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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 
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[–] Case 7 points 11 months ago

For a real medical answer, I was, at one point, put on GHB and a Stimulant under the theory that an issue that took 9 years to diagnose (epilepsy, did not present typically). Since I had issues with cataplexy, which is only rarely seen with other issues, this made sense. Turns out it can be a side effect of some psych meds, as I'm also bipolar.

GHB knocks you out in moments, and you'll wake up 4 hours later. Time for the second dose. 4 more hours. Like fucking clockwork. It was the only time in my life I was consistently on time anywhere I've ever worked. Wasted in a Walmart auto shop.

Then stimulants (amphetamine analogue) were supposed to keep a narcoleptic awake during the day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

As others have said, it's simply a matter of discipline and getting used to it. But that doesn't necessarily mean you'll become a morning person. How you wake up and when you wake up are two different things. I'm a morning person in that I wake up easily, but I go to sleep at 1 and wake up at 9.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I just use an NFC tag.

Now I can't turn off my alarm unless I get up, leave my bedroom, and go to my living room to scan the NFC tag on my wall.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Get a herding dog... seriously mine keeps me on this sleep schedule. She tells me when to go to bed and is my alarm clock in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just grow older. At 45 you'll start turning into one automatically

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It helps to establish a routine for going to bed. For example, set a nightly reminder on your phone 15-30 minutes before bedtime that it's time to wind things down. Don't have anything caffeinated after 5 pm or so.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Stop caffeine consumption

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Skip one night of sleep, go to bed at your target hour, pref an hour or two before.

wake up at 4 - 6 am

Go to bed at 9, fall asleep at 10

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

For me it was lockdown went to bed early after work out of sheer bordem. Still trying to break out of that routine.

Of course it doesn't help when my dog loves that routine and gets pissed off if not in bed by 8

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

an alarm clock and some self control

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Adjust the times at which you eat, and make sure those times are consistent. Sleeping habits will follow way more easily if you adjust eating times along with them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Requires rote repetition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What worked for me: marry one of those people

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I did marry one. A decade later, nothing has changed (not for lack of trying). :(

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's a suppository.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I go through this at the beginning of every school year. All it really takes is about two weeks of being forced to wake up at 6am.

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