Cometh the cockerels, cometh the morn

[Pixa]

After reading the topic about sleep, I was simply inspired to create a new topic! Because... well, falling asleep is hard enough as it is, but what about waking it? I hate getting up in the morning, my usual routine involves me laying in bed for around ten minutes, before heaving myself out of bed, and getting in the shower. This usually helps, but twice I have managed to fall back to sleep (alas, that was before I managed to get to the shower), and ended up missing school (to which I feel extremely guilty). So, considering you all had great advice on getting to sleep, can anyone recommend some ways to wake up in the morning? I await your responses!

[Kugetsu]

(this post is assuming you use an alarm clock to get up in the morning. )

Well, as opposed the people saying to use an alarm clock to get to sleep, I think you're going to NOT want to use an alarm clock to wake up. Most people depend too heavily on them (and they're needed in situations from which you have to wake up at an unusual time), but you shouldn't depend on them too much. What's the point of an alarm clock, when you can just roll over, hit the snooze button, and go back to sleep?

Maybe not during the school week, but may during weekends or during a break of some sort. DON'T use an alarm clock, but instead, try your best to wake up at whatever time you set (you'll want it to be the time you'd usually wake up for school, though). After you do it enough times, you'll find yourself almost automatically waking up at the time you need to (if not 30 minutes or so before... that just happens sometimes. ) I used to have to wake up at 6:00, but I got myself to wake up at 6:00 every morning for school (and I've never had a clock in my room, so I sort of HAD to do it anyway) Also, you'll occasionally forget it's a weekend (since I doubt you set an alarm clock for a certain time on a weekend) and perhaps wake up an hour so later than you usually do on a Saturday, and freak out, but then you can just laugh at yourself and go back to sleep. xD (Ugh, I always used to freak out because I thought I was late for school. >_>)

Anyway, until you have a job (that starts in the morning), I'd try to get yourself from that habit.

It's hard to explain, but if you can set an alarm clock in your mind, there's no hitting the snooze button and going back to bed. (I used to literally jump out of bed without the "just woke up feeling", I always used to be a morning person because of that).

Also, you'll want to cut down laying in bed for that short amount of time, unless you really think you can handle not falling back to sleep (which it appears may be a problem). When you wake up, FORCE yourself to get out of bed, if you have to, just make sure you do it.

(also, a shower right after you wake up along with breakfast after that should keep you awake)

[whhattisthiss]

I am absolutely notorious for not getting up the morning and on countless occasions, I've skipped school and slept away the whole day. There are rare occurances though, in which I actually wake up and get around. Those are usually the days I get 8 hours of sleep. No more, no less. I inhale a can of something heavily caffeinated and pray my bed will stop sending nap rays at me. If I make it through the morning though, I'm half asleep all day. So this thread should help me out as well.

[Anoohilator]

I use my phone to wake me up and I usually wake up with a nice tune on. Then I go to asleep and am woken up by my radio alarm clock playing Radio 1. Don't hear much of it though cos I turn it off straight away and go do my thang.

Occasionally both alarms don't wake me up and I wake up with about 10 minutes to get ready, and sometimes too late for the bus. Then my mum gets *peed* off and drives me and my sis there telling us both off the whole 40 minute car ride.

[Kugetsu]

Also, I forgot to ask. Are you a light sleeper that is awakened by every little noise, or can even a marching band trample through your bedroom and you not wake up? (not literally of course).

My brother is a heavy sleeper and it's amazing what he can sleep through... and he was always staying asleep instead of going to school.

Anyway, it depends on what kind of sleeper you are to figure out how to go about it.

[SpiraLethe]

Put the alarm on the opposite side of the room as your bed. You'll have to physically get up to turn it off. I have a bad habit of turning off alarms in my sleep and this stops it.

[Twinkle]

Put the alarm on the opposite side of the room as your bed. You'll have to physically get up to turn it off. I have a bad habit of turning off alarms in my sleep and this stops it.

I do that. It's pretty much the only thing that can get me up unless I wake up myself naturally.

[Dragonfire]

Put the alarm on the opposite side of the room as your bed. You'll have to physically get up to turn it off. I have a bad habit of turning off alarms in my sleep and this stops it.

I do that. It's pretty much the only thing that can get me up unless I wake up myself naturally.

When I live at home, I have no choice because I have no end table. But at university, my alarm is on my windowsill, which is next to my bed. However, I still have to sorta get out of my bed to turn it off, and that wakes me up because my bed is like 4 feet off the ground. <_<

Anyways, what I used to do with my alarm clock was turn it onto a station that plays hard rock, and set it. I was up and fully awake when it went off. xD

[Xandra]

Another alarm clock solution is to use more than one, timed so that one goes off five minutes after the other. Make sure that they're ones that, even if the snooze button is hit, go off again every five minutes if you don't completely turn them off.

I usually use a regular alarm clock and my cell phone's alarm.

[pipsqueeek]

Heh, I need this topic too. Morning's are not good times for me.

I set my alarm clock across the room from me so I have to get up to turn it off, but then I'll just get back into bed. And do that for anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. I've done the two alarm clocks thing before(because mine was spazzing and occasionally wouldn't go off after I'd hit the snooze button a couple times >_<), and I think it really helped. I'm pretty sure it's the number I've times I have to get in and out of bed that matters, and not how long it's been since I was first woken up.

There's nothing wrong with hitting the snooze button a couple times, I'd say. I know I get really disoriented if I get up the first time it goes off. But you shouldn't be hitting it five or six times. ...Like I do. I really need to work on that >_<

Hmm. I've never actually tried this, but an idea's just occured to me. Perhaps keeping a little bit of food and/or drink beside your bed? That way you could eat/drink something, which really helps you wake up, without first having to actually get yourself out of bed and downstairs.

Also, one thing I would say is never turn your alarm off until you're fully awake and going downstairs, becuase there's always the chance that you'll fall asleep again.

[Pixa]

Put the alarm on the opposite side of the room as your bed. You'll have to physically get up to turn it off. I have a bad habit of turning off alarms in my sleep and this stops it.

I don't have a bedside table (my room is pretty small, it really only has room for some draws, the desk and computer, my bed and a wardrobe behind the bed that my mum made), so I have to get up, but really, I'm just the same as pipsqueeek. I leap right back into bed. Some mornings I try to tell myself that I should just get out of bed. I guess I'd rather just keep warm. My alarm clock doesn't have a snooze (and when it did, I never used it anyway)... I just turn it off and go back into my bed.

Also, I forgot to ask. Are you a light sleeper that is awakened by every little noise, or can even a marching band trample through your bedroom and you not wake up? (not literally of course).

My brother is a heavy sleeper and it's amazing what he can sleep through... and he was always staying asleep instead of going to school.

Anyway, it depends on what kind of sleeper you are to figure out how to go about it.

I'm a pretty heavy sleeper. My mum's alarm clock (her room is to the left of where I sleep, the alarm clock is not far from the wall) never manages to wake me up. Nor my mum getting out of bed and doing breakfast. I can also withstand people using the toilet, people using the shower. I even went through I time when my alarm clock wouldn't wake me up, because I became... immune to it I suppose. If my mum comes into my room and uses the computer, I can quite easily fall asleep again, even if the blinds and curtains are open.

Also, I eat nothing when I get up in the morning. I used to, but around the time when I was... 11, I used to vomit in the mornings at school if I ate breakfast. And the only real solution to the problem was to not eat breakfast, so I haven't ever since. I'd also suppose I had no time, but I probably could I wanted to get out of bed that little bit earlier, which I don't. I usually drink a glass of orange juice that my mum does me, though.

I suppose there is an issue of motivation behind getting out of bed in the morning. But what's the best way to make yourself feel perky and alert? I usually end up putting my head on the desk and looking tired in English or History, hehe. Anything other than caffeine (well, obviously there is) that would make me feel a little more alert? I should probably drink coffee in the mornings, but I'd be worried that I wouldn't be able to drink it before leaving the house.

Lawl, I hate my bed. It makes me feel tired. *gives it a cautious poke* One of the only ways I really wake up is panic... that I'm late for school. And I'm really bad at weekends too, but they don't bother me as much.

[Anoohilator]

Here's something that could surprise you - go to bed earlier

I went to bed earlier yesterday (11:30 ish) and when I woke up this morning I wasn't tired at all. Amazing what one extra hour of sleep does to you..

[Pixa]

Here's something that could surprise you - go to bed earlier

I went to bed earlier yesterday (11:30 ish) and when I woke up this morning I wasn't tired at all. Amazing what one extra hour of sleep does to you..

This is fiction! Fiction I tell you!

[Pink]

Get a full 8-9 hours of sleep. Don't sleep in! You'll wake up more tired and throw off your sleep schedule.

These are things my dad recommends. He's a medical provider. I personally set my cell phone alarm clock, but usually wake up before it even goes off. I like to take time to myself every morning. It's wonderful!

[Morningstar]

Light through the curtained window gets me up every time.