One does not simply fall asleep (insert Borimir picture)

I only put my alarm at 5min intervals if i wanna take it slow but need to wake up. But when i slept well i never need more than two. Sometimes I can even wake up before the first one. It's for when i'm tired that it can be useful, and that can be easily fixed by not being stupid...

Now if i don't need to wake up, I sometimes make them 15min or 30min apart so i can continue a bit of dreaming between each alarm without falling asleep for 2 more hours.

Another way to try and retrain your brain, that can be done whenever, is to set a 5 minute timer and go lay in your bed. Don't even close your eyes, just lay there. Then, when the alarm sounds, get up and continue your day. The purpose is to connect the sound of the alarm to the act of getting out of bed.

“Like a normal person” honestly go fuck yourself, it’s not that easy for a lot of people. And a bunch of “normal” people are burnt the hell from their job and aren’t super eager to be exhausted going to a job that pays them functionally less than it did the year before because inflation hits everything but salaries.

I found getting up on the first alarm and moving to the couch to be a good trick for me. It’s forward momentum even if I don’t go from my bed to being fully ready to go to work with my fake smile hiding my exhaustion. And yet people still complain about how I do things in my own fucking home.

You try and go up to each alarm and fail until you finally go up you have to hurry out of the house.

The trick is having enough buffer in the morning routine, some time to just sit and reflect or something, to account for variations in the wakeup time.