usually takes me anywhere between 10 and 45 minutes to fall asleep, so when going to bed, I have no way of knowing when to get up even if I had perfect knowledge about my sleep cycles.
I also wonder if sleep inertia is actually as bad as it seems. Does it meaningfully impact the rest of the day? Or do you just feel groggy for 15 minutes but then return to normal? Or is it more about that last bit of sleep (your unfinished sleep cycle) being a waste of time and it makes sense to skip it?
That’s a good point about time-to-sleep. I’m one of those lucky fall-asleep-in-5-minutes-anytime people, and it seems my method takes that for granted.
IME sleep inertia hits pretty hard, and I can drag myself out of bed and shower, but otherwise can’t really do any meaningful work for 45-60mins. So avoiding it is more important than saving just the 20 minutes of sleep
Thanks for the post! What makes me skeptical of utilizing this is that it usually takes me anywhere between 10 and 45 minutes to fall asleep, so when going to bed, I have no way of knowing when to get up even if I had perfect knowledge about my sleep cycles.
I also wonder if sleep inertia is actually as bad as it seems. Does it meaningfully impact the rest of the day? Or do you just feel groggy for 15 minutes but then return to normal? Or is it more about that last bit of sleep (your unfinished sleep cycle) being a waste of time and it makes sense to skip it?
That’s a good point about time-to-sleep. I’m one of those lucky fall-asleep-in-5-minutes-anytime people, and it seems my method takes that for granted.
IME sleep inertia hits pretty hard, and I can drag myself out of bed and shower, but otherwise can’t really do any meaningful work for 45-60mins. So avoiding it is more important than saving just the 20 minutes of sleep