Learn your perfect bedtime
- Determine what your typical wake up time will be
- Count back five 90 minute cycles or 7.5 hours
- Each sleep cycle on average is 90 minutes long and the average person has 5 of them per night
- Set your alarm clock or cell phone to tell you when to go to bed (but remember to reset it for your morning alarm)
- If you wake up within 10 minutes of your morning alarm after three days of going to bed at your “bed time” you found your perfect bedtime!
- If not, and you still need your morning alarm to wake up, then move your bedtime alarm back by 15 minutes every three days until you wake up just before your morning alarm. When you wake up before your morning alarm, you have found your perfect bedtime.
Interesting sleep hack. Now, do this in a hammock and you're all set.