wake up without an alarm clock

the trick is, don’t even have a clock in the bedroom. that way you can’t say “I can afford to sleep ten more minutes” without getting all the way out of bed to check.

of course, with the partner and the chickens and the housemate’s alarm (beeping right under my floor) all making noise at predictable times, I’m not entirely just waking up with the sun. even so, I’ve gone as far as i can go with this.

amazing how much easier this is if you simply don’t set an alarm.

This just happened naturally for one whole week, when the sun would brush across my face at 6am, right when I was coming out of a REM phase.
But then, the neighbors started leaving their bright shiny lights on all night, and the sun is less potent a contrast. And so or or rather or but also, I’ve been setting an alarm, and waking before it goes off, and taking the fact that it has not yet sounded as permission to cover my head up and not sleep but not wake for an hour, maybe more. I should bite on that bullet and stop setting the alarm at all. That will teach ‘em.

so i’ve been testing this by getting up before my alarm clock goes off.
today, i forgot to set my alarm from “weekend” to “work schedule”, so it didn’t actually go off
but it didn’t matter! i was out of bed earlier than it should have been set for.

but a week isn’t long enough to check this off of the list. i should set a reminder to check on my status later

So far so good, but how about “get out of bed before the alarm clock goes off” ?