Help! I have a ‘cannot-wake-up-in-the-morning-phobia’!!!
Whenever I have to wake up early the next morning, say 9 or 10am, I will not be able to sleep that night!
This becomes much worse when the thing that I have to do the next morning is very important or needs special attention, for example an exam or a presentation… If that’s the case, I will be doomed… Because I wouldn’t be able to sleep ALL NIGHT!
This is exactly what I’d feel and think when I go to bed in an anxiety-filled night:
“Okay, I’ll have to wake up early tomorrow morning for my XYZ presentation, so I must sleep now or I’ll screw the presentation up.”
So I’ll force myself to sleep, but fail. So I say to myself:
“OMG only 5 hours left until I have to wake up, sleeeeeeeeep plzzzzzzzz!”
This repeats for around 1 hour until I’m finally about to fall asleep, then I’ll think of something stupid like:
“Yay! Finally I’m going to fall asleep! Hope that amount of sleep is enough for the XYZ presentation tomorrow!”
By thinking that, I lose all the drowsiness I just had. And it loops back again and again, until it’s time to wake up! 9am! That’s not a joke!
Because of this problem, I attended a number of exams with a totally blank mind, did presentations like a zombie raised from the dead, and attended meetings like a panda with no bamboo sticks to eat for a month… All because I did not get ANY sleep during the previous nights of those events! Sad!=(
I consulted my doctor about the problem. Apparently, I’ve developed an anxiety problem associated with stress. As a temporary solution, I was given sleeping pills.
I take them only when I have important stuff to do the next morning, stuff that would otherwise render me sleepless for the whole night if I didn’t take the pills.
For the long term, I’ll have to try to modify my thoughts and stop worrying so much instead. I don’t know how to do that, because the extra effort that I put into not worrying is another worry by itself, huhu… =(
Anyway, my mum was really worried about me taking sleeping pills, and I don’t blame her, because nowadays sleeping pills are all associated with suicides, rapes, kidnappings and all the bad stuff. The impression is that taking sleeping pills will kill you or make your liver stop functioning or something…
Alright, back to reality.
I’M HAVING MY FINAL EXAMS STARTING TOMORROW! DIE!!DIE!!!DIE!!!!
I’m not exactly that prepared and the stress is killing me! I’ll stop blogging until my exams end and that’s if I’m still alive at then.
Wish me luck, I’ll need all the luck I can get!
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You know what, I ridiculously have that same problem as well!
Or worse, I’ll do as much work as possible less than 12 hours before the deadline, and end up sleeping like a log all through the morning. Absolut Genius. T_T
Lol. I suggest you make sure you finish everything you need to do in the DAY, and make sure you’re well tired out, so tired you’ll sleep without having to think about it. It works like a charm for me. Good luck with that! (^_^)b
Well, freaky as it seems, I’d still be WELL AWAKE even if I was totally tired out that day… huhu… But I’m doing much better now than before already hehe…
well, i almost have the same problem, but i think i’m overcoming it… as it was said before you should be tired at night and when you’re on bed, before you fall sleep keep your eyes open and jagh bezan =P