Unusual things that help you wake up in the morning.

[Misterian]

Okay, say you're faced with these moments where you have to get up early in the morning.

Granted, most people I know simply turn to drinking coffee or splashing water on their faces.

But does anyone here have less.. conventional methods of helping yourself fully wake up in the morning?

Me? whenever I want to be fully wake to tackle the day, I take my mp3 player and listen to Power Rangers music.

what are your unique ways of waking up in the morning?

 

[Colour Scientist]

In the winter, when I have to get up early, my routine is get out of bed, go downstairs, turn on heating, make coffee, brush teeth, get back into bed until room is warm, then get up and drink coffee.

I also usually check the Internet because the light from my tablet usually wakes me up a bit.

 

[tippy2k2]

I'm not sure if it's strange or not but I set multiple alarms that are timed to go off against the sleep button.

Here's how it works if that doesn't make sense...

6:15: The Radio alarm goes off. This alarm is set for me to hit SLEEP on...
6:24: The Radio alarm goes off again. However, I know I am lazy and therefore...
6:25: The phone alarm goes off. Once the phone alarm goes off, I know it's Go time. However, even that alarm is set a bit early so I hit snooze and Browse something on my phone (usually The Escapist but it'll be sport scores if football happened the night before) until...
6:34 Alright, time to get up.

Basically, I have my first alarm go off twenty minutes before I am actually required to get up to give me the time to properly boot up.

 

[Evonisia]

I usually set an alarm for early on (usually 5ish), get the heating/water on, go back to bed. Have a second alarm set for about an hour later and once I finally get up I wash my hair. By washing my hair I guarantee not having an urge to go back to bed. Also my hair always looks crap when I sleep, no matter how long I sleep for so washing it is almost a requirement. The alarm is always something that makes a loud noise in the first second (lately I've been using Ke$ha's "Crazy Kids" because the album version starts with something like 25 seconds of whistling and guitar strumming).

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I usually replay in my mind the scene from Matrix where Morpheus breaks his cuffs. Powers me up every time.

 

[Remus]

My dog Harvey trying to take a chunk out of my wrist so he can go outside and empty. Wakes me up every time. Outside of that, I'm a notoriously light sleeper. I use a fan year round because the hum blocks out random background noise. So if I have an alarm set it only needs to be louder than the fan to wake me and not blaring in my ear.

 

[WWmelb]

Listen to St Elmo's Fire and Here I Go Again.

80's power songs to get one going wins.

 

[Hero of Lime]

It's a pretty boring answer, but eating breakfast really gets me going. Until I eat or drink something, I feel sluggish, but chewing and swallowing seems to get my engines going.

 

[piinyouri]

Coffee mostly.
Bit of milk and some sugar and I'm much better.

I've gotten progressively worse at morning time as I've gotten older. I used to be, up until my teens, able to spring right out of bed, and if I woke of my own accord, I wasn't going to be able to get back to sleep.

Now it's a pretty stark contrast. I'm almost always groggy to the point of not quite knowing where I am sometimes, and still being in a dream-like state even minutes after I'm up.

 

[FPLOON]

I pre-masterbate...

Semi-joking aside, I do a few pull-ups and then splash water on my face before wiping it off with a wash cloth... I tend to do that if I end up passed out on the floor instead of my own bed...

I used to never want to get up, even if I went to bed early enough to even get a good night sleep... and that really annoyed my mother to no ends, since we technically had to leave at the same time to go to out respected schools...

Overall, I don't really do anything to "help" me wake up, per se... (Though the thing I crossed off beforehand mostly relates to what I would sometimes do before going to sleep or after waking up, per se...)

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

I used to BLAST push it to the limit every morning but I had to stop because it woke other people up.

 

[idon'tknowaboutthat]

Snip.

Your avatar. Oh god, your avatar. Immortal is the best thing since sliced bread.

Oh, I guess I should be on topic. I don't really have anything to add. Cereal? Knowing I need to get to school?

 

[michael87cn]

I go to bed early enough to get sufficient rest.

What? That's why you feel exhausted when you get up early. You didn't get enough sleep. The position of the sun and earth in the depth of space has nothing to do with anything.

I like to drink coffee half-way through my work day, that's when I usually start running low on energy and it really helps.

Drinking it in the morning right after you've (supposed to!) rested, is a total waste. You don't need that energy then... you're a full battery (if you went to bed at a decent hour!).

That said, yall are kids so of course you don't go to bed early!

 

[Tahaneira]

Waking up isn't really an issue for me; when I wake up, I can roll out of bed and be ready to go pretty much instantly. Staying awake, that's the trick.

But when it is an issue, I have this absolutely God-awful alarm clock. Like, absolutely horrible. It has these supposedly soothing nature-y sounds that have the approximate quality of someone holding a 1980s tape recorder in the vague direction of the environment required and taking a five-second clip to loop endlessly. It has such charming options as ocean shore (static), country stream (more static), jungle wildlife (screeching static) and, my favorite, a human heartbeat (disturbingly realistic). I will set this thing up at night and then wake up a half hour before the time I set it to go off, just so I don't have to hear the blasted thing.

And if things are really really bad, I sprinkle my bedside floor with Legos.

 

[persephone]

I get woken up every morning at a fairly consistent time by a fairly insistent cat. My old Russian Blue is very talkative and very bossy, and she insists on getting her breakfast on time!

If I really need the sleep I'll go back to bed after that, but generally speaking, getting up and feeding a cat will wake me up fairly well. Especially when my cat has a sufficiently loud and grating meow that I nearly named her Foghorn. But she makes up for it by snuggling next to my head most nights. In fact, if I don't *go* to bed and deliver snuggle time on time, she starts yelling at me until I do! Now if I just listened to her more often ...

 

[Specter Von Baren]

Drink a soda that will make you very likely to burp (Coca-cola is almost guaranteed to do this to me) and when you do burp, instead of letting the burp pass through your mouth, let it travel up your nose, causes a burning sensation that wakes you up.

Keep in mind that I don't go out of my way to do this, it's just something I noticed when events came together for it.

 

[gigastar]

I taped a mousetrap over the snooze button of my alarm clock.

And failing that i have a second alarm clock set up across the room to start playing Justin Beiber if i dont deactivate it.

 

[Guffe]

Nope sory, no unconventional methods here.
I wake up and chugg a bottle of Koskenkorva (Vodka) like every other Finn
Alarm goes off, wake up, drink coffee, eat bread, go to work

 

[Fijiman]

Honestly once I'm out of bed I more or less ready to go only a few minutes later. Waking me up and getting me out of bed is the trick though.