I know self-pittings are kinda silly, but holy fuck… today I just fucking deserve it!
I was supposed to go to a lecture today at 10:30, with another one starting at 12:30. I was up this morning at 6:00. At eight, I figure, “OK, I don’t have to leave until ten. I can take a nap again for another hour. It’ll be great.”
:smack:
I proceed to wake up again at 13:30.
I’m a fucking asshole.
Alarm clock.
Problem solved.
I have one. I set it. The damned thing rang (I assume). I turned it off in my fucking sleep. Not exactly the first time I’ve done that, either.
Whatcha gonna do about that?
Did I mention I’m an idiot?
You don’t put it beside your bed, you put it somewhere you have to physically get out of bed and walk over to turn off.
Try doing that in your sleep! 
That’s not such a fucking bad idea. Yeah. Doing that tomorrow.
Get you one of THESE.
I thought about getting one for my wife - who will happily snooze for an hour.
REALLY LOUD alarm clock, in locked metal box.
Key to the box at bottom of large pitcher of cold water. In another room.
Yeah, depression sucks. Just get up and go. People make you feel better, even if you feel like a misanthrope most of the time. Even hating people makes you feel better-- you get to experience it on a personal level.
I’ve been known to get up, cross the room, shut off my alarm, go back to sleep, and carry on until the afternoon. usually after a late night.
I’ve also been known to have full conversations with people in my sleep. I have no recollection of them when I wake up, but have had conversations that made sense and everything, but was fully asleep.
Luckily I seem to have grown out of both of these slightly bizarre behaviours. I can get up most of the time without nearly the struggle I had in my teens and 20s.
I have this problem. To the point where alarm clocks have wound up in the dishwasher, and I have woken up under the bed three hours later.
I have four alarm clocks, currently, two out of reach of my arms. One by my head, one by my toes.
It works, mostly. Also, I get up two hours early.
I use a Screaming Meanie.
I agree with BellRung–either you need to go to bed earlier, or see about depression. For many, work is a drag, but at least they feel they have some kind of purpose to get up. If you don’t, maybe there’s something else going on. I am not a psychologist, yada yada.
There’s also an alarm clock that runs around your room.
Or a Clocky!
I suppose observing regular sleeping hours is totally out of the question. Going to bed at midnight is the most effective way to be sure to wake up at 8:00 in the morning, or earlier. Actually scheduling yourself an appropriate number of hours of sleep, and observing that schedule could have an impact on how easily you awaken in the morning.
Tris
Don’t nap during the day if you have trouble waking up in time for appointments or other commitments.
If this leaves you sleep-deprived, then you need to start going to bed earlier in the evening.
I mean, I’m a pretty deep sleeper and I could provide a lot of suggestions about how to make yourself get out of bed in the morning (many of which have already been mentioned in this thread) but it seems to me that the heart of the problem is that you thought it was a good idea to go to sleep for a quick nap at 8 in the morning.
If there are underlying problems causing this, such as insomnia or depression (or both) then you probably need to address those before fixing your sleeping problems. I wish you good luck with this.
I was a little disappointed as from the title of this thread, I was hoping for someone with my problem. I can get up on time and I do. More than “on time”, I arise 2.5 to 3 hours before I must leave the house. I stay up. I watch TV, fold laundry, drink coffee and the next thing I know, it is time for me to leave for work and I haven’t even showered yet.
At least if I went back to sleep, I would feel I was at least having an excuse for not being on time. i just can’t seem to get my shit together without at least three hours of prep time.
I can do it. I used to have the alarm clock on the other side of the room and would get up, stumble to the other side of the room, hit the sleep button and crawl back into a dream. I could do this for a full hour before I convinced myself I should actually get up.
And it’s not a depression issue, I just really like sleep and would like to sleep 10 hours a day if possible, but getting up at 6am makes it hard to actually get that 10 hours.
I do the double-alarm clock thing and it works very well. I have a clock next to my bed to tell me the time, I have one across the room to wake me up. Sometimes I turn off the first alarm and enable the second alarm on the cross-room clock - it’s set for an hour later.
I have a long history of turning off alarms in my sleep and I’ve had two alarm clocks since my college days.
I’ve got a pretty cool one that my dad and my uncle (the mechanics teacher and the programmer respectively) actually made for my 19th birthday. It’s sitting on my night-table, with a thin cable leading up to a “seating” in the roof. When the bell starts ringing, a small motor in the seating drags the clock up to the roof so I actually have to get out of the bed, up on the bed and stretch to drag it down and turn it off.
Works like a charm and only took them three days to design and make.
And you have to reach into a box full of razor blades to get the key to that room. And the alarm has triggered the release of a poison gas will will build to lethal levels in 60 seconds. And the only way to deactivate the electromagnet holding the metal box’s lid shut is to short out the electrodes with your own hands…
…just think of it as a game.