to wonder if most people get up as soon as they wake up?

[bringincrazyback]

Just curious. I struggle to get enough sleep most nights, so that's part of the issue, but even when I do, I find it excruciating to get straight out of bed as part of me is invariably still in 'sleep' mode. (In particular, going straight from sleep to shower is hugely unpleasant, although part of that is down to sensory processing issues which mean I dislike the sensation of getting wet generally - I do still shower in spite of it, though, before anyone starts thinking I'm a soap-dodger. ) This leads to me having to set alarms a bit earlier than I actually need to be up, which I know is barmy, but I would actually rather sacrifice 20 mins or so of sleep and work my way up to getting up a little more gently, than have to get out of bed the minute I wake up.

Anyone else the same?

I do get up immediately but only to make a coffee and go back to bed again! I’ll usually spend an hour in bed then with my coffee. It’s my “quiet time” and I really enjoy it. At weekends I make a pot of coffee and take it up! I then spend a couple of hours reading, playing games on my iPad or MNing. Then I’ll often lie down for another hour or so. I love my bed!

I jump out of bed, on the first note of the alarm. Dh thinks I'm mad

I get up straight away but all it means is that your circadian rhythm is set later so you don’t naturally want to leap out of bed.

My alarm is set for 5.15 and is the horribly violent duck quack sound. If I don’t get up immediately then I’m done for, it ruins my morning routine to the point where I’m not sure what I need to do and I always end up opening my coffee shop late.

I have a baby so yes I do get straight up as soon as we wake so I can change his nappy etc. If I didn't have a baby though I would always lay in bed on my phone or just lying with my eyes closed contemplating wether to skip the day or not hahaah

I hate lying in bed. This morning I was up at 4am as I couldn't sleep due to the lurgy.

My alarm goes off at7. Then I snooze it three times to 7.30 then I get up. Can’t do alarm going off/ getting up straight away

I’m a night owl. I despise early mornings and don’t feel like I properly wake up (mentally) until 10am. I have 2 alarms set and snooze each one once. I have them set at random times (ie 07 minutes rather than on the hour) and change them up frequently to trick my brain into waking up and not doing autopilot back to sleep because it’s only xx time. I never remember the exact time I set my alarm the night before so I have to physically look at the time. Not sure if that will make any sense to anyone else but it tricks me into waking up sooner.

Getting out of bed in the winter is worse than the summer. The dark mornings and coldness makes me want to hibernate.

I used to but now I am at SAHM so sometimes I get a lie in on other days I get woken up extra early.

Have you tried showering/bathing before bed.

Alarm at 7am. Need to get up by 7.15 so i can be out the door by 7.45 at the very latest! I shower or bathe the night before

I get up immediately and quite easily, I'm pretty awake in the morning but do have a coffee first thing.

I do remember finding it hard to get up like you describe around 10 years ago - but I think that was when DS was little and used to get up in the night a lot.

So I think a disturbed sleep plus ME plus morning anxiety - no wonder you find it hard to wake up OP! My morning mood is very much "lots to do, lots to do" so I'm eager to just get started.

Do you find it's more difficult when the mornings are darker? In which case have a look at Lumie Bodyclock. Also do you struggle to fall asleep (rather than a disturbed sleep)? I'm sure you are aware of all the sleep aids but I did see something new called a Dodow available on Amazon. As for the morning anxiety, do you think you can try some relevant youtube hypnotherapy to listen to as you are snoozing in the morning to get you in a better mood?

I am not a morning person, it takes me time to come round. Two of my dc are similar, the third is the opposite and tends to be the first one up, he usually comes in and has a cuddle or reads a book while I wake up.

If you were alone, snooze buttons wouldn't exist.

If I get up as soon as I wake up things tend to go badly. I drop things, break things, cut myself on the bread knife, burn the toast....... it continues for most of the day.... So I lie still for maybe 20 minutes! (if time allows, 5 if I have to move faster 🤣). Life is even better if some kind person brings me a coffee in bed! Once I am out of bed however I am awake, fully functional and ready to go without mishaps as long as I have followed that wake up plan.
DP on the other hand has to get up as soon as he wakes up and does not appreciate a cuppa in bed. However, he takes an age to be fully functional.
We both enjoy having that time to ourselves without having to deal with the other in our “morning space” it works well for us.

It’s interesting, it never occurred to me that people would get up straight away. That takes real strength of character

Getting out of bed in the winter is worse than the summer. The dark mornings and coldness makes me want to hibernate.

I agree. Dark Winter mornings are awful for those of us who are not morning people at the best of times. Everything is telling you that it’s still the middle of the night and you should still be fast asleep until 9 o clock at the earliest.

Yes, always!! Where I grew up school started before 7 so I can't even remember not being an early bird.

*Cranky17",

I don't think it's anything to do with strength of character if you are well rested and are most energetic in the morning naturally.
My aunt says if she stays in bed any time after 6AM she gets a headache. She can't stay awake past 10PM for love or money, I can be writing an essay and baking a cake at 1AM, it's just how I am.

I set three alarms, 6am, 6.15am and then 6.30am. Then I snooze three times with five minute intervals! Once I'm up, I'm like, BING! AWAKE! Strangely, I'm defintely a morning person...work that one out!

I always feel more alert when I get up when, or just before, my alarm goes off. This is rare.
What usually happens is that I doze (don't have a snooze button) or get up and kip on the settee, and feel bleurgh afterwards.
I am not a morning person and am always telling myself to go to bed earlier, but I am loath to cut short my nocturnal farting about.

Like you, @bringincrazyback, I struggle to get to sleep at night - tossing and turning until 2.30am is not at all unusual for me - and then, once the morning comes, I sleep like I'm stunned, and find it really hard to wake up at all. I'm on antidepressants, night and morning, and these don't help either.

I don't work, so I don't have to get up at a particular time most days - apart from the mornings when I have an appointment or go out to knitting group - and I tend to hit the snooze button quite a lot, before I manage to force myself out of bed. If I do have an appointment to get up for, I set the alarm a bit earlier than the latest time I must get up, so I can have at least one snooze before I get up.

Sometimes, especially at the weekend, if I don't have anything I need to get up for, I can find it nearly impossible to wake up. Dh often brings me coffee in bed, and there have been occasions where I have been aware of this, but sleep's hold over me has been so strong that it's like being in quicksand, and I haven't been able to resist being drawn back into sleep - and I wake up sometimes an hour or more later, to a cup of cold coffee! Luckily I am used to this, as I have always had a bad habit of letting coffee go cold but never want to waste it, so I am just as happy to drink it cold.

I suffer from insomnia and I work shifts into the bargain (often swapping between days and nights in the same week), I often struggle to fall asleep then, once asleep, I wake frequently and often for hours. On a work day I get up at 6am, if I am off on a weekday I get up at 6am and if it is the weekend my partner and I will lie in bed, chatting and drinking coffee until we get up at about 8.

I meant to say I get up on the first alarm, I find hitting the snooze button several times makes me feel more tired.

I have a Lumi sunlight alarm clock too and it's very effective. It comes on gradually over 15 minutes, although I think you can set them for less or more time as well.

I do set the sound as well as the light, but more often than not the light is enough on its own to wake me up. It's much more gentle than being jolted awake by a harsh alarm, or waking to the radio, like I used to, and waking up confused because the DJ's voice has come into your dream and made it even weirder.