[enominezerum]

Over here I have the opposite. I can't stand waking up and will sleep for half the day if I can. Always have been like this. Morning are the worst.

Though, I would attribute this to my mom being a major nightowl and me being one as well. 2nd and 3rd shifts have been the highlight of my life, but those roles are so hard to come by that I just accept a WFH job where I skirt the system and work later while still handling the morning meetings as needed.

[amalcon]

I was like that for a long time. About 3 years ago, my spouse convinced me to go to a sleep doctor. One of the first things he checked was my nose: it turned out I had a severe deviated septum. He referred me to a surgeon who was able to fix that with a very common procedure. I now fall asleep more quickly, and wake up naturally after about 7-9 hours depending on physical activity.

You probably have a different thing than this, but it's pretty easy to have checked. Totally worth it for me.

[CameronNemo]

For me I wake up with back pain and a was of mucus in the back of my throat. Tonsils are usually a bit unhappy as well.

[ip26]

FWIW I hated mornings, never felt rested, dragged myself out of bed every day- turns out I broke my nose as a kid, and eventually discovered my non-functional nose was causing sleep apnea. Fixing my nose was life changing.

[endymi0n]

Same here, my body would take 12h every night it it wasn‘t for the alarm clock and I‘m still tired as hell.

All the usual advice I‘ve tried, I can kill my three alarm clocks, drink two coffees, take a brutal cold shower in my daylight bright LED lit bathroom and then go back to sleep within seconds like nothing happened.

[dcolkitt]

I always had pretty severe DSPS for most of my adult life. Luckily I usually had the flexibility to accommodate a super night owl schedule.

What "cured" me was having kids. I now have no problem falling asleep at 10 PM. I would guess it's due to pretty brutal sleep deprivation (our first took a very long time to get through the night). I'm guessing this pretty much smashed my pre-existing circadian rhythm.