Waking Up In The Morning

[fartingspartan]

Hi All,

I have never been the best at waking up in the morning - I remember my teenage years were especially bad.

But having had Gf's over the years and staying over with them etc I had kind of forgot as I always had an alarm clock (person) I could ignore.

I have been working away a lot recently and I am really struggling to wake up for work on time.

I have my phone sat next to bed, on loud and with multiple alarms set eg 6am, 630am, 645am, 7am yet I will all of a sudden I wake up and its 9am and my phone shows I have either snoozed them (don't remember) or they have just stopped/given up.

I have even bought an alarm clock for in the hotel that I have set and put away from the bed so I cant turn it off without getting up.

I don't think its because I am tired that I oversleep - when I wake up or someone wakes me up at 5:30/6 in the past I have been fine all day/no issues.

Its as if when I go to sleep my ears turn off/it requires a bigger "kick" to wake me up.

Has anyone else got/had the same problem? Any advice?

So far I have been able to hide it with "traffic is bad guys" or other lame excuses but eventually its going to look like I am lazy/sitting about the house in the morning, when actually I am a morning person - Weekends I am up at 7ish and like being out and about.

 

[fartingspartan]

Thanks for all the tips!

The thing is I don't even know I am waking up and killing alarm and to be honest this is only happened once or twice - most times its just sat with the "missed X number of alarms" - I even have it set to an auto repeat type thing and even then I'm dead to the world through it.

When I was at Docs for my annual health check I mentioned it and they had tests done for hormones and also Thyroid but everything came back fine.

In terms of what time I go to bed it can vary, just like what time I get to sleep.

Last night for example I was in bed for 22:00 and I think I fell asleep very quickly - don't remember not, yet this morning I slept through 10 alarms (7 next to bed) and 3 from normal alarm clock on other side of room - I opened my eyes and seen it was light and jumped out of bed like a spring!

I will have a look at the things suggested and see if anything works but I think I have covered the obvious myself -

*I have alarms further away from my reach/bed
*I don't actually drink tea or coffee and haven't drank Diet Coke etc at home/outwith one can at work for years
*I don't remember waking up and snoozing so I am not falling into that trap on purpose
*I don't have TV in room and hotel TV tends to be boring
*Games/Computers are all at home and in anycase gaming has became a weekend thing now due to adult life getting boring!

I also tried that Nytol type stuff when I went through a phase of being awake all night (loosing job etc) but that just made my pee like Shrek Urine!

Anyway, will see how I get on.