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I've struggled with this for a while too, and I've found that the only 'secret' is to go to sleep earlier so that you either wake up earlier, or wake up feeling more refreshed. You should also do this in conjunction with getting up and out of bed as soon as your alarm goes off. I've got an alarm that doesn't turn off until I go into the kitchen and scan a barcode because otherwise I'll turn the alarm off and go straight back to sleep. Someone also suggested opening your blinds which works really well if you don't need the privacy and you wake up after the sun rises.
Get mad. But no seriously, if your in a dream that you wanna wake up from, use all your possible force to flex your muscles, it'll make you realize your dreaming and wake up.
I successfully trained myself to wake up at the right time without an alarm. There are methods for doing that, I'll elaborate on mine if there's interest. It takes all the pain out of waking up.
Go to sleep at a fixed hour. I recommend 20/22, that's 8/10pm in 12-hour format.
That's a bit extreme innit
Yeah, I hate it. But it does the job.
Coffee... A lot of it, that's how I do it anyways
Down a glass a water as soon as you get up.
Exercise, meditate, eat healthy food, hydrate.
Are you doing all these things already and still have the issue?
It helps me to prepare things like my clothes I'm going to wear the night before. Then just get into a routine and it won't matter it takes you a while to wake up fully, you'll just get ready on autopilot.
Sleep with caffeine pills next to your bed. Set an alarm for 20 minutes before when you want to wake up. Take the pill with the alarm, and go back to sleep. You will magically wake up super awake at the time you want to be up.
This is obviously a lot less good than the healthy solutions here, but I work a rotating shift schedule and this trick has been working for me for over a decade.
People say you shouldn't have caffeine until about an hour after you're awake. Something about letting your body chemicals settle before, you know, fucking them up.
Yeah, my understanding of the physiology is that taking it that early leads to rebound sleepiness in 4-6 hours after waking. I think it definitely does, but the immediate caffeine helps if you have a job that demands immediate alertness lol.
That's an interesting one. Are they 200mg? I find that too much but it seems to be the standard amount in caffeine tablets I've seen.
They’re Jet Alert 200 mg—but the pills are oblong so I break them into smaller doses based on how I’m feeling. Feeling really awake? Don’t take any. Slightly drowsy? A quarter of one (50mg). Normal level of drowsy? 100 mg. Etc.
There’s something about the going back to sleep that seems to have a stacking effect—you wake up feeling really well rested.
I set 2 alarms. one 15 minutes before the other. when the first alarm goes off I take a 200mg caffeine pill. when the second goes off getting up is much easier.