health When you wake up an hour before your alarm, what do you do?

[Venomous 18,813]

We've all had days where we have woken up soon before our alarm is scheduled to go off. In these cases, what do you do? Do you try to go back to sleep or do you just stay up?

[The Kaeya Simp 13,953]

9 minutes ago, The Wife of Hawks said:

We've all had days where we have woken up soon before our alarm is scheduled to go off. In these cases, what do you do? Do you try to go back to sleep or do you just stay up?

i usually stay up

[Lucky Bolt 34,914]

It depends how tired I am, i might fall back asleep until it does go off but most times i just get up and stay up. 

[Cash In 21,493]

I usually go back to sleep, but that has backfired before, since I end up sleeping through my alarms half the time.

[LaFleur 24]

Usually, I drink a cup of water and go back to sleep.

[ssj4gogita4 101]

Typically go back to sleep but sometimes I'm not able to and then that one hour later I do go to sleep

[Fluttershyfan94 5,737]

I go back to sleep it is satisfying to wake up from a good sleep only to realize you can sleep an hour longer hehe.

[Evil Pink One 12,954]

I stare at my alarm and mock it....

".... I beat you...." 

Edited May 3, 2021 by Kujamih

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

Usually I try to fall asleep, but sometimes I've woken up too much to go back to sleep, so I grudgingly get out of bed. As soon as I muster up the strength to do so, anyway.

[Dreambiscuit 8,022]

On those occasions I use an alarm I hate to wake up early because I can never fall back asleep knowing that damned alarm will be going off at any moment. Just the idea of it stresses me out and prevents me relaxing enough to fall back asleep. Once I’m up, I stay up.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,631]

I usually just end up closing my eyes again, to try and get just a little more sleep.

[Astralshy 23,460]

Depends: If I have an appointment or need to go to work, then I stay up. If I don't or there is enough time I go back to sleep.

18 hours ago, Kujamih said:

I stare at my alarm and mock it....

".... I beat you...." 

I also do that, but I don't stare at it while doing it xD

[Flying Pencil 3,023]

Go right back to sleep. 

[King of Canterlot 9,588]

It depends on how tired I am and how pressing the thing I need to get up for is. It it's very pressing then usually I can't fall back asleep anyway so I just stay up, but if it isn't then I can usually roll over and fall back asleep until it goes off. Of course this all depends on how tired I am- even if it's very pressing but I'm really tired I may just fall back asleep anyway 

[Twilight Sparkle97 395]

I'd try to go right back to sleep, although most of the time when I try, I can't seem to fall back asleep and then next thing I know its time to get up. 

[DubWolf 16,587]

I just stay in bed and ... ponder about stuff  . That or just realize how relaxing it is, but also realize about missed sleep I could have gotten (especially if it's more than one hour before my alarm..). I usually don't have an alarm since I work afternoons so yay .

[Splashee 28,537]

Like today? Hmm... I just moved the alarm forward with 10 minutes to get some extra time to wake up by myself. Then I turned the alarm off just before it was about to go off, because I was wide awake by that point.

[CypherHoof 26,479]

Snooze for 50 minutes, then turn the alarm off and start thinking about getting up.

[Fluttershutter 2,114]

Usually lay there trying to fall back asleep and fail. 

[Clawdeen 12,109]

I work the off shift so waking up before my alarm is a blessing because that means I can do stuff before I go to work. If I wake up at my alarm I don’t get to do anything. If I wake up extremely early I’ll try to go back to sleep.

[ZiggWheelsManning 7,297]

Watch an episode of the classic sitcom My Three Sons, given MeTV airs it that early in the morning  

[Stardust 640]

I don't have an alarm I mean if you don't live alone I jus rely on parents if ever for some reason I slept in which is very rare. I wake up naturally most of the time. If I had an alarm I guess I would wake up before it in expectation tbh they give me the chill but occasionally when I lived alone I used one.

Edited May 13, 2021 by flurry

[Steve Piranha 28,752]

I found the hard way I might as well get up. Otherwise I’ll spend more time calculating how much sleep time I have left than any actual sleep

Edited September 30, 2023 by Steve Piranha
Some grammar DERP

[Vefka 1,499]

Just never get back to sleep, it'd be much harder to wake up this way an hour after

[Savygriffs 5,019]

I literally just stay up. Once I'm awake, it's hard for me to fall back asleep.