[nvarsj]

Lots of great advice in here.

I am curious about: Turn on the lights to 100% 30 minutes before waking up.

Has anyone actually tried that? I do have Hue lights in my room so I could set it up. But I'm really sensitive to light (even the barest light shining through a crack in a window will wake me up). I think this would just wake me up 30 minutes earlier and it sounds pretty awful.

[davidkuennen]

I'm doing this for two years now with my hue lights and the wake up function.

It's so much better than waking by an alarm. It gradually lights up your room and starts 30 minutes before wake up time. I do however most of the time wake up when it starts lighting up the room.

[nvarsj]

Interesting. I’m going to try it out.

[GoToRO]

It's hard if your bed time varies. If you go to sleep at 3 am, a lamp that turns on at 7 am will not help. What you can do is sleep as much as you need and then when you wake up but are still in bed, turn on the lamp yourself. After some time you will really feel how the brain turns on.