Sleeping too long?

I've been sleeping for 11+ hours all week, the thing is, I try to wake up though. I get to bed around 12:30 (not late), set my alarm for 9:30, and my phone alarm to 9:40, they both go off, but I can't move in the morning to turn them off, I manage to turn my phone alarm off, but not my radio, I end up falling back to sleep for another 3-4 hours..

Does anyone else have this problem? Anyway to combat it?

Nope, I jump out of bed, head to the shower and all's peace. I'm used to it though with high school and early college classes but i only get 6-7 hrs a night. sometimes i take a night later.

Get to bed early, at least for a week. That way you'll be well rested.

Is having someone else wake you up an option? Like do you live with someone who can physically wake you up and make sure you get up? Once you do that for a couple days and your body gets use to sleeping fewer hours, all should be good.

Rob

I do the exact same thing if i dont have anything to do. When I do have something to do I tell myself before I go to sleep that I have to get up or else! Youll get that stuck in your mind that you HAVE to get up so you will. Or my dad lets my dog in my room after he lets her out in the back yard each morning and she wakes me up....damn that bitch....really its a female dog so she is a bitch...

When I have that problem, the only thing that works is going to bed earlier.

When I do have something to do I tell myself before I go to sleep that I have to get up or else! Youll get that stuck in your mind that you HAVE to get up so you will.


Davo... thats EXACTLY what i'm like, i cant get up in the morning. I just turn off my alarm and sleep longer, or i'll hit the snooze about 10 times+ so i actually get up about 1.5-2 hours after the first time the alarm went off. Its fucked... i was wondering if i was the only one lol

Sivic that doesnt even work for me... even if i KNOW i have to be up, unless its incredibly important. In the morning when i JUST wake up, i dont think rationally cause i feel soooooooo comfortable and i'm half asleep. So i just try to rationalize that i dont really have to get up (like for school) and then i just go back to sleep.

It didnt even work when i had my mom trying to wake me up in the mornings... cause i just say whatever i can say to sleep longer, cause i feel so comfortable right when i wake up.


The only thing that ever worked was when my dad had afternoon or night shift at work and he'd be awake, as soon as i'd hear his foot steps coming for my door i'd jump the fuck out of my bed like i was speedy gonzalez

^^ Thats exactly why whooping your kids ass when they're young pays off

I only have real trouble getting up if I've physically exhausted myself a few days previously, I usually get about 6 hours of sleep, which is great for getting up, as the body doesn't get so used to sleeping.

Have you by any chance in the past few weeks been lacking of sleep? If so then maybe your body is just trying to catch up. But sleeping that long is really not that good if you do it all the time. I find that if i sleep any longer than 9 or so hours im exhausted all day long. 7-8 hours is optimum sleep for me to function well.

I'll sleep 12-14 hours a day if theres no reason to wake up. fuck it.

I look at it like this. Im a big guy. I have big batteries. They take longer to charge. I personally vote that we change the day scale to 36 hours, so I can sleep 14 hours, and have 22 to be awake. That would be great.

Gotti... me too man... me too. When I go to bed, I say... Im gonna get up early tomorrow so I dont have to rush in the morning. Then when my alarm goes off, Im like.. fuck it, Im gonna rush later, so I can sleep now. Happens every single day of my life.

I personally vote that we change the day scale to 36 hours, so I can sleep 14 hours, and have 22 to be awake. That would be great.
:iagree: :1: :sleep:

I usually get 6 or 7 hours sleep. Still not entirely used to it even after working for 2 years.

Earlier to bed will make a difference.

Yeah, but i physically can't fall asleep before 1am.

I get home at 6ish from work, feeling ok. At around 8pm i'm shattered. At 10pm i suddenly have tons of energy again and dont feel sleepy til 12.30-1.00. it's just... weird..

I was in the same boat a few years ago; too tired to do anything, but suddenly - bang! ready to run at 10-11pm.

Couldn't go to sleep before 12 or 1 either; just started to put myself to bed about 15 minutes earlier every 2 days, even if I just lied there for the 15 minutes. Eventually I was back at 11 going to bed. Body can't adjust to stuff quickly sometimes, have to make gradual change.

Yeah, but i physically can't fall asleep before 1am.

I get home at 6ish from work, feeling ok. At around 8pm i'm shattered. At 10pm i suddenly have tons of energy again and dont feel sleepy til 12.30-1.00. it's just... weird..
:1: My body clock runs the same way. No matter how bad I am at 8, I am ready to party again by 10.
:screwy:

i've been going to bed at 1:00 and getting up at 6:00 for the past two years and it sucks but I just can't get to bed any earlier because I have lots of work and shit to do... And I usually don't quit till i'm ready to drop. there's been a few weeks already where I stay up for about 72 hours straight just to get shit done, problem with that is after going so long without sleep you start feeling like shit and in my case I started gettting sick to my stomach, and then you finally crash and you don't wake up for a day or two... very hectic.


Anyway you just need to not be so damn lazy and wake up after about 8 hours of sleep. The reason you may be sleeping so much is because if you sleep too much you will be just as tired as if you slept too little. Also taking vitamins or having a healthy diet really helps the sleep cycle. I found that if I took Calcium/magnesium/zinc vitamins and a multi-vitamin everyday after about a week of it I started getting much better rest, I was waking up refreshed and ready to start the day.


I learned about the C/M/Z combo from my grandmother when I was a sophmore in college. I had horrible insomnia and she told me to start taking vitamins well it worked and I starte dgetting great sleep afterwards.

I just woke up (12:30 noon) :p

I'd been working for my father for the past 6 months (to fill time between school), and had to wake up at 7am to be out the door by 7:15 every morning, I couldn't handle it. Every weekend I'd sleep like a bear in winter, and now I have been this whole week since I have it off. Taking me a long time to recover. Honestly though, if I go to bed at 12 and wake up at 7, I'm FAR more tired than if I go to bed at 3 and wake up at 10. Early mornings just screw me.

Knowing I need to get up doesn't change a thing. When I was in high school, the bus would arrive at 8:10, and it would take me 2 minutes to walk to the bus. I always had my alarm set for 7am, and constantly would not get out of bed until 8:05.....:bloated:

^ you sound just like me.... why i dont just set my alarm for the time i know i'll get out of bed i'll never know :silly:

I was a snooze alarm junkie for about 2 years, hitting the snooze for about 2 hours. Then one day got smart and decided that it would get me more sleep to set the alarm 2 hours later and just get up. The alarm was annoying, (one reason for hitting snooze) so set it to play music. Slept through the music a couple of times at first, but worked like a charm afterward.

Two hours is a little extreme. :lol2:

I do it for 20 mins

Hey, I did say junkie :D

Gotti... me too man... me too. When I go to bed, I say... Im gonna get up early tomorrow so I dont have to rush in the morning. Then when my alarm goes off, Im like.. fuck it, Im gonna rush later, so I can sleep now. Happens every single day of my life.

lol me too... every single day of my life, no matter whats going on that day

An i just cant go to bed earlier than 2am... doesnt work out for me

i found that a 20 min nap in the middle of the day (you know that time right after lunch when you are the most tired) does wonders. i try to make it a part of my everyday routine.

Snooze junkies unite!!

I was a snooze alarm junkie for about 2 years, hitting the snooze for about 2 hours. Then one day got smart and decided that it would get me more sleep to set the alarm 2 hours later and just get up. The alarm was annoying, (one reason for hitting snooze) so set it to play music. Slept through the music a couple of times at first, but worked like a charm afterward.

I've actually never used my snooze button, I would just let the radio play while I laid there for an hour...

People are different. I found that the less sleep I get the more rested I feel the next day. I dont know why though. I used to go to bed around 10 and get up at 6:30. During school in the morning I would doze off. Also it took me a while just to even get out of bed. Now I got to bed around 11:30 or 12 and get up at 6:20. I can just jump out of bed and Im much more alert in the morning. I have no clue why. Maybe im :screwy:

Mkay

I just woke up (12:30 noon) :p

I'd been working for my father for the past 6 months (to fill time between school), and had to wake up at 7am to be out the door by 7:15 every morning, I couldn't handle it. Every weekend I'd sleep like a bear in winter, and now I have been this whole week since I have it off. Taking me a long time to recover. Honestly though, if I go to bed at 12 and wake up at 7, I'm FAR more tired than if I go to bed at 3 and wake up at 10. Early mornings just screw me.

Knowing I need to get up doesn't change a thing. When I was in high school, the bus would arrive at 8:10, and it would take me 2 minutes to walk to the bus. I always had my alarm set for 7am, and constantly would not get out of bed until 8:05.....:bloated:


yeah, I had to wake up a SIX A.M for uni on mondays and friday, and 7 am for thursdays from last feb to may-ish, then 6am on mondays and 7 on wednesdays from august to november

I did it again today, set my alarm for 9:45, and my phone alarm to 10, my phone is on the other side of the room so it forces me to wake up, I do wake up and turn that alarm off, but I don't think, I just ...go back to bed?

The house got a phone calll at 12:10, it was my mate asking if my internet was working cause his wasn't, that's why I'm up so early *cough*

*yawns*

The same shit will happen tomorrow too.

The only thing sleeping late is good for is if you are going out that night, I had to get up a 6am on a friday for uni last may, I got home at 3, went straight to band prac till 5, then we packed up our shit and went to the gig we were playing at, left there at 11pm, went to a party, and i went to bed around 8am, geeeez. I haven't done that for a while.


However, if I NEED to be up at a certain time, I force my self up and I stay up, it's amazing, but if I don't have to be up, I don't think and just sleep all day long....

Haha I just remembered a friend of mine who could out-sleep anyone else I know...

One day he didn't show up to school. Since he was not the type to just skip we were all sort of curious regarding why he wasn't there. The next day, however, he showed up, and upon questioning why he had missed the previous day, he responded that he'd slept 36 hours by accident and missed the whole day :bloated:

I wake up, then set the alarm for another 5 minutes, then wake up, then set the alarm again....And just maybe i'll get up, if not i set the alarm again....

I wake up, then set the alarm for another 5 minutes, then wake up, then set the alarm again....And just maybe i'll get up, if not i set the alarm again....
Erm...that button that says SNOOZE does the same thing with one press of the button...

:D

I always get a kick out of seeing the SNOOZE button being the largest, most prominent button...

Haha I just remembered a friend of mine who could out-sleep anyone else I know...

One day he didn't show up to school. Since he was not the type to just skip we were all sort of curious regarding why he wasn't there. The next day, however, he showed up, and upon questioning why he had missed the previous day, he responded that he'd slept 36 hours by accident and missed the whole day :bloated:


That's possible!????!?

Holy shit, I thought my 24 hours was pretty good, but that's fucked up! That's like an entire two seasons of The Simpsons!

I'm another one that just won't get out of bed if I don't have anything to do, and I'll routinely sleep for 9 or 10 hours, if not more. If I get any less than 7 or 8 hrs, I'm a very miserable individual.

I think I'm twice as screwed up though because I work at night, so more often than not bed time for me is 5 or 6 in the morning. My work hours are pretty long sometimes too. The other day I got home and went to sleep about 6ish, somehow managed to sleep until 4pm, which is less than an hour before I had to be back at work. Does that ever suck...

If I don't have to be out of bed at a certain time, I never set my alarm clock. It's a convenient rationalization that my body will just wake up whenever I'm rested enough, but I can ALWAYS go back to sleep for a couple more hours even after that happens. It just makes so much sense in that barely awake state that there's nothing I want to do more than go back to sleep.

isn't it kinda funny how the earths rotation is about the same as most people's body clock. I mean, on some planets, days last months. I guess we got the right planet. How convenient. But me, I still wish days were 36 hours. I can not ever jam enough fun into a 24 hour day with a work schedule, and sleep. That's why I stay up late usually. I just don't want my day to end yet. By the time I'm usually ready to go to bed, it's just a couple hours from when I need to get up. I'd say when I am on a work schedule, I average 4-6 hours of sleep. Then when I get a couple days off, I average about 14-16 hours of sleep. Maybe some strange force will set the earth off its rotation, and our days will change to 36 hours, and the world will change according to that. Im still hangin on to that dream.

Does anybody else ever turn off their alarms in their sleep? I hate when I do that. I make damn sure the alarm is set, and then I wake up an hour and a half late for work and the alarm is not going off. That usually happens when I accidentally switch it to ALARM instead of RADIO... I always turn it to a station with static and put it on full volume because its the loudest. Im a very deep sleeper, the buzzer will NOT wake me up. Sometimes I just incorporate the buzzer into my dreams. But the best alarm I ever had was my Nokia 3190 cell phone. it always woke me up.

i go to sleep around the same time as you (12:30) and i need to wake up 6:30AM for school. I have to go to school, so i just force myself to wake up. I usually fall asleep during 1st period though :p. During the weekends or during vacations, i sleep till like 3PM. Unless I have to work. :(

I personally vote that we change the day scale to 36 hours, so I can sleep 14 hours, and have 22 to be awake. That would be great.

Oh yeah, I totally agree. Excellent idea, lets slow down the earth's rotation and COMPLETELY SCREW every measurement of time as we know it. :p

6-8 hrs is reccomended by sleep experts, it says if u r used 2 10 hrs of sleep, ur body doesnt fall asleep as quick as if u only had 6-8.there is 4 levels of sleep, and the only important one is the deepest sleep, which u can maximize by only sleeping 7 hrs. if u oversleep, its even harder to wake up, and u dont get into that deep sleep. question, do u guys that sleep 2 much do anything during the day?any active things or work? i know that physical work can make u tired at night.my roomate used to sit there and watch tv all day and he would complain about not being able to sleep.

its cause your lazy, i get like that when i dont have class in the summer. I can go to bed at like 12 AM and sleep till 12PM the next day no problem. Just cause its so comfortable. No matter how hard i try to wake up, i cant do it. The thing you have to do is force yourself to get up early for like 2 weeks straigh. No matter how tired you are, then your body will build a new sleep pattern and soon you will wake up early on your own. Like last night i went to be at 2 Am, i got up at 8 AM on my own and felt fine.

No matter what, waking up before 8am for me is miserable. I have such a hard time. I could ge 2 or 12 hours of sleep beforehand. As long as my alarm is set at 8 or so i can get up. But 6:20 kills me EVERY day. I guess i'm just not a morning person.