Thread: CAT - My journey (started 8th apr. 2014)

Hi there,

After discovering this technique a couple days ago, I found it really interesting, but also very uncommon, as I didn't find many posts on here or other forums, and they were old, and non-updated by the people starting them.

I'm not of promises, but I prom... erm.. I mean, I'll try to remember posting as soon as possible if I ever give up, or have no results.

For now, I'll also try to remember to update this with my journey.

First, let me say that this (somehow) fits me as I wake up at 7.00am to get to work, and usually I go to bed at 11PM.

On weekends I can go to bed at 11PM on friday BUT wake up at 9... 10... 12.... who knows. Saturday is beer-day and I can go to bed at 3AM if I'm not tired, and wake/get up at 3PM....

Needless to say that I intend to have different weekends from now on.

My new schedule
To wake up 90 minutes earlier means wake up at 5.30am. I also want to go to bed a bit earlier. Even if I don't get 8 hours of sleep, I'll try to have at least 7. My plan is hit bed at around 10 - 10.15PM, so I can be asleep by 10.30, or 11 tops.

Looks like will be hard because I like to stay on bed on weekends, and on weekdays even if my alarm hits at 6.55, I sometime get up at 7.30 ... I'm not one of those hit-alarm-jump-of-bed guys.

Planing
On my phone and with an app I configured an alarm to sound for the next 7 days at 5.30am. From next day I have two alarms, configured to be once every other day. One at 5.30, next at 7.00.

Day 1 - 8th april
Alarm hits at 5.30. To be honest I've been nervous (like if I was going to wake up to take a plane or something) so I didn't sleep well. In any case, alarm hit, I told myself how stupid I am for doing this and promised myself not to tell anyone, and though about starting "next monday". Nah, I got up, and went to play my favourite game on my PC for 1.5 hours.

Day 2 - 9th april
Today it's been easier. I went to bed at 10.30PM, and got up as soon as the alarm hit. I feel more lazy when I have to go to work, but knowing that this technique requires to NOT stay in bed, I just get up... Today I spent my time editing some dash-cam videos I had laying on my computer "to be edited some day". Hey, I even feel as if I have time to do things I don't want to do when I get back from work at afternoon!!

Day 3 - 10th april
What can I say... today it's been really, really hard. I'm starting to notice the sleep deprivation... I went to bed around 10.15PM... I woke up at 2.30am with a glimpse of a dream on my head but unable to remember. I woke up again at around 4.30am, and just as I was dreaming something alarm hit at 5.30. No DJ entries today. Just got up and headed to the computer. Anyway my mistake is that I hardly remember to make the constant 2-3 minutes RC that must be done with this method... maybe I did 4-5 in the full 1.5 hours. I want to remember next time.


I can't wait to reach next tuesday, my first day to wake up again at 7.00am, and see what happens.

I'll continue updating.