If you oversleep often and want to stop oversleeping, I suggest that you first find out about some of the common causes and effects of oversleeping.
Ready? Let’s move on…
As you can probably understand, there are two main areas that you need to work on – your habits and your mindset…
5 Key Steps 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
Oversleeping is like any other addiction, and you have to be 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.
There is a lot of information (online and offline) about sleep optimization, self motivation and so on. You can do your own research and come up with a plan of action.
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Comments (10)
hi please give me some advices to stop overslepping thank you very much
Mohamad, there is a lot of advice on how to stop oversleeping here and also on my blog (click my name). If you have a specific question please ask.
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?
Note to myself: I have to add an option to subscribe to comments.
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.
hello.i really need to sleep about 5-6 hours a a day cause i need to study hard and there is no time to waste. but i feel tired all the time so i have to use coffee. i really need to do it and in the summer i’ll get free! but my exams i really important to me.
I have the same problem as Katie and Sherri. I am 14 and I sleep
for about 16 hrs if I can afford to. Actually, I could even sleep more If I wanted to but my family forces me up. If it is a school day I sleep for 3hrs after school, eat, do homework and sleep for another 6-8hrs. I try not to reduce the time because if I dont get this amount of sleep I feel tired the whole day. This is not very good because when I go on holidays, I dont sleep as much, as I want to use my time wisely and when I return home I could sleep for a whole day… Im not sure what to do:(
Ryan, does your wife has anything better to do than sleep?
Tina, it’s possible to reduce sleep, but your big mistake is getting a lot of coffee. Instead, eat well – live food, drink fruit juices, smoothies, plenty of water, and also move yourself – get some exercise, stretch, hang out in the sun. When you feel the need, try a ‘power nap’ of 20-40 minutes.
Sushi, the only way you can reduce your sleep is if you decide that you want to, and not because of outside pressure. Try to go a couple weeks with 9 hours night sleep. Follow the tips in the article and in my response to Tina (above).