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Idiopathic HypersomNIA

Attempting to Wake Up

Attempting to Wake Up

Aug 15, 2025

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hiisikoloart
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Anyone with IH know how hard mornings are. The disorienting fight between dreams that keep pulling you under over and over, as you hope your meds will kick in SOON so you wont be late today...while also somehow turning the alarms off one by one, and not remembering you ever did that.

I space my alarms 10 minutes apart every morning. Take my meds with the power of muscle memory (this fails sometimes), and try to scroll my phone and force my body to move a bit so I would not slip into dreams. But I always do. In 10 minutes, I dream entire worlds and then startle back to the reality where I am just another 10 minutes away from another alarm, and closer to the moment I HAVE TO get up or I will be late.

This week I had one really bad one. I didn't even know if I took my meds. I didn't remember any of my many alarms. And when the last one hit, I practically sleep walked to dunk my face in cold water. All muscle memory. I started to form actual memories when I was holding a butter knife in the kitchen and realized I was making breakfast - with no idea how I did it.

But I am used to this, so I didn't panic. I knew I must have done the steps needed (did of course check my path), the time, and knew what had happened. My doset had empty slot in it, and I was doing food.

It doesn't stop the disorientation though...and right now I am very sleepy and my entire head hurts and I forgot what I was about to say so...I will wrap this up and say - if you experience this too, I feel you.

I hope you are doing ok.

And I will see you again in 2 weeks when I make a new comic. (:
I do have a lot of commissions coming up so if I end up missing the drop, I am sorry in advance. Just trying to make money to make it through the coming winter.

Take care, stay safe, mask up, and bye!

#Sleep #sleep_disorder #Idiopathic_hypersomnia #waking_up #alarm #morning_alarm #comedy #mermaid #hiisikoloart

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Turning off alarms with absolutely no memory of doing it... Yeah that's a mood. When I absolutely must get up in time (if I have work, an early train to catch, etc) I turn my phone alarms volume up to max and put the phone on my dresser across the room. So that I have to get up to turn it off. But since there are "snooze" alarms my brain is like "ok I'm technically up now but I COULD sleep a bit more" and I just go. back. to. bed. I'm in such an irrational headspace when I'm sleepy in the morning. I just wanna sleep more and more. So frustrating. Gah!

In other more positive news, I have a cat now and he wakes me up with meows and by licking me (ouch) if I don't give him his breakfast in time. He's a helpful little boy.

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