After years of living an 8-minute drive away from my high school and then living a 10-minute walk away from my classes as a first-year in college, I'm trained to leave no earlier or later than 10 minutes before class is supposed to start. My magic formula is to set the clock to whatever time will show me that I have 10 minutes before class when I really have however long it actually takes to get there. Unfortunately, my commute to work on alternate days is twice as long, so my clock is about 25 minutes fast of real time.
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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
Another tactic, back when I had to get up at 6:00am for school was to use one of those dual-alarm clocks. I'd set one for 3:00am and the other for 6:00am. When I was woken at 3:00am, I'd have the distinct and glorious pleasure of realizing that I still had 3 hours more sleep available. Such a feeling is almost better than sex. I highly recommend it for anyone who cherishes sleep.
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I never thought of doing that. When I visited Japan, I was in bed really early every night and I would wake up with the sunrise, orient myself for a minute, and then proceed to have the best 2-3 hours of sleep in my life before starting each day. My homestay family told me that "second sleep" is the most restful, but it never occurred to me to interrupt my sleeping time to have it if I was already going to get less than 8 hours. Maybe I'm not getting your meaning, especially since you didn't say what time you used to go to sleep.
I also remember reading something about delta sleep (the time when your body repairs itself) coming sometime in the 6th hour of your sleep. That's supposedly why your body aches and you feel bad when your sleep gets interrupted in the middle (before delta sleep) even though you get enough hours all together. I wonder how this could work in conjunction with "second sleep." I think I'll try it tonight!