[genystartup]

Found that 6.5 hours is perfect for me. I sleep at like midnight and snore my way to 6:30am when my alarm goes off. In that 6.5hr period, I don't wake up at all. I then go to the gym for about and hour and listen to music just doing nothing for 15-30mins before I start planning for work.

[georgerobinson]

Impressive! How do you motivate yourself to go to the gym every morning? I tend to run in the evenings which is really nice now that the sun doesn't set until at least 9pm.

I really can't cope on less than 8 hours of sleep for extended lengths of time. It completely wears me down and I get tired and ill. Usually what happens is that when I get up at say 6:30am I am completely exhausted by 7:30pm. If I get up a bit later I can usually function until at least 10:00pm.

[frigg]

We sleep in cycles which last about 90 minutes each. Assuming it takes you around 15-20 minutes to go to sleep you wake up at the end of a sleep cycle and don't feel drowsy. What also helps is going to sleep at the same hour every day, like in your case.

I did the exact same thing as you, I would always go to bed at 11.30 PM every day and wake up at 6AM. After a while I'd wake up a minute or two before the alarm went off.