How do you get up in the morning?

[Jayson1]

Are you someone who has to basically drag yourself out of your bed and it takes awhile to wake out of your sleepy stuper or are you up and running the moment your eyes open up and full of energy for a brand new day. Speaking of which has anyone ever did the cliche thing of breaking the alarm clock and going back to sleep or at least turning it back off? Plus do you pee alot at night and you keep getting up and down or is that something that you take care off in the morning?


Me I am a slow, waker. Partly because I have problems sleeping. I don't have a bed but a chair because of my size and also I keep waking up every 3 hours it seems. Don't get up and pee a great deal but that is because I always make sure to use the bathroom before going to bed. Even as a adult I am still paranoid about the idea of peeing while I sleep. Which has happened a few times. Sometimes because of a sex dream or maybe I am just feeling way to relaxed.

Of course the first thing I also do is look at my phone for the time and then I turn on my tv.

Jason

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Usually I'll end up watching Adult Swim in my recliner and pass out sometime after the second Family Guy episode or the American Dad! episode. Then, I'll wake up around 6:30 or so, usually to The Amazing World of Gumball or Teen Titans Go! Then, I'll drink a glass of milk, pee, then go to bed. I'll usually set my alarm for 11:20 to be at the gym at 12. But, I'll hit the snooze button five or six times, then I reluctantly roll out of bed by about 12:20. I live about two miles from the gym, and I keep my preworkout in a gym bag in my trunk. I'll mix it in my driveway, chug it, then be wired by the time I get to the gym

 

[Avro Arrow]

How do you get up in the morning?

Um... poorly.

 

[Jayson1]

Same here. Made even worse do to the fact that my room is by the washing machine and dryer and we got tons of clothes always being washed. So I always seem to have my mom or my niece and nephew always coming in and turning the lights on and off. Especially since my mom goes to work early and the kids have to get ready for school.

Jason

 

[Refuge]

I get up because I have to.

 

[cosmic mouse]

...depends on what time it is and what I've been up to the night before...

 

[1001001]

My wife gets up at 4:30. My alarm is set to 5:10, although I usually wake up when she does.

I lie in bed for a while, cursing the dark, cold world.

I run through various excuses not to go to work.

I think about winning the lottery and never having to go again.

Then I finally get up, have a cup of coffee, goof around on the internet for a while, then hit the treadmill by 6:00.

 

[MacLeod]

Whom ever invented mornings, should have been lined up and shot preferable at Dusk.

First job after dragging myself out of bed is turn the kettle on for coffee

 

[rhubarbodendron]

I'm lucky as I can work flexitime. So I needn't use an alarmclock but go to work when I wake up naturally. This way getting up is a lot easier. I have trouble sleeping through so I usually go to bed around 7 pm to get the 8-9 hours of sleep I need.
I wake up at a certain light level so that most of the year I start work around 6, in winter between 7 and 8.

 

[Marynator]

I set my alarm for 6 am, but I'm usually up by about 5:45. I use a dawn simulator alarm, what it does is thirty minutes before your timer, it starts slowly turning on and brightening up over half an hour. It's meant to wake you up naturally by simulating sunrise, and I find it really works wonderfully! Your body senses gradual light increase and you gently wake up, if you've never tried one I totally recommend these. And if I'm still asleep at six, then my alarm will sound by birds chirping, which is really quite lovely, and it's nice waking up to my room being fully bright.

I don't drink coffee, so I'm ready to go right when I wake up. I'm usually working right by six, and I'll do things for like an hour and then I'll go make myself some breakfast, and maybe have some tea (decaffeinated) and read a book for a while, when my kitty normally will visit me (she's sort of used to my routine and she'll hassle me if I'm not where I should be when she's expecting!)

 

[John Clark]

Alarm (at least during the week) is set for just before six. I usually get out of bed and chuck the kettle on about ten minutes before that though.

I usually wake around fivish though. Weekends, the alarm is off so I usually keep trying to go back to sleep for a couple of hours.

 

[Amaris]

I have to be awake and alert at a moment's notice. I'm not really a morning person, though. I'd much rather be a night owl.

 

[Jayson1]

You know what I wonder about. Is it better to get 5 hours of uninterupted sleep or 8 hours of sleep wear you keep waking up and going back to sleep and back and forth.

Jason

 

[Spot261]

You know what I wonder about. Is it better to get 5 hours of uninterupted sleep or 8 hours of sleep wear you keep waking up and going back to sleep and back and forth.

Jason

Does this question keep you up at night?

 

[Kor]

First I sit up, as that gives me better leverage to get out of the bed safely and comfortably.

Kor

 

[Amaris]

You know what I wonder about. Is it better to get 5 hours of uninterupted sleep or 8 hours of sleep wear you keep waking up and going back to sleep and back and forth.

Jason

It is better to get 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep, but either situation will, for most people, result in prolonged exhaustion and all that goes with it over the long term.

 

[TribbleFeeder]

I get about 5 hours of interrupted sleep, I try to nap later in the day.

I envy you eight-hours-of-knocked-out-slumber people.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I get up at 5 AM every day for work. My body's so hard-wired to do that, it makes it really hard to sleep in when I have the day off. I usually end up tossing and turning from 5 until about 7.

Strangely enough, I sleep a LOT better when I go on vacation. I don't know if it's the hotel beds, or the whole not-having-to-work thing, or what.

 

[Marynator]

I get about 5 hours of interrupted sleep, I try to nap later in the day.

I envy you eight-hours-of-knocked-out-slumber people.

Sometimes I deal with insomnia, where I'll wake up at one in the morning and I can't fall back asleep for hours. If I'm alert enough, I'll get up and read a chapter of a book which usually helps me drift back off, but sometimes I'm just too tired so I just lay there for hours. I still do fall asleep again and I feel okay when I wake up, but I feel pretty miserable when I'm going through it, and worst of all when this happens I'll be like that for several nights in a row.

But most nights I'm in bed by about 9:30 and I sleep straight through until about 5:45, and I really treasure feeling nice and rested. Sometimes I'll sleep really hard and think it's about four, but I check my clock and it's barely midnight, and it's such a wonderful feeling knowing I still have most of my night left.

 

[Kemaiku]

As someone with insomnia and arthritis, with some difficulty...