If you are awake at 4 am, and have to be at work at 7, should you even try to get back to sleep or should you try to do something with your time?
If you are awake at 4 am, and have to be at work at 7, should you even try to get back to sleep or should you try to do something with your time?
Used to do this and it was wonderful. I have a smart watch to track sleep, I wonder if there’s an app to automatically detect a certain amount of sleep cycles and wake you at a good time instead of guessing.
Android has a good one that’s simply called “Sleep”. They track your movement and try to estimate light sleep in a set period before your actual wake time.
It worked pretty good in the past (not perfectly of course) but I’ve been waking close to my wakeup time for years now, so I just use it for tracking.
There are several Apple Watch apps and such that rather than use a timer, use various biometrics and movement sensing to try and identify when you’re out of REM and start a vibration alarm that increases over time across a 30-minute window. Depending on what smartwatch you use, there might be something.
Edit: on Apple Watch I have an app that does this called AutoWake (it has a companion sleep tracking app called AutoSleep) but I don’t wear the watch to bed anymore.