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Apr 7th, 2008 by Alex

A woman, deep in sleep. When I woke up this morning I felt rested and ready to get up, then I looked at my alarm clock.

3:02

Despite feeling just fine — my brain alert — I decided that it was entirely too early to start the day, having been asleep for a few hours. I rolled over and got a sip of water, then went back to sleep until my alarm went off at 6:30.

Snooze.

When I did get up almost an hour later, I felt groggy and unrested. This is typical for me. I always wake up better without an alarm clock, even if I get the same amount of sleep. I think that being jarred awake has an impact on how your day goes and it’d be better for all of us if we just got up when we woke up naturally. I’ve got a few coworkers that come in after they get up, whatever time it is. While it’s a pain to schedule things around their usually-consistent schedule, I bet they’re sleeping better. It may be a combination of their personalities and the sleep methods, but they do seem more cheerful than their alarm clock counterparts.

I’m thinking I should have just gotten up the first time.

I’m no stranger to waking up in the middle of the night. Although I rarely have a problem getting back to sleep, for a while I was waking up regularly. Sometimes I’d sleep straight through until morning, but the mornings that I did wake up early it was at 3:27. This happened for a few months, always the same time exactly.

I think the next time this happens I’m just going to listen to my body clock and get up.