When I've just woken up especially if it was in the middle of an interesting dream I just want to go back to bed and keep convincing myself "5 more minutes", "5 more minutes", sometimes even "half an hour". I wind up constantly being late for things or outright missing them because of this. I can also be very rude if someone wakes me up before I had planned on it, or even if I didn't have a plan before I would've naturally woken up or even if I've woken up but decided to go back to sleep for a while. Even if I'm not rude I tend to extend the time I planned to sleep to make up for the interruption.
I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem. So there should be technology designed in order to deal with this somewhere. An alarm clock that won't turn off unless you perform a series of steps.
It's almost like I've fallen in love with sleeping, but I don't think I'm depressed at least not anymore. I definitely was. There's just something very nice about sleeping, just leaving all your troubles behind and drifting off into a dream world. I'll get back home and even if I had slept all night often fall asleep, get woken up by noise and then go right back to sleep and sometimes lie in bed for several hours. Can one become a sleeping addict? I do tend to have a very addictive personality. The internet especially certain websites tend to addict me too and in the past I've always gotten addicted to tv shows and computer games. This really addictive personality is taking up all my time and energy and is getting exhausting(maybe that's why I became addicted to sleep). So another question how do you deal with an addictive personality? I've had a highly addictive personality my whole life, even when I was a kid so it seems unshakeable.
Suggestion:
This is a difficult problem to solve. If you have an electric alarm clock that's hard to turn off, you'll just pull the plug. The other problem is this: you can easily learn to "sleep through" any alarm, you'll just cover your ears with a pillow, etc.
If I had to solve this "human engineering" problem, I would go to the pet store and buy a cage for a rat, and place it next to your bed. The cage should have a strong door that locks with a "hasp" and padlock. Use a combination lock (or lock the key outside in your car, each night). Place several wind-up alarm clocks inside, set at 10-minute intervals. Wind them all up.
Of course, I'm sure you can learn to ignore this or any other alarm design.
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