Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A transmitting user equipments (UEs) may transmit a sidelink indication signal including a sequence (for example, wakeup signal or go-to-sleep signal) for a receiving UE to determine whether to monitor for scheduling sidelink control information (SCI) messages in one or more sidelink discontinuous reception (DRX) on durations that overlap in time. The receiving UE may determine (for example, based on an initial value in the sequence, the resource on which the sequence was received, among other examples) a location of an on duration, and may perform a DRX operation (for example, may wake up or may go to sleep) during the on duration.