I’m always so exhausted, I can take an hour to wake up. How do you wake up quickly ?
Why are you exhausted? If this is not normal it may be worth a doctor visit.
Exhaustion after a full night’s sleep is often sleep apnea.
Constantly differing shifts can also keep the body confused because there’s no schedule and it doesn’t even remotely match the light cycle outside. OP also didn’t say ‘full night of sleep’ in their post.
Yea fuck me for assuming and offering a valid reason for the issue.
This was a terrible response man. The other guy was not detracting from or disagreeing with anything that you said in the slightest. You just got all pissy for literally zero reason.
? I’m confused by this reaction. I offered another possibility. I also pointed out that ‘full night’ wasn’t in there because jumping straight to a disease/disorder seemed a bit strong when there might be other posibilities.
This post has many comments. Not one the same as mine, yet many the same as yours. Op was asking for help. I gave my knowledge, gained from experience and education that was not seen in any other comment on the post. Fuck me for offering assistance that I know from my history is an option as to this person’s problem when I could have just circle jerked.
I mean, I found the “fuck me” part surprising. I wasn’t trying to attack you or anything. To me, there are steps between things and disease/disorder and I wanted to make sure it was clear; that’s all. Yours was I think the second from top when I looked which is why I commented on it. I actually haven’t finished going through them all yet
If you live alone, and trust me on this, start screaming. It feels weird but it works 9 times out of 10 also it relieves some stress probably.
If you feel uncomfortable doing that or don’t live alone or share walls with other people, try splashing you face with cold water. It fucking sucks, it really does, but you probably won’t fall asleep again.
If you’re ADHD like me and you’ve never been able to establish a consistant sleep schedule in your entire life then you gotta find tricks like these to help. No amount of “just go to bed at a regular hour and get up at the same time every day” is ever going to change anything. Coffee helps and so do prescribed stimulants but I can still pass out with those in my system. Cold water and staying on my feet hasn’t filled me.
However, if you’re struggling to get out of bed bc you turn off your alarm in a sleep haze and pass back out I recommend getting an app called alarmy and using it’s barcode scanning function. I pasted a barcode on my medication bottle that stays in my bathroom and the alarm won’t turn off until I scan it. It forces me to get out of bed and take my meds ASAP bc that alarm is annoying af. You can also keep your phone charger far away from your bed for added protection but if you have no self control at night this will eventually get annoying and you’ll move it back to your bed.
I hope something here helped o7 best of luck fellow permanently exhausted pigeon
This accurately reflects my position on the matter
It is currently almost 3 am, I have class at 9
Did you make it to your class?
7:10 for me. At some point I just gave up
I’m only an hour behind you lol
Probably won’t bother sleeping tonight either
If I start screaming at 6 AM, my neighbor would call the cops.
Added a clause for a reason lol, I don’t do this now that I live in an apartment but when my family wasn’t home and I woke up for school I’d do this.
I think it also helped that I had parrots so initially when I woke up they’d start screaming first and I felt included. I miss my birds
Waking up to screaming parrots and screaming with them sounds great! Stress relief and company
It was pretty cathartic. Got them really excited too and my greencheek would march around the top of his cage while he did it lol
Falling asleep at the right time. Not getting into bed, falling asleep.
Use a sleep calculator to work out when you should be in bed so you can wake at the right part of your sleep cycle.
Any good sleep calculators on android? Preferably libre?
Sleep For Android
Have a cat retching… works always here.
I’m no morning person either. I just set a timer on the radio (when I sleep trough it I’m to exhausted) and I take about 2h before leaving for work. I’m just a liability on the road when I leave without waking up slowly.
Sleep earlier.
Bananas or milk helps. Or if you have magnesium or melatonin supplements, those work too.
I think it’s also a good skill to know how to gauge how much fatigued your body is at any time.
Go to sleep at a fixed hour. I recommend 20/22, that’s 8/10pm in 12-hour format.
That’s a bit extreme innit
Yeah, I hate it. But it does the job.
Get a smart light. Schedule it to turn on before your alarm. The best is gradual over 30-60 minutes, ending at full brightness, but just turning it on halfway five minutes before your alarm is also way better than nothing.
Placement is key. You want to make sure it’s close enough to still wake you, while far enough that you can’t turn it off without getting out of bed.
Other things helped–like drinking half a liter of water before going to bed so biology forces the issue–but the sunrise light was the key for me too. I set it to fade in over 10 minutes, ending 10 minutes before my alarm goes off. I used to set alarms in three minute increments and still take an hour to get up. Now I’m usually up with the first alarm, and much more alert.
Other things helped–like drinking half a liter of water before going to bed so biology forces the issue
Unfortunately this stops working as you get older and your bladder decides 3:30am is a good time to wake up.
I use “Sleep as Android”.
- Sleep tracking in an attempt to wake me up 30 minutes before my alarm depending on my sleep cycle.
- Smart watch with the same app for increasing the accuracy of sleep tracking by giving access to my pulse.
- NFC Tag. Using one of the settings from the same app. I’ve connected it to an NFC tag in my living room. I can’t turn off my alarm unless I scan the NFC tag. Nor can I turn off my phone, snooze the alarm, or lower the volume.
ah, neat. NFC.
I used to set an alarm on my laptop to go off at the same time as my phone, so I would have to walk into the other room in order to turn it off. These days I tend to wake up several hours before my alarm goes off, unable to return to sleep.
These days I tend to wake up several hours before my alarm goes off, unable to return to sleep.
Same. It’s rough. My 4 year old woke me at 3am this morning. That was it. Just couldn’t get back to sleep.
My daughter is 2 months old so she’s not mobile yet, but this is definitely something I’m dreading in the future lol. Right now all I have to worry about is being woken up by her fussing in her sleep every half hour (she sleeps in a bassinet at the foot of the bed), but we’ve gotten better at discerning what merits actually getting up vs letting her self-soothe.
To answer the original question, though, having a child will train you to be able to wake up in a matter of seconds…
My daughter is 2 months old
It only gets better from there tbh. That’s my experience anyway. Peak exhaustion around 8-10 weeks then a slow recovery.
Congratulations! Enjoy the snuggles :)
I remind myself that if I stay lying in bed, a bunch of depressing, anxiety-inducing thoughts will start to swim in my head. The best way I found to combat this is to get up straight away and do something I need to concentrate on. Like making a coffee. Also, I (vaguely) remember something I read years ago, about if you keep a good attitude up to 9 or 10 am, the rest of the day usually looks after itself.
Go to sleep earlier, you probably are really just still exhausted from lack of sleep. Once you have eniugh sleep you’ll wake up without falling asleep again.
I set 2 alarms. one 15 minutes before the other. when the first alarm goes off I take a 200mg caffeine pill. when the second goes off getting up is much easier.
Make it a habit to always just stand up when you wake up. Even if it’s like an hour away from when you actually wanted to get out of bed. I used to be really bad at getting out of bed, but now even when I’m depressed I manage quite well. I will say you need motivation to get around the start.
Realize you overslept.
Back in college I lived off campus and had to bike in. Usually waking up at the last possible moment had me leaping out of bed, eating as fast as possible, and pedaling my dumbass to class seconds after opening my eyes. Maybe the regular exercise helped.
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