If there’s one thing I know about most, it’s oversleeping. I used to oversleep often for most of my life, and had suffered from some of this habit’s terrible effects. I can proudly say that today I’m an “energetic early riser”.
If you oversleep often and want to get rid of this terrible habit, there are two main areas that you need to work on – your habits and your mindset…
Here are the five main steps I suggest you take in order to stop oversleeping:
1. Change the way you think about sleep
If you “love to sleep”, you have to start thinking about sleep as something you must do in order to survive. Nothing more.
Stop making excuses like – “I need more sleep than the average person”. You should be convinced that you can sleep less and have more energy than you have now, which is most likely true.
2. Motivate yourself to stop oversleeping
If you’ve gotten addicted to oversleeping, you’d have to get highly motivated and absolutely convinced that you WANT to overcome it.
Come up with at least one strong reason WHY you want to sleep less. Be as specific as you can. It might help to write it down and read it to yourself daily.
3. Set (and stick to) a steady sleep schedule
It’s best if you can go to sleep and wake up at the same times every day. At least do you best to wake up at the same time, no matter how long you had slept…
Put the clock away from bed, set a wake up call, ask someone to throw you out of bed, whatever you need to do to make sure you wake up on time.
4. Reduce sleep gradually
If you sleep 10 hours every night, don’t move to 7 hours all at once. Reduce 30-60 minutes every week or so.
Don’t beat yourself up when you fail, because it might only make things worse. Just learn from your mistakes and come up with a plan for the next day.
5. Improve your sleep
The quality of sleep is just as, if not more important than the quantity. There are many simple things you can do to get high quality sleep, which will allow you to get more energy from less sleep…
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I have had every test and Dr. try and no help. I sleep 16 hours a day and can go right back to sleep. No sleep apnea, no depression, no stress what is it?
Sherri, how old are you and how can you afford to sleep so much? Don’t you have anything to do? What do you mean by “I can go back to sleep”? Do you mean that you can’t keep your eyes open? Have you tried to make yourself sleep less? How? How did it work?
I am the same as Sherri. I have to sleep at least 12 hours a night though usually I spend sbout 16 hours in bed, though I could easily stay asleep longer. I also sleep very deeply so alarms and things usually have no affect. What can I do?
Katie, I would have to ask you the same questions I asked Sherry…
1. How can you afford to sleep so much? Don’t you have anything to do?
2. What have you tried doing in order to reduce your sleep?
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Hello and thank you for the great information.. Any recommendations how to tell your signifigant other they suffer from this? my wife average 11-12 per night ..and thinks everything is ok.