I have about 12 alarms set on my phone to go off from 615 until 730
on average, I get up 1hr30 mins after the first alarm goes off
I’m a grumpy f**ker in the morning
and for the rest of the day
+1.
If I set an alarm an hour before I have to be in (takes 30 mins to get in) I’ll generally sleep right through it, regardless of how loud it is or where I place it – I’ll get up, cross the room, turn it off and go back to bed without even knowing I’ve done it. I have to set a succession of alarms starting at about 2 hours before work, slowly getting more and more annoying and distant. By about 6 or 7 alarms I’ll be awake enough for conscious thinking and get up, feeling aweful, having less sleep than I need and not being happy. Left alone I wake happily at 10:30 to 11am without an alarm. The problem is society doesn’t like that much, everyone else works to normal times and you miss out on loads because you can’t do DIY at midnight and miss 50% of the meetings in work!
I love getting up early in the sense that I seem to have massively long days when I do, and its nice to have long evenings to do stuff in like go for a ride, I just never can make it a reality.