been tryin' to meet you

[superflyy]

I've been suffering from an extremely aggravating affliction of sorts this past week. Each morning I try to get up at 5 so that I can make it work early and leave while it's still light out. Inevitably, I disable the alarm when it goes off and sleep for another 45 minutes or so. It's still terribly painful dragging myself out of bed, though, and I'

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[killercanary]

here's what's worked for me: first, you need a deadline. some hard time that you need to be someplace that you don't have any control over. something like a train you need to catch that arrives at 7:48am sharp and only sticks around for 30 seconds works pretty well. then you find out how much time it takes you to do everything you need to do from the time you physically exit your bed until that deadline. subtract said time from deadline. set your alarm clock to the result. as this point, you know that you're absolutely fucked if you even think about hitting the snooze button, and getting up becomes much easier. also, making your alarm clock unreachable from your bed helps a lot

[hubidajubidaba]

whoa dude, i was just gonna tell him to rub one out before bed.

[hubidajubidaba]

and yes i did post that before i read Red's entry

heh read red.

Various techniques

[redrocketwestie]

Falling Asleep
1) "Surgical Strike" Masturbation: I dunno about you, but shooting a wad always makes me drowsy approximately 5 minutes later for approximately 1 minute. If you masturbate right before you go to bed, it's much easier to fall asleep.

2) Pretend to be asleep: Pretend there's someone in the room that you don't want to talk to, so you pretend to be asleep. This is just a motivator so you don't toss and turn. I've found that once you sit still, sleep comes much easier.

Waking Up on Time
3) Compete with Steve: Pretend you have a bet with Steve for who can wake up on time the most. We know it worked before.

4) Don't deny yourself: You said you wanted to punch your body, and maybe you don't have enough willpower to simply prevent yourself from disabling the alarm. So, instead, make a deal with yourself that if you want to disable the alarm, you must first punch yourself (in the face, in the nuts, whatever) and see if you still feel like sleeping afterwards.

Staying Awake at Work5) "Splash of cold water": Lick two

Re: Various techniques

[superflyy]

1 and 2 I've tried, but they haven't help much...at least, not under the given circumstances when I don't feel very tired in the first place. At work, I do take "bathroom breaks" sometimes when things get really bad, which sort of combines 6 and 7. I usually just go and lock myself in a stall for a few minutes, to get away from the tedium and contemplate the weirdness of life. And as for 8, I guess we just differ there. I tend to tune out music I'm not familiar with to some extent, which kind of defeats the purpose. Music that I'm really into, on the other hand, definitely gets me jazzed and helps me stay awake (as long as it's not something overly sedate).

I'll take the other suggestions under advisement. :-)

[copaseticz]

aw babe. You'll be back at school in about a week, and this will all be over?
;-)