Is there anything that can help to get used to wake up early?

Question

I'm one of those people who reach their top efficiency in the evening. I can work till late at night, but find it extremely difficult to wake up early in the morning. I'm in my 40's, had to wake up early for all my life but just can't get used to it and feel physically unwell every time. Going to sleep early does not help. I can sleep 10 hours and feel bad if I wake up early, or sleep 5 hours and feel OK if I wake up not before 8! The world's timetables seem to have been programmed by people who like waking up early, so I must survive with it..........Any suggestion?

Answer 1

I have two alarm clocks. One on my bedside table and one outside my bedroom door which is set for a couple of minutes later than the one on the bedside table. Unless I want to wake the whole house up and get in trouble with everybody, I have to get out of bed to switch it off. By the time I'm up, it's fairly pointless getting back into bed.

Have nice stuff to get up for. Eating a big breakfast is healthy so buy nice stuff to eat and drink in the morning or get a newspaper delivered so you have something to get up for.

Routine is also really, really important. Don't sleep late at weekends. Make sure you get up at the same time every day (give or take an hour) otherwise it upsets your body clock and you will struggle the next day.

You will probably always struggle and I agree, the world does seem to be geared towards morning people which is unfair.

Answer 2

I have an answer.

Try to eat an smaller meal in the evening or a cooler dish like salad instead of a big hot meal.
I had the same problem of being tired when I wake up then having a high about 10am then feeling very sleepy in the afternoon - we have free lunches in our canteen which are always fully loaded with carbohydrates. I started to take my own lunches in - sandwiches, soup etc and found that I was feeling much more awake in the afternoons. I tried this out with the evening meals and that too works. However you are sometime just tired for other reasons so it doesn't always work, but give it a go. Also something to check - are you on any medication that could be causing you to be tired? cholesterol tablets can make you tired and if you've been on them for a long time you wouldn't think about it....
Hope I helped.

Answer 3

Make sure that your house is warm prior to waking up, that makes it easier.

Try having your caffeinated beverage of choice soon after waking up (most coffee machines have a self prepare timer on them, so it can be ready when you wake up).

Don't play the snooze alarm game, it'll only make it worse.

Plan out what you're wearing and get all of your things in order the evening before.

Take a shower, that will always make you more awake.

Step outside for a moment or two, the fresh air will help you feel more awake.

For that inevitable yucky feeling you get when you wake up, believe it or not, try a tums... Not joking, just try it. It won't hurt you, and a lot of times when we sleep, stomach acid rises into the esophagus when we sleep and can cause that sick to the stomach feeling people get in the mornings.

Answer 4

hi italian b

yes its a pain ...but i bet you dont get much phyisical exercise??????( exercise is actually the answer to most
human problems)....

i could be wrong here ..but experience tells me diffirent..
if your healthy resonably fit ,im going to ask you to do something...if your overweight, smoker , high blood pressure
ect not in such great health...check with your doctor that your ok before you do the following:

ok i dare you to start jogging as soon as you get home from work
say 5 mins to start with, and back again. and you will see that
you'll be so tried in the evenings you'll start going to bed earlier
each night naturaly, without even thinking about it and best of all you'll wake up so hungry you'll get out of bed
no problem :)....sounds like
hard work....NO... this is a challange try this jogging 3 times a week and for a change skip 1 day a week 10-15 mins.
GO FOR IT
good luck

Answer 5

Maybe get an alarm clock and set it earlier than normal. That usually helps. I do that every morning. I wake up at 5:30 am by setting my alarm. If you are a deep sleeper, try to get a loud alarm clock. If you don't have an alarm clock, try to get something that will motivate you to get up-such as coffee, or pancakes, or anything that makes you feel good. Or something you like.

Answer 6

You need to get to sleep early - and then stick with it. You are in a sleep deficit that can take a week of extra sleeping to get over. After a week of getting extra sleep hours and getting to sleep early, you should find it somewhat easier to get up in the morning. Good luck.

Answer 7

My son had major problems getting up early and with regulation of his mood... we got him an Apollo Health GoLite. This "mood light" gives off blue light (blue LED's) which simulates sunlight and which helps your body adjust to a new sleep schedule. I've used it early in the morning and it helps me to feel wide awake and alert in just a few minutes.

It has really helped him adjust to getting up earlier and being able to sleep better as well. They are a couple of hundred bucks usually, we got ours cheaper at Costco. There are also other places on the web to buy them but at least if you go to Costco or through the company you can return it if it doesn't work for you as desired.

Used at NASA & by Research Experts:
BLUEWAVE technology is so effective that it has been used at NASA as the preferred method to regulate astronaut’s and shuttle crews’ sleep/wake schedules. BLUEWAVE was also demonstrated at the June 2004 Society for Research in Biological Rhythms (SRBR) Medical Conference, where leading researchers recognized Apollo's BLUEWAVE as the definitive lighting technology for regulating circadian rhythms.

Answer 8

having a 10 hours sleep is not good coz' the average hours of sleep for a person is 6-8 hours..
use an alarm clock to wake you up and if u do it continously, then u'l get used of it..

Answer 9

Get up at the same time every day, no matter what time you went to sleep. Your body will get used to it. Having a lie in can make you even more tired

Answer 10

Program (if you can) your tv to come on about 30 min before you need to get up. Turn it to the news or something where it will catch your attention and wakes you up. lay there until you feel awake enought to get up. That's what I do. Turn it on kinda loud so you can hear it clearly. The constant talking should help wake you up.