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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.:)
 
I remeber reading somewhere that it takes roughly 7 hours for one full cycle of sleep, which seems about right for me if I wake up after around 7hours and get out of bed I feel good whereas if I decide to roll over and go back to sleep and get up and hour or 2 later I can feel pretty rough
 
Surely after so many years of being alive people must know how much sleep they need.

For me 7-8 hours always does the trick.
 
Yateszy said:
Because if your alarm goes off during your deep sleep stage, you feel like cr*p.
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Possibly, but if you get the correct amount of sleep your body will naturally come out of deep sleep before you wake up so you do not have top revert to silly measures.

If you are getting 7-8 hours sleep and are waking up feeling rubbish, you are not sleeping very well. :)
 
Sounds like you've got a messed up sleep pattern, stick to a schedule and your body should adapt accordingly.
 
I must say I think 7 hours is best for me. If I sleep 10 hours or so then it takes me ages to feel sleepy again, plus I don't seem quite so alert. The drawback is that I am pretty tired by 5pm. :p
 
This will probably sound stupid but what works for me is simply WANTING to be awake, if as soon as you wake up, look at your alarm and just think "I need to be awake now", get out of bed, put your clothes on and go and do something like brush your teeth, make breakfast or anything else active, if you sit around being tired or stay in bed after your alarm goes off, you are just going to feel more tired.
 
PhillyDee said:
That would be nice.

I work shifts. Nights and days. Impossible to get decent sleep. :(
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Harsh, I hate shift work for just such reasons, that and your social life becomes null and void unless you just happen to have mates on similar shift patterns!
 
I have problems sleeping aswell due to working shifts, sadly getting into a pattern is hard, when it gets really bad I book a block of night shifts off so I get 20 days of no nights wich sorts me out.

But I try and hold out until it is a shift that I actually want off which isn't easy.

4 days on 4 days off shift work is good because you get 4 full days off but no good when you are knackered all day and wide awake at 4am on your days off.
 
get the sleep cycle alarm clock for iphone, set it up and it basically wakes you up with your in a light sleep, it senses movement and sound so when your in a light sleep and it is around your get up time it goes off.

if your not moving it assumes a deep sleep and doesnt go off.

i think it does go off on the last minute of your get up period so u dont miss your alarm though.


or eat at the right times and keep to a sleep schedual, i can wake up within 10-15 minutes of my alarm becuase i get up at that time every day.
 
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.

If you have regular sleep patterns you'll find your body wakes up before your alarm goes off as it seems to know not to go back to sleep.

Try using this app on your iphone

MW
 
I use the sleep cycle app, before I needed 3 alarms to wake me as I sleep so deep, now I only need the one with the sleep cycle app.
 
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