I’m always so exhausted, I can take an hour to wake up. How do you wake up quickly ?
The bed I usually sleep in gets hit by direct morning sunlight
I look forward to having coffee
I have to get up to go to work
Get mad. But no seriously, if your in a dream that you wanna wake up from, use all your possible force to flex your muscles, it’ll make you realize your dreaming and wake up.
Coffee… A lot of it, that’s how I do it anyways
Exercise, meditate, eat healthy food, hydrate.
Are you doing all these things already and still have the issue?
Get tested for sleep apnea. You’d be surprised how many of us have this and never knew. We just knew we woke up exhausted.
Sleep with caffeine pills next to your bed. Set an alarm for 20 minutes before when you want to wake up. Take the pill with the alarm, and go back to sleep. You will magically wake up super awake at the time you want to be up.
This is obviously a lot less good than the healthy solutions here, but I work a rotating shift schedule and this trick has been working for me for over a decade.
That’s an interesting one. Are they 200mg? I find that too much but it seems to be the standard amount in caffeine tablets I’ve seen.
They’re Jet Alert 200 mg—but the pills are oblong so I break them into smaller doses based on how I’m feeling. Feeling really awake? Don’t take any. Slightly drowsy? A quarter of one (50mg). Normal level of drowsy? 100 mg. Etc.
There’s something about the going back to sleep that seems to have a stacking effect—you wake up feeling really well rested.
People say you shouldn’t have caffeine until about an hour after you’re awake. Something about letting your body chemicals settle before, you know, fucking them up.
Yeah, my understanding of the physiology is that taking it that early leads to rebound sleepiness in 4-6 hours after waking. I think it definitely does, but the immediate caffeine helps if you have a job that demands immediate alertness lol.
Personally I think it’s normal to take awhile to wake up slowly. Evolutionarily I don’t think we popped up ready to hunt. We gradually woke up.
For the exhaustion, you probably simply need more sleep.
For gradual wake-up, get one of those light-alarm clocks. They light up over a period of 5 to 40 minutes (whatever you set it to) to mimic a rising run. Especially important at this time of year.
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
Get an old school alarm clock. I mean really old school. The kind with physical bells that get hit by tiny hammers.
Put it out of reach of your bed so that you physically have to get up to shut it off.
But as others have said, a slow awakening is usually better. Maybe just do what you’re doing but an hour earlier?
Get a light that turns on slowly over 30 minutes before your alarm. Helps ease you into morning if you live in areas with dark winter mornings.
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.
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.
Shower
If you can’t get up quickly, plan to get up slowly. My alarm goes off and hour before it needs to just so I can get some extra snoozes in before I’m ready to get up.
