stop oversleeping

So this is a cool website that I stumbled upon when I was desperate for answers and cures to my oversleeping ills. I am a chronic oversleeper that is coming out of the closet about my need to be free from the realm of sleep/the dream world. I’m surprised to see that there’s actually a community of chronic sleepers out there setting goals! What a hoot. I definitely don’t feel alone now that I’ve read all your posts because the stories on here all sound like my struggles. I feel really guilty for sleeping my life away but when those 5 alarm clocks go off in the morning and I only half hear 2 of them in a very delirious and self-indulging state, I just sleep on through class, or sleep on through my appointments, or sleep on through the opportunity to greet the day (or the morning) with gratitude and time and energy to do what I want to do with my life. I feel guilty because I want all of these things and I think I have control even though I’ve been trying to solve this problem somewhat pro-actively somewhat passively for, well, most of my life, that is since I’ve had responsibilities. Although I do remember that I’ve been plagued with the early morning chronic sleepiness most of my life. As far as I can remember getting up in the morning, that feeling of breeching consciousness, those tired eyes, was like the worst feeling in the world. Almost worse that stubbing your toe. Forced wakefulness is just really hard to overcome, and I think throughout the years I’ve sub-consciously turned against that feeling when I hear the alarm and my sleeping self just tunes it out. I’ve always been a really heavy sleeper, most of the time I can fall asleep within 5-10 minutes and I think the deep deep sleeping has to do with my morning fatigue. Anyways, So this is where I’m coming from. I’ve heard that meditation will help me, I tend to “think” a lot and I think my head just needs more time to purge during sleep. This might be something that ya’ll can think about as well. Any other helpers?