Early mornings

[Dolly]

i ditched curtains in favour of a black out blind thing a while back.

if the blind is down and its very dark i dont get up

if its up and letting lots of light in i get up easily.

[Khare]

Yeah natural light helps me get up at half 6 when I've got a morning shift.

[justalex81]

just get up you lazy f**kkers 

[Toby]

I dread waking up, but if indontbwake / get up

Sleep won't pay the bills

[Gavv8]

I've got up at 5am every weekday for the past 11 years and i still can't help getting up early at weekends..

[Mikehamid]

I had the same problem at uni, but have cured it now. How's your diet? And do you exercise at all? Do you consume much alcohol?

[stealthwolf]

A week of nights followed by a week of days is enough to feck anyone's sleep pattern up. Sounds like you don't have adequate time to get used to either shift pattern and you may benefit from doing a month of nights followed by a month of days.

[scarr89]

A week of nights followed by a week of days is enough to feck anyone's sleep pattern up. Sounds like you don't have adequate time to get used to either shift pattern and you may benefit from doing a month of nights followed by a month of days.

That ain't going to happen.  The night shifts are 1630 til finish, some nights its 2000, others is 0200...All over the shop really!

I find it hard to wake up, although not so much with the light mornings. In winter I'm really bad though.

I use an app called 'alarm clock xtreme' - you can set it so that you have to solve simple maths sums to get it to shut up, or shake it for a given time, or do a captcha

I find 10 sums usually wakes me up enough to realise I need to get out of bed!

That literally sounds like the best idea ever...HOWEVER, that isn't my issue getting up, it is just NOT sleeping through my alarms I will have to try a new alarm at the weekend!

I had the same problem at uni, but have cured it now. How's your diet? And do you exercise at all? Do you consume much alcohol?

Diet is 6/10 I'd say for healtyness, I take vitamins and don't eat much chocolate/crisps etc. Exercise loads. I binge on alcohol at weekends like most 20 something year olds but not during the week...What did you do to cure this not waking up habit?

[Golf_GT_TDI]

Had 6:00am starts one time I hated it always felt tired literally took hours to fully wake up didn't matter how much sleep I had, then I worked night shifts, was never tired, went in to work wide awake every night came home went sleep woke up lunchtime had day to do stuff before start work would definately do that again.

[mcgee9t2]

Search on the internet for loudest alarm. the one my mate has plays a siren at roughly the same loudness as an air horn. and vibrates too so makes a racket.