When you wake up in the morning and just want to curl up and go back to sleep, what makes you stay awake?
:yawn:
Fear of missing the bus…
Habit.
I’m having trouble lately making myself stay awake once I wake up. I’m sleeping about 8 hours a night, yet I just want to lay in bed all day. Maybe it’s the heat.
What makes me get up? A desperate need to pee! That means I need to get down the stairs without falling (have done so several times - not recommended). Once I’m moving it’s hard to go back to sleep. I can never sleep for more than five hours.
djm
Other people’s schedules.
I have my internet clock radio tuned to a station that’s known to be playing the type of fiddle tune I’m currently working on.
I was using my iPod clock radio to wake me up to what ever particular tune I’m currently working on, but I’m getting quicker at picking up tunes and it got boring.
The alarm goes off = music starts playing at a half hour before I officially need to get out of bed.
When I’m awake enough to be aware of the music playing I use it to time myself doing a program of stretching exercises that I can do while in bed. If I want to rest a while between stretches, I time that by the tunes too.
Because I’m listening to the music while doing the stretches I speculate that not only am I picking up the tunes, I’m catching them while focusing on my body maintaining a relaxed state.
If I sleep late I get a headache.
I don’t like starting the day late.
I need to pee.
I’m hungry.
There’s a cat walking around on me and a dog staring at me
from beside the bed. Occasionally saying “rerf.”
It’s harder in the winter when the sun isn’t up.
Then, it can be a process much like ripping off a band aid. You just do it.
smell o’ coffee. But it means that the other Weekender has gotten up and made it. Then it’s safe.
I have one of those pillow-top mattresses. Man, that thing is so comfortable. Gettin’ out of bed is a daily task.
As for alarm, we have this pyramid-y wood clock that dings softly once. Then it increases in frequency, so you are persuaded… It was a “gift.” But it’s better than the ol Westclox.
I have one of those but haven’t used it in some time…not sure why. I was hoping the “golden mean” or whatever that pattern of dongs was called, would so alter my brain wave pattern that waking would be a breeze, but it didn’t. Mostly though, I think it took up too much space on my little old dinged up bedside table.
7 rounds of the ‘Sun salutation’
Don’t need coffee after that 
What’s really fun is when the batteries run just low enough to keep the clock running but not ding the tone bar. Been late to work twice for that reason, in fact, both of my kids were late to school as well, making a total of four persons late.
Nice new aviator, btw.
That’s me too! 
Mainly work.
I know what you’re talking about. A friend of mine has one of those wood things. I want one. Right now I just use a normal alarm clock and it’s all too easy to ignore. 
Your cat says “rerf”?? Hairballs, maybe. A cat sitting on my chest chucking hairballs would probably get me up. Lord knows, not much else does.
No. The cat says "brrrah! Then it says it again in a peeved tone because my husband pulled its tail.
My cat says “Merle! Merle!”
my cat starts walking heavy on me about 7:30, you cat people know a cat can walk soft or heavy footed. If it’s earlier than that I use my cell phone clock alarm with the “Bullfrog” tone increasing in volume with infinite snooze pushings 
My girlfriend’s the same. I find it strange as I could happily stay in bed all day.
Anyway, with regards to the original question my mortgage makes me get up instead of launching the alarm clock out the door and going back to sleep.
I have to orient myself every morning that I get up. What I dream, if I’m sleeping in my own bed, and how hectic my life is are all things that matter about how much orienting I have to do. Who am I, How old am I, Where am I, What day/month/year is it, What is my schedule for today…
And let me tell you, if I get one of those things wrong, my whole day is a mess. There is no greater joy than thinking that I have to go to grade school only to figure out while I am in the bathroom that I really have to go to work.