Are You Completing Your Sleep Cycles?

These days, because I am a total psycho, I am waking up around 3:00 to 3:30 a.m.  I truly enjoy getting up early {always have}, and in those quiet hours, I can get a days worth of work done, with zero interruption.  Usually, by the afternoon, though, I like to take a quick nap, and then I am good to go until bed time.

Recently, I found this cool little tool that tells you what time to get up {from a nap} or what time to go to bed.  The general idea is to plan your waking time so that you have completed a full sleep cycle {or several} before waking.  If you don’t wake up in the middle of a sleep cycle, you’ll be less groggy, and a little more willing to pop out of bed.  The program kind of takes the pain out of waking up–you just punch in what time you are going to get up, and it gives you several options for what time you should go to bed {for nighttime sleep, you want to try to get 5-6 full sleep cycles in}.  Or, if you want to take an impromptu nap, just push the sleep now button, and it gives you wake times.  Ah, it’s like science and sleep had a baby.

Who knows, maybe if you use it long enough, you won’t even need an alarm–your body will just kind of naturally wake up?

Anyway, it’s free, so check it out.

~Mavis