It is easy to lie down at night, but it is hard to get up at once from your cozy bed in the morning. Many people struggle in their beds every morning, or take another minute, and eventually rush out of home, being pressed for time. Particularly, cold weather tempts you to sleep all the more, but there is a scientific way to wake up in an entertaining way.
Our brain has a compensation system called Ventral Tegmental Area [VTA]. If this part is activated, we can easily wake up from sleep. In other words, it needs enough reward. Although people usually oversleep, on a day when they go on a trip, they wake up even before the alarm rings. That’s because you’re having a reward—going on a trip. In the past, a leader of a certain group was so excited to work every day that he got up early in the morning with excitement. He could not oversleep at all.
If you want to get up happily every morning, whenever you fall asleep, say to yourself, “Tomorrow is going to be an exciting and a happy day!” Then the brain will wake you up to hurry up the next day.