My alarm clock on phone plays the Hercules series intro music. You can't stay in bed when you listen to that.snappydog said:
What gets you up in the mornings?
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The first time the clock rings, you just stand up. I know it sounds crazy but it works, trust me 
. If you meant you're actually not waking up to the alarm or shutting it half asleep, raise the volume or move it somewhere where you can't reach it from bed.
. If you meant you're actually not waking up to the alarm or shutting it half asleep, raise the volume or move it somewhere where you can't reach it from bed.your one lazy mfer. i havent had anyone drag me out of bed since i was 8.snappydog said:
For starters: set up your alarm, one that runs till you quit it, on the other side of your room. you will ahve to stand up and walk around to reach it. now if you live with another person in the dorm that could be problematic, as your roommate wont like a long alarm but deal with it.
Then there is the anxiety thinking. If i dont get up now ill be late to do X and get punishment X and sincei dont want that, fuck with the sleeping.
Then there is postive reasoning. "If i get up now i get time to read forums before work".
And of course realizing the fact that you sleep though over a third of your life and sleep should be compeltely removed from humans as soon as we get the chemical that our brain produce only whiel sleeping synthesized.
Also, always get up at the same time. for example you have to wake up every work day at 8 am to go somewhere. wake up at 8 am in the weekends. force yourself to. after a couple weeks your body will shift into the shedule and you will wake up at 8 am and do not want to get back to sleep even without an alarm clock. now of course ths can be distrupted by staying up too late, so no late parties for you. You can here to study, not to drink. if you came here to drink GTFO of university.
Sleeping pills.
Putting your alarm behind stuff doesn't work. If you're still that tired, you'll probably end up falling asleep again. Sleepy me is as clever as me, and also a dick. He can find the sleep button even though he can't use his eyes. I've got a loud and obnoxious alarm, but you get used to that (My alarm is various songs blasted full volume through 5.1 surround sound. Chop Suey and Violent Pornography can't wake you up? You've got a serious problem). Sheer willpower is the stupidest solution. People who suggest that aren't having the same problem-if you can overcome the need to sleep, then of course you don't need a better solution. This is about people who can't.
So I figured the problem is the quality of sleep, so I started taking a sleeping pill the night before, ensuring I end up asleep to give me a good rest, and then I hope my alarm gets me up. It's not foolproof, but setting up a good routine where you get good sleep is helpful. I can sleep for 14 hours at a time easily, and I'm a heavy sleeper, but it gives me a fighting chance of being able to wake up.
Also, working out (Not right before bed, that keeps you up), helps you get better rest. Go for a run of an evening or something, it makes it much easier to go to sleep, and you wake up feeling better (Unless you get cramps).
Putting your alarm behind stuff doesn't work. If you're still that tired, you'll probably end up falling asleep again. Sleepy me is as clever as me, and also a dick. He can find the sleep button even though he can't use his eyes. I've got a loud and obnoxious alarm, but you get used to that (My alarm is various songs blasted full volume through 5.1 surround sound. Chop Suey and Violent Pornography can't wake you up? You've got a serious problem). Sheer willpower is the stupidest solution. People who suggest that aren't having the same problem-if you can overcome the need to sleep, then of course you don't need a better solution. This is about people who can't.
So I figured the problem is the quality of sleep, so I started taking a sleeping pill the night before, ensuring I end up asleep to give me a good rest, and then I hope my alarm gets me up. It's not foolproof, but setting up a good routine where you get good sleep is helpful. I can sleep for 14 hours at a time easily, and I'm a heavy sleeper, but it gives me a fighting chance of being able to wake up.
Also, working out (Not right before bed, that keeps you up), helps you get better rest. Go for a run of an evening or something, it makes it much easier to go to sleep, and you wake up feeling better (Unless you get cramps).
I can honestly say that I've never needed to crap in order to get out of bed. That's when you know you have a problem.DoPo said:
OT: I've gotta go with dual alarms that sound off within a few minutes of one another. Having one doesn't do it for me - I usually turn it off in my sleep. I've even put my phone in my mouth in an effort to make it quiet. After I'm actually up, the day cannot start until I've eaten and had a shower. Showers are the best.
My alarm consists of setting my phone to play the Kokiri Forest music [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcZiAhFW5lM] and leaving it on my desk on the other side of the room. I figure if I'm going to wake up to something, it may as well be a nice song.
Another trick that works exceedingly well if you can do it: leave your blinds open. The early morning sunlight stimulates your eyes before you consciously awaken, and in response your body will release endorphins that ease you out of sleep feeling refreshed. It's the way humans have been waking up for thousands of years and it works wonderfully.
Another trick that works exceedingly well if you can do it: leave your blinds open. The early morning sunlight stimulates your eyes before you consciously awaken, and in response your body will release endorphins that ease you out of sleep feeling refreshed. It's the way humans have been waking up for thousands of years and it works wonderfully.
This may have been suggested already, so if it has, sorry about the redundancy.snappydog said:
I'm a night owl. I have a real hard time falling asleep at a decent hour (it's a quarter past 5am for me right now, and I still haven't gone to bed yet from the previous day). Ideally I stay up until the sun starts to rise, then sleep until noon. Obviously, this doesn't work for school or many careers.
When I left home to go to my university, I had a real hard time getting up in the morning for class. During my first semester of Freshman year I missed a whole bunch of my early morning courses. Not enough to fail them, but damn close.
Second semester I had the brilliantly simple idea of placing my alarm clock on the opposite side of my room. Every time I missed class, it was because I'd turn off my alarm and then fail to actually get out of bed before falling asleep again. By moving my alarm far out of reach it forced me to actually get up and get moving to turn it off. I ended up having perfect attendance that semester.
So yeah, no idea if that would work for you, but it definitely helped me.
My cat.
She loves to wake me up early in the morning(by which I mean 3 am). Won't stop bothering me until I go up... then she goes to sleep.
She loves to wake me up early in the morning(by which I mean 3 am). Won't stop bothering me until I go up... then she goes to sleep.
I have the most weird ass alarm tone ever.
And I don't even how it came in the first place.
All I know that it sounds like some voodoo chanting and that scares the crap out of me. Which is more than enough to get me out of bed.
WELL THAT and a promise of a scalding hot shower. ^-^
And I don't even how it came in the first place.
All I know that it sounds like some voodoo chanting and that scares the crap out of me. Which is more than enough to get me out of bed.
WELL THAT and a promise of a scalding hot shower. ^-^
The way I got around it was organizing my entire timetable so I never have to be out of bed before midday. I have one 9 oclock lecture a week, which I habitually miss and make up in readings, but other then that I start at 3pm.snappydog said:
And on days like tomorrow where I have to be up at stupid oclock (Getting on a bus at 4am) I conscript my girlfriend into staying round and helping me wake up. By helping me wake up I mean "Kicking my arse onto the floor". It is super effective!
Bar those two options... I try and avoid drinking in the week. Helps. And I avoid caffiene after 6pm. And I set about 6 different alarms. I might start late but I still like to be awake by around 10. Which is difficult enough as it is.
I just put my phone's alarm on as loud as it goes, on something obnoxious, and leave it on the absolute opposite side of the room. I then head directly to the shower. Works most of the time, unless I glance back at my bed and decide to crawl in for "another couple of minutes".
Whilst I tend to wake up when my alarm goes off, I find it very hard to get out of bed. I just tell myself that it's not so bad once I get going. It works, up until I'm falling asleep halfway through my lectures. I'd suggest setting your alarm about 10 minutes earlier than you need to so you have time to psyche yourself up.
I go to bed hungry do that in the morning i cant wait to get up to wat breakfast.
The many alarm clock method doesn't work for me because if I know there are three more alarms to go, I will wait for those to wake me up and will just head straight back to bed after the first few.
The many alarm clock method doesn't work for me because if I know there are three more alarms to go, I will wait for those to wake me up and will just head straight back to bed after the first few.
I have one of those but I stopped using it because I would sleep through it if I was really tired, most of the time it would wake me up straight away as its pretty damn loud but most of the time isnt good enough I find my phone alarm or the annoying digital beeps to be better for waking me up.canadamus_prime said:
I tend to get up quite early most days i.e 3:30am or 4:30am and then lie in on weekends the only thing that will get you up in the end is willpower I suggest establishing a routine and sticking by it something I need to do at the moment (not for getting up but getting more stuff done).
Oh and sounds simple but try and get more than 3 hours sleep a night seriously trying to concentrate on something after 3 days or so of that is not good its ok for work and stuff but not for study.
These days I dont really need an alarm although I still set it as long as you tell yourself you will be up at such and such a time and check the clock before you go to sleep usually you will wake up unless you really are exhausted or dont give a shit what time you surface.
There are PC-Alarms that bott up your PC at the specified time and can be linked to any soundfile you want, so just blare some Slayer and you should be up in no time
I take it your from Halifax?
Seriously not that Hard to get up, just get a coffee maker with an internal setting and get addicted to caffeine.
Seriously not that Hard to get up, just get a coffee maker with an internal setting and get addicted to caffeine.
I managed to sleep right trough my own alarms for the past couple of years, only thing that wakes me (when I have to gett up early) is my own mom who yells at me anyway.