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Get Me Out of Bed!
Rainbulimic
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I have a proper issue getting out of bed in the morning and its becoming very problematic, namely because I'm starting to get later and later for work.
Morning "routine": I start the morning with soft music, a sort of effort for a gentle wake up. That's then interrupted by a buzzer which I will snooze for as long as possible. Once I've decided NOT to snooze any longer I'll lay and wake myself up by browsing the net on my phone, rather than getting out of bed. Then I'll decide I should stop that too, so I do, but this doesn't get me out of bed.
I just can't seem to get up. I'll just lay there being comfortable, aware that time is ticking by.
It's like I find the actual physical act of getting out of bed the worst thing ever and try my best to avoid it for as long as possible! I'll go to bed with the best intentions, but by morning, I just can't get up.
So does anyone have any suggestions to kick my arse into gear?
Morning "routine": I start the morning with soft music, a sort of effort for a gentle wake up. That's then interrupted by a buzzer which I will snooze for as long as possible. Once I've decided NOT to snooze any longer I'll lay and wake myself up by browsing the net on my phone, rather than getting out of bed. Then I'll decide I should stop that too, so I do, but this doesn't get me out of bed.
I just can't seem to get up. I'll just lay there being comfortable, aware that time is ticking by.
It's like I find the actual physical act of getting out of bed the worst thing ever and try my best to avoid it for as long as possible! I'll go to bed with the best intentions, but by morning, I just can't get up.
So does anyone have any suggestions to kick my arse into gear?
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Beyond that (sitting in bed on the internet) stop being dumb.
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This. Also if your mobile has a vibrate only alarm use that and put it on a hard surface, I've found it's way more effective than any clock. Having your phone away from you will also make you get up to use it to browse.
Also coffee.
Anyone have other solutions if this doesn't work? If I don't have a reason to get up I'll get out of bed, and hit the snooze button the alarm that's across the room and get right back in bed and then do it again when the snooze goes off.
Okay, that's sort of conceptually awesome.
It sounds like no matter what, you're going to get back into bed. Just take a shower immediately after turning off the alarm. If you keep getting right back into bed no matter what, that's a personal issue and you need to develop some restraint.
Putting your alarm clock out of reach is also a good idea. You'll have to get up to shut it off, and by that time you'll be standing in your room, awake cuz you don't remember where you put the alarm clock and frantically trying to shut that ringing noise.
A normal grown adult need 7 hours of sleep. If you sleep cross that threshold you'll find yourself very tired, and in response your body will tell you to sleep more to fight off the wearilness. I guess that's what you are experencing when you hit the snooze button.
FYI I got 2 alarm clocks beside my bed.
My alarm clock is across the room, buuut it has a remote (its an ipod dock) and I discovered this morning that the remote can turn off the buzzer. I might have to hide the remote before bed...
I'd like to think I've the willpower to just not snooze it, but I've proven myself wrong a lot.
Get a new alarm clock?
I think the real issue here is you. If getting out of bed to turn off the alarm doesn't work, then you just need to stop being lazy and force yourself to not get back in bed. Like I already said, a shower is your best bet. Just head straight for it.
Yea a shower or food as soon as you get up helps a lot. I tend to become used to alarm clocks after a year or so to where I can sleep thru them for the hour or so they will go off from time to time so changing or rotatating alarm clocks might help too. Personally I find most music fails miserably at waking me up as well so maybe skip the music and go right to buzzer or super obnoxious songs on the ipod.
Once you get into the habit of getting up right away, you'll be golden. It's just getting to that point that sucks. This might sound weird, but the thing that's been most effective for me has been thinking about what time I want to wake up right before I go to sleep. Focusing on it. Like setting an alarm in your subconscious.
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This works for me, learned it in college. If I set a time for myself to wake up I'll wake up at that time, even if I haven't had enough sleep or am still under the influence of intoxicants.
But you'll still be presented the option to get up, or go back to bed. Choose to get up. Then immediately start doing stuff, like fixing tea or breakfast.
Stop using the snooze button.
At some point though, I turned into Mr. Instant Riser. I wake up 5-10 minutes before my alarm goes off and immediately get out of bed. I'm not sure what happened.
Overcoming it is a matter of improving your sleeping habits, finding something you're excited about in the morning (such as a delicious breakfast and/or coffee), and sheer willpower.
Habit.
Man back when I tried the alarm clock across the room thing, it worked for the first week then it stopped. I thought it was broken. Turns out I was getting up, turning it off, and not remembering because I was still mostly asleep.
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It sounds to me less like you have trouble waking up, and more like you aren't sleeping effectively.
1. When do you go to sleep?
2. Are you getting regular intensive physical exercise (walking to work/school doesn't count)?
3. What do you do before you go to sleep?
I used to have trouble getting to sleep, and that was affecting my ability to wake up the next day, because I wasn't sleeping very well. Now that I am hitting the gym three times a week, it's much easier to wake up because I sleep at a decent time (pre-12) and sleep deeply.
smoking weed gives me a hell of a time getting up, too damn cozy in my bed.
There. Problem solved.
Something that helps me is setting the alarm on my phone to start going off about an hour before I have to actually be up. So, if I need to be out of bed at 8, I'll set the first alarm for 7 or 7:15, then every fifteen minutes until 8.
This way I wake up more slowly, and by the time I have to actually 'get up' I'm reasonably alert, as opposed to having my alarm go off at 8 and hitting snooze in a fog of sleepiness.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Honestly I don't think it's a matter of being a heavy sleeper. What matters is the quality and amount of sleep you get, and how tired you were the day before.
I notice that the more times I wake up in the middle of the night for anything (restroom, thirst, neighbors, etc.) the harder it is for me to wake up in the morning.
No, I have a well documented if anecdotal history of being a bare step up from a dead body when I'm asleep. It takes me a while to progress from being aware that an alarm is going off to actually being an alert human being.
Reading the OP again though, it doesn't really seem like the problem is actually waking up on time.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
I think an alarm clock that makes you solve a simple puzzle before it turns off would be an awesome idea. Does anyone know if such a thing exists?
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Exists is a strong word, sadly.
Self-control?
Seriously, if you're that determined to go back to bed what else can you do? Just make a routine where you turn the alarm clock off and head for the shower.
The human brain is an amazing thing; do not underestimate its ability to perform complex tasks when the outcome is getting to go back to sleep. I intentionally set my clock ten minutes fast, in an effort to compensate for my laziness. It worked at first, but after a while I just developed a habit of calculating the correct time and I went right back to always being ten minutes late for lectures.
I can't find the article, but telling yourself right before bed that you need to get up at a certain time, helps wake you up by that time through the release of a certain chemical that prepares the body for the "torture" of waking up from sleep. It was a pretty interesting read and I've started using that to make it easier for me to wake up when I need to.
Just find the willpower to get yourself up and out. And throw the blankets when you do so your bed loses the body warmth.
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This, personally I'd set two, one next to the bed, and another in the bathroom in the ensuite.
You wake up to the one next to your bed, and you are awake you hear the other one in the room, you wander into the bathroom and you turn it off and step into the shower.
Also lets think about this logically.
Looking at the phone in bed is an issue for you.
Don't put it next to your bed.
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Make a pathway of alarm clocks from your room to your bathroom, all set to go off a few seconds after the other. As soon as you turn off the first one, the second one goes off, etc. etc.
Long-term solutions, however, are a different story. A reliable sleep schedule and consistent physical exercise, if you're not already doing them, will help immensely. If it's still a problem, it might be a medical condition, so consider seeing a doctor. Lastly, if it's not a physical problem, it could be a psychological one. The desire to remain in bed is similar to the desire to regress to the womb. As a last resort, I'd consider maybe seeing a shrink.
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Being on time for work isn't enough of a reason to get up?
Just don't go back to bed. Get in the shower.
You might feel tired as hell during the day but thats a separate issue, at least you'll be out of bed.
The maintaining a sleep schedule advice is the one to go for.
Sometimes, when I was home for the summer I would have a hard time getting out of bed before 2 because I had nothing to do. the best thing for me to do was to plan something for early in the day and to keep that time in mind before I slept. You just really need to kick your own ass to make it work. Sometimes I need to actually say to myself "Okay, Lets go." and just move.
I get up at around 7am for work on weekdays, on weekends I sleep in a little but I'm sitll usually up by 8-8:30am.
I used to sleep in really late on weekends like 1-2pm, and it just wrecked me, I'd be so tired during the day, despite getting the same amount of sleep as I do now.