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Getting my lazy ass out of bed
marty_0001
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EVERY morning my alarm wakes me up, and EVERY morning I lie in bed until the last possible minute before I am forced to get up or else be late for work. It's cosy and warm, like most beds. And even on weekends I just lie there, comfortable but awake, because I am too damn lazy to get up. Is there anything I can do that will get me up and going? Or must I despair, for the sleep-in has no weakness with which I can defeat it?
I think I heard a while back that if you're in good physical shape you have more energy? I am very much the skinny nerd, maybe that has something to do with it.
I think I heard a while back that if you're in good physical shape you have more energy? I am very much the skinny nerd, maybe that has something to do with it.
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Are you sure your sleeping habits are ok? Like, do you go to bed mostly at a certain time? Do you feel too sleepy to get out of bed?
And Disney World is nowhere in sight.
Like the op, anyone any suggestions?
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So usually if I wake up at 6am and really need to pee, I'll usually stay up afterwards cuz I'm already up and about. So, unless you have bed wetting problems, drink a lot of water before going to bed, then when you wake up, that'll get you out of bed.
As well, if I have to be up, I'll put my blackberry (which doubles as my alarm clock) on the total other end of the room. That way to stop the annoying tones of "The Entertainer", I have to drag my ass outta bed, walk all the way across the room, and then I'm up.
Use Willpower(TM). Free from your local cortex.
Yeah I'd thought about doing this, but it would be such a pain in the arse, and I'm quite capable of flopping back down on the bed and continuing to doze. Even after I've had breakfast I still feel lazy (probably shouldn't eat on the couch whilst watching tv). It's only after showering that I'm fully awake.
I'm reluctant to drink a lot of fluids before bed. It usually just results in me not falling asleep at night until I get up and go to the toilet.
I'm not sure about a sleeping disorder... I think maybe I used to have one when I was living at home with my parents, but since I've moved out on my own I seem to sleep very well. I'm probably not a really regular sleeper. I go to bed at 10:30 or 11 each night, and get about 7 to 8 hours sleep before being woken up at 6:30. However on weekends I do tend to stay up til maybe 12:30am, just because I feel like I'm getting more out of the day if I don't go to bed. This is kind of illogical though seeing as I catch that time back up by sleeping in til 9:30.
I've got a clock radio that goes off at 7:00, 7:07 and then 7:14 before my phone alarm on the other side of the room goes off at 7:15 to make sure I'm out of bed.
So suggestions being
Alarm on other side of room
Have your sig other live with you ?
I'm moving house soon so I think the alarm on the other side of the room thing may do the trick.
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My last ex used to do this, and it made me positively fucking murderous. Just use the last one, and force yourself up goddamnit. Multiple alarms ten minutes apart is very probably taught as a torture method to CIA agents :x
For the rest of you, if you're falling back asleep its because you're tired. Go to bed earlier.
My girlfriend does pretty much the same thing though.. Her clock alarm allows you to snooze in increments of 5 minutes 3 times before turning itself off. She's used to pressing snooze the required amount of times before knowing that she needs to get up. When I stay over and we need to wake up for something though.. Man, all hell breaks loose. I sleep on the side of the bed near the alarm so when it goes off I'm always frantically thinking "how many times has it been pressed.. do I get up now?"
Man I have willpower up the wazoo when I'm awake, but when you're half asleep your mind will tell you whatever it needs to to get you to go back to sleep.
"we'll just have another five minutes it'll be cool"
"but that never woooorrkkzzzzzzzzzzz...."
Not only can I turn an alarm off without even registering that I've woken up, I have had times where the only logical explanation is that I've gotten up (while still basically asleep) walked across the room, turned the alarm off and then deactivated future alarms
the snooze button is the bittersweet bane of my morning.
i just got sick of it and started going to bed earlier. 7 hours is what i've been getting and it helps a lot. and i've heard (not verified) that getting over 8 or 9 hours will actually slow you down just as much as not getting enough sleep.
i'd imagine that getting a deeper and more restful sleep will help you wake up more ready to face that first godawful dose of sunshine as well, so maybe try getting one of those neck supporting pillows or a foam mattress cover for back support. perhaps try a little meditation before you sleep to help clear out your head.
if all else fails, you can do like i do: if i know i'm not going to have enough sleep one night and therefore will not be able to wake up on time in the a.m., i've asked my girlfriend (who wakes up at 9:30am vs. my 2am) to call me and wake me up. talking to her gets my mind working and helps me wake up so that works out pretty well.
Also don't they have those alarms that start wheeling around the room, so you have to chase it a little to get it to shut up? Try one of those.
unrelated:
this would require installation of a hidden camera in the room; because watching someone stagger about in a drowsy stupor giving chase to a small, screaming mechanical alarm would just be utterly hilarious.
If i get 8 - 9 hours of sleep i have no problem getting up in the morning.
Anything less and it takes me a few trys to actually get up and going.
There you go, an alarm clock that runs away from you.
ahaha oh god...
I know you can get padded ones you can hurl at the wall to trigger the snooze function :P
Hah, yeah, my friend had a football-shaped version of one of those things. I think he regularly broke shit with it by tossing it around in a half-dazed stupor
I'm a lazy twat, so I use the tried and tested solution of positioning my phone (I don't have a regular clock, per se) at the opposite end of my room. Usually I can persaude myself to continue out the door (after donning pants) rather than retreating back to bed, and after coffee I can usually maintain a coherent string of thoughts for more than five seconds...
I fucking leap out of my bed, turn off the alarm and then leap back in to my bed, losing consciousness in seconds.
But I know what my problem is: i dont get more than 5-6 hrs of sleep a night, and I need at least 9-10 to feel rested. Me loves to sleep.
ooooooorrr...
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/
edit: though...I hate being woken up that harshly.
Every day.
Exact same time.
No matter what.
The alarm was across the room, and he had an alarm clock that would vibrate in such a way that it would slowly move to the edge of the dresser. If it wasn't turned off in time, it would fall and break. It was a little added adrenaline to get him moving.
(Of course, the downside of this is that you might spending more money on clocks than you'd like to if your sleepiness is bad.)
But that wasn't the problem he outlined. He said he'll lie there awake but not get up. So, solution = get up.
I think the OP is looking either from some fairy dust solution to make getting up easier for him, or for someone to tell him he has Generic Affliction of Reduced Responsibility and it's really not his fault. It also sounds like he knows neither is true.
OP, if you think you're being lazy, you probably are. So exercise will, get up, and problem solved.
Personally, I use 2 alarm clocks, set about 5 minutes apart. Because I'm as guilty as anyone of the '5 more minutes' thing.
Main thing is that you just roll out of bed and into your clothes, or your shoes. Just make it automatic that as soon as you're awake and out of your bed that you start something to do with your daily wake up routine, and make sure you're fully aware that, no, it can't wait. Tell that dozy part of your brain who's boss. Heck, even setting your computer to turn on and load up a game can help (although of course, while the stimulation might help to get you up, you don't want to spend too much time playing games in the morning)
Most important thing I can tell you is to get a good routine going. Make sure you get to bed at the SAME TIME every night, and wake up at the same time every morning. It shouldn't take too long for your body to pattern itself on those times. And don't just watch movies or play games until *ding* it's time, now collapse into your bed. You need to wind down to sleep. If you're too stimulated going to bed you wont relax and go to sleep for ages after you hit the pillow. Reading a book for about 10-15 minutes is a very good way to wind down and get yourself good and drowsy before bedtime.
I'd also advise (and this is going to sound silly), that it's preferable to go to bed BEFORE you feel too sleepy. Otherwise you're too tired to relax. I know it sounds crazy, but it's true.
So to re-cap:
- routine (set sleep and wake up times every day. I find it doesn't matter too much if you don't stick to it on weekends, as long as it's your general pattern, but YMMV)
- Wind down to sleep (don't over-stimulate yourself before going to bed)
- Get to bed early (before you feel so exhausted that you can't sleep anymore)
- Start your routine as soon as you start your day (you won't have any motivation to keep awake unless you're doing something).
Seriously, I cannot stress enough how important it is to get into a good routine to get your body used to it. Otherwise if there's no structure, rhyme or reason to your wake and sleep, your body isn't going to see any reason to wake up just because you say it's important to. Stick to it and you'll probably find yourself needing less sleep than you used to.
dream a little dream or you could live a little dream
sleep forever if you wish to be a dreamer
Also, I've always thought it would be a good idea to get a heater that would turn on say 2 hours before it was time to get up. That way you can wake up more naturally as the room gets warmer.
The solution that works for me is a timer plugin for Winamp that starts playing music for me in the morning. It makes me want to wake up in the morning, as opposed to an annoying alarm that just makes me hate life.
You know how I solved it?
Breakfast.
The night before, I'll dream up the beautiful, delicious breakfast I'm going to have the next morning. Eggs and spuds, cereal, peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you name it.
So when I wake up the next morning, I actually leap out of bed to go make myself some.
I have to wake up at 8AM so I go in my room and lie down at 12AM the night before. Even if I'm not tired, i'll just go to bed...eventually I would fall asleep. Your body regulates itself to the new sleep pattern.
I also have 4 alarms in my room. My radio alarm goes off at 7:51AM, then my CD alarm goes off at 7:53AM, then my annoying phone goes on at 7:55AM and then the TV goes on at 8AM. Having all of the alarms placed in various parts of the room helps cause you have to wake up at all the times and turn them all off. Now, I'm up before all the alarms.
Protip, if you have a PC in your room set it up as your alarm clock. Most music players will have some sort of alarm plugin available that you can configure. I set up winamp to begin playing a random song and fade in for two minutes while my alarm clock is going off. So even if I turn off the alarm clock i'll eventually find myself listening to music that is increasing in volume. So before I know it i'm at the PC to stop the alarm. . .then email, then facebook, then forums and i'm awake.
First: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/9171/. The clock has a key (needed to turn off the alarm) attached to a helicopter-style propeller which it launches into the air when the alarm goes off. You have to find the propeller and turn the key to fix it.
Second: http://www.bimbambanana.com/index.php?p=Puzzle-alarm-clock-cool-gadgets&side=visProd&prod_id=21. When the alarm goes off four puzzle pieces are shot off the top of it. You have to find the pieces and reassemble the puzzle to turn off the alarm.
That could make for the most sadistic gift ever.
Edit: http://www.mosqueclock.com/ has the only clock that is known to wake me up, period, no questions asked, on the first go-around.