The past week, I've struggled with waking up on time. My oldest cat, Yuki, insists on waking me up by meowing anywhere from 5am to 6am. She won't stop unless I get up and feed her. I'm not convinced that getting an automated feeder would help the issue, since she would just meow once she runs out of food.
So my problem has now become that I set my alarm for 6am (10PM-6AM should be 8 hours of sleep), and am jipped of 45-60 minutes of good sleep because of the cat. Oddly, I am surprisingly alert when I wake up to feed her and it takes me a while to fall back to sleep. When my alarm does go off, I reset it for later because I feel incredibly tired.
I got to wondering this morning if maybe Yuki's trigger for meowing at me isn't her hunger, but my moving around. If so, that would explain my alertness, and how she wakes me so easily with just a few soft meows.
If that is the case, then clearly that would be when I should naturally get up and I'm not honoring my body when I go back to sleep.
So, I am going to try to stay up when this happens again and see how it feels to have free time in the morning. I'll be interested to see if I am sharper getting up and staying up as compared to when I've gone back to bed.
I will report back!
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