I usually fall asleep around 22:30-23 and have to wake up around 6 for school. I’m a night person so I can’t really get to sleep before that. Also, the sound of my alarm is physically painful so I tend to be half-awake a while before it in anxious anticipation. High schoolers (I’m USian) need more sleep than most people, so I feel miserable on less than nine hours and deteriorate throughout the week. Idk how some people do it on even less sleep. My head buzzes and I can’t focus most of the time during the school day. On weekends I used to get 11-12 hours to make up for my sleep debt, but I haven’t been able to since daylight savings time. I can now barely get ten hours a lot of the time, leaving me tired enough to have a strong tendency to go on social media without much energy for else.
Any advice? I can provide more information if necessary.
Dropping coffee altogether somehow helped me be more functional in the morning. Though I’m photosensitive enough that I can’t really sleep much after the first sunlight (around 5:30), so it was a matter of necessity.
Other than that, you might be sleeping poorly rather than little. Requiring 10 hours of sleep to function properly is fairly outside of the norm even for your age. You could look into sleep hygiene habits to get some deeper sleep.
Probably true, as I said it’s largely fear of the alarm and maybe enhanced by it being at the wrong time in my sleep cycle. I too am photosensitive but I have dark curtains luckily. Gives me an extra few hours before the suns peaking out right in my face.
It might be worth it to leave the curtains open. You’ll already have to wake up anyways, but maybe it can completely replace the alarm if it always wakes you up.
If it’s causing you that much stress, removing it should be your priority.
No, I mean on weekends. On school days I have to wake up before light.