Absolutely is true for SWMBO and I. And...there's an app for that.
The app will wake you up within a 30 minute window of your designated alarm time, based on how deeply you are sleeping. It is sleep cycle and there is a free and a paid version.
No problem, while searching earlier, I found this website that calculates the time you should go to sleep based on this rule. You just need to enter the time where you usually wake up.
So it wasn't complete BS when the military teached me how to nap.
15 min "going to sleep", 15-20 min "sleep", 10-15 min "waking up".
What does all of this mean for napping? Giving yourself a full sleep cycle (90 minutes) can help you retain certain skill you’ve just learned, but for recovering from fatigue a 15-20 minute nap is ideal (and some research suggests a nap as short as 5 minutes could be beneficial!), since the farther along you are in your sleep cycle, the harder it is to get over that grogginess you sometimes feel when you first wake up (known in the sleep world as sleep inertia).
For anyone interested, I tested this last night by going to sleep at 3 am and woke up at 6 am. I was surprisingly very alert, and didn't felt tired for my 8 am lectures as I usually am.
I did the same as you today. It was weird to not feel tired! That really works.
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