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your body intends to wake up at 9:00am, but your alarm goes off at 6:00am, you won’t get the morning dose of cortisol and ACTH. Fortunately, we can fix this problem.
One study showed that by simply anticipating a wake-up time, your body will spike alertness hormones precisely at that time. So if you go to bed stressing over waking up early (say, for an early flight), your brain’s built-in alarm clock gets “set” to that time and will release hormones to help wake you up.
On the other hand, if you go to bed with the intention of eternal slumber, the alertness spike might occur too late or too weak.
This might explain why simply being excited about the waking makes getting out of bed easier. And it might explain why those using sleep as an escape from the real world have more difficulty waking up.
Although the basic psychological trick of “anticipating” a waking-up time seems to work, alternatively you can keep your wake up time consistent day to day so that your brian’s internal alarm clock is programmed through habit.