[daveka]

If I wake up within 1-2 hours of my wakeup time, I find that there’s little chance of falling back to sleep. If I get out of bed and stay out until I’m sleepy, that’s pretty much around the wakeup time I set the alarm for. Should I change my wakeup time to a later time, or just lay there, or get out of bed earlier than the time I set the alarm for?

Thanks for any advice.

[Martin Reed]

If you are always waking around one or two hours before your planned wakeup time, you might want to “advance” your sleep window, so it starts and ends a bit earlier. I don’t think there’s any need to get out of bed when you wake during your sleep window if being awake in bed feels good — because that implies that conditions are right for sleep to happen if your body chooses to generate more sleep.

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