"Don’t face the clock. Try removing clocks from your bedroom. Clock-watching can feed into the pattern of insomnia."
Yes, but what happens when you wake up briefly in the middle of the night? Most people do - more than once - even if they don't remember it. If the clock shows 3 AM, you know to just roll over and go back to sleep. If it's 6 AM the sun will be coming up soon, so if you planned to get up around that time anyway, why not stretch and get up right then? It's a lot less stressful than waiting for the alarm clock to go BLAAAAAAAAH! I agree, don't keep checking the clock and worrying that you aren't asleep yet; but I find it very helpful, in the middle of the night, to know how far I am from morning.
"Don’t face the clock. Try removing clocks from your bedroom. Clock-watching can feed into the pattern of insomnia."
Yes, but what happens when you wake up briefly in the middle of the night? Most people do - more than once - even if they don't remember it. If the clock shows 3 AM, you know to just roll over and go back to sleep. If it's 6 AM the sun will be coming up soon, so if you planned to get up around that time anyway, why not stretch and get up right then? It's a lot less stressful than waiting for the alarm clock to go BLAAAAAAAAH! I agree, don't keep checking the clock and worrying that you aren't asleep yet; but I find it very helpful, in the middle of the night, to know how far I am from morning.