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@MTF Sorry to hear that, where are you at the moment?
Poland.
This is actually something you should avoid, both from a sleep quality and mindset point of view as well (you are telling your subconscious you don't want to wake up and it will carry into the day). It's better to just have either one alarm or none at all.
I am currently in a pretty cold place as well (sun rises around 8), but here is my setup - Smart light goes off at 5am (including weekends), followed by dance/energetic music in the living room a minute later - has to be in another room else I'll just turn it off. I just go there, have some warm water, do a few stretches + yoga followed by zen meditation (eyes open, lotus pose). Even after making it past the stretches, it is usually pretty hard to go back to sleep since your body will wake up and get heated. You don't have to do 5am but its better to pick a time and stick with it everyday. After a month or so, it will become fairly easy.
Check out the book "Sleep Smarter" by Shawn Stevenson. It has a bunch of tips to improve sleep quality, and has some tips for S.A.D as well iirc.
Thanks for the tips. Some are impossible (my gf would kill me for smart light, let alone dance music at 5 am LOL). Waking up early is natural for me, but it's not natural during the winter. That's the problem.
I'll do some light exercise before yoga to wake me up and maybe try cold showers again. I know all the tips included in this book (just checked the table of contents) and it's the same stuff everyone's saying and the same stuff that just doesn't work for me or is outright annoying (get some sunlight - good luck with that! Even a SAD lamp doesn't come anywhere close to waking up to bright sunshine in the summer)
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