[Beautiful Liar]

Originally posted by ˚Greedy for Ari˚

Have the alarm wake you up 30 mins before your actual wake up time, then keep hitting snooze until its time to wake up, that would help a bit.
The alarm sound is probably conditioned with you waking up tired, so your brain associates the two. Try changing the alarm noise

I shall try this! It's just weird because If i wake up on my own at 644am which is a mintue prior to the alarm I feel fine but the moment the alarm wakes me up at 645am I feel tired

[Benjamin]

Originally posted by Beautiful Liar

I sometimes wake up at 630am naturally and I feel fine but if I lay back down for a mini sleep till 645am and the alarm rings i instantly feel more tired despite feeling fine 15 mintues prior without the alarm clock

Never, ever go back to sleep once you wake up naturally.

That's a sure way to ruin your day. I always feel awful for the rest of the day if I ever go back to sleep after waking up feeling refreshed, regardless of if my second wake up is naturally or by alarm. Oversleeping is as bad as undersleeping.

Your body goes through cycles as you sleep, you want to wake up when your in a light sleep stage, if you wake up in a deep sleep stage you'll feel crap.

[iLays]

I have an internal alarm clock. My body knows when to wake up. Unless i drunk tha night before. In that case i usually wake up later than usual

[rivers]

I don't have an internal alarm clock. If I don't have my alarm set, I will oversleep.

[TinkerbellClap]

During school time I can't but use an alarm. No way in hell I would get all the rest I need by, say, 6 a.m. if I have 8 a.m. class and such. During summer, I do not use an alarm unless I have some appointment of some sort. Usually I plan my outings during the afternoon or at night so I'm fine. But it's summer, let me get all the sleep I can get before Uni starts.

It's only logical that whenever you wake up on your own, you'd feel less tired, since you waking up = your brain telling you it's rested all that it can.

Edit: Sometimes I do have an internal alarm clock, but it's very unreliable. Last Friday I had a doctor's appointment at 8 a.m. and I actually woke up at 7 a.m. and realized I should get ready (even when I slept at 3 a.m. that night) but i fell back asleep. The alarm went off a few minutes after I dosed off so it was fine.

I don't trust myself anyway, I always have an alarm scheduled at, for instance, 8:00 and 8:05 and 8:10 and 8:15, just in case I dismiss the alarm instead of snoozing it. During exams, I schedule it at 8:01 and 8:02 and 8:03 and so on, till like 8:30 () because I would be SO sleep deprived I fall directly back asleep and say "**** it I don't care" when i actually do care to study but i'd wake up feeling EXHAUSTED.

[DoubleDutchess]

I always set the alarm to give me only 6-8 hours of sleep. If I sleep too much I wake up tired.