I’m always so exhausted, I can take an hour to wake up. How do you wake up quickly ?
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.
I get out of bed immediately after turning off the alarm and I go wash my face. I find it helpful to fully wake up faster.
I start reading something on my phone. Might not work for everyone, and depends on whether or not you’ve had enough sleep and don’t have a lot of sleep debt.
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 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 you 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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Get at least 8 hours sleep. Note that this means “sleep” and not “8 hours in bed” so if you read or do other activities in bed, add extra time for that stuff. I usually give extra time for my brain to stop running a mile a minute
Go to bed at the same time every night. Wake up at the same time every morning. Avoid caffeine. Caffeine can cause sleep disruptions you may not notice, even if consumed early in the day.
Get tested for sleep apnea.
