Comments on: Morning person

By: sleep deprived johnny

sleep deprived johnny — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:27:49 +0000

yeah mornings are the worst for me.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:47:03 +0000

I think I’m like you… I can’t start the day until I have a decent coffee and I see the news…

By: Gab

Gab — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:06:21 +0000

My wife and my son are simply not morning people, my son is just 2 years old and when he wakes up, the first thing he says is : No wake up daddy….
so cure

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:44:08 +0000

In my former apartment I had a loft bed and put the alarm clock somewhere down across the room. It used to happen that I stepped down the ladder from the bed, pushed the snooze button and went up to the bed again, for another 9 minutes…
Your trick with doing some exercise to break the zombie state sounds very clever!

By: simon

simon — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:34:08 +0000

I also have the snooze button disease. Have so far found two solutions, one being a really really kind partner who does not have the problem, but is nice to you and helps you out of bed slowly, coffee made etc.
The other ruse, which I use when travelling or working on my own, is to carry two alarm clocks, a nice quiet one escalating to a really bad boy, and I just place the nasty alarm clock out of reach, so I actually have to get out of bed to stop it.
When you expect really bad mornings (late nights) place other things in the way so you have to do something else (like pick up the chair placed in the way) when you get up to kill the clock.
I have known myself to get up, walk/stagger to the other side of a hotel room, back to bed and wake up 3 hours later. So the chair idea works, breaks the moronic zombie state, it seems to me that multi-tasking in the zone is enough. I am a bad case though.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:12:02 +0000

at lest now I realized what to do: disable the snooze button! that’s it! no snooze leaves me exactly with two options, either get up immediately or sleep till noon and miss every morning appointment.

By: natalie

natalie — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:26 +0000

snooze-button-disease – that’s how i call it – hate those people who invented this button…

By: Connie

Connie — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:30:17 +0000

… got the same problem and call for hibernation – the only solution in this case

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:05:40 +0000

right, the press release is from 2005 and still no product launch. but the website does look promising though. maybe they’re still in closed beta and need some more guinea pigs. I’d happily offer myself for a project where the main requirement is a sound sleep…

By: helge

helge — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:58:41 +0000

i have the same problem unfortunately. it’s less of a problem in summer though, when it isn’t dark outside in the morning. i’ve blogged about it more than two years ago as well: http://www.helge.at/2005/04/wake-me-up-at-the-right-time/ – and still have no such alarm clock