Sleep

[mufc802]

I read an article on sleep because I am trying to find out how to wake up and not feel tired. It said the sleep cycle lasts for about 90-110 minutes for all 5 stages of sleep. The best stage of sleep to wake up in is the light sleep stage which is the beginning of the cycle.

What I am going to try is setting my alarm to come on at 6am, but at a very quiet volume, so that it will only wake me up if I am in the light sleep mode. I don't know how loud it needs to be so I will experiment. I have to get up between 6 and 8am so whenever my light sleep mode is during that period hopefully I will wake up refreshed.

If the quiet alarm doesn't work, the loud one will come on at 8am anyway.

 

[mufc802]

You could always work backwards from 8am and figure out what time you need to go to bed...

I wouldn't know what time I feel asleep though.

Why not just get 8 hours sleep?

Because if your alarm goes off during your deep sleep stage, you feel like cr*p.

 

[mufc802]

When you get woken up i.e. by an alarm you could be mid way through a sleep cycle and this is when you feel tired. You could have less sleep but wake up coming out of a sleep cycle and still feel better.

That's basically what I said in the OP.

By the way, not everyone has an iPhone.