I have a lot of trouble falling back asleep after something like that when I know an alarm is set. The result is that I have to stay up later than I&#x27;d like to make sure I&#x27;m so tired that I am <i>very</i> unlikely to wake up at all before the alarm goes off, getting 6-7 hours most nights, when I&#x27;d love 8-9 but can&#x27;t risk waking up at 2:00 (because I wasn&#x27;t falling-over tired when I went to bed) and not being able to fall back asleep due to alarm-anxiety.<p>My wife and I each take a separate sleep-in day on the weekends (someone has to get up with the kids) to make up for stuff like this. I&#x27;d rather not have one since it cuts heavily in to nice daylight hours, but as it is it&#x27;s do the 12-hour-sleep make-up thing on the weekend or risk having a 3-hours-of-sleep night on a Tuesday because I woke up and couldn&#x27;t go back to sleep.<p>The only solution I can come up with is &quot;get rich enough not to have an alarm&quot;. :-&#x2F;