Tagged “waking”
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Waking in the night is ordinary; the hour after is not
Surfacing in the small hours is normal and mostly unremembered. What decides the night is what the room does next, and the second half is a different room.
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The wake time does more than the bedtime
Nobody falls asleep on command, so a fixed bedtime is unenforceable. The wake time is the one part of the schedule you can actually decide.
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Caffeine and alcohol are timing problems
One outlasts feeling alert by hours. The other helps you fall asleep and ruins the second half of the night. Both are about when, not how much.
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What you do after the alarm matters more than the alarm
A wake time is not the moment the alarm sounds. It is the moment you get up and get light — which is why the snooze quietly moves the anchor.
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Trying is the wrong verb for sleeping
Effort needs attention, and attention is the thing keeping you awake. Which is why the useful moves at two in the morning are all about doing less.