<p>put ur alarm clokc on the opposite side of your room- adn make sure it has a REALLY annoying sound....</p>
<p>i have to get up just to turn the alarm off.. nad once im alrayd out of those comfy blankets....</p>
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K, setting up all these systems is fine and dandy, but the real thing that needs to happen is a change of priorities, if you are waking up but choosing to miss out on events because sleeping is more important you made a decision</p>
<p>It is called being an adult...when you have a job, living alone, you won't have mommy to help anymore, so you need to learn to get up when you need to without other people helping </p>
<p>"just can't help yourself"- well that just shows you didn't care enough about the event to me, because if really did care, you would have pulled it together to get up after being woken up
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<p>This pretty much hits the nail on the head. I've had that happen to me before, especially during the summer, I was getting 10 - 12 hours of sleep a day but still couldn't wake up before 11. But when I have something important I always wake up. The key is to have a DESIRE to wake up. You must really care about the event. This sounds strange but it's true. When you go to sleep, keep telling yourself that you need to wake up for this event at what time the next morning over and over again in your bed. Imagine waking up, wanting to sleep, but willing yourself to get up. It's all about having the will to wake up.</p>
<p>OP, just sleep early so this doesn't happen again.</p>
<p>CGM is right...</p>
<p>just get up. It's really not that hard. If you would rather sleep than do whatever you have to do that day, that's fine, but it's your choice. If you would rather be at the class or event (or you know you should be, even if you rather wouldn't =P), then you will get there.</p>
<p>Yes, I would say - just get up. If it's really that big of a problem, though, I second the suggestion of putting the alarm clock on the opposite side of the room.</p>
<p>Drink a quart of water before you go to sleep.</p>
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<p>I have a friend who sets her radio alarm on a chanel that only gets static. It makes the most awful screeching sound. Maybe that would wake you up?</p>
<p>Or the water thing. I imagine wetting the bed would get you up real good.</p>
<p>its not that the person can't wake, up, they can, they actually get up, go turn off alarm and go back to bed and to sleep</p>
<p>so at that point it is a choice with no excuses</p>
<p>citygirlsmom -- actually, that's not true. Many people can get up, go turn off an alarm, and then go back to bed, without ever being truly awake. If you run an EEG on them, it would show that they are still pretty much asleep, incapable of sophisticated thought, and unlikely to even remember the event later on. In this case, it truly isn't a "choice with no excuses." This person is clearly sleep deprived and needs to understand and treat his/her condition rather than be made to feel guilty for its symptoms.</p>
<p>Like I said, it's having a desire to wake up. If you hear the alarm, get up, and really care about the event, you will remember it and force yourself to wake up. If you don't really care about the event, you won't really remember it, or vaguely dismiss it in a state of half-asleep and go back to bed.</p>
<p>vicissitudes -- that only applies to your mind when you're awake. You can't "care" about something when you're asleep.</p>
<p>The getting up and turning off the alarm is the key to the water idea. If you drink the water before sleeping, you will not be able to go back to sleep once awake.</p>
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