wake up when my alarm clock goes off

my darling Loki and Ren-chan have a much better sense of time than i do. around 2 minutes before my alarm goes off(on my cell phone, appropriately playing the first guitar and drum riffs from Placebo’s “Pure Morning”), start nuzzling my face and mewing in my ear, begging for food. that and the Placebo, i can think of worse ways to wake up. :)

after a few days of success, getting sick and a few days of drunkenness totally wrecked it

i really did! in fact, i woke up exactly 2 minutes before the Bad Scary Mean Sleep Stealing Noise was programmed to start. i followed this
method, but i added a few extra steps since i am a pretty stubborn case:
1.) don’t set the alarm excessively early the first few times. in fact, set it for the time you absolutely need to get up. that way, you get up because you have to, and that reinforces the whole subconscious exercise with your conscious “oh shit i really need to get up now” mind.
2.) after a few days of that, start gradually pushing the wake-up time back 15 minutes at a time.

my ultimate goal is an 8:00 wakeup time. i know that doesn’t sound so early, but i mostly work in the evenings and can therefore get away with lazing around in bed until 11- not that it’s a good idea. i have a feeling that, if i can get this wakeup thing down, then a lot of my other goals will fall in line.

i woke up at 7:30 after about 6 hours’ sleep for no apparent reason. with no alarm clock.

i went running, cut my hair, did all kinds of productive things before work and still had time for a leisurely breakfast. it was great!

i did the Pavlina conditioning thing at a time when i was relatively bright and cheery and excited about life, and found it easy. too easy. until i started getting some holiday blahs and couldn’t think of any damn good reason to get out of bed.

maybe once i start my new job and move to a new apartment (where my roommate will be waking up really damn early every day), things will improve. until then, i will remain hopelessly trigger-happy with the snooze alarm.

i’m just going to set my alarm for 11 tomorrow and then get up at the pathetic time it goes off. i suppose that’s a start. after that, i’ll do that crazy practicing/conditioning thing again when i have time.

man, Nanowrimo sure messed up my rhythm.

i was doing really well with it until a few days ago. guess i have to do the crazy practice drills again…

i did it today! i’ll keep practicing and maybe i can actually cross this thing off in about a month

i read about some crazy conditioning exercise on this site that worked for someone else. i “practiced” getting up for about 45 minutes today. my work isn’t over, but i’ll do it again tomorrow until i can finally get up at my target time of 9:00am for my daily run.

or determination, or even amount of sleep. i think it has more to do with life satisfaction. in my case, i don’t stay in bed until 2 on Sundays because i’m that tired or hung over (well, most of the time). i stay in bed that long because, in that groggy state, i just cannot conceive of any reason to be awake and walking around; living. most of the time i’m not even sleeping during that snooze time, i’m just laying there thinking “ugh. being awake sucks.” and that’s a sad state of affairs.
so yeah, you have to go to bed earlier and get your ideal amount of sleep. but you also have to be happy enough with your life that, when morning comes, you’re not like “ugh, i don’t want to do the same old shit as yesterday.” to wake up—i mean, truly wake up, you have to say “yeah! it’s daytime! SWEET!”