I’m sorry, that incorrect, but thanks for playing. It’s been at least a hundred years since “celibate” has primarily meant “unmarried.”
Do you also go around insisting “gay” primarily means “happy,” as well? :dubious:
First definition in American Heritage is “abstaining from sexual intercourse,” with this important usage note:
(emphasis mine)
re: sleep apnea, I currently use a cpap but recently had to have the pressure increased. I’d prefer to take the plunge and have surgery if I knew it would help, but my doctor didn’t seem too keen on the idea.
Maybe I should go find another opinion…
You might want to see an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) surgeon (also known as an otolaryngologist).
I’ve got the exact same problem. I use my heart rate monitor/watch to wake up and it has no snooze button. Resetting the alarm requires scrolling through two different menus to find the alarm button. But does this encourage me to not snooze? Of course not, I still reset the alarm in the dark three times every morning.
When I rowed in college and had to be at practice at 5:30am, I used to pop ephedrine when the alarm went off. That’ll wake anyone up. (it also helped me make light weight) But I don’t recommend it as it causes heart irregularities and other weird side effects. Lately, I’ve been taking green tea extract in the morning which supposedly has antioxidants and has enough caffeine to help me feel more alert.
ntucker, I’ve always thought about trying something like programming the computer to wake me up. But I was gonna write something that would generate random math questions (probably algebra-type stuff) that would have to be solved before the alarm would shut off. I figured having to actually use my brain would force me to wake up…
About fifteen years ago I needed a clock radio or something to wake me in the morning. But now my brain seems wired to get up at 5:45 each workday without any aides or props. I am currently 57 and it seems like age may have something to do with waking at the same time each workday without a need for pyrotechnics or awesome auditory stimulation. I would say that this happens about 95-98% of the time. Now on the other hand, during the weekends I have no desire to wake at 5:45 and usually sleep until 9:00 or 10:00.
my two cents: get an alarm clock with NO snooze button, and get more exercise.
Alarm clocks don’t work for me either.
I sleep right though them. My partner has to pull me out of bed.
Sometimes when she is on early shifts she phones me and leaves it ringing. this normally wakes me up after about 10 mins.
but a couple of times she has left it ringing and had to come home to drag me out of bed coz I didn’t wake.
Hm.
I had to go to the University of Utah’s sleep clinic back a year ago or so because I was so wonked up (still am :p). After several months of me making sleep/wake charts and all, he determined I have a 25 or 26 hour long day. Plus I’m more nocturnal than anything. We tried the magical sun lamp of glarey brightness for an hour every morning after waking at a Nice Time. Hah! I fell asleep with it on guaranteed after just a few minutes. Sunlight makes me very very sleepy. Nighttime or just plain darkness wakes me up. It’s apparently rather hard-wired, since I’ve been like that since birth. Ie. I didn’t sleep through the night until I was well into my school years. My poor, poor mother. This is all without narcolepsy or sleep apnea.
I’m just thankful the U of U has late classes that I am taking (my earliest starts at 6pm), and I can’t hold down a normal type job due to fibromyalgia, CFS (gasp! this makes me want to sleep for 12 hours every day), ANA, etc.
Re: advice though…
I don’t advise the drink-a-lot ritual unless you want a sore bladder for the rest of the day. At least that’s what happens to me. My brain seems to believe sleeping another few hours on top of say, 7 hours of sleep, is more important than a very full bladder or a very upset stomach.
If you get more awake at daylight, try a “light box”. They are evil, but very bright, and you can possibly rent one from your local sleep clinic place, or build one yourself.
Have you tried food? Or coffee? If you can have a small coffeepot maybe in your room near your bed set to brew, the smell should wake you up. Then you have something to drink too that should also perk you.
How is your bed? With all my joint problems, I sometimes had problems physically getting out of a generic spring mattress bed even if I was fully awake. Upgrading to one of those air poofy mattresses has vastly improved my sleep quality, and I can fuction perfectly at 6-8 hours of sleep instead of my previous 9-10 hours. Or just getting a new spring mattress if yours is decades old.
Similarly speaking, do you have any allergies to dust or detritus from things in your house like pollen (if you have flowering plants/windows open), fur or dander (pets), generic dust? Cleaning your pillowcases very regularly and having a big store of them, and putting on a clean one every day (and putting on clean sheets every week or so) should help you not wake up with terrible stuffy head and drippy nose and sore throat, which can incline one to go back to sleep rather than deal with it.
Do you get too cold or hot when you wake up? Drawing on my own experiences, if I am too cold when I wake up most of the time (due to A/C, not my body’s temperature schedule, which you can’t do anything about easily), I’ll stay under the covers rather than get up and be cold and miserable, especially with winter coming on. I’ve learned to brave it myself, but sleeping with warmer bedclothes on (say pants and socks and a long-sleeved shirt) with a simple sheet might suffice, so even if you get up, you’re still covered in warmth, since the bed wasn’t providing much. Or the opposite, being too hot when you wake up. This probably doesn’t apply, but when I get too hot at the end of my sleep cycle, I have paralytic episodes that I have to either go back to sleep in order to wake up again and be moveable, or spend a damn lot of mental effort to move again which drains me and generally puts me back to sleep anyway. Or I have terrible nightmares and have problems waking up from them. Simple enough to cure this.
And something for emergencies that may be applicable, think VERY HARD on things you MUST wake up in order to do tomorrow (watch a television show, get a haircut, go to a friend’s house or school or job), to try to elevate the event’s status in your mind. Your mind will be in a slight state of panic I guess and makes it a lot easier to pop out of bed at the slightest ruffle. Well, it works fairly often for me unless there’s windy, rainy weather about, and I need all the help I can get. Especially considering at the last wake-up period, I woke up every half hour from 10:00am to 2:30pm before I was able to get up. Oy.
These are just a few things off the top of my head, 'cause now I’m really tired, and I have to take one of my dogs to the vet tomorrow (thankfully no school :D) so if I can think up any more while waking up er…later…I’ll chime back in.
Thanks for all your replies! Im taking many of the suggestions into consideration (im the OP). Id just like to say one thing. I believe that my hate for waking up could be mental. Heres why:
About a month ago, i had to wake up at around 6 am to get on a plane to go on vacation. Now if it was a normal, tedious day of school, it would have taken me 30 minutes+ to wake up. Now i was really excited to get this vacation started with because it was a special one for reasons that really have nothing to do with the topic. Well anyways, i went to sleep around 3 am, and woke up at 6… perfectly fine, and was out of bed in a second. Anxious to get to the airport even though my plane didnt leave for 4 hours. Basically, im just saying that my problem is mental, not physical. Maybe that will bring up some more suggestions.
Thanks again,
culov
please do NOT consider surgery…i’ll tell you why but it’s long winded and i don’t want to take up too much space here with a post most people will find dead boring.
There could be several reasons why CPAP doesn’t seem so effective anymore and there could be a way to combat that
email me at sleepdisorders@softhome.net
This isn’t my old roommate is it? I have taken deep sleeping to new levels. My clocks on/off button was broken so I let that thing run for 90 minutes every morning and sometimes forgot to unplug it. Boy he was pissed.
I also slept through a blaring fire alarm for 30 minutes while my wife was shaking me. thank God it was just someone burning a donut in his microwave.
Anyone ever experience unconscious conversations? I can have whole conversations with my wife while I am still groggy. Later in the day I initiate the same conversation with no memory of the entire dialogue having taken place earlier.
Ah - HA!
… and obviously, the Roman Catholic Church is still going by the archaic definition of celibacy…
Go back to sleep now.
I may be the only one who does this, but what i do sometimes is set the time itself forward like 20 minutes. And then set the alarm for 8:20, which would really be 8 o clock. Sometimes that quick shock of fear and disbelief can really wake you up. Obviously, you can’y use this method too consecutively-the brain will get hip to this very quickly. But I think it works here and there.
Also, I think some people have a tendency to set the alarm forward small increments each day. You’ll say-“Oh, I don’t have to wake up at 8:00 exactly do I? I’ll set it for 8:05.” And the next day you set it forward a few minutes more, and then a few more…
If you’re not already, you might want to start taking vitamins. If you’re very rundown it might help a little…