# How do you wake up? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 8, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142 "2017-05-08T17:59:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/21 "2017-05-08T21:02:51Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > One of those old flip-number clock radios flips from 5:59 to 6:00, followed by the closing bars of “I got you, babe” and then some jackass tells me not to forget my booties cuz it’s coooold out there. > > Every. Freaking. Morning. > > Sometimes I feel like I’m stuck in a loop or something. Ned? Ned Ryerson? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/22 "2017-05-08T21:14:26Z")
Cats. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/23 "2017-05-08T21:23:05Z")
Dog. At 5:30 she begins scrabbling at her crate door. At six she begins to whine. If I forget to close the crate door the previous evening I will be awakened by a dog nose in my eye socket. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/24 "2017-05-08T21:43:42Z")
My tv has a wake up timer. I use that to wake up. Then I can absorb the news/weather/traffic while I come to. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/25 "2017-05-08T21:57:24Z")
My co-pilot normally nudges me. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/26 "2017-05-08T22:03:19Z")
Dog is my primary method but I use my phone as backup. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/27 "2017-05-08T22:46:12Z")
I sort of wake up by myself, by an internal clock…but not at the time I want! I wake up 30 to 60 minutes early, and then kinda micro-doze in little fit-naps until it’s time. I have an alarm clock, and I program it and arm it…but I refuse to allow it to go off! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2017, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/28 "2017-05-08T22:59:47Z")
I don’t use an alarm clock, and wake up early at a similar time every day. I chose the “internal clock” option, even though I think it has more to do with making sure I go to bed at the right time every night. If I go to bed 7 or so hours before I need to be up, I’ll be up in time. ---
**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:** [May 8, 2017, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/29 "2017-05-08T23:08:22Z")
I have a digital clock with big number so I can read it in the middle of the night without getting my glasses. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/30 "2017-05-09T00:08:10Z")
Digital clock radio with loud, buzzing alarm. I tried to use my smartphone’s alarm app, but it just isn’t loud enough to jolt me out of my sleep. Although like many others have said, often the alarm clock isn’t needed as I frequently wake up to fifteen pounds of angry Bichon Frise standing on my chest and giving me the evil eye. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/31 "2017-05-09T00:29:08Z")
Cat. Everyone morning between six-ish and seven-ish, unless she’s feeling ill. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/32 "2017-05-09T00:31:07Z")
Internal clock. It works for me \> 97% of the time, if I’m getting up at my usual M-F workday time. But I still set a digital alarm clock for those other 3%. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/33 "2017-05-09T00:36:30Z")
Either my alarm clock goes off or the cat starts stomping up and down my body to get me to wake up and play with her. ---
**Author:** ![Kimera757](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimera757/32/3765_2.png) [@Kimera757](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimera757)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/34 "2017-05-09T00:38:05Z")
I thought this would be a biological question. I use a “light clock”, which produces light starting a half hour before the alarm, which supposedly resembles daylight (in effect programming the brain that this is morning). It’s certainly very bright and yellow. It also makes noise. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/35 "2017-05-09T00:56:45Z")
Mostly an alarm clock, but it’s complicated. My primary job is substitute teaching. That means that I can, in principle, get a phone call as early as 5:00 alerting me to a job. When that doesn’t happen (it usually doesn’t), I have an alarm set for 6:20 (digital alarm clock), whereupon I stumble half-awake over to my computer and check for listings. If there is one, then I kick my butt into gear and get ready for the day, and if there isn’t one, then I stumble back into bed and sleep until whenever. Even then, I might still get a phone call for a job that comes up as late as 7:30 or even 8:00. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/36 "2017-05-09T00:57:06Z")
way too early, and if I try to go back to sleep I end up in a repetitive cycle of REM-dream REM-lucid dream REM dream REM-lucid dream. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/37 "2017-05-09T01:06:08Z")
I chose “I just wake up when I need to, internal clock” because although I _do_ set a digital alarm clock , I wake up before it more than 95% of the time. Case in point, I was on a business trip last week and discovered the first morning that I had set the alarm correctly, but the clock itself was 12 hours off - by waking up within 3 minutes of when it should’ve gone off. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/38 "2017-05-09T01:19:45Z")
Internal clock, I am always up before I need to get up. My late puppy (bulldog) would sleep until 10 am if I let her. She was not a morning dog. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/39 "2017-05-09T01:20:09Z")
My cats come and inform me that it is time to feed them. To some degree also internal clock, as I tend to get up at the same time even if the cats don’t come and get me but I think that’s because they’ve trained me. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2017, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-wake-up/786142/40 "2017-05-09T01:42:59Z")
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