Good morning, sunshine!

[runnernda]

I have an issue, Escapists. I can NOT wake up in the morning. I set multiple alarms (including one across the room), I sleep with a light on, I go to bed at the same time every night...and I can't do it. It's not that I wake up and can't resist going back to sleep. It's that I sleep through it. I also have the remarkable ability to turn my alarms off without fully waking up, so I have no memory of waking up in the first place. I've been late to work more times than I can count. Luckily, my boss has been flexible thus far, but I don't want to know how long that will last?

I need help! Do you have any advice to help me get up when I need to?

 

[Lukeje]

Go to bed earlier?

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I can come over and play a vuvuzela through a megaphone.

 

[tomtom94]

Awww, I thought this was to do with Dr Death Defying.

OT: Come off the computer a full hour before you normally go to bed, and lie down on your bed in a low light. Read a book if that helps, but make sure not to strain your eyes.
I just know that computer screens keep me awake and that scientists have proven I'm not alone, so that's the best advice I can give.

 

[TAGM]

Personaly, I have this problem - what I do is switch off the alarm, set it for 10 minutes later, and then "fall asleep" again. It helps get rid of the drowsyness.

 

[Lilani]

You should do a doctor, and apply for a sleep study. That will not only hopefully get you closer to a solution, but also give your boss physical proof that this is a big problem and you aren't just pulling his leg.

 

[Lullabye]

um....this?

 

[Brandon237]

I can come over and play a vuvuzela through a megaphone.

Don't joke... on the first day of the world cup, one of 9our neighbours blew their vuvuzela... very enthusiastically... at 5 in the morning... Never before have I so badly wished for one of my neighbours to be launched into the sun.

And I also sometimes don't wake up... Get a shockingly loud alarm... and don't put it near any sharp objects! Ever!

 

[zfactor]

I have an issue, Escapists. I can NOT wake up in the morning. I set multiple alarms (including one across the room), I sleep with a light on, I go to bed at the same time every night...and I can't do it. It's not that I wake up and can't resist going back to sleep. It's that I sleep through it. I also have the remarkable ability to turn my alarms off without fully waking up, so I have no memory of waking up in the first place. I've been late to work more times than I can count. Luckily, my boss has been flexible thus far, but I don't want to know how long that will last?

I need help! Do you have any advice to help me get up when I need to?

Put the alarms on the other side of the room and turn the volume all the way up. This forces you to actually get out of the bed to turn off the alarms so you cannot turn them off while sleeping.

 

[runnernda]

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Put the alarms on the other side of the room and turn the volume all the way up. This forces you to actually get out of the bed to turn off the alarms so you cannot turn them off while sleeping.

I already do this, and yet I still turn them off while half-asleep. Yes, I actually get up, walk across the room, turn the alarm off, and get back in bed, all while not awake. I succeed in waking up everyone else in the house, but myself? Nope.

 

[adderseal]

I've got exactly the same problem at the minute! I always find I sleep much better, and I can fall asleep much earlier, if I do exercise. During the university term time I cycle a lot, so I sleep well. Over the holiday period I sit on my arse and do fuck all, and I can never get to sleep until 5am. So I can only wake up at 4pm, no matter what alarms there are set.
So yeah, just do lots of exercise!

 

[Scarim Coral]

Simple, you need one of those alarm clock used in the live action Flintstone movie. It was the sun shining through a magnifying glass which burns a rope which is holding a rock above the person.