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If drinking coffee, try cutting it down to see if a lowered tolerance can be helpful
Try practicing sleep hygiene practices, like with dream pillows, ambiences, dawn machines etc
If ADHD, try to use stimulating but not waking things like eucalyptol smell instead of lavender - not coffee or something different (you can try microdosing on adhd meds before sleeping)
Try to sleep one cycle below instead of sleeping a full time, if sleeping 11 hrs 30 mins, try 10 hrs (this didn't work for me)
try previous suggestion but also meditate 10-20 mins (ik, impossible challenge) to compenstate for the lost slep as meditation is really good at making up for a few hours of sleep, either lost sleep or maybe for hypersomnic attacks
Take on a light polyphasic sleep to just nudge your brain balance, to see if that changes things (not uberman or anything lol, just siesta maybe- a week only, sleep time over 5hrs, or try a "hypersomic" polyphasic sleeping schedule https://www.polyphasic.net/hypersomnia/ - also polyphasic sleep may not be too benefitial, be careful)
if all else fails, try shocking your nipples under cold water. If one of these or something different works, please tell me since I also suffer from very similar problems as well
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You get to see lucid dreams? LolBlood flow may be a problem- hypersomnia causes less blood flow to the cns- try taking up on regular aerobic exercises and mild blood thinner supplements like ginkgo / ginseng (ask your doctor idk) for better flow, also see sunlight more often, it is good for many of us