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Rajew

#1 June 13, 2009, 02:34:40 am

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Okay, this is not a thread about me having trouble sleeping. It's problems with sleeping too long.

The problem: Ever since I got back from college I've been sleeping until 11:00am or later. This generally leaves me feeling tired and groggy from sleeping too much, and it makes me feel bad about wasting a lot of the day. I generally like to wake up at 8:30-9:00am. I set my alarm for 9:00am, and wake up for it, but I always end up falling back asleep before I can even get out of bed, even if I try to get myself up and active. There's nobody home to wake me up and make sure I get awake, because my dad has work and my brother has school.

background: I generally go to bed around 2:00am. This leaves me a solid 6 hours of sleep (this is what I am most comfortable with getting, and what my body has apparently been 'trained' to work on. I've never suffered negative effects for sleeping so little).It's not because I'm staying up too late, because for the past 3 nights I went to bed at midnight, and I actually slept LATER on those nights (until 2:00pm on one occasion!). Also, in college I used to stay up until 2:30-3:00am and wake up around 7:00am, no problems, several times a week. The room I sleep in used to be an attic, before the house expanded, and as such has one tiny window in the corner. I believe the issue MIGHT be because I'm not getting enough light for my body to know it's time to wake up. I'm not sure if this has any basis in reality, though.

point of thread: Does anyone know why I can't wake up, or have any tips on how I can wake up? Has anyone ever had similar problems? I just really want to start waking up at a decent hour.

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#2 June 13, 2009, 02:45:51 am

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MIND OVER MATTER

You could also try napping in the afternoon if that is viable

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#3 June 13, 2009, 02:48:05 am

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napping is bad. why don't you just go to sleep earlier?

just because you function well or whatever with 5 hours doesn't mean it's good for you. and if you just fall back asleep force yourself up with multiple alarms or something

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#4 June 13, 2009, 02:49:33 am

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How is napping bad? People who take naps generally score higher on IQ tests, for starters.

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elkalo

#5 June 13, 2009, 03:03:45 am

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Yeah how is it bad? I go to sleep usually at around 12:30-1:00 Am, Go to work at 8:00 am, come home at 5:30 pm, Take a nap for about 2 hours, Finish my uni studies, And repeat.

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#6 June 13, 2009, 03:23:37 am

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I'm having this problem too. I just got out of college, and I can't wake up before 10 AM. I was regularly waking up at 8 AM without an alarm clock for months, and now my schedule is all fucked up.

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#7 June 13, 2009, 03:32:38 am

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whatever you use as an alarm clock, be it a cell phone or an actual alarm clock unit, place it in the opposite corner of your room away from your bedroom so that you actually have to physically get out of bed to turn it off. Once you are out of bed, you will gradually need to convince yourself that you can't go back to bed but need to start your daily routine.

You will feel better about yourself knowing that you have so much more free time. And yes, it does help to go to bed earlier.

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#8 June 13, 2009, 03:56:06 am

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yeah that sometimes works, also it's hard to get up when you have nothing to get up for

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#9 June 13, 2009, 04:07:48 am

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get an alarm that startles you and put it somewhere away from your bed, then when you get up do jumping jacks. this will wake you up gauranteed

also if you can sleep until 2pm then it doesn't sound like this is impacting on your life very much. you're probably oversleeping to catch up on lost sleep.

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#10 June 13, 2009, 04:10:17 am

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I do the same thing most of the time and its pretty annoying if you've got shit to do. What ase said should work, also if you convince yourself before going to bed that its very important that you wake up that works for me too.

also if you want to stay up and not be groggy after waking up then try drinking some coffee or maybe eating something healthy that won't make you sleepy.

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#11 June 13, 2009, 06:47:29 am

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Quote from: elkalo on June 13, 2009, 03:03:45 am

Yeah how is it bad? I go to sleep usually at around 12:30-1:00 Am, Go to work at 8:00 am, come home at 5:30 pm, Take a nap for about 2 hours, Finish my uni studies, And repeat.

Sorry I didn't mean bad in all cases. basically you can get sleep inertia if you go past stage two of the sleeping cycle. i think they're good if they're kept to 30-60 minutes

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#12 June 13, 2009, 06:58:34 am

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Yeah, naps ARE good. But FlowerPower is also right, they are counter-productive if you get past a certain stage of sleep. Also, wow, 14 hours is a pretty damn long time to sleep. I would try to adjust the lighting in your room, so your body knows when to wake up. If this doesn't help then you might want to see a doctor. Also, my sleeping schedule is so fucked up. I go to sleep somewhere around 8-10 am and wake up around 5-6 pm.

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#13 June 13, 2009, 07:05:23 am

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it depends on what you consider productive really, if he wants to catch up on sleep naps are inefficient but work. if you want to stay awake bump up your heartrate

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#14 June 13, 2009, 10:22:59 am

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The only way I've ever been able to get up is by having an alarm clock. Usually what I also do, if I have time, is have my laptop nearby and I turn it on and play a video or some music for 10 minutes while I pull myself out of bed. The stimulation of whatever it is usually keeps me awake.

I have also found it very hard to regularly get up nice and early unless I had something to regularly get up for.

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#15 June 13, 2009, 02:17:46 pm

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I've been through three months of sleeping around 15 hours a day and spending the entire night doing nothing but sit on the computer feeling tired as fuck.

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#16 June 13, 2009, 02:57:53 pm

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I do this a lot. I really dislike it. So, you've just got back home from college, does this mean you're not really active in the day? Not having much a routine? Not getting much exercise? That kind of thing? If that's the case, could have something to do with it all.

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#17 June 13, 2009, 03:11:57 pm

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I try to always sleep at 23:00 and get up at 7:00. I cannot deviate from this pattern. If I sleep any longer than that I'll have a headache for most of the day.

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#18 June 13, 2009, 05:35:25 pm

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Quote from: ase on June 13, 2009, 03:32:38 am

whatever you use as an alarm clock, be it a cell phone or an actual alarm clock unit, place it in the opposite corner of your room away from your bedroom so that you actually have to physically get out of bed to turn it off. Once you are out of bed, you will gradually need to convince yourself that you can't go back to bed but need to start your daily routine.

You will feel better about yourself knowing that you have so much more free time. And yes, it does help to go to bed earlier.

This works pretty well, if you have a low bed keep the alarm clock set on something where you need to be standing to reach it though.

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#19 June 13, 2009, 05:41:42 pm

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I did the whole putting the phone/alarm on the other side of the room idea, and I would literally wake up and turn it off and go back to sleep without remembering that I did it, for a while I thought my phone was broken until one day I hit my toe on my bell bar and caught myself doing it.

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#20 June 13, 2009, 06:14:26 pm

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Get some exercise and try to go to bed before midnight more often. Your body's internal cycle is actually more closley linked with sunup and sundown that you would want to admit. Exercise during the daylight hours and then when you go to lie down your body will be ready for a rest. Within a week or two, this will make your sleeping more efficient, and you will wake more alert the next day.

I had trouble with lack of sleep/oversleeping for years. The best way to cure it is to just try and live more healthfully and naturally. Don't stay up until three. If its the summertime, when the sun goes down, you should be just about ready to go down, too.

If you work a physical labour job for more than a week, you will want to go down about an hour after dinner, and then you will wake up when the sun rises. I know this because when I was treeplanting, my sleep cycle was almost mechanical. You worked all day and slept all night, and then when it stopped being night, you woke up so you could work.

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