Waking up
 

I have SERIOUS problems getting out of bed in the morning, I seem to be able to sleep forever. I have a dodgy little alarm that wakes me up, but I just press the sleep button about 10 times and end up sleeping an extra hour. How do you guys get up in the morning? I need something that will get me out of bed quicksmart.

I'm pretty sure there are alarms that don't have a snooze button, which can be extremely helpful. Also, try setting your alarm so it plays music (preferably a louder type of music) when it's time to wake up.

I have the same trouble as you, at least until I get into a routine. I solve this by putting the alarm across the room. By the time I can get my happy ass around the chair and over to it, I'm half awake and realizing that I need to wake up or I'm gonna be in a shitload of trouble.

Hrm, was that a run-on?

I have a sunrise alarm clock that starts to light up about 1/2 hour before the alarm goes off. The light starts to wake you up and pretty soon it's too bright to sleep. It's a nice, gradual way to wake up. I keep it across the room so I have to actually get up to turn it off - less likely that I'll just go back to bed once I'm actually standing up.

The best thing I have done to get me outta bed is to put my alarm clock half way across the room so I HAVE to get out of bed to even press the snooze.

EDIT: Nevermind, someone already suggested this.

Never heard of that sunrise alarm clock thing. Sounds neat! I'll have to look for one of those.
As for me, I go with multiple alarm clocks across the room. Works well enough except when I'm really really sleepy and somehow manage to get up and hit snooze every 5 minutes without noticing.

Ooh, an alarm clock without a snooze button would be dangerous for me. :O

I have the same problem, but it's partly due to the amount of medication (to prevent headaches) I take at night. So I'm in a bit of a lose-lose situation because when the alarm clock is near the bed, I snooze it 298397 times and if it's across the other side of the room, I'm too asleep and dizzy to get to it. :(

That sunrise alarm clock sounds good, but I think I'd still manage to sleep through it. :/

My cat usually comes to wake me up. It'll keep licking my face until I get up.

Sometimes the best way I find is just a 3-2-1 countdown then completely jump out of bed, yell if there is no one who will mind, pull up the blinds and turn on as many lights as possible. Oh, it is indeed horribly painful. But those cozy winter mornings when you wake up in the comfortable dark in your warm womb of comforters...it's the only way. And seeing as I was a dumb-ass and unknowingly signed up for 8:30 classes 5 days a week for next semester, I think I will have to do that a bit.

Hahaha, I might go with putting the alarm across the other side of the room, I've slept through the damn thing before, but it's worth a try. That sunrise alarm sounds very cool, I might try and track one down when my pockets are heavier ;)

Hmm... don't get a dog to wake you up.
One of my dogs will try to keep me in the bed by being cute and snuggly. She learned that if she keeps me from getting up for a couple of hours, I would call in sick and stay home with her.

I have the same problem.

During the school year, I have a girlfriend who smacks me around in the morning until I get up. But when I don't have a human alarm clock, I usually end up putting my alarm across the room so I have to get up in order to turn it off. And my alarm is called the 'siren' and it has a big speaker in the front. I dont' think I have ever been able to sleep through it.

My problem is I can't fall asleep in the first place, then I DON'T want to get up when the alarm goes off. I've had this for years, I've tried about everything to get me to sleep, and every type of alarm clock to get me up. Nothing has worked.

I'd like more info on that "sunrise" alarm clock, that might be totally helpful! Also, putting the alarm somewhere that you have to get out of bed to turn it off is very helpful. But not for me, I'd just pull the covers over my head.

that sunrise alarm clock sounds great! will have to look for one of those.

as for me, a routine helps... and getting to sleep at a decent time!

I work until about 1-3am 6 days a week, and the most important part is just trying to go to sleep soon after getting home. Too many times I'll sit by the computer on this board or on fark reading crap until 4-5am.... then I snooze my alarm clock for an hour in the morning. If I get to sleep quickly, I wake up on my own between 9:30 and 10am. If you let yourself sleep until noon or later, you'll just postpone your bed-time that night, since you won't be tired.

I definately need my clock across the room - but I can still snooze it for an hour like that. Kinda ridiculous when you think about it - it's not like I'm getting any more rest by waking up and snoozing the alarm every 10 minutes!

I find that if I have to go somewhere (moreso if it's a SOCIAL appointment, rather than for work) in the morning, I wake up much easier and faster...... schedule stuff in the morning - like meeting a friend for lunch or going for a run together... and you might get up easier, since someone will be waiting for you.

ok going back to sleep now!!

heh joking (3:30pm)

i have 5 alarm clocks spread out through the room, some with multiple alarms. i still sleep through them sometiems. for a while, i would turn them off without noticing, more recently though, i turn them off and know i'm doing it, but have nothing that i have to do until i go to work at 5pm, so i just go and sleep some more.

I have to have 2 alarm clocks and set 1 of them across the room to make sure that I awaken on time. When I'm really tired I will turn them off in my sleep. Even the one across the room. oops.

I've found that just trying to get to sleep earlier helps me with my waking up in the morning. Only thing that reliably works.

I must be the only normal person here! When my alarm goes off, I get up...usually i manage to wake up 5 minutes before my alarm goes off though

I have a friend like that. She got around it by having her friends and roommate help get her up every morning. Consider that if alarm clocks don't do it for you.

I suspect you may not be taking care of yourself fuzzix..HeHe Who does..Seriously though, I only had that problem when I smoked, so my advice is to stop smoking if you do & go to bed earlier if you can.
Got any tips on how to GET to sleep? That's my crucial thang! Damn those rebellious circadian rythyms! Hey- let's switch houses, so our backwards asses will fit each other's schedules..I'm sure my wife won't mind J/K. Above contributers had good advice- good thing cause I can't think of anything new.

My personal recomondation is that you find something you like to listen to in the morning, whether a specific type of music, or a funny morning show, or a talk show of some kind, and set your alarm to that. I usually set my alarm for a little bit earlier then I want to get up just so I can listen to the radio for a little while in bed.

i use my mobile phone as an alarm. it has 4 of them, i set each one five minutes apart, gradually getting louder and louder. never ever been late.

i am perfectly capable of getting up, walking across the room, turning the alarm off, and getting back in bed :-( Even when I was in the dorms I could get up, climb down the ladder out of my loft, hit snooze, and climb back up and go back to sleep.

i've been late to work more often than my boss likes, and it's actually lost me a job in the past. :-(

I have two alarms, but they don't go off at the same time; I set them 2 minutes apart. So when the first one goes off I go across the room, hit snooze, get back in bed, then a minute later the second one goes off, then a few minutes after that the first one goes off again. That way it effectively cancels the snooze button's effectiveness.

Try having kids.....you'll never sleep in again.

Not getting out of bed is actually a side-effect of puberty. I don't know how old you are, but if you're between 15 and 19, that's the reason. It passes, eventually.

I've never heard that one before. My cousin, back when we were younger, was able to wake up at 4:30 every morning (he liked to clean his shoes everyday before school). I just stayed in bed until someone woke me up.

The best advice is to go to sleep earlier. That's been the only thing to work pretty much 100% for me. The next best thing would be what others have suggested. The alarm clock on the other side of the room.

A friend of mine has multiple alarm clocks strewn about his room, each set a couple minutes after t'other. Does the trick for him.

My wife will NOT let me hit snooze more than twice. After that, she hits me.

I simply have an alarm that is DEATHLY loud. Horrible digital beeping noise turned all the way up. It terrifies me each morning which gets me going.

No alarms needed for me - I'm up between 7 - 8am (even if I go to bed at 4am ... just don't talk to me that day). If I do have to get up at a specific time, I'll set my alarm on my stereo. My girlfriend on the other hand is impossible to wake up in the morning.

Depends on when you have to be awake, but I feel I get up alot easier and quicker with my window open, or partially open, and curtains that don't completely block out the light. During summer, I am able to get up at 6-7 if only because it's a bit chilly :)

During winter, I just leave a little window open, and put my clock halfway across the room, like alot of other people here.


this might not be an option if you live in a city though, can't comment on that.

Sounds like you are fighting circadian rhythms. It's important to establish a specific time to go to bed and wake up every day and keep it consistent. If you force yourself to get up at a certain time (and go to bed early enough to have been rested), in no time at all this will become your natural time to wake up. It can be a struggle, but is worth it in the end.

If you just keep pushing your snooze button and get up an hour later, you're just ensuring that your last hour of sleep is restless.

---It is all habit---if you get in the habit of going back to sleep
you will just keep doing it--you must train yourslf---set your
clock radio to some music you really hate---that might work.

After 38 years of "giddy ups" I still wake up a 6AM, but now
all I have to do is role over (grab her) and go back to sleep:D

If you can, get up and drink a cold glass of orange juice. Worked well for me, but by the time I got downstairs I was already awake. I need a mini-cooler by my bed :)

Right now, I have this huge ass flock of really loud birds that land in the trees right outside my door every day at dawn. It's immpossible to sleep through them.
My suggestion is to get yourself some large, obnoxious, mating, crow-like birds. You'll never sleep past sunrise again!

I just check out the Sunrise Alarms, those things are pretty steep. The lowest I saw was like, $94. Sure waking up is important but for $94 I could just pay someone to wake me up every morning.

funny, i have birds like that too. they come at the perfect time when i'm supposed to get up. since i have my windows wide open, i hear their "caw's" loud and annolyingly clear

get someone in your house to wake you up? or do you live alone?

Most everything has been covered...multiple alarm clocks, and spread out away from the bead. But one thing you might check on is a REALLY loud alarm clock.

If you have any large T-Stores (truck stores) nearby, as opposed to C-Stores (convenience stores,) you can probably find some earth-shatteringly loud ones. Truckers like to buy them.

Jdoe

thats the key with me set the alram up so that you must walk to turn it off

Someone I know had a siren he wired sto his alarm clock. He called it "The Mind-Raker." It was a very fitting name. The thing was a pulsing, oscillating tone that could be set as low as 110 decibels if you wanted a peaceful awakening.

Kids.......mother nature's alarm clocks. :)