Waking up in the morning... >:-O

[dark+matters]

Do you guys have as hard a time waking up in the morning as I do? I feel like a piece of shit right now because I was 15 minutes too late to do some volunteer work I really wanted to do this morning.

When I schedule something that is too early like this, I will literally sleep through any alarm. Any alarm- even if it goes off for hours, even if it is right next to my head. Or I will turn off the alarm, and instantly fall back asleep and forget that the alarm went off. Even if I have to walk across the room, I am a complete zombie and will probably not be capable of realizing that I need to stop myself from going back to bed. Waking up too early makes me feel tremendous physical and mental pain- literally like I wish I was dead. Plus, if I consistently wake up too early (anything earlier than 8 AM and sometimes even a little later), I usually catch a cold.

I've always had this strong a reaction to waking up too early in the morning. How about you?

I've heard that this is an INTP thing. What do you think? My INFx friends have a very hard time waking up in the morning too, but they don't talk about a crippling, self-defeating level of difficulty with waking up like I have struggled with since elementary school.

 

[Brontosaurie]

i relate to the sentiment, but at least my brain isn't resistant to alarms.

 

[onesteptwostep]

aw i expected kesha

 

[Seteleechete]

If I have something scheduled I am a zombie until noon, if not I am wide awake at 7 am in the morning.

 

[Haim]

I tend to wake up then stay in bed ten more minutes,that if I have to wake up
if not then a lot more
Not many times where I just went back to sleep and was late.
most of these somebody wake me up or I would wake up shortly then go to plan B like other bus that need 10 minute walking to reach.

 

[Minuend]

I only felt similar to that when I had more impactful thyroid problems. Horrible feeling when I woke up before having rested enough. Though, even then I did I would feel very heavy trying to get up. I remember my thoughts feeling square-y and hard (no lewd).

This issue seem to be fading, fortunately. I always got up with relatively ease before. I think the routine of waking up early is somewhat soothing for me.

You should try drinking a glass of water when getting up, even if you find it difficult drinking immediately after getting up. It helps get rid of the sluggishness of being tired.

 

[Ex-User (11125)]

I'm a light sleeper so i have no trouble waking up to alarms, and even if my alarm doesn't go off, chances are I will still be able to make it in time because I wake up multiple times at night
(I rarely get a good night's sleep btw, I feel exhausted and restless most of the time because of my disjointed sleeping)

 

[TBerg]

Zerkalo expresses the way I have been for the past couple years. I had sleep anxiety every night for a while and had trouble getting any sleep at all. But these days, I have been getting more solid sleep, which has worked wonders for my clarity of thought and expansiveness of intellectual capacity.

When you don't get enough sleep, you might as well claim to be a functioning alcoholic, with the implication being that your ability to learn and manage is impaired. Anxiety also produces the same effect.

 

[_whispers_]

I can get up within 5 minutes of waking up and have no problem with hearing an alarm even if low on sleep. I only get up for coffee, though. No coffee, no getting up. Either way I won't be fully functional until about 10 am.

I don't think it's an INTP thing. The ENTJ, ESFJ and ISTP I've shared a room with were pretty much like you. Also I read a research recently that they did (not on humans, I think it was on fireflies) that showed that the ones that woke up early had a different internal clock gene than the ones that woke up later in the day. They've also concluded that genes are hereditary. I'm really interested in seeing if the same is true for humans.

 

[Sinny91]

I can't sleep through alarms , but I do have a habit of 'dismissing' them, waking up 4 hours late, and bitching about my alarm not going off.... Usually to be informed (by someone else), that I did wake up enough to shut the thing off.

After 3 years in the same 9-5, I learned how to get up at the last available minute, but I honestly cannot not function properly till Mid-day, and 6 coffee's later.

I agree with the 'internal clocks' comment...
Naturally, I sleep at sunrise and awake at sun-set.
Not so good for my attempted 9-5, which incidently, I just quit lol.

I also read a 'study' not long ago stating that 18-24's aren't suited to 9-5, and are vampires like me. (23)

As for sleep in general.. I usually go a week deprived of sleep, and then spend two days solidly asleep to catch up on it.

All or nothing with me..

 

[Pyropyro]

If I was able to sleep at around 10 to 11 PM the night before then I have no problem waking up early in the morning.

I'll only enter zombie mode if I didn't get enough sleep or had a physically taxing activity the day before (ex. hiking).

 

[Nihilmatic]

I used to rely on my stress hormones to wake up every morning, where right before I would go to sleep I would say or think "I need to wake up at 6am tomorrow", and I would naturally wake up at 6am. It became unreliable because it only worked like 90% of the time, 1/10 times I would just come to school like 4 hours late, so I just started using the alarm clock instead.

 

[Pizzabeak]

No, waking up early can be good, in fact, I woke up rather early today only because I went to bed early yesterday, because I was tired. I kind of had to force myself to sleep though but eventually went, and had some dreams. Then I woke up because my body didn't really need any more rest.

I hear alarms but if I can get 15 or so extra minutes of lying in bed then I'll turn the alarm off and doze, until it isn't appealing then I'll try to get started. When I get stoned I tend to just wake up and go. Normally after waking I suppose there's a latency period of zombie but it lasts only 10-15 minutes. I am not sure at which point it dissolves, if there.

I don't think it's an anything thing, besides arbitrary and depends on other scheduling factors plus personal physiology; I've never really had these types of issues besides someone waking me up when unnecessary.

 

[StevenM]

Waking up on time has gotten better over the years. Especially if I'm determined to be somewhere, I'll make sure to be there on time everyday.

This determination wasn't always there when I was younger though. I dismissed the alarm-clock often, and possibly slept through it many times as well.

Though sleep-inertia is really bad. Need a good hour alone with coffee and I, before I'm anything coherent or comprehensible.

 

[Pyropyro]

By the way start your morning right.

Spoiler

 

[onesteptwostep]

ohh shat that looks so good

 

[StevenM]

By the way start your morning right.

Something about that coffee seems off. Did it come from a nuclear plant?

Or perhaps, NASA's secret tachyon lab. One sip of that, and you relive your childhood.

 

[Analyzer]

Waking time and sleeping patterns wouldn't be any issue if 9-5's, the rat-race, and similar were obsolete. It is the epitome of extroverted thinking to delegate the division of work onto a set time structure regardless of individual preferences.

 

[Nox]

I can completely sympathize with this issue. And I had no idea it was considered an INTP thing so this is comforting to know. Getting out of bed in the morning is like the hardest thing I'll have to do all day. I constantly fear being late for work and no matter how bad I want to be on time somewhere sometimes I still can't get out of bed. And when I do finally get out of bed it's like I was in some sort of stupor when I was lying down and all of a sudden start panicking that I'm so late. It's extremely frustrating and I empathize with you greatly OP.

 

[Perfectly Normal Beast]

i lost my snooze function in childhood when i started consistently waking moments (literally a few seconds) before my alarm clock was set to ring. my eyes open; my feet are on the ground.

i have to make a constant conscious effort not to be 2 hours early for everything.

 

[Ocofan]

This strategy in this article always made sense to me: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right-away-when-your-alarm-goes-off/

Basically involves repeating the 'waking up' routine enough times whilst you're in a relaxed (but alert) state similar hoping that by repeating it enough times would make it less of conscious effort to get up. But I've been too lazy to attempt it so far; in the end my body will make up the number of hours missed on an alarm so I don't bother fighting myself to get up but just deal with the consequences instead.

 

[Vion]

Try getting plenty of fiber and fluids for dinner, oatmeal, grain bran, radishes will do fine. Eat a large breakfast and stay away from caffeine. Rinse, shower, or soak in the morning.

Find one of those super comfy hospital beds that elevate. If that bed can prevent bedsores in patients and be charged for way more than a hotel bed then it is the best you will find.

Instead of napping mid day just masturbate as fast as you can before eating lunch.

 

[kora]

Oh yeah I used to do this all the time. It was actually because I didn't really give a shit though, then I started caring and being nervous about getting up so I have no problem now. I actually wake up just before my alarm after about 4-5 days of set routine.

 

[dark+matters]

I did it again! I missed the boat on the thing I wanted to wake up at 5 AM for... fortunately, when I discussed this problem with the volunteer coordinator, he seemed okay with my making some volunteer sessions and not others without being able to commit. I changed my morning classes to night classes, because I should know better by now. I don't know if this is a type thing or not. It doesn't sound like it.

 

[Brontosaurie]

I did it again! I missed the boat on the thing I wanted to wake up at 5 AM for... fortunately, when I discussed this problem with the volunteer coordinator, he seemed okay with my making some volunteer sessions and not others without being able to commit. I changed my morning classes to night classes, because I should know better by now. I don't know if this is a type thing or not. It doesn't sound like it.

maybe it's too real for lofty speculation such as typology

 

[dark+matters]

maybe it's too real for lofty speculation such as typology

Um, I have tons of factual, scientific evidence that other people are the way I say they are because I feel like it's true despite what dozens of them are telling me about their lives, Mr. SAURIE. And I'm going to post another thread about it and another, and another until you get so sick of it you'll either start ignoring me or I'll become a side-show attraction by virtue of who is left reading and responding! Muahahaha!

(Sorry... I couldn't resist the opportunity to be passive aggressive. I behaved last time and didn't jump in on that prior thing that got everyone crazy.)

 

[DrGregoryHouse]

Fellow INTP here. I have a hell of a time waking up in the morning at the 'normal' time.

 

[Pyropyro]

Something about that coffee seems off. Did it come from a nuclear plant?

Or perhaps, NASA's secret tachyon lab. One sip of that, and you relive your childhood.

Damn, now I want to get me some nuclear coffee.

 

[redbaron]

I wake up well before my alarm on most, if not all days. I guess I'm just fortunate enough to be a morning person. I rarely drink coffee and I find it actually makes it harder for me to function. Maybe because I snort coke every morning and taking extra stimulants is bad for my concentration.

 

[youkneeburst]

I and my probably IXTX friends used to be the object of hate by the dormitory keepers back in our high school because of our unstained legacy of being the last ones to leave the dormitory to go to school and when we step intl the classroom, we are punished to stand at the back of the room until the end of the subject, weve kinda been used to it that we call our first subject as the 'chair penitence'. This summer, since theres no school, I sleep very late, almost morning, earliest is 1 am or not sleeping at all. I wake up to my family's lunch and do the same routine all over again. I also have this habbit of slacking in my bed for an hour before I rise up to wash my face and brush my teeth.