Thursday, April 8, 2010

Alarm Blues.

Lesson of the day: don't shut your alarm off unless you are REALLY getting out of bed.

I slept in today. Way later than I wanted to. I gave myself an extra 15 minutes that turned into about 2 hours. I feel good but I missed class. Oops.

I have this issue quite a bit. Lots of people oversleep, especially college students and teenagers who love to sleep. Adults do it too. It's not just irresponsible people who do it. Many people who oversleep do not realize that they may have something called hypersomnia. Hypersomnia can be caused by excessive sleeping during the day, sleep apnea or narcolepsy.
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/hypersomnia

There are ways to sort of overcome oversleeping though. If it is really disturbing your schedule or affecting your health. You have to change the way you think about sleeping. If you like to take naps in the afternoon you should keep them short, around 20-30 minutes. Set a schedule for sleeping and stick to it. Give yourself a treat when you don't oversleep. It will help you to want to stick to your schedule.
http://a-sleep.com/over-sleeping/how-to-stop-oversleeping/

I'm going to have to do implicate some of these ideas to my own sleeping. I have been hitting the snooze button multiple times in the morning on multiple days. I am usually in bed around 11:30 and it's been that way for a few months except on weekends. I have to be up on the same time every morning but some mornings are way harder than others.

I think I am going to have to have ice cream for breakfast the mornings I don't oversleep. Or, let myself have a 20 minute nap later in the day...hmm.

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