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  • Go to sleep earlier, you probably are really just still exhausted from lack of sleep. Once you have eniugh sleep you'll wake up without falling asleep again.

  • Have a cat retching... works always here.

    I'm no morning person either. I just set a timer on the radio (when I sleep trough it I'm to exhausted) and I take about 2h before leaving for work. I'm just a liability on the road when I leave without waking up slowly.

  • Get a light that turns on slowly over 30 minutes before your alarm. Helps ease you into morning if you live in areas with dark winter mornings.

  • I'd avoid it if at all possible. Waking up slowly and taking your time to adjust can be beneficial. There's no way a sudden jolt of adrenaline and caffeine is good for you in the long run.

    There have been studies stating that when daylight saving is rolled back one hour there's a spike in coronary accidents. That may or may not be true, but I do feel better when doing my slow start routine.

  • If you live alone, and trust me on this, start screaming. It feels weird but it works 9 times out of 10 also it relieves some stress probably.

    If you feel uncomfortable doing that or don't live alone or share walls with other people, try splashing you face with cold water. It fucking sucks, it really does, but you probably won't fall asleep again.

    If you're ADHD like me and you've never been able to establish a consistant sleep schedule in your entire life then you gotta find tricks like these to help. No amount of "just go to bed at a regular hour and get up at the same time every day" is ever going to change anything. Coffee helps and so do prescribed stimulants but I can still pass out with those in my system. Cold water and staying on my feet hasn't filled me.

    However, if you're struggling to get out of bed bc you turn off your alarm in a sleep haze and pass back out I recommend getting an app called alarmy and using it's barcode scanning function. I pasted a barcode on my medication bottle that stays in my bathroom and the alarm won't turn off until I scan it. It forces me to get out of bed and take my meds ASAP bc that alarm is annoying af. You can also keep your phone charger far away from your bed for added protection but if you have no self control at night this will eventually get annoying and you'll move it back to your bed.

    I hope something here helped o7 best of luck fellow permanently exhausted pigeon

  • Cold Shower.

    Maybe a cold shower that has to be as long as the time it takes you to get into the shower from your bed. If it takes a minute to get into the shower, then you owe a minute of the coldest water.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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