Getting up in the morning

nobodythere

I have a bitch of a time getting up in the morning on anything less than 10 to 11 hours sleep.

I used to set my alarm clock on my phone and when I'd get up I'd turn it off without thinking and go back to sleep for hours.

Then I decided I'd try hiding my phone so that I had to search for it to turn it off and by the time I found it I'd be too awake to go back to bed. I've since adapted to this, and the two things my body knows when I get up in the morning is where I left my phone and how to walk around the place without waking up.

How the hell am I supposed to get up? I've missed a lot of lectures because of it

Dave!

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Roar

get an alarm clock as well.. and when you hear it dont press snooze, just get straight up, go to the bathroom and splash water over your face and brush your teeth straight away.. just dont go back to bed..

i have a problem pressing snooze too much.. bets just to get up in my experience anyway

blahblah06

Get someone else to hide your phone. problem solved

whiskeyman

you need to adjust your body clock.
I've mine finely tuned to the extent I dont even have to reply on my alarm clock anymore.
You need a routine where you go to bed during a certain time and force yourself out of the old scratcher at whatever time you have to get up.
It helps your body get rest better too... you should only need around 8 hours max.
Do it now because it's much harder to adjust it in the winter time!!
Bleaugh... dark wet windy and cold morning..... AARGRGGHGHH!!

Tobias Greeshman

Get Alarm clock and put it at the far end of the room, along with phone alarm constantly going off, you'll have no choice than to get up!!

Kolodny

grasshopa wrote:

I've since adapted to this, and the two things my body knows when I get up in the morning is where I left my phone and how to walk around the place without waking up.

Tried that too and kept waking up (an hour late) with the phone in my hand and no idea of how it got there!

Is there someone there who can wake you? (Bucket of cold water over the head etc.)

nobodythere

Body clock eh?.... No amount of beeping can wake me up anymore so the alarm clock at the other room thing is fairly pointless.

My bed time ranges anywhere from 11 on a tiring day to 6am on a weekend (not because of drinking or going out). Maybe I will force myself to bed at certain times...

Keep the ideas coming! When I'm rich I'll have a personal assistant to beep really loudly and not stop when I hit him

To the last guy, yeah most times these days I wake up and have absolutely no recollection of turning off my alarm at all, phone beside me in the bed. My mam usually comes in if I'm not up and have missed lectures (THANK YOU MAMMY!) but it's only to shout at me, and god - waking up to someone being pissed off at you just ruins your whole day.

danniemcq

my advice baz get one of them old fashioned bell ones, only thing that works for me

joejoem

I work 6 days a week, every morning is difficult to get up (its about to get harder with the winter) except my day off, I wake up perfectly on time and cant get back to sleep, even if I was on the lock the night before.

eirebhoy

If you get up the same time as someone else, arrange to phone them as soon as you wake up. A little conversation while lying in bed should wake you up. Don't know how convenient this is though. A lot of house phones can be set to ring at a certain time too although I think this costs money.

Femelade

i tend to set my alarm about 20 mins before i have to get up, so i hit the snooze button about 2-3 times before i have to wake properly. this morning i had to get up at 6:50 tomorrow morning i will have to get up at around 5.30 am for the bloody ploughing champs.

LegacyUser

i had to get up at 4.30 this morning.

missed my flight from london last night.

took me 6 hours to get into work.

not bad, i start at 10, so i was only half an hour late.

bit tired now.

Neil_Sedaka

Well, for a modest sum of money, I'll come around and prod you with a stick, saying, get up, get up, get up, get up, get up.......................

Sifo

Go to bed earlier


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Töpher

I set an alarm on my phone, and on the clock, and 7 or 8 reminders to go off REALLY LOUDLY on my phone at 2 minute intervals. So even hitting snooze for 10 minutes will eventually result in about 10 minutes of insanely loud noise, and it will only stop for about 20 seconds before it starts again. Madness, but does the job!

Sarn

I work on the body clock system as well, usually wake up a couple of minutes before my alarm (8 hours sleep), give myself 10 minutes wakeup time then throw myself out of bed.

You could always drink a big glass of water before going to bed, biological need may help get you out of bed.

Washout

this one may be weird but just before i go to sleep i keep repeating, in my mind, the time i need to be up at in the morning. keep thinking 7am 7am 7am 7am.....

I usually am wide awake usually seconds before the alarm goes off.

leftofcentre

In Belfast some people used to have a 'rapper upper'. It was a wee old man/women who used to go around and wake everyone up in the morning. You could probaully do a 21st century version where you phone people first thing in the morning.

I feel your pain brother, i am terrible at getting up, i have tried all kinds of crazy alarm clocks:

I have a zen alarm clock that chimes in the key of E its actually quite good, you can see it hear: http://www.now-zen.com/

For winter i have a dawn simulation alarm clock, again its quite good: http://www.outsidein.co.uk/sadrange.htm#bodyclocks

The problem is i wake up, turn off the alarm and go back to sleep again

Whiskyman is right, the secret is routine. Or just do what i do and just stay in bed

RapierX

I'm one to talk but if your healthy u wake up feeling fairly good and refreshed, diet and exercise(yeah right).

Civilian_Target

grasshopa wrote:

I have a bitch of a time getting up in the morning on anything less than 10 to 11 hours sleep.

1. Exercise more. You shouldn't need more than 8 hours sleep.
2. Buy a louder alarm clock - my one wakes up the guy in the room next door too

joejoem

RapierX wrote:

I'm one to talk but if your healthy u wake up feeling fairly good and refreshed, diet and exercise(yeah right).

Also try get 8 hours sleep, no more no less

The Bollox

well I used to be like most of you ppl, having a bitch of a time getting up for school, I had my alarm clock at the oterh side of the room so that if I wanted the constant and monotinous bleeping top stop I had to get out of the bed, however this only worked for a short time, I soon became immune to the bleeping I could sleep for abourt 15/20 mins without realising the alarm was going off! it's even worse these days, the alarm clock is beside my bed so most of the time I actually turn it off in my sleep instead of just pressing snooze! oh well I still have the oul lad who gets up for work at the same time as I get up for college, he can be rather devious when it comes to methods for waking me up!

Rb

I can never get up in the morning, and believe me I've tried and missed soo many lectures already. The problem being that during the summer I used to get up mid afternoon, head to work around 5pm and then finish at 9/10, then I'd go home or out and wouldn't get to bed until 5/6am, so my bodyclock totally readjusted itself.
I've tried going to bed earlier now but couldn't sleep, I've tried getting up earlier (around 7 or 8am) and would be up for the whole day but when it came to going to sleep, it still wouldn't happen until 5 or 6am which left me absolutely wrecked the next day.
The other problem is actually waking up, I set my phone to go off 10 times, with 5 minutes between each one but somehow I manage to wake up and knock all off them off, and STILL fall back asleep and I've no other alarms to set either.

Bungalow Bill

This for me is one of those rare threads that really rings true and i'm sitting hee in college trying my best not burst out laughing all the time at people's stories about trying to get up.

Binomate

I go to bed anywhere in between 12:00 and 1:00 in the morning and I get up at 6:30 no problem.

Rb

Binomate wrote:

I go to bed anywhere in between 12:00 and 1:00 in the morning and I get up at 6:30 no problem.

RUB IT IN WHY DON'T YA

irlirishkev

I too have a terrible time getting out of bed in the morning. Worst part is, I'm in full time employment so it looks reeeaaally bad when you come in late.

I find I go through phases of being unable to get up. Other times I'm fine. It's really frustrating. I excercise, I set my alarm, I get between 6 and 8 hours sleep a night.. but for some reason I keep finding myself sleeping in. Even if I've woken up, I almost unconciously hit snooze repeatedly on my alarm clock..

I think it is down to self-training, but I seem to be really bad at it

New job in a while though, so I'll have to get my act together..

K.

Dave!

Design some sort of circuit whereby, when the alarm goes off, a gallon of water spills onto your face!

The Bollox

are there and klaxon alarms? THAT would wake anyone up, and indeed give them some serious hearing problems

jptk

I set my phone to go off really loud, and i have an old fashioned alarm clock which sounds horrible in the morning. I also set the tv to turn on (loud cartoons in the morning are horrible to wake up to), and i also set the radio to come on. All of this usually wakes me up but sometimes it dosent and I have wierd dreams about whatever is on the telly

luckat

Some people need more sleep than others. If you need 10 hours, get 10 hours, and party on Friday and Saturday.

If you're not sleeping deeply enough, take a hot shower and turn it cold at the end before you go to bed.

Buy one of those big cheap LOUD wind-up alarm clocks and put it about six feet from the bed so you have to get out.

Keep a damp facecloth in a bowl of water beside your bed. As soon as you get up, wipe your face with it - the cool water changing your skin temp will wake you up.

Main thing is to get a rhythm going where your body expects to wake up at a particular time.

Apparently teenagers are set physically to stay awake late and sleep on - you're just having to change your body clock. Give yourself a chance and work at it, it'll happen.

zAbbo

Sarn wrote:

You could always drink a big glass of water before going to bed, biological need may help get you out of bed.

An age old method of waking up early used by the american indians i think.

A nice glass of water, not a few liters(else ull be peeing all night)

A little exercise before bed, to get a more qualitive sleep rather than quantity.

Basically you're a student bum

Right_Side

I have lots of ways to get up, which can be quite hard to do:

1. I have the loudest, most annoying alarm clock in the world. It is similar to school-bell and when it goes off you have to get up and stop it.

2. I set the alarm clock on my phone and several to-do's at varying intervals.

3. I remind myself when going to bed the time I must get up at. This usually results in me waking a couple of minutes before I'm due.

4. I set the alarms about 30 mins before I'm actually due up so I can snooze for a while.

Wavey

Here's a trick that I picked up in College for getting out of the bed for lectures/work.

As soon as ur alarm goes off grap a hairdryer and set it to blow cold air in to your face. This is a good way to slowly wake ur self up.

If its a cold morning, and ur sufficiently awake, switch the hairdryer to hot to keep u warm as u sit on the side of the bed fumbling with ur over complicated socks and jeans for ten minutes

This process makes the whole ordeal less painful for those of us who cant overcome the bed's comfyness in the morning.

I started doing this in final yr in college to make sure i got to all my lectures and get my degree. 6 or 7 yrs later Im still doing to make sure i get to work on time.

Wavey.

TerrorFirmer

Binomate wrote:

I go to bed anywhere in between 12:00 and 1:00 in the morning and I get up at 6:30 no problem.

I'm the same as this exactly. I hate going to bed early. Makes me feel like I'm wasting time. I get 5/6 hours sleep a night usually and it does me absolutely fine.

Also, even if I don't set my alarm, I more or less always wake up at the same time, give or take maybe 15 minutes.

Ann Elk

The best way for you to get up in the morning is to start having a torrid affair with your first cousin.

Giblet

Go to bed before 12, never eat after 6, and force yourself to get up on time. I used to sleep like 15 hours some days! Now I can get up after 7-8 hours. You just have to keep getting up on time. Or you can be a lazy bastard and fail college, whatever works.

Rhyme

I thought college would hit me hard like last year (up ~6:30, 15 minute walk to bus etc...) but i realised that getting up for work during the summer was even harder... still, i prefer the train to that stuffy coach anyday

Giblet

Yeah college is a dream after working all day.

Sleepy

Whatever you do, get out of the habit now. It's FAR worse sleeping in when you're in the workforce. Not only does it look bad but you'll actually feel like a cnut for letting the rest of your team down all the time!

Rb

It's strange actually, I work weekends from 10am, which means I've to be up at half 8. Alarm or no alarm I always wake up on time, no matter if I just climbed into bed two hours earlier or got a full nights sleep. But it's during the week when I've to go to college that I've the sleeping/waking up problems....

Blondie86Star

I have to get up at 7.30 to go to work on weekends and used to sleep through my alarms. I drink a pint of water before I go to bed now and always wake up on time! Except after a night out....

Doing some exercise about an hour or two before goin to bed usually makes me really tired. I go for a run or do sit ups, that gives plenty of sleeping time.

netwhizkid

I also have this waking up problem, when i was in school it got so bad that i once turned on the coffee maker and positioned it over where my feet used to stick out of bed and plugged it into an electrical timer and set it to wake up, Nothing wakes you up better than scalded toes!

nobodythere

Washout wrote:

this one may be weird but just before i go to sleep i keep repeating, in my mind, the time i need to be up at in the morning. keep thinking 7am 7am 7am 7am.....

I usually am wide awake usually seconds before the alarm goes off.

That's actually very interesting... When I do dream journals I repeat to myself that I'll remember my dreams when I wake up. It works every time

radiospan

Washout wrote:

this one may be weird but just before i go to sleep i keep repeating, in my mind, the time i need to be up at in the morning. keep thinking 7am 7am 7am 7am.....

I usually am wide awake usually seconds before the alarm goes off.

I used to be able to do this years ago too, but not any more it seems.

Dave!

hmmm... I might give that a shot.

Bamboozled

I'm also terrible and have tried nearly everythign over the years.

Right now i have two alarm clocks, and 3 phones set to wake me up, along with a phone call from the mammy every morning if i dont text her within 15 mins of the time i'm supposed to be getting up. I've come off working evening/night shift and have changed to a job that starts early morning so all the clocks are something that i have to really do.

I still drink a pint of milk (cant drink water) which gives me about 6 hrs sleep (give or take about 15 mins either way) then nature calls. Whatever time i go to sleep, i've learned to adjust the amount so I can get up at the right time. It works for me and might be an idea for the OP but takes time to train yourself to adjusting amounts - by which time you might have trained your bodyclock anyway.

The other thing that used work for me years ago was one of those old fashioned alarm clocks that had the hammer and the bells. It wasnt annoying enough to wake me because I got immune to it, so i put it in a metal biscuit tin and that made such a racket that it actually got me out of my deep sleeep and out of the bed. I never ever got immune to it, so it might work for you if you're willing to give it a shot.

Mind you, if you live in a place that has no sound deadening like my place, your neighbours will get quite annoyed, hence my reason for not using it where I live now.

Anyway, there's a few ideas if you fancy trying them out.

Piste

Ugh, I hate mornings, I always need to sleep for ages

fish fingers

get one of those plugs with timer.set it for the time you want to get up and plug a mad bright lamp into it, that along with an alarm should do the trick

bounty_hunter

grasshopa wrote:

To the last guythese days I wake up and have absolutely no recollection of turning off my alarm at all, phone beside me in the bed. My mam usually co, yeah most times mes in if I'm not up and have missed lectures (THANK YOU MAMMY!) but it's only to shout at me, and god - waking up to someone being pissed off at you just ruins your whole day.

I have exactly the same problem and it causes absolute hell in my house.
Every time I come up with some new way of waking myself up (hiding alarms, making an obstacle course out of them, setting my CD player to blast into my ear, all the things everyone has mentioned) my body somehow trains itself to turn off any alarm or get rid of any obstruction to sleep without me waking up.

Then somebody will get pissed off at me being late, come into my room shrieking at me, that pisses me off, I shriek back, everybody is in a bad mood It's a ****ing vicious circle.

And even when somebody does come in to wake me up, 9 times out of 10 I just shout back at them in my sleep without even knowing what's going on, and then they think I'm just being stubborn, when I'm actually not even awake at all. Bloody nightmare.