wake up!!!

[juldea]

Ideas:

1) Sleeping in the bathtub. Have some kind of mattress-type thing with rubber sheets. In the morning, instead of hitting the alarm clock, hit the faucet and the shower switch. The water would be cold for a short time, maybe 5-10 seconds, to super-wake me up, and then it'd be warm and I could shower without having to move much. I could prop my "bed" up against the side of the shower to drip-dry during the day.

2) Keep a cup of water next to the bed to pour on myself in the mornings. Con: I probably wouldn't do it. ;)

3) Keep a cup of water next to the bed for goldbug to pour on me in the mornings. Pro: she would probably do it more often than if she had to go to the kitchen to get the water

4) Disable my snooze button. Con: I don't know how.

Vote (1 is a bad idea, 5 is a wonderful idea):
[Poll #18714]

Comments

[goldbug.livejournal.com]

i think that getting to pour water on julia would be a great incentive for ME to get up.

[ex-dervish821.livejournal.com]

i think you should just go to bed earlier and get up. it isn't that hard.

[lo5an.livejournal.com]

Have you considered drinking a large glass or two of water before going to bed so you have to get up and go to the bathroom when your alarm goes off?

Also, is it possible that your alarm is too agressive? Strangely enough, I'm finding it much easier to get up after switching to a quiter, calmer alarm.

Keeping regular hours helps me a lot. When I was having major sleep problems, I took 5HTP before sleeping and that helped me get better, more regular sleep. From what I read, most people don't get enough good sleep.

[reify.livejournal.com]

Medical technology has had a solution to this problem for many decades now. They're called smelling salts, and they're cheap. Keep a bowl of them by your bed, when the alarm goes off, pop one, and it'll knock your ass straight into full consciousness.

Along the lines of lo5an's suggestion, there are also gradual alarm clocks that are supposed to work well. They start off with very soft white noise and over the course of 10 to 20 minutes crescendo into some normal-volume alarm-like sound.

diurnal light cycles

[reify.livejournal.com]

hey, check it out... new medical discovery ties light exposure to bodyclock by way of photosensitive cells in eye.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/health/08CLOC.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/08/health/08CLOC.html)

[juldea.livejournal.com]

If I drank water before bed, I would be waking up to use the bathroom long before morning. I don't have much capacity for such things.

The alarm clock might be it, though. I have a annoying buzzing sound that starts quiet and gradually increases in volume until, well, it used to wake Rachel up in the other room before it woke me up. So by the time I'm awake, it's really damn loud and annoying and I just smack it to shut it up. Maybe if I put some softer radio on instead, I would be more likely to lie in bed and listen, but not fall back asleep.

I keep very regular hours. I'm getting 7-8 hours of sleep a night, I mean geez, that should be enough right? *sigh*

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I have a gradual alarm... it always would wake rachel, and sometimes now wakes goldbug, before it penetrates my senses.

Where can I get smelling salts? By popping one, do you mean breaking something open, or eating it? I just know them as something in a bottle you wave in front of someone's face when they've fainted.

[starfruit.livejournal.com]

i think you should sleep in the bathtub just so i can tell people about my friend who sleeps in the bathtub.

[withlyn.livejournal.com]

I find it easier to get up when the alarm is quieter, too. Mine starts really quiet and gets louder.

[withlyn.livejournal.com]

Your alarm doesn't seem very gradual to me... Maybe it gets louder over time, but it certainly seems to start much louder than mine.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

I think it sounds like a fun idea to at least try!

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yes, it doesn't start very quiet. But it definitely gets louder!

[vambot5.livejournal.com]

I assume that 1 = terrible idea and 5 = great idea. if this is not the case, then you will have slightly skewed results.

I like the idea of keeping a glass of water by your bed at all times just in case you need that extra wake-up motivation.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Heh, I said in the post that 1=terrible and 5=good :)

[reify.livejournal.com]

Smelling salts are generally poppers. A small glass ampule containing liquid, surrounded by a paper wrapper and a little string netting. You squeeze it to break the glass, and the liquid leaks into the paper, is exposed to the air, and volatilizes.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well I tried Walgreen's last night, and they said they didn't have any and that I probably can't find them retail. I'll be trying the internet now, but do you have any idea where to find them?