What gets you up in the morning? A particular song or radio station? The cat and/or dog? A swift kick from your significant other(s)? The ringing of a wind-up alarm clock? The noise of the garbagemen tossing your cans around?
For me, it’s the theme song from the They Might Be Giants album Flood coming from the alarm feature on my cell phone.
You?
Usually one of the dogs.
This time of year, the sun. We have lots of windows and no blinds. The sun hits around 5:30 a.m.
Generally, I wake up any time between 3am and 7am. I set an alarm on my phone to be safe, but I rarely need it.
Specifically, this morning, the sound of my dog dry heaving for the 10th time.
3 alarms, a dog, 2 Monsters, a shower and Red Man. I’m not a morning person.
Jet lag.
The same thing that wakes me up every morning - my bladder.
Retirement is really great.
The alarm goes off on a local radio station. I turn it off immediately. It’s been years since I bothered to listen to it.
It depends.
At 5:30, my phone alarm goes off. It is LOUD.
If I’m sleeping on my right side, my left ear hears the sound and I wake up and hit snooze. If I’m sleeping on my left side, my right ear (nearly useless) hears nothing and after 30-45 seconds of loud alarm sound, my gf smacks me (lovingly), I roll over and hit snooze.
If we do not have to get up for work, our dogs wake me up at 5:35.
My Wife getting out of bed around 3:30 wakes me initially. Then I hear her get out of the shower and take the dogs downstairs. I go back to sleep to be woken about an hour later when on of our border collies pounces on my chest. I’m usually ready for that, but this morning it startled the bejebers out of me. Luckily, it’s the smaller one of the two.
Then my cell phone alarm at 5:15. I notice the screen come on before I hear it. It starts silent and gradually gets louder some sort or random chiming.
I have an alarm set for 5, and sometimes that wakes me. Usually, tho, it’s my bladder around 4 or so - too late to get any real sleep, dammit.
My clock radio, tuned in to the local classic rock station’s morning gab show.
I woke up on my own at 5:53. If I had slept in, Leet the Wonder Dog[sup]TM[/sup] would wake me up at 5:58. Not 5:59, not 6:00 - 5:58.
I don’t know how he learned to tell time, but he does. The timer on his bladder is incredibly precise.
Regards,
Shodan
My bladder likes to change things up on occasion. For weeks I’ll wake up to pee around 2am so still 3-1/2 hours to sleep whick is optimum. My bladder is now on a kick to wake me up at 4am! It takes me about an hour to get back to sleep at that time so then I have a whole half hour of really crappy sleep. UGH
My iPhone clock is set up on the “bedtime” deal. Set to wake me up at 5:30 Mon-Fri. I usually wake up before it goes off.
I woke up about an hour before my alarm was set to go off. Apparently, I was simply done sleeping.
My Siamese come upstairs only once a day, its at 6:30ish. Time for breakfast. I always go back to bed til the dogs need to pee. About 9ish.
Today I had workmen coming in at 8. Screwed everyone up. Cats are freaked out. Little Yorkie couldn’t help but pee on the deck. Aaaacckk. The floor will be done today. Yay!
Sometimes it’s my son. He just moved into his big boy bed, and rolls out of that thing as soon as his eyes open. I hear him push open his door, then mine, then he starts with the “Mom” alarm (Mom. Mooommm. Ma. Mama. Mom. Mom. Moooommmm.)
On the days when my son sleeps past 6:30, my alarm is set to the Thaxted section of Jupiter from Holst’s The Planets suite. (It’s that broad, sweeping, stately melody in the middle of the piece.) I like being woken by orchestral music. For a long time, it was Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, but I started associating that song with the crappiness of waking up, so I switched when I upgraded my phone.
Trixie the Dog. She’s the one who will make a single bark in a very high pitch, meaning, *“Let me out!”
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Its amazing how many different barks the crew has for different meanings.
The alarm goes off at 5:45, set to our local NPR station.