Can ByeBed help me wake up earlier?
It can, by making the first alarm hard to ignore. Combined with a consistent schedule and enough sleep, a mission alarm helps you hold a stable wake time, which makes an earlier rise easier to keep.
The anchor
Public-health advice such as the CDC's recommends going to bed and getting up at the same time every day. ByeBed helps you stick to that wake time: it has no snooze button, and the alarm comes back, up to 10 times over 15 minutes, until you finish your mission.
The progression
Move bedtime and wake time earlier in small steps, for example 15 minutes a week, and hold each new wake time with ByeBed. At that pace, moving your wake time by an hour takes about a month.
Don't shortcut sleep
If you wake earlier without adjusting bedtime, you'll just be tired. ByeBed enforces the wake, but you have to feed it enough sleep.
Sources
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC — Sleep and Sleep Disorders
Tired of hitting snooze?
ByeBed replaces the snooze button with a mission: math, push-ups, a photo. Stop the alarm without finishing the mission and it comes back, up to 10 times over 15 minutes. Subscription required, with a 3-day free trial on the annual plan for eligible new subscribers.
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