I genuinely don’t know what to do anymore. I go to bed around 10.30/11.00pm, I need to wake up at 6am but I don’t wake up until 7.45am by which point I’m late for work. I can start work at 9am and work until 4pm but I’m supposed to start at 7am and work until 2pm. I want to start at 7am so I have the rest of my day after work. I used to be able to get up and be there on time but the last year I have not been able to. I set about 6 alarms and I don’t hear a single one, I think I snooze them whilst I’m still asleep. When i do eventually get up I feel like a bus has hit me and that I could be done with another 5 hours sleep, I am so tired all the time! But I’m getting plenty of sleep? It doesn’t make sense. Please help! I’ve tried everything from apps that make you put in a math equation etc, it does not work, I find a way to do the equation and fall back asleep. I need to start being a morning person cause I have a new job starting next year and I will NEED to be awake at 6.30am. Any advice greatly appreciated! F27 (incase it makes a difference)

During senior year, no matter what time i sleep, i always wake up at 5 am (since my classes starts at 7). However, i have been struggling to fall asleep ever since the summer break and i need to fix it since I'll be attending uni on January.

I have tried "tiring" myself during the day; exercising, long walks, commuting, doing chores but no matter how tired i am, I'm wide awake till 2-3 am. Sleepiness only kicks in at 4-5 am and i always wake up at 9 am. Yesterday though, i actually fell asleep at 11pm and i thought i was finally getting better... then i woke up at 1am and stayed awake till 5 again. This always happen.

Also, alarms don't work anymore. I set up 10 early morning alarms everyday and still wake up at 9.

How do i fix this? I feel so unproductive and always tired. I want to improve it as soon as i can since I'll be having morning classes at uni.

I go to bed at 10-11 and I set alarms for 4-5 but my body ignores them and I usually wake up around 6-6:30. I use the regular alarms on a iPhone and the sleep cycle app. What am I doing wrong?

i've been needing videos to sleep to for the last while and if my next alarm is within the next 6 hours i often completely sleep through it without even noticing even though people outside my room can hear it :(

i don't know why i'm always so tired even after 12 hrs of sleep as my bloodwork was fine and somehow daytime makes me sleepy and nighttime makes me active.. but could having background noise on condition my brain to not respond to noises or something? pls offer advice

For some reason even with all the most "evil" settings turned on, when the alarm goes off and you select "complete task" and it takes you to the barcode scanning screen, you still have the option to turn off the alarm sound for the duration of the time you've allowed for task completion (e.g. 20 seconds). There's a little switch in the top right corner of the screen.

This one feature completely destroys the apps functionality for me, I can't understand why the option is there! What it means for me is that my semi-conscious brain has figured out that you can just lie in bed repeatedly selecting "complete task" and effectively have an infinite snooze ability. This is very, very bad news and basically means that Alarmy does not work for me, at all.

Does anyone know a way around this? Or does anyone have a better app or device they can recommend? For information, I don't need a super loud alarm - normal alarms do wake me up. What I need is an alarm that completely prevents you from just staying in bed hitting snooze a billion times, and stops you from returning to bed whilst in a zombie-like state (hence scanning a barcode in e.g. my bathroom).

Many thanks in advance!

I have issues waking up. I’ve tried everything.

I’ve attempted setting a good sleep schedule where I go to bed at the same time every night it’s works sometimes but my job schedule shifts so much I work nights and early mornings sometimes throughout the same week my schedule will shift from showing at 7pm to showing at like 3am or 9am

I’ve set up alarm clocks across the room I still get up turn them off and come back to bed and barely recall it.

I’ve tried wearables i.e watch, so I can feel them.

I’ve set up a really loud obnoxious one. And my phone.

I’ve changed the sounds to the several alarms on my phone and also set them at uneven intervals I case I snooze them.

I’ve tried working out extra so my body is tired by bedtime and I can get deep sleep in.

Nothing seems to work

So i’ve had this issue for the last year or so now, i’ve had to quit jobs because of it. When i wake up in the morning, anytime before 9 i wake up feeling sick to my stomach. It’s like an anxiety feeling almost? A pit in my stomach is probably the best way to describe it. Like it makes me unable to get ready for work. It’ll continue to build up until i throw up, and then i will feel better. Any ideas?

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When we started working on the Mornin Mate app, it all began with our own struggles—waking up, staying in bed, and actually enjoying our mornings. We also looked at existing solutions and felt like something was missing. So, we started digging.

We read a lot. Especially here on Reddit. We wanted to understand what makes mornings so tough for so many of us, and what might actually help based on research (spoiler: there’s no one-size-fits-all solution). That’s how we shaped the version of Mornin Mate that’s launching in mid-December. It’s all about making mornings feel better—through fun, rewards, and a touch of discipline.

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Is it just me or are dreams addictive? I feel like half the reason I stay in bed is because the dreams are too much fun Or maybe my life is just so boring that dreaming it all away is better

My blanket is way too comfortable, and I have trouble getting out of bed even when I've slept enough and I want to get up. I need a blanket that doesn't add a lot of comfort (only warmth). Can anyone recommend a blanket I can buy that isn't very comfortable?

I semi-routinely oversleep my ~30 phone alarms. A friend suggested I look into a wrist vibrate alarm. Looking around I'm seeing reviews of weak vibrate settings or vibrate settings that auto sleep. Does anyone know of a current product with a strong vibrate that doesn't auto sleep?

Alarmy is no longer reliable or a viable solution for me. I've used this app for years and sadly this has come to an end. I had a few instances of the alarm just not going off and didn't think much of it. The few most recent times, I became more concerned and looked further into it. The past few times, I knew I had them set, and I locked my phone screen with the app open. Those times, the alarm didn't ring and the 'report' said that no alarms ran. The first time it occurred, I reached out to Alarmy on November 6th, and received a response on November 9th. I got the generic copy and paste on November 11th, and replied to the email with the specific date on November 13th. Since then, I have not seen any correspondence with Alarmy. The same thing occurred again this morning which made me late for work.

Anyways with my rant out of the way, I wanted to see what recommendations y'all have for any additional apps (Android) or physical (preferably corded AND battery, US) alarms that have worked best for you. I have had a habit of snoozing or just sleeping right through alarms, even with some of Alarmy's built-in 'Loud' alarms. Recently, I've been getting pretty good at doing math half asleep too.

I've also thought about the Pavlok Zap. What have your experiences been with this as an alarm?

Thank you in advance!

Each morning I set like 4 different alarms on max volume and they also use a tornado siren as the sound but even that can't wake me up and I don't get why this doesn't wake me up is something wrong with me or perhaps the alarms don't activate? Please help

Hey so winter always seems to mess up my sleeping pattern, but currently its really bad where i don't fall asleep tell 10am-2pm, i wanna get up around 2pm-4pm but i just can't. I set my Alarmy (free verison) for the qr codes, and i will go down do it and then go back to bed because im so tired, or i tried the memory and i just do it and then go back to sleep, i have even unistalled the app when i want to go back to bed and don't wanna deal with Alarmy when it goes off. I just feel so tired and don't want to get out of bed (i have depression and am on meds, but i dont feel depressed i just dont wanna leave my bed cause its warm and i just wanna sleep cause im exhausted but this is now messing up my work schedule im self employed) ive tried the alarmy qr code, maths, memory, i put my phone other side of the room, ive tried mutiple alarms which i eiter turn off on first alarm or i will wake up every hour when ive set the alarm, turn it off and go back to bed, idk what else to do

I don’t know if this is the appropriate space for this, but I need some advice. Rant ahead.

I am so so tired all the time. Yes, I’ve been diagnosed with depression, and I am on medication for it. I have been for years. I’m on sleeping medication for constant waking up in the night which is more recent (six months ago) so I sleep “better” but no changes in my levels of fatigue.

It has been EIGHT YEARS. Eight years since the last time I remember feeling well rested. It has me to the point of tears. It has rapidly gotten worse to the point it is affecting my day to day life in a very noticeable way. I don’t do things I enjoy anymore. I go to bed much earlier than I usually do. I don’t play games which has been a hobby of mine since I could hold a game controller. I don’t have the energy to hang out with my friends. My work performance is dropping and I feel like I move in slow motion.

I don’t know what to do. I’m so tired (haha) of this. My doctor doesn’t know what’s wrong. My blood tests are normal. “Go to the gym, you’ll feel more energized.” Goddammit I have TRIED THAT. It’s so difficult when I feel so fatigued all the time but I have tried. I’ve taken vitamin d, b12, iron, but nothing. I don’t know what to do or if it’s even worth it.

Any recommendations for a sunrise alarm that is easy to change the wake up time. I had tried the Google nest but I need to wake a different time each day and found it irritating to have to set up a whole new alarm each time as it wasn’t saving any default settings. Grateful for any recommendations from people who change their wake time regularly

This is Alarmy. It's asking for $5 a month. I'm sorry I can't pay that much for a simple stinkin alarm app. I can buy AirPod Pros with financing for life for this much.

I do need something that will wake me up though. Can you guys please recommend something good?

I don't want the alarm to stop unless I do something with the phone. Maybe unlock the phone or press a button (physical button or button on an app) or do some kind of exercise. Alarmy has you do a memory exercise or math exercise among other things, seems kind of annoying but I guess it could work too. Thank you.

Hi,

I would call myself an ambitious person, living a healthy life, but getting up in the morning had always been the hardest thing.

Then I stumbled upon a fascinating scientific publication by Facer-Childs et al: In the study, the participants transitioned from night owl to morning person while actually feeling, sleeping and performing BETTER. They did it using a lifestyle framework that encompasses sleep, light exposure as well as exercise and food timing. Mind = blown, I needed to try this.

So I tried this - and folks, it was a gamechanger! Well, at least for the 2 weeks that I did it. Cause some things are just pretty hard to maintain in real life. But having seen the light, I wanted to make it work. So I developed my own framework around it that made the preparation and the maintenance of the lifestyle easier (using best practices from behavioral psychology). And it worked. By now, I have my most productive hours in the morning and I've helped multiple friends going from zombie to best self in the morning, too.

Being a professional mobile app developer, I started turning the framework into an app. A friend helps me with UI/UX. We'd like to do this professionally at some point and have applied for grants, but for now, I need to make sure if the app is as helpful to people as I know the framework itself is. Do you want to give me feedback?

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Please help me all of the Amazon ones are so complicated :( I’m just looking for a simple one I can put across my room the one I have has seemed to speed up so now doesn’t work.

I’m looking for an alarm clock that is

• really loud
• sound goes on for a while
• preferably plug in (uk)

I am a pretty light sleeper but she sleeps like she’s literally dead. It’s kinda concerning. She has tried every type of alarm including the vibrating ones but they do not work. It’s gotten to a point where I have to wake her up almost every day. It’s so annoying. What do I do???

I don't want a fitness watch - I don't want to know heart rate, blood oxygen levels, tell time, count steps, or anything else - I JUST want a watch to wear to bed that vibrates at the programmed time.

What do you use? Any recommendations?

So I've been sleeping through all 11 of my alarms. Now I'm not turning them off. I just sleep through it. I can't keep doing this because I have school and I'll get into a lot of trouble if I continue this.

I go to bed at 11, and I'm supposed to wake up at 6. I have extra alarms to wake me up earlier, too. And idk if this helps, but I've been experiencing insomnia when this all started too, so instead of falling asleep at 11, I fell asleep at 1.

This is becoming a major problem, and I looked at everything I could find, but nothing seemed to be working. This is truly my last hope.

uni student in the uk, my sleep schedule has become more and more fucked up in the past month or so, but i’ve got a couple of weeks off from classes rn and it’s gotten worse.

right now it’s 5am, but i’ve only been awake since like 8pm after going to sleep at 7:30am. i still feel very awake, at this point i should probably just try and make it through the day and then get an early night right? i’ve got things to i could get done during the day to stay occupied.

I think I’ve been consistently tired since my early teens, I’m nearly 23 now. I usually fall asleep anywhere between 5-7am, then wake up from 2-4pm feeling completely zombified and horrible. I can set dozens of alarms before this, I’ll still wake up at 4 after they’ve been sounding for hours. I’ll have breakfast and a few coffees to “wake me up” which can take another 3 hours. Then by the time I’ve showered, done housework, cooked etc and settled down to do uni work it’s past midnight again and I’m shattered. I pretty much never have the time or energy to do all of the basic chores for the day. I think I inadvertently spend the majority of the day spacing out and resting in bed. I feel like every day I get more and more tired. I had blood tests years ago that came back pretty much normal. No supplement I take seems to help.

We spoke to people who have struggled for years with waking up on time and transforming their mornings for the better. We also heard from those simply looking to start their day on a more positive note. We combed through countless subreddits and compiled a mix of classic morning strategies and surprising new insights. Curious about what actually works? Check out our findings!

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I hope this is the right sub to post it, I just found it, and I see many people have issues with waking up.

For me, it happens for a long time, when I was in school, I barely managed to get up, I never noticed the alarms since I sleep really hard, my parents or siblings had to force me to wake up and often I would miss some school hours.

It improved a bit after, but in the last couple of months I’m unemployed (it’s going to change next week) and I’m constantly struggling to get up early, or at all. Btw, I don’t think that’s depression or something because I do have a lot of motivation to do stuff and I’m mostly happy.

Anyway, my parents and siblings aren’t home in the morning so I often find myself waking up as late as 12:00 or 13:00 and frustrated about it, which caused me to start going to sleep late, to “compensate” for the time I missed in the morning. Every night I’m trying new ways to make myself get up early - putting many alarms, putting one alarm, making the clock two hours ahead, putting no alarm at all, talking to myself before going to sleep, and nothing worked.

Today I tried to break the loop of going to sleep late and waking up late, I went to sleep (relatively) early, at 23:30, and set just one alarm to 7.5-8 hours later, when my parents are still at home and can help me, and I also talked to myself before going to bed.

I woke up at 12:30. I slept for 13 hours. And if I hadn’t pulled myself really hard from the bed, it could easily be 14, 15 or more hours.

I’ve officially given up, and I'm in desperate need of your help, wise Reddit users.

Sokevd

So, I am creating a change your life in three months guide, and this is something that I’ve tried before, but it never really worked out because I was never truly motivated to do it, so instead of just making this entire guide for myself and trying to get through this myself. I would like to start a little community where I make the guide, and we all try it out.

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