• 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Question: is this like a sleep through any and all alarms or like a can't stay awake? I've lived my entire life with severe sleep issues, if you give me some specifics I might have some good tips

      • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        ah yeah so for me it turns out I had DSPD, idk if this sounds like you or not but that's been my experience. What I currently use is my alarm + natural light + natural daylight lights on timers (the ones for seasonal depression) + vibrating alarm clock under pillow + if I really need to get up the next day chugging water before bed so that I have to pee the second I wake up + absolute last resort: a screaming meanie alarm clock, 120db it works it just sucks to use

          • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            uhhh tbh I haven't yet (though I experience literally every symptom and have since early childhood and it's also commonly comorbid with ADHD which I also have so I'm fairly confident I do have it) bc it takes some time that I don't yet have but you need a sleep study with a dr who knows about circadian rythym disorders (found here)

            • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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              3 years ago

              This is really interesting, I have ADHD also and over the past year or so I've become a noticeably heavier sleeper. Not to the point where I sleep through alarms, but like my girlfriend's cats will no longer wake me up and she will get up and kick them out of the room and I will sleep through it. I figured it was just me getting old.

              Also I usually am out within two minutes of my head hitting the pillow, one of my few superpowers.

              • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                Also I usually am out within two minutes of my head hitting the pillow, one of my few superpowers.

                I am so incredibly jealous. I can't sleep until 2 AM,. it sucks

                • john_browns_beard [he/him, comrade/them]
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                  3 years ago

                  Been there, it sucks. I started being able to do this around when I started exercising a lot so I initially thought that was the cause, but I haven't exercised much at all over the last year and if anything I've gotten better at it. I really have no clue why it happens.

            • protochud [comrade/them]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              aaayyy, thanks comrade. you are the best. this is the kind of info i needed

              • 420sixtynine [any,comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                No problem, I feel for you if you do end up having it, it's hell being a preprogrammed night owl in a morning persons world