Morning issue

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hello, I'm Redlin and I sleep in. Naturally. It seems to be just the way I am.

For all of my life (or, at least what I remember) I've never liked getting up. I love dreaming, I seem to fight to stay asleep even when the practical side of me is screaming to get up. It seems that every time I'm about to get up, the lure of the dream world snatches me back into deep slumber.

My experience with University has been a struggle each morning. I have 15 (you heard right, 15) alarms that go off in the morning, the last one giving me 15 mins to brush my teeth, grab a quick breakfast bar and run out to catch the bus. If I miss this bus, I have to wait 40 mins for the next one. The way traffic works in Vancouver essentially guarantees I'll be an hour and a half late.

15 alarms, it has to be effective... right? I've still managed to sleep in and several times I've been forced to stay really late at the school to catch up. This has happened too many times for my comfort.

Does anyone have any advice about a guaranteed method of how to get up at a certain time consistently? I no longer have the luxury of a mother and a super soaker.

[sub]Also I love my dreams. If it wasn't for my dreams, I would never have written several novel length stories. No getting rid of the awesome dreams.[/sub]

 

[Rylot]

Sometimes I find I have to move my alarm clock to the other side of the room so I have to get out of bed to turn it off. If you stay in bed and just ignore your alarm try to find a noise that is so grating and irritating that you can't ignore it. But I hate getting up too and so you have my sympathies.

 

[acolyte]

If you like your dreams so much and still want to get up try some nightmares ^^ ...joking.

You should try one of the more special alarm clocks...you know ....the ones that fall of on purpose of your desk and start running around the room beeping (no, I'm not joking now)...
Or the ones that give a dim light just before you set the alarm and increase the intensity of light as time goes on...the light thing is thought to wake you up more gently a little bit before your set time...i can't remember the names but you should look them up...

Hope this was useful...

 

[Ziadaine_v1legacy]

One thing that can effect it is your body clock. If you still keep eating food after 7-8pm, you body keeps resetting itself to what a normal "supper/dinner" is. One useful thing is an alarm on the other side of the room that is loud and annoying. this forces you to get out of bed and turn it off. Do that and set it at 5 minute intervals 3 times. you'll eventually get sick of gtting up and down that you'll eventually stay up.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

Try putting a loud alarm on the other end of the room, and make sure it doesn't turn off until you press a button to make it turn off. You might also consider going to bed earlier; if you need to get up at seven, consider going to bed at ten, and try to keep the schedule as consistent as possible.

 

[Erana]

Try putting a loud alarm on the other end of the room, and make sure it doesn't turn off until you press a button to make it turn off. You might also consider going to bed earlier; if you need to get up at seven, consider going to bed at ten, and try to keep the schedule as consistent as possible.

This. Very much this.

But even if you're getting a long enough period of sleep, if the quality of sleep isn't good enough, you're going to feel tired in the morning. Is your room too cold? Your bed too hard? Do you need another pillow?
Try to listen to your body for anything that makes you feel slightly uncomfortable when you're trying to sleep, and stop it.

You're not alone here, though. In Sophomore year, I developed all sorts of odd symptoms like fatigue, and what appeared to be an onset of narcolepsy. (I mean, had-a-sleep-study, doctor-said-so development of narcolepsy)
I also had a 7:40 class with one of the toughest teachers on campus. It was really rocky at first, but I buckled down, worked with the professor, and managed to get a B+ and got a cash reward for the research paper I wrote for her!

So yeah, find something to help your sleep issues, talk with your professor, and work your butt off. It helps!

 

[Imp Poster]

Buy Wallace or Gromit's bed or house for that matter. Get a pet skunk that gets annoyed in the morning. Joking aside, I wonder if there is an alarm that maybe records your voice to give yourself reminders of how much time you have till you miss the bus, and such. "you have ten minutes to catch the bus, move it or lose it." Hey, maybe you can train a parrot to.. ok sorry, no more.

A simple "that's not helpful" would have sufficed...but...why say that when you can troll and pick on someone for the sake of showing your brain power like a caveman struts and stretches to shows his muscles....

....


EDIT: I.. think I get it. You thought I read your original post and thought I was making fun of you? I just read it. It was past 1 a.m. when I first wrote mine. My first reaction reading the OP was make light of the situation, that's all. Sorry, if you are butt hurt over mine, but usually, I am directly talking to the OP unless I say otherwise by quotes or calling your name out.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

SNIP

My parents actually got me a ridiculously loud alarm clock with a vibrating attachment. So the jury is out on that one.

Try putting a loud alarm on the other end of the room, and make sure it doesn't turn off until you press a button to make it turn off. You might also consider going to bed earlier; if you need to get up at seven, consider going to bed at ten, and try to keep the schedule as consistent as possible.

I've got alarms all over my room. Somehow I seem to sleepwalk through the routine some mornings. As for the going to bed sooner thing, its something that would be nice. However, I have a 3 hour commute and I generally have to stay late at school for one reason or another. My arrival time at home varies from 8PM-1AM. Hopefully this semester should change but who knows...

One thing that can effect it is your body clock. If you still keep eating food after 7-8pm, you body keeps resetting itself to what a normal "supper/dinner" is.

I wish I could eat earlier but the no food on the bus thing really gets me. I've been able to sneak a meal here and there on the bus but its never really filling and sometimes the "Transit Police" make a big deal about it.

But even if you're getting a long enough period of sleep, if the quality of sleep isn't good enough, you're going to feel tired in the morning. Is your room too cold? Your bed too hard? Do you need another pillow?
Try to listen to your body for anything that makes you feel slightly uncomfortable when you're trying to sleep, and stop it.

My problem is actually the opposite. I've never slept in a bed I've felt more comfortable in. I think that may be a reason as to why my body fights me leaving it :/

Also the 15 minute bed to bus time isn't as bad as you might think. I always pack my stuff for the next day the night before so I'm ready for the bus that way. Just a fast brushing of the teeth, changing clothes, grabbing a breakfast bar or three and I'm off.

 

[Imp Poster]

Set all 15 alarm clocks 15(or so) minutes ahead of time. It may not work because you know it is 15 minutes ahead but hey, maybe you might trick yourself into thinking that atleast once.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

I've got alarms all over my room. Somehow I seem to sleepwalk through the routine some mornings. As for the going to bed sooner thing, its something that would be nice. However, I have a 3 hour commute and I generally have to stay late at school for one reason or another. My arrival time at home varies from 8PM-1AM. Hopefully this semester should change but who knows...

Okay, then. Go to a comedy shop or something similar and try to find a joy buzzer. Make sure the shock is strong enough to wake you up. Then, try taping it to a snooze button to see if that makes a difference.

 

[Acier]

Hello, I'm Redlin and I sleep in. Naturally. It seems to be just the way I am.

For all of my life (or, at least what I remember) I've never liked getting up. I love dreaming, I seem to fight to stay asleep even when the practical side of me is screaming to get up. It seems that every time I'm about to get up, the lure of the dream world snatches me back into deep slumber.

My experience with University has been a struggle each morning. I have 15 (you heard right, 15) alarms that go off in the morning, the last one giving me 15 mins to brush my teeth, grab a quick breakfast bar and run out to catch the bus. If I miss this bus, I have to wait 40 mins for the next one. The way traffic works in Vancouver essentially guarantees I'll be an hour and a half late.

15 alarms, it has to be effective... right? I've still managed to sleep in and several times I've been forced to stay really late at the school to catch up. This has happened too many times for my comfort.

Does anyone have any advice about a guaranteed method of how to get up at a certain time consistently? I no longer have the luxury of a mother and a super soaker.

[sub]Also I love my dreams. If it wasn't for my dreams, I would never have written several novel length stories. No getting rid of the awesome dreams.[/sub]

http://www.amazon.com/Sonic-SBB500ss-Vibrating-Alarm-Clock/dp/B000OOWZUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293749655&sr=8-1

Boom.

 

[Chromatic Aberration]

I know the feeling of not wanting to get up - for me, that pretty much happens everytime I get up. However, from my experience its much easier if you just got enough sleep. So, you could try to force yourself to get to bed early enough so that you are guaranteed to have e.g. 8 hours of sleep p. day. That might make getting up easier and you can maybe have 10 or more alarms less in the morning

Another issue could be coffee: if you are like me and can drink coffee in gallons - stop it. Coffee really messes up your sleepiness throughout the day as your body adapts to the amount of caffeine you drink making you more tired if you do not drink enough coffee or get a ridiculous amount of sleep. Try drinking at most 2 cups a day and stop drinking if you can get enough sleep i.e. at the weekends. That might just do the trick (it does for me, that is )

 

[Tharwen]

I have exactly the same problem...

Try using a radio alarm (that is, an alarm that plays a radio station at you when it goes off). That way, you'll be more likely to leave it on and wake up slowly instead of jumping at the alarm, rushing to turn it off and not properly waking up (I used to have an alarm that I could turn off without actually waking up at all).

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hello, I'm Redlin and I sleep in. Naturally. It seems to be just the way I am.

For all of my life (or, at least what I remember) I've never liked getting up. I love dreaming, I seem to fight to stay asleep even when the practical side of me is screaming to get up. It seems that every time I'm about to get up, the lure of the dream world snatches me back into deep slumber.

My experience with University has been a struggle each morning. I have 15 (you heard right, 15) alarms that go off in the morning, the last one giving me 15 mins to brush my teeth, grab a quick breakfast bar and run out to catch the bus. If I miss this bus, I have to wait 40 mins for the next one. The way traffic works in Vancouver essentially guarantees I'll be an hour and a half late.

15 alarms, it has to be effective... right? I've still managed to sleep in and several times I've been forced to stay really late at the school to catch up. This has happened too many times for my comfort.

Does anyone have any advice about a guaranteed method of how to get up at a certain time consistently? I no longer have the luxury of a mother and a super soaker.

[sub]Also I love my dreams. If it wasn't for my dreams, I would never have written several novel length stories. No getting rid of the awesome dreams.[/sub]

http://www.amazon.com/Sonic-SBB500ss-Vibrating-Alarm-Clock/dp/B000OOWZUK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293749655&sr=8-1

Boom.

Received it as a gift this year for Christmas. I need to see if it works yet.

I have exactly the same problem...

Try using a radio alarm (that is, an alarm that plays a radio station at you when it goes off). That way, you'll be more likely to leave it on and wake up slowly instead of jumping at the alarm, rushing to turn it off and not properly waking up (I used to have an alarm that I could turn off without actually waking up at all).

Hmm, I should try it again. Last time I had a radio alarm, I turned it off just like the general buzzer alarms though.

I know the feeling of not wanting to get up - for me, that pretty much happens everytime I get up. However, from my experience its much easier if you just got enough sleep. So, you could try to force yourself to get to bed early enough so that you are guaranteed to have e.g. 8 hours of sleep p. day. That might make getting up easier and you can maybe have 10 or more alarms less in the morning

Another issue could be coffee: if you are like me and can drink coffee in gallons - stop it. Coffee really messes up your sleepiness throughout the day as your body adapts to the amount of caffeine you drink making you more tired if you do not drink enough coffee or get a ridiculous amount of sleep. Try drinking at most 2 cups a day and stop drinking if you can get enough sleep i.e. at the weekends. That might just do the trick (it does for me, that is )

Getting enough sleep is hard because I love staying up late and posting here... Getting home late due to the STUPID bus schedule doesn't help either.

As for the coffee, I don't drink it. At all. I hate it. People have been telling me I should drink coffee but I don't want to. I have little money as it is.

 

[dmase]

Get up and move around and just keep moving till you shake off the morning. Also don't let yourself sleep in even on the weekends. If you get used to a relatively average or low amount of sleep for weeks you'll get in the habit of naturally waking up before the alarm clock(which has to be set for generally the same time every morning). When you let your sleep pattern fluctuate your biological clock doesn't know what the hell is going on so keep it consistent until you at least feel under control.

Yeah it takes effort to keep your eyes open in the morning but if you can wake up long enough to cut off an alarm you wake up long enough to have a shower,get dressed, and brush your teeth.

 

[Unesh52]

Maybe you can set your thermostat to change temperature at a certain time. Make it go really high about an hour before you need to get up. Then you should be too uncomfortable to stay in bed.

 

[3AM]

What time do you go to sleep? How much sleep are you getting? If you're not getting enough deep sleep your body will resist waking up. Have you tried drinking a lot of water before going to sleep? Nothing wakes me up like really needing to pee.

 

[Istanbul]

Get a very loud alarm, and put it on the other side of the room. Make it so that you literally have to get out of bed and walk over to that side of the room to turn the alarm off. If possible, cover the alarm button with something you have to move out of the way, first.

Also, consider speaking to a counselor. As awesome as dreams can be, the point where the desire to lose yourself in them interferes with your ability to live your life is the point where you need to start addressing the underlying cause.

 

[Continuity]

Sometimes 15 alarms are not as effective as 1 alarm and some willpower.

tbh I have a similar problem, I have one alarm clock but I tend to "snooze" it between 4-6 times before I get up which is pretty much an hour of me snoozing in bed cuddling an alarm clock and being woken up and hitting the snooze button every 9 minutes...

If you think about it its not an effective way to sleep and its not an effective way to get up.

I'll get back to you if I ever figure out the willpower thing

 

[Your Nightmare]

What time are you going to bed?