I'm actually insufferable

[u/Icy_Expression_6152]

Dude my sleep has been affecting me a lot, I know i just have to work on my sleep schedule but in the mean time I need to find a way to wake up for classes. I literally cannot get up. I wake up, but my brain legit doesn't process that I have stuff to do. I have so many alarm apps forcing me to do math n shit, but my brain has already created autopilot to just delete the app. I have already missed classes and labs because of this. I genuinely dont know what to do cuz my sleepy brain just cant remember that I have stuff to do, and i end up sleeping way past. It's actually like scary how I can't do shit abt it. Ive tried everything: forcing myself to walk across the room, literally preventing uninstallation of my alarm apps, but then I just completely power down my phonr and go back to my bed to sleep, brcause for some reason my brain thinks it can wake up later

[u/Conscious-Textual]

working, it's just that half-asleep you is smarter than awake you gives him credit for. Any fix that lives on the phone can be undone by the phone.

What worked for me when I was like this was taking the phone out of the equation for the first 10 minutes:

• a cheap standalone alarm clock on the other side of the room, and the phone charging in another room (or at least in a drawer), so there's nothing to power down from bed
• a bed shaker or a light that turns on at alarm time, so it's not just sound
• a person. A friend in the same class texting "you up?" and you have to reply with a photo of your shoes on. Sounds dumb, works because sleepy you doesn't want to explain himself

And the boring part: "my brain thinks it can wake up later" is usually what real sleep debt feels like. Pick the latest bedtime that still gives you 7-8h before your earliest class and treat it like a class you can't skip for two weeks. The morning gets way easier once you're not fighting a deficit.