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Here's my bedtime routine that works really well Install F.lux - Seriously just do it. Get ~7-9 of night time hours a night. So for example if sunrise is at 6am, then sleeping from 2am -> 10am is 8 total hours but it's only 4 night time hours. Sleeping at night is a big deal. Do at least one physical activity a day. If you are sedentary all day your sleep ...

Effective use of alarms Simple is often better so an alarm is for me the one tested and true method for waking up. That being said, there are some effective ways of using an alarm. The obvious one is to put the alarm device outside of reach so that you have to get up to turn it off. Perhaps even leave it in a different room, for example in the bathroom ...

It can be very helpful to get things out of your mind and in to somewhere that you trust you'll see them later, so you can forget about it now. For me, that means keeping a pad and pencil next to the bed, and writing down anything that I keep thinking about instead of sleeping. The next morning, I take that list and transfer the notes to wherever I'll find ...

well i have been in this situation sometimes because of deadline at my job. so these are the things that i find it best. 1) practically speaking 15 -30 min nap are really good in this situation when your mind is half awake and half asleep. i must say sleeping beyond that will not be of much help in your situation. set a alarm in the situation if you ...

In my experience I have real trouble getting up in the morning when I've been working on the computer before I got to bed. Since I noticed that, I try to shut down the computer at least 30 minutes before I go to sleep. An hour is even better. I just relax and order my thougfhts before I go to bed. Also I started listening to a relaxation programm before ...

Simple answer to your question is no, it doesn't work. There are no studies using scientific rigors have been able to prove anything apart from retention increasing during alpha wave state...a relaxation state. Acquisition and Processing of Information During States of REM Sleep and Slow-Wave Sleep, and Perception Without Awareness of What Is Perceived, ...

Polyphasic sleep may interest you. Basically, you're cutting your nightly sleep while doing one or more Power naps during the day. With this, you can get down to only 2-3 hours of sleep per day - but you'll have to uphold a very exact timetable to archieve those very low times, so it might not be possible, depending on your job and/or social environment.

I guess to start you're always dreaming in some form when you're in r.e.m. sleep, and you want r.e.m. sleep every night, so I would not recommend looking for anything to limit your dreams, you just need to improve the general quality of your sleep. I have several tips that I try to follow that should help out, as I have had similar trouble to yourself ...

What I can say, by reading "59 seconds" which explore a lot of myths is that we definitely use our unconscious mind when not thinking directly at the problem. The author gives an example where you are given a challenge and then a group is given 5 min to think about it and another group is given another mind consuming 5 min activity (before going into the ...

I bet that the most important reason to wake up on time is that you have an important thing you want to do in that time, you have enough motivation to wake up for it, for example if someone promises me to give me 100K$ at 6:00 a.m, of course I will be ready before that time, so I guess the best method to be wake yourself up on time is that you have set an ...

I think "sleeping better" and "getting more out of life" are two interwoven things, so the short answer is: Both. For example, I managed to sleep better because I decreased my stress levels and get more physical activity. Waking up earlier gave me more time with people and more opportunities getting out, having more fun and doing more work. The same ...

I have always had one natural technique for resetting my clock, and lately I've taken to an artificial one, which is easier and surer. The natural is pulling an all-nighter. When I used to have my sleeping patterns all messed up what I'd do is forego sleep that night, hold on up till around 7-8pm and then sleep super early out of exhaustion, getting about ...

I have found in the past that unless I am exhausted, it is difficult to get to sleep in the silence. This can be easily remedied by listening to white noise. I find that the white noise provides just enough noise to drown out my thoughts, and is uniform enough to allow me to fall asleep. It may also help to spend 10-15 minutes before bed every night quickly ...

Getting up in the morning is one the best things to do. Literally, you can do any work fives times faster during morning than any part of the day. So I always postpone my the works I do during night so that I make it a necessary thing to get up in the morning to get the thing done before I start to office. So I would suggest you to keep some important work ...

In Education of Millionaires author Michael Ellsberg has a great idea that he calls "20 second rule" which basically states that you are less likely to do anything that takes longer than 20 seconds. I don't want to go into details (read the book - it's a good read) but you will be more likely to wake up if the first task that you need to do after waking up ...

Get something like a sonic bomb shaking alarm clock or build yourself something like the pneumatic alarm clock. You might consider doing a sleep study to see if it's a sleep disorder, too. You don't provide your sleep habits; getting enough sleep helps. Programming yourself to wake up at a given time may also be possible, but I don't know if that is ...

Use physical fitness to drive peak mental alertness. If you mantain a high level of physical fitness, you can get by on less sleep. So ensure your weekly schedule blocks out the time for an intense exercise routine or sport and your diet must be similarly reflect fitness goals. The goal is to be FIT.

I apologies in advance for my answer being a bit off the beaten path. Step 1. develop your brains ability to keep accurate time - start simply with a digital stop watch - wait until the time reaches on the minute (ex: 3:42:00 PM) - now look away from the watch and try to look back at the watch when it reaches exactly 60 seconds ...

If you have an Android phone, find out yourself. Sleep as Android is a really good application for tracking sleep, though you'd have to pay a little extra for the visual statistics. Interestingly, the statistics show that I sleep deepest when I fall asleep at 5 AM. But this is most likely due to being exhausted wasting the night on something. I get a lot of ...

You can know how much sleep you need by waking up naturally, without an alarm clock. Your body knows its condition very well, so if you feel energetic, productive, not tired, etc. then your sleep has gone well. See the answer to my question about sleeping earlier or later, you'll get charts of your sleep cycles with an Android app :), which are "scientific" ...

Probably better not to try this without some practice first. But I have found fasting is the best way to remain alert and functional with no sleep. In fact, I have found I become more alert from the 24 hours fasted to 36 hours fasted. You avoid sugar crashes and highs, you become more alert, don't feel sluggish, don't get distracted with buying food or ...

I have also heard this, though I always interpreted it differently. I was under the impression that you can still learn via sound as you're laying down and heading to sleep, but not necessarily while you sleep. The idea is that as you enter a resting state, you are more free of distraction and thus in a better position to learn and remember what you are ...

I find that I am acutely aware of the specific ringtone I have set as an alarm. Since it is the same "song" every morning that wakes me, it doesn't have to be super loud. My body is trained to react to those certain sounds at any volume. As a safeguard, however, I ensure that the alarm will grow in volume every 10 seconds. And the only way to turn it off ...

Black. When you are trying to sleep: Simply think all the time about the color black. If any other thing than the color black pops up - think about black again. If you are imagine a black object - think about the color black again. That's my trick. This is so boring you will fall asleep in no time. Every other thought has no chance.

Here's the best technique I know when I have trouble falling asleep, because I keep thinking about the day's events, or tomorrow's plans. STOP thinking with your left brain, and switch to your right hemisphere! For example, I'm a computer programmer, and usually code or design right up to the point I go to bed. But I keep thinking about new ideas or ...

Try simple meditation like focusing on your breathing. Whenever you wander away from focusing on your breathing, gently push away the thoughts and focus on your breathing again. Rinse and repeat. Look into the source of your endless thoughts. If you are trying to remember everything you have to do tomorrow, capture it all on paper or other media (like ...

An ideal way to find how much sleep you actually need is the following: Set your alarm clock at an early hour and when it rings, get up immediatly. Go to bed when you're tired. Repeat this until you get a routine. (your alarm clock should always be set on the same time) After a couple days, your body will adjust and you will always get tired at the same ...

Definitely - there are ways to change your normal sleep patterns. You could follow @Oezi's polyphasic sleep planning if you have an environment which allows you to have power naps. If you stick to a single sleep pattern, altering the amount of sleep you need in a night can be a much longer process. Natwar gives this answer on another question here, which ...