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theLola said: I found this thread from a google search about being addicted to sleep. I know this is an old thread and all, but I was hoping you would be able to help.
You described exactly what I am going through. I'd also like to include that as the day progresses I plan more, become more hopeful, get more energy... but then I sleep and don't want to wake up. The night before I am excited about the things I will do tomorrow, but when my alarm goes off I hit snooze or turn it off b/c sleeping seems so important in that moment. A friend of mine is also going through the same thing and neither of us have been able to motivate ourselves or each other out of it.
Have you overcome your sleep addiction? What helped you do it? Did something change in your life?
Weird. At first I thought I had symptoms in common with the OP, now I see I have more similar symptoms with you. It seems to be getting better for me since I've established a pretty steady schedule for going to sleep and waking up. A lot of times it seems like I have the most energy late in the day, often times right before I go to sleep. I fall asleep thinking about how productive I'm going to be once I wake up. The alarm goes off and I press snooze, alarm; snooze, alarm; snooze, etc. for hours sometimes. If I don't have class, work or some other important obligation I will often find it almost impossible to get out of bed.
I will admit though that I've been kind of out of it and probably depressed for the past few months, so that probably has something to do with it. The thing about that, is it's a self-reinforcing chain of events. You have a crappy sleep pattern so you have no motivation the next day; time goes on and you start getting behind on your life duties - depression sets in; depression makes your sleep pattern worse so you get less done the next day, etc.
My advice would be to go to bed at the same time every night and wake up after 7.5-8.5 hours. If you get more, you won't be tired enough to go to sleep at that same time the next day.
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Hmm, so things have been changing since I last posted in this thread. I am getting better at waking up in the morning and going to sleep at night. I think it's helping majorly that I go to bed at just about the same time every night and I sleep around 8 hours.
As far as sleeping late goes and the addiction to dreaming, I used to do this because I could fantasize about things that weren't reasonably attainable in my life and it would give me a chance to have a lucid dream (which I have an interest in). Lately, though, I've been more...hmm, grounded, or realistic, I guess? I'm more focused and if I want something, something that I could just sit in my comfy bed and fantasize about, I should get the hell up and try and make it happen! Other cool things are bound to happen along the way, so who really cares.
I think a lot of it comes down to our primitive brain functions that moves us toward things we see as good (or better, as in relativity) and away from things that are lesser or bad. If we see waking life as being dull and dream life/ sleep as a comfortable, problem free existence, well it's no wonder we would want to stay in bed. Ya dig?
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