Day 1 results

[prog]

FAILURE

Upon exposure to unpleasant noise, subject shut off computer speakers and crawled back into bed for three more hours of sleep. Subject also shut off cell phone alarm in the kitchen, and ignored the radio.

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Example of a good system that would work: a service that would call me on the phone every 5 minutes until I called back. The recorded voice would give me two small numbers, and have me type in their sum on my phone's keypad. Only this could make the call-barrage stop.

This is unfeasible, because this service doesn't exist. (Unless I can make it myself, somehow, have my own computer call me mercilessly. I dimly recall looking for some way to do this a long time ago, and coming up empty-handed.)

Perhaps putting an alarm clock into a locked container? Hmm...

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I seriously think I will have to turn to chemicals. What I really should do is go to sleep earlier, but the thing about me is that I don't actually sleep unless I am sleepy, and right now that doesn't start to happen until 2:30 am.

I wonder where one gets the melatonin supplements. Drugstore? I'll look.

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I am seriously upset about this. Every day I do this is a day wasted. This shit's gotta stop.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're aiming for something too early. Try setting your alarm only an hour or so before you'd wake up normally instead of trying to get yourself up in the middle of your night. If that works, you can go backwards from there in increments every couple days. Do you have a bright light on a timer in your room/face? On days like today, that might help a lot! (Zzzz....)

I tried melatonin a few times for jet lag. Maybe it helped. Any drugstore should have some.

Good luck! This is totally not a problem I have, but I can sympathize. I wake up immediately to any alarm, but I always feel sleepy during the day.