At about 4am this morning, I woke up hungry and thirsty. I got up to grab some juice, and went out on the porch where it was dark but breezy and quite nice, testing my state the whole time. When I fell asleep after 15-20 minutes I had two LDs back to back - kind of an unintentional WBTB i guess (I usually only have about one or two LDs a month.)

My question is, what made me wake up, able to get out of bed and walk around with such energy? Usually if/when I wake from sleep I'm too lazy to get up- even though I've been very successful with WBTB, sleepy me would usually rather just nod back off than get up for a while. Especially If I use an alarm(although that goes off regardless of whatever my current sleep stage..). But last night I seemed wide awake and motivated, even though It was only 4.

I had been sleeping for about 6 hours (10pm-4am). I had about 5 drinks before bed (I don't drink often, but the alcohol may be what made me thirsty and woke me up). If you know of any good ways to naturally (i.e. without an alarm) GET yourself up after 5-6 hours of sleep, please share! As always, I'm open to any suggestion and info, or if you have other similar stories please share them!