If you get good enough at naps, you can do short ones pretty consistently with no alarm. You basically stay conscious through the whole thing and wake yourself up right after the transition point, which is this really distinctive sensation like exhaustion being physically flushed out of your head. After that there’s diminishing returns to staying asleep longer and no clear signal to get up, so you just have to get to that point and then open your eyes.
If you get good enough at naps, you can do short ones pretty consistently with no alarm. You basically stay conscious through the whole thing and wake yourself up right after the transition point, which is this really distinctive sensation like exhaustion being physically flushed out of your head. After that there’s diminishing returns to staying asleep longer and no clear signal to get up, so you just have to get to that point and then open your eyes.
I used to take public transit and take naps but somehow wake up before my stop.
Never had to be woken up at the end. I think this is partially due to a sharp turn that would shift the bus a few minutes before my stop.