Back when i attented a school in the neighbor city (some 40km away) i had to wake up at about 5 am. That was hell, especially on days when i was back home at 8pm. Now i'm taking it back by going to sleep at 5 am

Never required any special mesures to wake up though, when i need to be at something the alarm clock wakes me up, when not, it doesn't

I've found it less hard since I got a new alarm with a radio, so I can wake up to Chris Moyles instead of BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP

My radio alarm is somehow stuck on the Asian Network, so I only ever wake up to an Asian woman screaming at me, which will be good practise if I ever live above a curry house.



A horror his wife shares.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLuW-GBaJ8k :biggrin:

I don't have an alarm clock I get up to, but my basic routine is get out of bed, put on clothes, find smokes, make tea, read the news on my iPhone while drinking tea and having smoke, then I get ready for the day.

If there's nothing in the immediate future to get ready for, I turn on the TV and play video games 'til my eyes bleed.

...yay...

Waking up does not svck. Being forced to wake up earlier than you want to go to somewhere you do not wish to be is what svcks.

I stare at my clock when I'm in bed to make the time seem to go slower.

Routine mostly. Wake up at 6am every single day for a year and you'll do it automatically without an alarm even.

Of course I don't have that luxury, so at 4am I go to the shower and get dressed and walk to work running on autopilot and fear of repercussion should I not show up. I wake up around 6am.

Edit: Also get out of bed immediately. It's not good to build the habit of lying there awake and staring at the clock for half an hour. The second you hear the first alarm beep haul out and start getting ready, that way you don't fall back asleep.

I like setting my alarm too early, waking up and thinking "I don't need to get up yet", that time between hitting snooze seems like it lasts for ever and I love it. If I could, I'd get up about about 6, go for a run, shower, food, tea, uni'.

However, as I share a room and my alarm wakes my brother up, I instead get up shortly after he does, have a cup of tea and leave. I don't like it this way, but I'll live.

You should be grateful you go to uni so close by. I have to get up at 6AM just to be in lectures for 10AM. Man is not meant to get up in the dark. I have mastered the art of running for the train in the early morning without being fully awake.

When I was at MMU I had that on Mondays. There was no train direct toOxford Road at the time so I had to get the half 7 train to Victoria and walk from there (9 am lesson not 10). Oddly enough, I've always found it easier to get up earlier, when I go to work (7am start), I wake up about quarter past 6/half 6 and I fly out of bed.

Some days, I need to get up. Other days, I don't work and I don't have anything to do so I'll just sleep as much as I want. Generally, on the days I need to wake up, I have my alarm clock set, two alarms on my phone and I'll sleep through all of those. My girlfriend however, hears them instantly and is sure to use a high pitched whiny voice to get me out of bed and on my way. I swear she's like the Swiss Army Knife to all my life's needs.

I use my cellphone as the alarm. I put the most annoying ringtone I have on it at max volume then place the phone inside my drawers. When I wake up, I have to get off my bed to turn it off and my clothes are already in front of me so there's no reason to get back to bed.

I have a loud alarm that would may annoy the people downstairs if I don't turn it off quickly. It's 3 meters away from the bed, and it doesn't stop unless you switch it off. Good motivation to get up.

[censored]. You have lectures that start at 10AM? You poor poor person. (Having said that, I have a tutorial that starts at 9 one day a week. Well, I did but now it starts at 11 )


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You have to get up at 6AM! Ouch.

I have lectures that start at 10am but my halls are literally 30 seconds walk away so I can get up 5 minutes before :thumbsup:

Hate it, hate it, hate it. I'm use to it but I still hate waking up with a passion most of the time. I only like waking up on weekends and sleeping in lounging in bed until I tell myself...."Okay, I HAVE to get up"

my ideal wake up is to wake up and know that I don't have to do anything for the day while I smell the sweet smells of pancakes, bacon, and eggs being made for breakfast, then going to the living room and just sitting in front of the tv watching spongebob or marvelous misadventures of flap jack. My breakfast would be ready, and my spouse would be sitting down eating with me and watching cartoons with me. I wouldn't mind being married! with no kids... :turned:

with a naked girl in bed with you.

I've been without a routine for so long that getting up at all is painful. I almost wish I did have one; I think it'd be healthier for me that way.

On the off chance I do need to set an alarm, it's reflex action to leap up and switch it off. Then I realise that I wasn't actually ready to get up yet and collapse halfway across the room.

Not sure if anyone mentioned it but you can buy alarm clocks that fly, or launch rockets across the room. lol The rocket will launch (be popped off the stand using a simple system, it doesn't require fuel lol) when the alarm goes off, but since the alarm is on the rocket itself you've gotta get up and go get the rocket to turn it off, by the time you get it, you're up dudes! May as well stay up. Other alarms include toy helicopters that hover around beeping, you can hit these with a pillow if you're a good throw first-thing, but it doesn't turn the alarm off... it just breaks the rotor blades. I speak from experience. lol

I'm with RedViv though, I get up whenever I feel like it. I could meet you in the pub at seven at night, and have only been up for an hour, had a shower and gone straight out to meet you. I hate clocks. Alarm clocks I break... or just strip the batteries out without opening my eyes. Cell phone is my rare alarm, and when I set it I generally put it to a tune that suits waking at whatever time it is, "Wake up it's a beautiful morning..." or "It's a beautiful day..." or "I've got spurs... that jingle jangle jingle..." (? lol) then I can sing along as I head for the shower... can't stand irritating beep alarms.

Lately I've been staying up far too late doing homework, so I feel even more crap than usual when I wake up for school I try to get up around 7ish, so I set my alarm to 6:40, 6:50, and 7. I use my phone for an alarm and put it on my desk on the other side of my room, so I have to get up to turn it off. When I get up I'm usually still half dreaming, so when I turn off my phone I'm under the impression that I'm doing something completely different (if I haven't fallen over on my way there). It doesn't usually get me up straight away though, and Mother Dearest has to encourage me a little haha. My alarm is a really cheesy, obnoxious mobile phone version of Kings of Leon's "six on Fire", so other ringtones that I hear during the day generally give me a fright and infuriate me more than they used to.

I typically get 5 hours of sleep. I'm awake from 6am to 1am on weekdays. I wake up to my iHome alarm that is conveniently 5 inches from arms reach, my mom yelling at me to get up, and a cold bowl of cereal. I hate mornings...

I remember my senior year in highschool, I'd get about 2-3 hours of sleep on weekdays, and maybe 5 hours for the entire weekend. Every picture of me from then shows me looking like a raccoon with these massive black rings under my eyes. I just literally never felt like sleeping. To much stuff to do. Then, after the military, I'd sleep until I woke up, which was often between 12-14 hours after I went to bed. Much like OniOne was saying, I'd often get up at like 6 or 7 in the afternoon, get a shower, and head out to meet friends for a night of partying or whatever. I hated alarm clocks back then, I literally punched a hole in 3 different ones because they tried to wake me up. Now though, I get about 3-5 hours of sleep a night, with my wife as my alarm clock. My wife on the other hand, can, and often does, turn the alarm clock off in her alseep and then not get up till hours later. Thats resulted in our oldest daughter being tardy to school on more then a few occassions.

I have an 8AM class that's a 30 minute walk away two days a week. Needless to say, I only go one exam days. My next class after it is at 11, so it nets me 3 hours more sleep (and I get to skip a painful 2 hour "sit around on a computer in the library while I wait for my next class to start" session) to not go. Plus, if I go, I have to get coffee, so it basically costs me $3 every time I go to class. That being said, it's a damn nice walk at 7:30 in the morning, with the sun coming up over the bay.