If I wake up feeling well rested and ready to face the day then going to work is the last thing I want to do! I’m used to being tired and miserable at work, if I’m feeling good I want to take the day off to enjoy it lol
I’ve done that before. Woke up with an insane amount of motivation and felt like I could accomplish anything that day. Called out of work as I was driving there and wound up getting a lot of personal stuff done I had been putting off for months. It was glorious.
Fuck yeah. Capitalism doesn’t deserve you at your best. Save that resource for yourself
Plot twist: op owns the company
Alternately, op couldn’t make rent that month
that’s why I do personal learning stuff after waking up, and before going to work. helps channel all that energy to my work, and not corporate’s.
The same reason I hate getting sick going into the weekend. I got sick at work, I don’t want to be sick throughout my time off.
I schedule my alarm after my natural wake up time
You might then ask, why set the alarm, and it’s because occasionally a new show or game comes out and I go to bed at 1 instead of 10:30
My natural wake up is like 11:30. I wish I could set the alarm after that!
I am on Sun time, which sucks in the winter when I want to sleep until 9:30, and in the summer when I wake up naturally at 5:30 with the birds and can’t get back to sleep…
I will never forgive Sir Sanford Fleming for inventing time zones and putting the east coast at UTC -5:00 and making me stay up past midnight to watch sports
It’s Greenwhich Mean Time for a reason, because it’s mean to Europeans.
Ha! This just happened to me yesterday. Thankfully the panic was unwarranted, and I had indeed woken before the alarm.
Today for me. Dreamed about something but holy did I feel rested.
Suspicious
The flip side of this is waking up on your day off, and you mindlessly start going through the motions of getting ready for work. Then halfway through brushing your teeth it hits you.
I drove to work and went into the office on a Saturday once. When absolutely nobody was there I realized the error of my ways.
I’ve messed up after waking up thinking I’ve needed to get to work, but I’ve never managed to go all in like that.
The word yellow wandered through his mind in search of something to connect with.
BRUSHED MY GODDAMN TEETH FOR NOTHING!
::quickly spits out toothpaste and stuffs cheeks with M&M’s::
Toothpaste + M&Ms 🤢
I one time woke up at like 3am and mindlessly went through my whole morning routine (ate breakfast, showered, got dressed). Then I realized it was 3am and had like 5 hours before work… I think I just went back to bed
Waking up naturally means you complete a sleep cycle, which is why you feel rested
To me this means mania is coming
“wow I feel great…oh fuck” good to know your signs though
Exactly
I don’t understand?
I have bipolar, one of the signs of a manic episode is a lack of needing sleep, often when I’m having such an episode I’ll sleep like two hours a night and feel fully rested, so a sign of the episode beginning is me waking up very early and feeling full of energy
I’ve started using my favorite podcast as an alarm, along with a lamp plugged into a timer outlet. Works absolute wonders. Set both to turn on half an hour before I want to wake up, and it’s just enough to wake me up without ruining my morning
Of course I still have an emergency GET THE FUCK UP YOU’RE GONNA BE LATE FOR WORK alarm, but it’s rare that I actually need it
Yeah. Changing to a light based alarm did wonders for me.
That and having a job I don’t have to show up on the dot for…
That and having a job I don’t have to show up on the dot for…
I wish it did that for me when I had one of those jobs… That job is why I still need that “you’re gonna be late” alarm. It’s hard to kick the habit of staying in bed until I feel like going to work, because I don’t feel like going to work
Now that I have kids I have no choice but to get up anyway!
But I set up light alarms in their rooms too so that everyone gets the same chance at waking up in the morning.
I don’t feel well rested after sleeping, instead I feel like I’ve been through hell and back again. I get the worst headaches and eye-aches once I lay down, and if I sleep I feel like my head is about to explode once I wake up. Add to that my long list of night terrors, and bedtimes becomes something I’d rather avoid totally.
Get checked for sleep apnea and hypertension
My hypertension is through the roof, the problem with it is, it’s usually too high for medical instruments to measure. I can’t take blood pressure meds because they upset my GI tract to the point I can’t digest food and I end up in the hospital. So, I have to learn to live with it.
I already suffer from dry throat so severe it wakes me up in agonizing pain most of the night, so CPAP therapy is out for me. Maybe I should try the self-chloroforming option that they used to use in the old west for sleep problems.
You try smoking weed? I’m just throwing it out there.
Tried it but it really never did much for me (plus honestly I can’t stand the smell of it).
I’ve tried sleeping pills also, and i’m not sure what’s supposed to happen, but it doesn’t.
They make a clonidine patch. You may have significant gastritis which prohibits you from taking pills, might have that looked at. For the dry throat, they make a nose fitting for CPAP but now also have a device they install for the airway. There’s always a dental appliance as well but data is not as good as compared to CPAP. Let me know and maybe we can figure this out. Need that BP controlled
I do have significant gastritis, including eroded esophageal rings from too much acidity in my gut. I have a GI doctor but after extensive testing, he hasn’t found anything to explain my gut pain and constant gut distress.
I do need to get my BP controlled somehow, but the pills make things “down there” much worse. I’m not sure what alternatives are out there. I need to get back to a general MD and find out if something else is possible.
Me when I fell asleep to brown noise on a battery-greedy music player.
Turns out it was almost two hours after the alarm had been SUPPOSED to go off!
I love that I can’t identify with this. My biological clock is phenomenal. I only use an alarm as a safety net when I have an early morning commitment, but I usually end up turning it off the next morning well before it would go off.
The joke is that the alarm failed to go off, or you failed to wake from it thus oversleeping.
I’m the same way. Had to wake up at five a month ago, and found myself up at 4:58.
I used to work graveyards back when I was young. I hated sleeping through my alarm and waking up hours later only to suddenly have the panic shoot down my body after blissfully waking up.
If I set the alarm for 7 on a weekday, I’ll snooze it 3 times. I don’t set the alarm at all on weekends and usually wake up and hop right out of bed at 7.
