You probably know this. Your sleep, throughout the night, comes in cycles. Most of us wake up every 90 minutes or so. It might just be for a few seconds or so. Enough to turn the pillow or pull up the blankets.
Then, we cycle back into a deeper sleep.
If you can time your sleep start to coincide with your “wake” cycle, that is when you wake up feeling refreshed.
If you are alarm jars you awake in the deeper part of your cycle you will feel like you are underwater and trying to climb to the surface most of the day.
Of course, everyone’s cycles are different. A few nights of making note of the wake up times will give you a sense. Mine are almost 90 minutes on the dot. I used to have to adjust my bed time when I was getting up at 5:15 AM. I HATED getting up a 5:15 AM.
For those of us with bladders over 60 years old...we KNOW what the cycles are. LOL
Yes, this is the way!
In fact, the fabled “8 hours of sleep” is because most people need about 5 full sleep cycles to feel rested, and 5 x 1.5 = 7.5 hours. The other 1/2 hour of bed time is for winding yourself down, praying/reflecting, +/- having intercourse, and falling asleep.