For Late risers

“The amount of sleep required by the
average person is five minutes more.”
~ Wilson Mizener

The optimal solution is very simple, and many late risers do it without even thinking about it. The solution is to go to bed at your usual time, and set your alarm clock at your usual time. But the difference is that when your alarm clock goes off, instead of getting up, YOU PRESS SNOOZE.

When you press snooze, it gives your inner “late riser” an opportunity to convince your inner “early riser” that staying in bed is a good idea:

It’s nice and warm under the covers. If I get up, it’s going to be cold. That won’t be too pleasant.

I don’t really feel like going office so early when I have to stay late. 

Maybe I’m trying to get myself up too early. I’m still sleepy, aren’t I? Getting up with an alarm is unnatural. Won’t I function better with more sleep?

I don’t have to get up right this minute, do I? Surely I can relax another five minutes or so. The world isn’t going to end if I don’t get up right now.

Two hours later, you won’t even remember your alarm clock going off. You’ll have had a great snuggle,

So if you want to become a late riser (or just exert less control over your sleep patterns), then try this: Go to bed when you’re too sleepy to stay up, and sleep in until a random time every morning.

.......A Profound Late riser