# Good Morning, Sunshine! What(or who) woke you up today? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094 "2018-07-17T16:57:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/1 "2018-07-17T16:57:46Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/2 "2018-07-17T17:02:19Z")
Usually one of the dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/3 "2018-07-17T17:03:04Z")
This time of year, the sun. We have lots of windows and no blinds. The sun hits around 5:30 a.m. ---
**Author:** ![MoonMoon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moonmoon/32/2959_2.png) [@MoonMoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoonMoon)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/4 "2018-07-17T17:07:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/5 "2018-07-17T17:11:50Z")
3 alarms, a dog, 2 Monsters, a shower and Red Man. I’m not a morning person. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/6 "2018-07-17T17:11:55Z")
Jet lag. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/7 "2018-07-17T17:37:50Z")
The same thing that wakes me up every morning - my bladder. Retirement is really great. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/8 "2018-07-17T17:46:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/9 "2018-07-17T17:49:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/10 "2018-07-17T17:50:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/11 "2018-07-17T17:53:24Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/12 "2018-07-17T18:59:11Z")
My clock radio, tuned in to the local classic rock station’s morning gab show. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/13 "2018-07-17T20:06:54Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/14 "2018-07-17T20:15:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/15 "2018-07-17T20:37:49Z")
I woke up about an hour before my alarm was set to go off. Apparently, I was simply done sleeping. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/16 "2018-07-17T20:50:23Z")
1. Cat(s) (with or without bladder-stomping). 2. Sun. 3. Wife. 4. Hot flash. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/17 "2018-07-17T20:50:42Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/18 "2018-07-17T21:21:16Z")
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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaxted_(tune)) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/19 "2018-07-17T22:44:31Z")
**Trixie the Dog**. She’s the one who will make a single bark in a very high pitch, meaning, \*“Let me out!” \* Its amazing how many different barks the crew has for different meanings. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094/20 "2018-07-17T23:01:33Z")
The alarm goes off at 5:45, set to our local NPR station. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-morning-sunshine-what-or-who-woke-you-up-today/818094.md?page=2)