Help with waking up in the mornings!

veryangryman

Hi all,

Not that im one of them, but i know a number of people (my missus for one) who seem to be unable to get up for college/work etc on a consistent basis. Do any of you suffer from this (maybe suffer is not the word)? Is there any tips for helping them?

moco

My sister is one of them, she's a nightmare!!

I dunno really what to suggest as I can't seem to get her moving. Do you mean not able to wake up with alarms, or just waking up and not actually getting out of bed?

Tominka

I really don't know what to say as well, as I have the same problem!!

I find taking vitamins has helped me!

If I think of anything else I'll let ya know!!

Rgds, from co.Kerry :cool:

veryangryman

moco wrote: »

My sister is one of them, she's a nightmare!!

I dunno really what to suggest as I can't seem to get her moving. Do you mean not able to wake up with alarms, or just waking up and not actually getting out of bed?

Not waking up to alarms mainly. Normally i just wake her myself when it wakes me, but this week ive been sick so have barely the energy to wake myself up!

Do you ever wonder if these people are lazy or just have a real problem? I mean she gets her 8 hours and then some, so sleep deprevation cant be the issue?!

Thanks for the speedy replies BTW. Good to relate to people on these issues!

**Timbuk2**

Try putting the alarm clock on the other side of the room. This means you have to get out of bed and walk a bit to turn it off. It's not a permanent fix, but it does help. Although, if you're sharing a room with your wife she might just groggily tell you to turn it off

Mountjoy Mugger

It often helps if you go to bed an hour or so earlier - e.g. 10pm instead of 11.00pm

moco

My sister could literally sleep for days on end. She doesn't make it into work at least one or two days every week, or goes in late. I dunno how she's managed to keep her job this long! At the weekends you wouldn't see her up before 5 in the evening. With her I think it's just laziness to be honest. She doesn't seem to have any get up and go at all.

I don't exactly hop out of bed, full of the joys of spring in the mornings myself, but I find because I have nobody to wake me I've got better at getting up. Like when I was younger and had my mum/ex to wake me it used to do my head in if I'd left myself an extra few minutes on the alarm and I had someone shouting at me to get up and ruining my peace. Then I'd set it for another few minutes and so on. Now I make sure the house is warm when I'm getting up which makes it a bit easier, have a nice shower and have some nice breakfast. If I get up in plenty of time instead of rushing out of the house not fed, it makes the morning ordeal a bit easier. I also have 2 alarms and have one far away from the bed so I have to get out to turn it off.

Plus living in a house share is an incentive to get up and to the bathroon first!

Cathmandooo

I have my alarm going off 45 mins before I've to get up, the snooze button gets hit every 9 mins. Same for my phone alarm, it's the only way to get me up. The days I find the hardest to get up is when I'm run down and over worked. I dont think it's a lazy thing with me and I like going into my job everyday. I guess some people just arent morning people!

The only cure I would suggest is more time off work to relax and more vitamins!

seamus

Eat properly, get regular exercise, go to bed earlier.

It can also help if you try make your commute easier. I never had a problem getting out of bed when I drove a motorcycle - there was never the feeling of "Ugh, got to get up and get the minging bus for an hour".

Gyalist

Not that im one of them, but i know a number of people (my missus for one) who seem to be unable to get up for college/work etc on a consistent basis. Do any of you suffer from this (maybe suffer is not the word)? Is there any tips for helping them?

Yes. Adults should be made to face up to the consequences of their (in)actions.
If it were a child I'd wake them but never with an adult.

Dord

I have the same problem, I find that I have to set numerous alarm clocks just to wake up in the mornings. I find myself very disoriented in the mornings, most times when I wake up I don't even know what day it is.

Nevyn

This time of year it is hard to get up, I would suggest buying an old fashioned metal alarm clock and putting it on top of your wardrobe.

neil_hosey

a smack in the mush with a freshly caught salmon does the trick for me.

Lux23

The longer I sleep the harder I find it to get up out of bed. I normally get up at 7.50am to leave the house for about 8.15am so If I fall asleep about 12 thats perfect. But on the winter nights I will often go to bed about 10 and fall alseep by 11. On those mornings its much harder for me to get up.

Its a problem I have had since I was a little kid and nothing I do works.

muppetkiller

Get her a vibrating Pillow. It's used for deaf people to wake them at certain times..and handy for the heavy sleepers like myself

http://www.proidee.co.uk/shop/SID_XEDxMmFoNhyQbXF6nCNv65puGuKx/F=produkt_formular/P=02_GB_580118/K=02_GB_120057

jawlie

Generally "not being able to get up" is leaned behaviour especially where another person takes on the responsibility for getting the person out of bed.

If a person really can't get up, then that would result in losing ones job for continued lateness, missing the start of exams, missing flights at airports and have all sorts of other consequences. There is a difference between "can't get up" and " doesn't feel like getting up".

r3nu4l

During the summmer I generally leave a window open but in winter this sometimes isn't and option so I just turn down the radiator in the bedroom so that the air isn't as stuffy in the morning, keeps my head clearer.

Also, eating properly and exercising is very important.

I remember a South African doctor once telling me that as a young man he never felt tired but he always fell asleep as soon as he went to bed, slept for 8 hours and woke, rearing to go again. He attributed this to a good diet with low saturated fats and lots of exercise.

vandermeyde

I'm useless at getting up in the morning but I've found i've improved recently as I've started exercising regularly and also making sure to get my 2 litres of water daily....

Still hate getting up mind. Just 5 more minutes...please!

k-a-t-e

Medically speaking wanting to sleep all the time or not being able to get up could be a sign of diabetes or low vitamin B12. I had the latter and after a series of injections (of B12) I am now a wide awake bunny in the morning:D, not happy I'll grant you but the feeling of waking up and being able to get out of bed was amazing after I'd had the first injection.

jester77

A really loud old-style alarm will wake anyone, forget about those digital ones with snooze. As soon as it goes off get out of bed, no excuses. It's just habit to lie there for 5 more minutes or to hit the snooze (worse function ever). You're already half awake anyway and a few more minutes is going to make no difference. Do a bit of exercise or jump under the shower and you'll be wide awake in no time.

Mighty_Mouse

Very difficult these mornings.
As said above. Good diet. Regular excercise is key.
Plus not being a lazy f*cker helps!
Would take some serious partying/ilness for me to be getting out of bed at 5 in the evening!

JMCD

This use to be a major problem for me when ever I stayed over in my girlfriends house.Basically she is big into candles and that and always has them lit whenever I stay over.....but she would also have the heating on full blast and about 20 blankets on the bed because she is a naturally cold person.....or so she says.....but I could never get up and missed many a football match over this.:mad:

And the reason I couldnt get up was because my body was getting no oxygen........the candles were lit....the heating was on full blast and it felt like there was someone sleeping on top of me because of the 20 plankets or so.

So my advice would be to leave a window slightly open regardless of the weather......and buy some sort of plant and leave it in your bedroom.
After doing this you will find in a big difference in how easy you get up and how fresh you feel because of the quality of sleep you would of got.

Hope this helps.

Fabio

I'm the same, I'm terrible for getting up in the mornings but I find if you set your mind to get up at a certain time the night before and if you set your alarm colck for a few minutes before that you invariably do actually get up..

enner43

muppetkiller wrote: »

Get her a vibrating Pillow. It's used for deaf people to wake them at certain times.

I am terrrible in the mornings and even when I do get up I am just not with it at all and I find it takes me a good while to get going! The vibrating pillow seems like a good idea alright and might work. I was just wondering have you tried it?

l3LoWnA

veryangryman wrote: »

Hi all,

Not that im one of them, but i know a number of people (my missus for one) who seem to be unable to get up for college/work etc on a consistent basis. Do any of you suffer from this (maybe suffer is not the word)? Is there any tips for helping them?

I'm the same! But my problem is staying up too late, plain and simple. If I'm in bed before 11pm, I will be up before 8am. If I don't go to bed until 2am, I could sleep until 11am. (So I approximate, I need 9 hours sleep per night, even though when I was younger, or when I had a small baby, I needed far less sleep to function properly) Some people actually need more than 8 hours sleep.

I was always staying up until about 12 or 1 when I lived alone and constantly sleeping in. I'm not lazy, I literally do not hear alarm clocks. At the moment I use the alarm on my phone and set it to repeat every TWO minutes from 7am and it NEVER wakes me or I'm never actually concious of it until 9am or after if someone doesn't waken me I alway change the tone used and have it set to igh volume and on my pillow beside my head. Still doesn't budge me. People think i choose not to hear it, and possibly, subconciously I do, but I definately and truthfully cannot say I ever remember it going off until it actually rouses me after going off for an hour or more.

When I met my ex and he moved in with me he noticed my morning problem and he had a simple solution. He forced me into bed between 9.30 - 10.30pm each night. He didn't really talk about it much, he'd just say "come on, bed" and I'd be like "what? now?" and he's explain "well yeah, you have work tomorrow, don't you" I coudln't understand this whole thing of going to bed so early, I felt my evening was being wasted, but it actually made my days and early evenings far better as I was more awake and less tired. Ok, so there WERE other reasons most nights that I was jumping at the chance of an early night, but even on non-s*x nights we were always early to bed and early to rise and it definately helped. It was great.

Single at the moment so no-one around to help with my bad habits

I don't think it's laziness but maybe she's not getting enough sleep each night? It varies how much sleep each person actually needs.

Although, I do have a friend who never gets out of bed regardless of how much sleep she's had. It's bone idleness and laziness for her.
All I can advise is try and get her to bed earlier at night (at least Sunday - Thursday)

Dave!

I'm terrible at getting up in the morning. Had to get an alarm clock that permits 2 alarms to be set, so I set those, and I set my phone alarm too. So 3 alarms does me grand! It usually works.

SW81

I'm going to try opening a window a little at night now, see if that helps...heard it on Ray D'Arcy the other day too.

l3LoWnA

SW81 wrote: »

I'm going to try opening a window a little at night now, see if that helps...heard it on Ray D'Arcy the other day too.

Jesus, I have to wear woolly socks to bed and have two really heavy duvets and my toes are still numb. (I'm not generally a cold person) I'd die if a window was opened (but our house is freezing during july as there's no insulation and the controller of our central heating respects his heating oil very much) :mad:

Piste

I might try that plant thing, I'm awful in the mornings too, if I don't wake up naturally I wont feel refreshed whether i've been asleep for 6 or 12 hours.

could anyone recommend what type of plant to get?

axer

Another sufferer of not being able to get up in the mornings.

I actually go to bed at about 10pm most nights but do not wake up until 9/10am the next morning - thats 11/12 hours sleep. If I get up before 9am I usually feel like crap and really tired all day basically feel like a zombie and have no concentration.

I think it boils down to not sleeping properly at night more than likely caused by bad diet, lack of exercise and stress (not being able to unwind). It takes me at least 1.5 hours to get to sleep at night and i don't think I sleep that well after that either.

A person should only need 7/8 hours sleep at night. Having more or less is actually bad for your health.

jimmycrackcorm

I find routine to be a great help. I go to bed at 3.am. exactly and get up at 7:20 a.m. If I vary this routine by either going to bed later or surprisingly even earlier then I'm totally exhausted during the day.

Rb

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

I find routine to be a great help. I go to bed at 3.am. exactly and get up at 7:20 a.m. If I vary this routine by either going to bed later or surprisingly even earlier then I'm totally exhausted during the day.

I agree with this.

I usually got to bed at 2:30am and used to get up at 7:30am, however since I've broken that routine I've gone very groggy in the mornings and am usually a handful to deal with as I can get pissed off very easily at that time.

Alternatively, more sleep, better diet etc.

JMCD

Piste wrote: »

I might try that plant thing, I'm awful in the mornings too, if I don't wake up naturally I wont feel refreshed whether i've been asleep for 6 or 12 hours.

could anyone recommend what type of plant to get?

Piste any plant works really as they give out oxygen.......but the one that the gf uses is a spider plant.

watna

I'm terrible at getting up in the mornings. No matter what I have to do before I leave the house i get up at the last possible second. I always go to bed early and I get 8 hours sleep but I'm exhausted in the mornings. My bf is worse and I have to get him up too. He just doesn't hear the alarms. I wish I was a morning person but I've just learned to accept that I'm never going to be. Getting up is always going to be hard. At least my alarm wakes me, I just choose to turn it off! I find having the room warm makes it slightly easier so our heating comes on for an hour at 6.30.

ghouse

I know I am not permitted to give actual medical advice on boards.

As such I recommend asking her to see her GP.

On a list of possibilities, low blood sugar levels (perhaps diabetes) low iron (anaemia), thyroid problem (regulates metabolism) or possibly heart valve problems can occasionally lead to such tiredness.

Again, see your GP for advice.

Pinker

I struggle greatly waking up from sleep, and my diet is near perfect, although I eat very little red meat...I also excercise regularily..I have missed some very important events due to this problem it drives me crazy sometimes..went to a sleep clinic recently in St.Vincents but they could not explain the cause so I'll just keep going ...I will look into Vit B12 as it seems worth a shot...

bug

I've been known to cry on occaison in the morning.
Just out of despair because Im not a good sleeper and wake up exhausted.

I'll always get up, but sometimes it is immediately accompanied by tourettes syndrome.
It passes after about 15 minutes when I get a cup of tea, and scold myself for being a big child.

Ishindar

veryangryman wrote: »

Hi all,

Not that im one of them, but i know a number of people (my missus for one) who seem to be unable to get up for college/work etc on a consistent basis. Do any of you suffer from this (maybe suffer is not the word)? Is there any tips for helping them?

its just laziness unless they take medication imho. im a legendary sleeper too but the answer is to go to bed in comfortable running gear. when that alarm goes off, fall out of bed and put the runners on and start to jog. push through the pain barrier(about 1 sec later) and keep pushing, it doesnt have to be fast just keep moving. after about 10 mins your alive for the day and ready for anything

PS: ill be dreaming away

snickerpuss

Some people can just jump out of bed. I really can't and I don't think its laziness.

I set up to 10 alarms and usually sleep through them all even though they're as loud as they go. I'm a really heavy sleeper, I may as well be in a coma, I could sleep through anything. It takes me ages to realise what's going on too.
I have a weird sleeping pattern though, always have. Could never go to bed before 12. I don't sleep and it's way too early anyway. I find it far easier to wake up after 4 hours sleep then 6 or 7.
I'm always late for work.
So yeah this is problem for lots of people, that vibrating pillow sounds interesting!

Fad

gah its awful to get up and go to school in the mornings, hampered massively by my dads refusal to turn on the heating, meaning im like ''oh i ll just stay in here for another 5 mins'', then the shower is warm so i never want to get out of that :rolleyes:

Genghiz Cohen

veryangryman wrote: »

Hi all,

Not that im one of them, but i know a number of people (my missus for one) who seem to be unable to get up for college/work etc on a consistent basis. Do any of you suffer from this (maybe suffer is not the word)? Is there any tips for helping them?

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Deadevil129

Having a good diet is usually what works for me. Once I've eaten plenty of fruit and veg I'm ready for anything. For the past month or so I've been so damn busy I've just been living off coffee and fast food. Now i wake up in the mornings having no idea where I'm supposed to be or what I'm supposed to be doing.

I've been known to switch of alarms with no recolection of doing so, either because I'm half asleep when doing so or completely asleep. I tend to do quite a bit in my sleep anyway though so the latter wouldn't suprise me. Even if I get someone to call me to wake me up I end up having a conversation with them and then actually waking up while i'm talking to them having no idea who I'm talking to. It's not laziness, I'm just very run down at the moment and this is how my body tends to respond.