Hibernating Usain

[Terri]

Help needed please. Usain, my Hermann torty, really wants to hibernate but all the advice I have been given is not to let him. He weighs 8oz and measures 4.5 ins. He has really slowed down, not eaten for a couple of weeks and really wants to sleep. I have removed his little upturned clay pot that he likes to sleep in but he will just go into a corner and sleep. He has a basking lamp, an office lamp plus a daylight lamp which are on from 6am until 7-8pm every day. His room is heated by a night store heater and his table is an old bookcase, minus shelves and measures 4'6 x 3'6 . I wake him up every morning but he just yawns, torty yawns are amazing aren't they, and just wants to sleep. He has his warm bath every day and I mist his table. Part of me feels that he knows best and just let him do what is natural to him but then I try to follow the advice about keeping him up....confused ! Am I stressing him by waking him up all the time ? He seems to enjoy company and really responds to my voice so I was thinking about putting a radio in his room for him. Am I being stupid or what? I love him to bits, he's a great character but I feel at the moment that I am not really enjoying owning him as I am so worried about doing the wrong thing for his welfare.