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People with the disorder who try to live on a normal schedule cannot fall asleep at a "reasonable" hour and have extreme difficulty waking because their biological clocks are not in phase with that schedule. Non-DSPD people who do not adjust well to working a night shift have similar symptoms (diagnosed as shift-work sleep disorder).
The most important thing to do when waking up in the middle of the night is to resist looking at the clock, Peters-Mathews said. “If the alarm is not going off, it’s not time to wake up. It ...
We get into a pattern of waking and sleeping that sees us opening our eyes in the middle of the night. The room is dark, but sure enough, the clock reads the same time as it did the night before...
Researchers studied 300 people with ‘advanced sleep phase’.
Sleep inertia is a physiological state of impaired cognitive and sensory-motor performance that is present immediately after awakening. It persists during the transition of sleep to wakefulness, where an individual will experience feelings of drowsiness, disorientation and a decline in motor dexterity.
Waking up earlier in the morning increases the response. [11]Shift work: nurses working on morning shifts with very early awakening (between 4:00–5:30 a.m.) had a greater and prolonged cortisol awakening response than those on the late day shift (between 6:00–9:00 a.m.) or the night shift (between 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.). [12]
To improve your sleep at night, establish a consistent morning routine: Focus on waking up around the same time each day (including weekends and holidays), and try to expose yourself to circadian ...
The individual experiencing bedtime procrastination must be decreasing their overall sleep time every night. There must be no reason for them to stay up late (such as location or sickness). The individual must be aware that the loss in sleep is impacting them negatively, but they do not care to change their routine. [3]