What time do you wake up that they’re already asleep for the day?

So you go to sleep at 9PM or slightly later than that? Like after dinner/cleaning up I’m assuming?

Because if you go to sleep at 9PM and wake up at 8/9 AM you might be making yourself more tired by actually sleeping to much. Over 9 hours is usually too much for anyone, and will actually make you more tired, paradoxically.

Do what I did when I was younger. Put the alarm clock on the other side of the room so you actually have to get up to turn it off

Perhaps you could try to get up at 7:00 instead of 8 or 9? If you’re falling asleep at 11:30, that’s still over 7 hours of sleep. Even if the bunnies just get 45-60 minutes of exercise, it’s better than nothing.

Is it at all possible for you to give the bunnies free-run of a room? If not, is there anywhere that you can set up a large pen or a bunny run? (If it’s secure, you could even put a run outside on a deck when the weather’s nice.)

Hmm well I actually always had trouble falling asleep at night too, so I totally understand where you’re coming from. Still, if you’re falling asleep by latest 11:30 pm, the latest you should probably sleep is 8:30PM (9 hours) but even if you wake up at 7:30PM you’re still getting 8 hours, which is definitely a 100% fine amount of sleep to get.

I don’t know if this is something you’ve considered but I’ve actually recently started taking melatonin (natural supplement) about a half hour before when I want to go to sleep, and it helps me fall asleep right away, and ALSO makes my sleep quality better and makes it easier for me to get up.

No amount of moving my alarm clock around, getting new ‘special’ alarm clocks or setting multiple ones used to help me wake up, but with the melatonin it’s definitely progressively getting easier.

If you could go to sleep by 11:00PM and wake up at 7:00AM, you’d still get 8 hours of sleep, and might even feel more refreshed.

Also, it’s a little weird that your bunnies are already in nap mode at 8AM. My rabbit doesn’t go into siesta mode till maybe noon or 1pm… anyone have any thoughts on that?

My bunny has adapted to my later hours, maybe that’s easier since there’s only one of him. My bunny is the same as Otti’s – he doesn’t really crash out to sleep until noon. By the time I get up (8 a.m. to 9 depending on the day) I can tell he’s been up for awhile because he’s knocked everything over and is shaking his cage door furiously when he sees me, ha ha. Last night I let him out between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. more or less – I would have let him out sooner but even at 9 p.m. he was fast asleep. If there’s stuff going on around him he seems to wake up and investigate no matter what time it is, with the exception of mid-afternoon, when he’s completely zonked out!

I think it might be possible to readjust your bunnies to your schedule if you consistently let them out when you wake up… they might readjust to being more active at that time.

Still, you should maybe see if you want to try reducing your sleep hours by waking up earlier, especially if you feel drained/tired during the day. You might just be sleeping too much.

Can you wake up at 7am, let them out, and then go back to bed until 8 or 9? Would they be trustworthy with you sleeping for a little while?

Some people say to put post-its on your alarm with motivational phrases or reasons you should get up written on them to motivate you in the morning LOL you could try that! Also, the putting the alarm far away does work for some (though not for me), and i even tried an alarm that would start rolling around the room after it went off so you’d have to chase it.

Some alarms even come with puzzles to solve so that you have to be alert enough to ‘disarm’ them by solving the puzzle.

Also, do you have an iphone? There’s an app that is called Sleep Cycle that tracks your movement during the night (you sleep with your iphone face down on your mattress so the accelerometer can detect your movement) so that the alarm rings within a preset 30 minute period, whenever you’re already moving around and most alert. It’s meant to wake your more gently than being jolted out of deep sleep.

Just some options.

 It’s called ‘Clocky’. I bought it off of Amazon. It looks like this:

I had the same thought as Beka. If you have a safe room, or even an xpen you could set the alarm early, even 6, let the bunnies out to run, go back to sleep and wake up after a couple of hours. They would have some time out but you’d basically get the sleep you want. If you bunnyproof your space, it should be fine. (I fall asleep on the floor many nights while Sammy is out free, and since it’s bunny proofed I haven’t seen any damage.)

Also, if you set foot in the house when you get home, open their cages to let them out as the first thing you do, then get ready for bed and eat, they will have a good hour to 1 1/2 of time out before you are ready to sleep. You can put them back then (treats or more supper will lure them.)

When I had Kokanee and Kahlua I had to supervise them when out because Kokanee would get into mischief. But I also have a sleep disorder and sometimes have to just sleep. So if I needed to sleep, and they needed OUT -I locked the three of us in a room and I slept on the floor in a sleeping bag. Yes they came and tickled my face-but I usually got a good nap and would wake up if they started misbehaving So maybe you could do something like set your alarm for six, let them out, then go to sleep where they are playing.

I was home with my son for the first year after he was born and I’d do the same thing basically… wake up with him at 4 or 5 am… feed him, change him, then we’d both go back to sleep for another couple hours…. only difference is he didn’t shred cardboard as a newborn… lol!