Why do I always wake up early on a weekend or holiday, but late on a work day?
it's a simple thing really. your internal watch doesn't care for you to wake up to you job (which you don't love) so it will wake you up when it feels you slept over yourself because you feel you slept too long. in the weekends you are relaxed and happy you have your days off so your body wakes you up because it feels you want to wake up and spend your day of work. so you wake up early on weekends because you are happy and late on work days because you aren't excited for work.
Why do i sometimes struggle to open my eyes after a sleep?
sometimes i think i have woken up.but i cannot open my eyes,i start to panic,i cannot move my body it seems,and then after a sort of mental struggle i am able to do it,hen i find i have woken up.its scary.i dono know whether i deam of being awake and not being able to open my eyes and finally opening up my eyes due to the exteme mental struggle combined with the deep fear-which helps me wake up,so that it might just be a scary dream. or that it is something more serious and i actually cannot opn my eyes and do so after only a struggle.if i had only once or twice experienced such a thing i would have thought it to be a bad dream,but it has happened about 10-12 times in the last 3 or so years. i am a 33 year old male,with a very good health. i really need your advice .i fear doctors won take my condition seriouly.i also doubt if it is a common condition or even if such a thing has never come up before.
How to wake up more alert in the morning?
Go to bed reasonably early, aim for ~8 hours sleep, then get up at the same time, even at weekends, regardless of how you slept or how you feel, and do this CONSISTENTLY! Consistency is the key here, as over time your body should adjust. If it doesn't, you should seek a Dr.s' advice about better sleep and "sleep hygiene". See "sleepio.co.uk", run partly by Prof. Colin Espie, a psychologist at Glasgow Uni who is one of the UK's leading researchers into sleep and sleep-related problems. It may help to ensure your bedroom is cool (not cold) when you go to bed, is kept as dark as possible when you're in it, e.g. perhaps have a dim light or a dimmer switch on your main light, and close curtains and blinds. Also, if possible only use your bedroom for sleep and sex. No TVs, computers, or exercise machines. Blue-ish light is thought to promote wakefulness, so the colour of light you choose may help, and you could also alter the colour output of any PC monitors you use at night. Some folk find lavender smells help them sleep. Or a non-caffeinated warm, milky drink, not so late that it'll have you up at the loo in the middle of the night. If you feel you're taking more than 30mins. to get to sleep, leave your bedroom and don't go back in until you're tired. Coffee is a bad idea. If you do it regularly, the beneficial effect disappears, and you essentially start off below par, so that all the coffee does is bring you up to the base level that other non-coffee drinkers are already at! If you drink it regularly, stop, and within a month you should be back to normal. You can still have the occasional cup after this. Instead, the herb SAGE is now thought to stimulate your brain at least as well as caffeine, but without any of the drawbacks. Lastly, having once suffered insomnia for 8 years, I now it's natural to worry about sleeping problems, but the worry won't help. So if you find you're worrying about it, allow the worry to float out of your mind, and try to turn your thoughts to something more pleasant. Meditation can help with this.
What/who do you wake up to in the mornings?
My moms vacuum cleaner sucking up my ipod headphones, or loud banging on the door.very annoying!
Why is it so hard for me to wake up early in the morning?
We all have our own unique circadian rythms, and your system may be wired to be more alert later at night and to be in shutdown mode in the AM. We can retrain it, though. Try going to bed an hour earlier and make sure you practice good sleep hygeine - room is dark and cool and quiet, no TV or books, no lights from electronic devices. The bed is for sleeping (or sex), not for any other purpose. If you wake up in the night don't toss and turn for hours; get up and go do something until you're tired enough to go back to bed and sleep. Put your alarm in a place that you can't reach it from the bed; maybe in the kitchen. You have to physically get up and walk in there to turn it off. Have something waiting and ready that you REALLY like for breakfast - that can be a powerful incentive. Also, a full spectrum light bulb in the lamp will stimulate your pineal gland in the brain and help you get going. Lastly, do you snore? If so, you might want to have a sleep apnea test. You could be waking up many times per night and not know it. The result is poor quality of sleep and exhaustion the next day. It's not always easy retraining our bodies, but it is possible .