Please help me wake up easier!

[marshmallowbooks]

I've never been great at waking up in the morning. Even if I've had a really good sleep, if an alarm wakes me up it's almost painful.

I hate it, it's not that I'm lazy, it's not a conscious decision to close my eyes again and fall back into a deep sleep but I really do struggle.

I really wish I was someone who could just get out of bed when they wake up, and have the discipline NOT to snooze the alarm. Every night I tell myself I'll do exactly that and yet by morning I would actually sell my soul to have 10 more minutes.

I have two DC, and the interesting this is when they were younger and getting up several times during the night and early in the morning, I didn't LIKE getting up but it wasn't a struggle like it is now? Maybe because I had no choice, little people needed me? I could get up after 5 hours sleep and be ok, but now even if I've had 8 hours sleep I feel like a zombie when I first open my eyes.

If left to sleep until I naturally wake up, I reckon it's usually 10 hours until my body is satisfied.

I don't like going to bed early because a) I'm never tired before 11pm and b) it's the only chance I get to catch up with DH

So, is there a tactic or a mantra or a change in thought process anyone can give me that would help my brain engage in the morning when the alarm goes off at 7am??

I'm mid 30s if that helps, and have hated getting out my bed in the morning since being around 12 🙈.

If you can throw money at it, it's worth trying a sunrise alarm clock such as a Lumie. It might help persuade your body that it is time to wake up. If you have excellent blackout curtains, letting a little natural light in might help too.

Also it might be worth getting checked out for sleep apnoea if you feel tired in the daytime, especially if you snore.

Thank you.

I've tried one of those clocks - didn't work 🙈

I don't feel tired during the day, or in the evening, so I do think I'm getting enough to sleep (also don't snore).

My body and brain just hate waking up 😭

I'm the same op. I use a combination of the lumiere light and the radio switched to classical music.

It's a much nicer sound to wake up to, less painful. One goes off before the other and starts to bring me out of a deep sleep so the 2nd alarm can help me wake up.

I also set a snooze alarm on my phone that goes off 5 mins before I have to be up latest, in case I manage to doze off again!

I just always used an old fashioned alarm clock that I put on top of the wardrobe- started doing it when I lived in a shared house 30 odd years ago and had to be up for work- no option to snooze and was upright and never got back in bed- harsh but effective!
These days I use my phone next to the bed but it is ingrained to get up and switch it off.
It's awful being woken up isn't it especially on Monday mornings when you put fresh sheets on the bed the night before. I work exclusively from home so promise myself I will go back to bed at lunchtime. Sometimes, especially in Winter on a cold day I do!! Just for an hour and it's bliss.

I'm like this. I have ADHD. I'm a night owl. Can't sleep before midnight no matter how hard I try. Getting up has always been a chore. My mum used to come into my room with a spray bottle and spray me in the face to get up 😂 Now I get up at the last possible second I have to. I have to set 10 alarms and I hit the snooze button about 5-10 times. My husband hates it

You may just be a natural night owl. I have given into it and switched to working nights. Can now manage on 6 hours easily.
Otherwise, try putting the alarm away from the bed so you have to get up to switch it off.

I’m the same I feel like I’m coming out of a coma in the mornings, I hate it, I’m a night owl and I really struggle. I envy people who open there eyes, leap out of bed at 6am fresh as a daisy.

I'm the same. Night owl, deep sleeper, a natural uninterrupted sleep can be 12 hours for me. Tried sunrise alarms and a hundred different alarm apps, from gentle to cruel, which I slept through or snoozed for hours.

Had a breakthrough waking up earlier this year when I moved my phone to the opposite end of the bedroom. I downloaded an app that plays a new nature sound every day, so I wake to birdsong or rain, etc. The important thing was moving my phone far away from my reach. And then when I'm up, it's a mini-victory in itself, so to go back to bed would be to ruin my good progress, so I basically have to shame myself into staying up and guide myself into the brightly lit bathroom.