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I'm always so exhausted, I can take an hour to wake up. How do you wake up quickly ?

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[–] Sekrayray 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sleep with caffeine pills next to your bed. Set an alarm for 20 minutes before when you want to wake up. Take the pill with the alarm, and go back to sleep. You will magically wake up super awake at the time you want to be up.

This is obviously a lot less good than the healthy solutions here, but I work a rotating shift schedule and this trick has been working for me for over a decade.

[–] someguy3 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People say you shouldn't have caffeine until about an hour after you're awake. Something about letting your body chemicals settle before, you know, fucking them up.

[–] Sekrayray 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, my understanding of the physiology is that taking it that early leads to rebound sleepiness in 4-6 hours after waking. I think it definitely does, but the immediate caffeine helps if you have a job that demands immediate alertness lol.

[–] khannie 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an interesting one. Are they 200mg? I find that too much but it seems to be the standard amount in caffeine tablets I've seen.

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[–] nifty 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I start reading something on my phone. Might not work for everyone, and depends on whether or not you’ve had enough sleep and don’t have a lot of sleep debt.

[–] clubb 2 points 1 year ago

Put an annoying alarm in a place you can't reach it from your bed. Works for me, I wake up in seconds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What worked for me is giving up coffee and anything else that contains caffeine: black tea, green tea, etc.

[–] CoffeeJunkie 1 points 1 year ago

Boo this man!! BOO

[–] jagungal 2 points 1 year ago

I've struggled with this for a while too, and I've found that the only 'secret' is to go to sleep earlier so that you either wake up earlier, or wake up feeling more refreshed. You should also do this in conjunction with getting up and out of bed as soon as your alarm goes off. I've got an alarm that doesn't turn off until I go into the kitchen and scan a barcode because otherwise I'll turn the alarm off and go straight back to sleep. Someone also suggested opening your blinds which works really well if you don't need the privacy and you wake up after the sun rises.

[–] Rhynoplaz 2 points 1 year ago

If you can't get up quickly, plan to get up slowly. My alarm goes off and hour before it needs to just so I can get some extra snoozes in before I'm ready to get up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sleep earlier.

Bananas or milk helps. Or if you have magnesium or melatonin supplements, those work too.

I think it's also a good skill to know how to gauge how much fatigued your body is at any time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keeping the bedroom cold. It will kickstart your circulation as soon as you get out from under the blanket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This requires one to be responsible enough to get out from under the covers. Cold rooms are my perfect sleeping environment. I would just roll over and pass back out. I have the thermostat set to start warming up the place in the morning. If I'm too warm, I'll eventually not be able to go back to sleep.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Go to sleep at a fixed hour. I recommend 20/22, that's 8/10pm in 12-hour format.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a bit extreme innit

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[–] Presi300 1 points 1 year ago

Coffee... A lot of it, that's how I do it anyways

[–] RIP_Cheems 1 points 1 year ago

Get mad. But no seriously, if your in a dream that you wanna wake up from, use all your possible force to flex your muscles, it'll make you realize your dreaming and wake up.

[–] fastandcurious 1 points 1 year ago

Something that has helped is blasting cold water on my face and then proceeding with opening my windows and letting sunlight in, always helps me on my school days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exercise, meditate, eat healthy food, hydrate.

Are you doing all these things already and still have the issue?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It helps me to prepare things like my clothes I'm going to wear the night before. Then just get into a routine and it won't matter it takes you a while to wake up fully, you'll just get ready on autopilot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Down a glass a water as soon as you get up.

[–] masterplan79th 0 points 1 year ago

I set 2 alarms. one 15 minutes before the other. when the first alarm goes off I take a 200mg caffeine pill. when the second goes off getting up is much easier.

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