stop oversleeping

I want to escape everything in life. I guess I want to die but don’t have the guts although I do have enough pills.

I’ve always had this appreciation for sleep. Naps, sleeping in on the weekends, getting a few extra ZzzzZzz’s. But it is excessive at times, and I’ve noticed I will tend to really oversleep when I’m dealing with difficult times or depression. It’s become a coping mechanism, but I’d like to sleep a consistent 7-8 hours everyday and nothing more . Don’t know if I can do it though, lol.

doh. this must stop!

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?

to see other people have this problem too. I’m 48 and have struggled with this all my life. I drive myself crazy because I will not get out of bed on time and then have to kill myself to get to work on time. Now I’m working from home and sleeping later and later, waking up 5 minutes before a phone meeting. I’m going to start keeping a log of when i go to bed and when I get up. Thanks for the support from you fellow oversleepers.

Well I just slept for 24 hours. Personal record of mine, the previous was 21 hours. And I feel horrible, physically and mentally. It sucks.

i don’t think this is ever going to happen…

I think im gonna start keeping a log of how long i sleep each night

Last night i went to bed at two and woke up at nine to turn off my alarm, went back to sleep and woke up again at 11 to answer a phone call, and went back to sleep one last time and woke up at one

So eleven hours

Hi everyone, its nice to know I am not the only who struggles with this. I have always had a hard time waking up in the morning and being on time. Sometimes I will get it right.

what I have noticed about myself

- I oversleep when I have nothing planned for the following morning

- I oversleep when I think I deserve it

- I oversleep when I turn off my alarm (much of the time unconsciously)

- I oversleep when I have something to do that morning that I don’t really want to do

- I oversleep when I tell myself I need at least 9 hours

- I oversleep when I wake up and feel achy and crabby

- I oversleep when I have nothing better to do

I get it right when:

- I have something important to do in the morning

- I occasionally magically wake up early feeling good

- someone else talks to me or wakes me up

- I have 6 or more alarms set

- I set my alarms at least an hour before I need to get up

A little bit about me

- I am very healthy, I eat very well, I exercise enough, I am constantly learning new things to keep my mind active, I have a wonderful relationship with my pre-hubby, I try to go to bed around the same time each night and wake up at the same time each morning

This morning for example – I woke up after all my alarms and did get up, I checked my eye (I caught pink eye two days ago) so I didn’t want to go to my leads meeting this morning all goppie, I called the vice president and told him the scoop and then I didn’t know what to do, I wasn’t motivated to do anything or I couldn’t think of anything to do so instead of staying up I crawled back into bed and slept til 10:30am I probably could have slept for another couple of hours (I went to bed last night around 10:30pm) I got up and felt like crap, had a headache and neck and back ache.

This happens frequently I want to get up at 8 am but then when the alarm goes off in my head half asleep I convince myself I don’t need to get up and then I end up sleeping until 10:30 and then I am frustrated because I wasted my morning away

I guess it just takes me sometime to “wake up” and get going and figure out where to begin (I own my own business with two other partners and we all work out of our home – this makes it so easy to go and lay in my bed and take 2 hour naps when I feel like it) Also we are still in our first year of business and sometimes I don’t know what I should be doing, or I am waiting on them to approve something I worked on which leaves me feeling like I don’t know what to do – and then I am at the house so I am distracted by the cleaning that I should do, the grocery shopping, the barking dog so on and so forth.

Long winded post I know, I just want to give you all a clear understanding of my situation.

KD

Today i didn´t get up just when i wokw up,which is what i have to do or otherwise i will keep sleeping 5 hours more.I did feel in a good mood the whole afternoon,went to my classes and i just came from jogging.I feel much better,hadn´t beeb jogging for a long time.