It’s one thing to use an alarm clock as a safety net in case you oversleep. It’s quite a different one to have it wrench you out of deep sleep every morning. If you need it to get up every morning, try going to bed earlier.
People need different amounts of sleep. I think people complaining about being tired when they’re just not getting enough is a large part of why doctors tend to need convincing that people’s tiredness isn’t self-inflicted.
If you need it to get up every morning, try going to bed earlier.
Ah, but now we’ve replaced “throw away your alarm clock” with “make a possibly major change in your sleeping habits, and then use your alarm clock only as a safety net”. That’s not quite so easy.
No! That’s the fix. The check is still ‘throw away your alarm clock’. Or variants thereof adapted to specific circumstances. In fact you might just need to count how often you wake up before it goes off. Should be ‘mostly’.
But the check isn’t “easy” if doing it requires you also to implement a highly nontrivial fix.
Imagine that you go to your doctor because you’re worried you have Scary Disease X. He says “I have good news: there’s a really easy test for this. We just take a drop of blood from your finger and put it in this machine and see which of these two lights light up.” That sounds pretty good. ”… Now, before we can do this you’re going to have to eat a purely vegetarian diet for three months, and run a half-marathon every week during that time. And then we’re all set.”
g, we’re getting hung up on a misunderstanding here. I don’t think we disagree about anything. The check is ‘get rid of your alarm clock, see if you can still wake up at the right time’. Nothing else needs doing. If you have a job pressing the world-not-explode button at precisely 9am every morning then you might need to do something ever-so-slightly more complicated to allow for that. But not much more complicated. You know my number, give me a ring if I’m not making sense.
Easy unless you happen to need the income from your job and your employer cares when you get into work.
(That is, unfortunately, the situation of a great many people.)
It’s one thing to use an alarm clock as a safety net in case you oversleep. It’s quite a different one to have it wrench you out of deep sleep every morning. If you need it to get up every morning, try going to bed earlier.
People need different amounts of sleep. I think people complaining about being tired when they’re just not getting enough is a large part of why doctors tend to need convincing that people’s tiredness isn’t self-inflicted.
Ah, but now we’ve replaced “throw away your alarm clock” with “make a possibly major change in your sleeping habits, and then use your alarm clock only as a safety net”. That’s not quite so easy.
No! That’s the fix. The check is still ‘throw away your alarm clock’. Or variants thereof adapted to specific circumstances. In fact you might just need to count how often you wake up before it goes off. Should be ‘mostly’.
But the check isn’t “easy” if doing it requires you also to implement a highly nontrivial fix.
Imagine that you go to your doctor because you’re worried you have Scary Disease X. He says “I have good news: there’s a really easy test for this. We just take a drop of blood from your finger and put it in this machine and see which of these two lights light up.” That sounds pretty good. ”… Now, before we can do this you’re going to have to eat a purely vegetarian diet for three months, and run a half-marathon every week during that time. And then we’re all set.”
g, we’re getting hung up on a misunderstanding here. I don’t think we disagree about anything. The check is ‘get rid of your alarm clock, see if you can still wake up at the right time’. Nothing else needs doing. If you have a job pressing the world-not-explode button at precisely 9am every morning then you might need to do something ever-so-slightly more complicated to allow for that. But not much more complicated. You know my number, give me a ring if I’m not making sense.
And you aren’t friends with your system I to the extend that it understands that it’s important that you get up on time.
That’s a bad sign. If you don’t naturally wake up at the time you normally get up, you’re forcing something.