Posted by SuperN on August 23, 2007 at 07:05:28:Hello everyone. My husband has had trouble waking up for as long as I've known him (since he was 17, at least). When he was in the military, he had no trouble in boot camp, but when stationed in an actual room with only one bunkmate, he'd have to be woken up by his roomate or the hall guard. Blaring lound alarm clocks that wake the whole building (just not him), multiple alarms, phone calls, flashing lights - nothing works. It used to be a huge annoyance to me to have to shake him and yell at him just to get him out of bed every day.
Flash forward a couple of years. Now *I* am unable to wake to the alarm as well. We currently have two alarm clocks set 5 minutes apart, one on a loud radio station and one on buzzer. It's not even a matter of playing snooze-tag; we sleep right through them. My husband takes a good half hour to get fully awake, but I'm wide awake as soon as I get up and start moving around. I wouldn't say "refreshed", but I wouldn't be able to go to sleep again after that, even if I tried. When left to sleep as much as we want, as on weekends, I wake before him, but neither of us sleep longer than 9 hours or so. My husband is now at risk of losing his job from consistent tardiness. We have three kids to feed, etc. so it's a problem.
All the information I've found this morning says "hypersomnia", but we don't fit all the symptoms. And I find it unlikely that we BOTH have some sleep disorder, or that I have somehow developed a sleep disorder to match my husband's problem. So I'm wondering.. Does anyone think it's possible to "train" yourself to ignore certain sounds while sleeping? If so, do you think there's any way to undo this training? Is there anything else that can be causing this weird phenomenon? Thanks for any advice.
- Re: We can't BOTH have hypersomnia?? DSPS 01:56 10/03/07 (0)