we feel pretty miserable when we wake up early so in this video I'm gonna teach you how to wake up
early and not feel miserable and not feel tired not feel annoyed or angry and it really comes
down to a few things which are really simple when you understand them so my name's Steph I see to
lucid dreaming and sleep hacks and in this video I want to show you how you can sleep easily and
also how you can wake up without feeling miserable or annoyed if you master this and if you learn how
to do this you'll be able to wake up early you won't need an alarm clock you'll be able to wake
up with more energy you'll feel motivated you'll feel happy and more importantly that feeling will
stay with you throughout the whole day when you wake up in the morning you should feel energetic
happy excited motivated you should not feel miserable you should not feel sad you should
not feel tired or annoyed or fatigued if you are feeling one of those things something is going
wrong somewhere and in this video I will show you what is going wrong so we've all experienced that
haven't we where we wake up in the morning and for some reason we just immediately feel like we've
been hit by a train we feel like something is just wrong somewhere we feel like we have no energy we
don't want to be awake we want to go back to sleep and then often we do you know we hit the
snooze button which I'll I'll get on to why that's dangerous later but why do you feel miserable why
do you feel tired when you wake up well the main reason the only pretty much reason why you would
feel miserable in the morning is that you have interrupted your sleep cycle so every night we
experience between 5 and 6 sleep cycles which are basically 90-minute chunks of time which comprise
the 5 sleep stages if you wake yourself up the middle of a sleep cycle as in during the middle
of that one of those 90-minute circles you will feel miserable and tired for the whole day until
you go back to sleep again so the answer then becomes how do you wake up at the end of a sleep
cycle well it should happen naturally it should happen normally as part of your circadian rhythm
but circadian rhythms at least in most of society they're not very healthy at the moment because of
various different things which I'll explain in a minute so make sure you watch the whole video if
you do want to wake up early without feeling too tired or fatigued so the first thing you need to
understand kind of obvious is you need to know how long your sleep cycles are and when they happen
when your sleep cycles ehn and the easiest way of doing that I found is by using a sleep tracker so
the one I use is this one which is an Apple watch 3 and you can get this following the link in the
description but there are many different other ones you can also get an app which is called Auto
sleep which is about 3 dollars - about 4 bucks I think it and that will track your sleep without
you needing to do anything you literally just put your watch on and wear it now I should mention one
thing if you do have tattoos like me it will be more difficult to track so I found a gap in my
tattoo where there's less shading but if you don't have tattoos it's fine it works fine you can also
use a fit but just make sure you can track your sleep and differentiate between different sleep
stages like light sleep deep sleep REM and also when you're not moving so then what you need to
do is look at your REM sleep chart work out when your REM is during the night and then you want to
basically wake yourself up or set your alarm to be roughly after when you think your REM sleep
should be let me just explain and clarify what I mean by that track your sleep get an Apple
watch or get a sleep tracker track it for about 1 or 2 weeks and then you'll have a pretty clear
understanding of when you have REM sleep REM sleep is the last part of the sleep cycle so you want to
wake yourself up after your REM sleep or as a close to eat as you can get to after your REM
sleep as possible don't wake yourself up before or during wake yourself up after your REM sleep
if you can track this on an Apple watch you can very clearly see when this is now don't worry if
you don't want to get a sleep tracker because I'm going to explain now some tips and things
you can do that don't involve tracking asleep so here's what you should do just to basically get
a better idea of when you should be waking up so start going to bed 15 minutes earlier every night
until you wake up feeling good so if you're waking up basically in the middle of a sleep
cycle that's your body telling you you did not get enough sleep or at least you didn't finish
that sleep cycle so you need to keep waking up at the same time but change the time that you go
to bed in the evening this will mean that your sleep cycles will start earlier so they will
therefore finish earlier you can actually go even more detailed and go in 10 minute chunks so every
day you go to bed 10 minutes earlier until you hit that sweet spot where you don't feel like you've
been hit by a train in the morning some other things to consider is you should be meditating
every morning this will help to get you into the right brainwave state you will avoid stress and
ultimately you'll sleep better as well also avoid eating food two hours before bed avoid drinking
one hour before bed and avoid bright lights or screens three hours before bed and then more
importantly when you do wake up no matter what time it is let's say if your alarm goes off at
6:00 and you have to be out of the house at 8:00 don't hit the snooze button if you hit the snooze
button when you wake up you will feel miserable and tired and fatigued the whole day I guarantee
because and here's why when you hit the snooze button and then go back to sleep you will compound
the effect you will make yourself miss another sleep cycle because let's say if your alarm
goes off cuts your sleep cycle in half and you wake up feeling like you've been hit by a train
you've been run over by a tractor or whatever if you then go back to sleep and then wake up in 20
minutes time you've just done it again you've just then ruined another sleep cycle so only
snooze if you know you can sleep for another hour and a half otherwise it's gonna make it
worse it's gonna compound the effects and lastly this is probably the most important thing if you
don't comment or like this video or subscribe to my channel you probably won't ever sleep again