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I’ve never been an early bird. I love being under the covers, while its so cold in the morning. I hit the alarm clock, and then oversleep.

I came across this article posted on Boing Boing today. Here’s one guy’s strategy on how to become an early riser…

The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time (7 days per week). So I always get up at the same time (in my case 5am), but I go to bed at different times every night.

I go to bed when I’m too sleepy to stay up. My sleepiness test is that if I couldn’t read a book for more than a page or two without drifting off, I’m ready for bed. Most of the time when I go to bed, I’m asleep within three minutes. I lie down, get comfortable, and immediately I’m drifting off. Sometimes I go to bed at 9:30pm; other times I stay up until midnight. Most of the time I go to bed between 10-11pm. If I’m not sleepy, I stay up until I can’t keep my eyes open any longer. Reading is an excellent activity to do during this time, since it becomes obvious when I’m too sleepy to read.

When my alarm goes off every morning, I turn it off, stretch for a couple seconds, and sit up.

I’m thinking I might test this out. I know I could do so much more in the morning, if I woke up earlier and wasn’t all groggy.

Or maybe I should get a clocky.

Or maybe I should get the Sleep Watch. Its a wristwatch you wear to bed. It senses which level of sleep you’re in. It will wake you up when you’re in your light sleep. It picks the optimal time to wake you up. I don’t know if this is worth $150, but I would love to wake up and not feel groggy.

Speaking of sleep, have you heard Sleepytime Gorilla Museum?