How do you wake up, quick, slow, gently
 

I have some members of the family that need to be very gently and gradually woke up in the morning. If it's not super gentle, then it puts them in a crap mood for the rest of the day.

I've been waking up with an alarm for a long time. There's nothing gently about it. When I get up, I'm up. I don't have time to gradually do anything, I've got crap that I've got to do. I'm a night person, so I don't wake up 2 hours before I have to be somewhere or I have things to do so I can do anything gradually.

I suppose it could be something about chemistry or something, but I can't help but feel like it's more mental and about attitude.

Waking up is so different for some people. All my life and to this day the second the alarm goes off I bound out of bed. I actually throw my legs out of bed and stand up 100% awake and ready within a few seconds of the alarm. I do my bathroom routine and get on with life. I learned many years ago to not even talk to my wife in the morning until she says something to me first. I just don't understand it.

When it is time to go to bed I put my head on the pillow and I am sleeping in a few minutes. When it is time to get up, I get up. It is simple.

I use to sleep beside the "General Alarm" speaker so when I'm a wake I'm ready to go...

I usually wake up with my 3 year old daughter shoving a toy in my face or begging me to put on elmo music.......anything but gently lately


I dont know if its wierd or not but I don't want to eat anything for at least an hour or so after I wake up. The most delicious breakfast could be waiting for me and I have no want to even have a bite.

that's pretty much me.

I wake up to dogs. They are not subtle.

When I lived in Atlanta I was bolt upright out of bed and got an instant adrenaline dump when my alarm went off. Every minute later I left resulted in 2-3 minutes more of driving. My manager was also an @$$hole who would make my life miserable for being late (if he was actually in on time).

Before and after living in ATL it takes me almost an hour to wake up. I fall asleep in the shower multiple times. Leaving 5 minutes later will result in getting to work 5 minutes later. There is no real traffic to speak of. I'm the first one in on my team and don't have any real work to do until I've been in for several hours. There's just no hurry in the morning.

Since adopting a dog. Face licks and I'm wide awake. I get him out back ASAP.

When i was younger i was prone to oversleeping, and had one of those classic ones with bells.

I had to put it in another room, cause if it was within 2 meters i'de get to it half a sleep and it would be smashed up and dead before you can say 'alarm clock'

These days I wake up before the thing goes off.. like i set it to 05h55
I wake up at 05h50 to preempt the bastard

I've been having issues sleeping lately so getting up has become a problem.

I used to jump straight out of bed well before the alarm went off. Not anymore.

One of my former co-workers had a siren like an old time air raid siren. It would slowly get louder. He kept it in the bathroom down the hall. He knew he had about 15 seconds to hustle down to that bathroom to shut it off before it was painful loud. That got his heart rate up and since he was in the bathroom he would pee, and go ahead and take a shower and be awake for the day.

I never could understand him.

At mu age, I'm just glad to wake up. On the plus side, at my age, no alarm clock...other than my bladder.

When in college had my stereo hooked to a timer. Set the phonograph on Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon, Time...where all the alarms go off. It would blare all the alarms at an unnatural audio level.

When the amp came on it would make a very quiet click, then after it warmed up for a couple of seconds it started playing. Got to where that very quiet click would wake me up so I could dash to the stereo and shut it off before the phonograph started blaring the alarm clocks.

i would be curious as to age in relationship to the Q.

51 now and most of the time I wake up before the alarm and on weekends its hard to sleep in. mostly in part to the bed hurting my/our back.
when I was a kid it was a different story. could sleep all day.

weekdays I get up, straight to the shower, dressed and out the door.

weekends its a little harder to get motivated to "work" early in the morning.

I am generally waking up a few minutes before the alarm (set to 5:10 every morning) and turning it off before it goes off, For the last 3 months, I have been working 10 hour days and waking up at 4:00 to be working by 5:00, and for the most part jump out of bed into the shower and get going with the day.

I think needing the alarm to go off 4-5 times to wake up and roll out of bed, is just plain wasteful, and slightly lazy. It's not like you are going to get any quality sleep in between alarms (10 minutes).

I'm 52 years old, and usually out of bed by 8:00 on weekends.....too much to do to lounge around.

Up and at 'em early

I have always been an early riser and wide awake when I awaken! i am retired but usually up by 5 a.m.....when i wake up i get up! now if i have a project on my mind i might be up at four a.m.

Generally I am awake before the alarm goes off. But for the times I'm not I use a gentle alarm sound and get up within 5 minutes of it waking me. My wife prefers the snooze feature so when she has to rise before me I tend to rise 15 minutes before her.

My son, now 20, needs 15 separate alarms to get his butt going. That's the price paid for staying up until 3 AM doing homework last minute and/or goofing around on social media.

These daze....I go to bed when I used to go out, and get up when I used to get home :). I'm a very light sleeper, and after 4-5 hours, if I wake up...I'm up for good. But even when I was a music loving "show hound", staying out half the night, if the phone rang at 4 am, I was wide awake, alert, and ready to process information, answering before the second ring....unfortunately, I had lots of practice :(. An alarm clock....what is that? I've seen the sun come up many times from being out/up all night....now I can't remember the last time I've slept past the first hint of daylight....damn birds :)

As many I dont get enough sleep. I had to move the alarm away from my bed or I sometimes hit snooze or sleep through it. Once I'm out of bed I'm up, but getting up some days...