What wakes you up in the morning?

I wake up to the sunlight flooding in and make myself a cuppa but I'm up and down all night to the loo so it's just another wakening for me.

The light.

Well it used to be the birds earlier in the year as we have lots here but they don’t seem to be doing such a dawn chorus at the moment. Do you think it’s the changing weather patterns ? The summer seems to be getting earlier every year and August feels like September ?

My puppy! It's like having a young baby again. Her bladder wakes her up between 5.30 and 6.30 whereupon she becomes full of beans whilst I look like death warmed up.

Arthritic pain in my back for me or being too warm.....

Northernsoulnanna

We have a flock of geese who fly over everymorning usually about 7am make such a noise.
They fly from lakes by the A1 (5 mins away) to the lakes outside our village
They usually return near the A1 about 6
Its as if they wear watches.
This is followed by the Red Kites they make a sqauking noise. They are circleing all day, love watching them..

Why do geese make such a racket when they fly over? They seem be screeching at each other non-stop!

What on earth are they saying?

I wake at 8 most days, though I am often a bit of a nightbird, now spending a long time to get disabled dH to bed and need a bit of winding down time. I wake either for the loo or a drink of water and get up at once if after about 6.30 otherwise my scoliosis starts to get to me.

On holiday in our caravan I can happily sleep till 9.

Usually my dogs barking when OH lets them out, the sun shining in and making me too hot, or needing the loo.

I have an internal body clock . I used to get up at 6 for work and 3 years after retiring , I still wake at 6-6.30. Plus the birdsong

Hip pain and puss cats wanting breakfast!

Like the majority, my bladder.

Then getting myself moving for my gym class, in the hope of staving off decrepitude as long as possible! Hope I'm not doing a King Cnut.....

Bladder, cat needing to go out, restless legs, daylight, over active brain. If I get five hours solid sleep I am delighted 😳

Used to be Morning Wood, now needing Loo or Bright Sunshine

So here I am about 2.30am. Had an operation yesterday and as usual my back and knees are complaining about the stress and uncomfortable positions I had to lie in. This means inevitably on days like this, I am wide awake, and when I admit to myself that I am not going to get back to sleep, I put my dressing gown on and sit here reading messages and adding my twopennorth. After about an hour I might get back to sleep, but if I do I then seem towake with a headache and groggy so sometimes I accept the inevitable toand just stay up. I do quiet jobs like putting washing away etc so at least I am catching up with things which then mean I can get out early to the market etc. Cheering to know that other gn's who are wide awake may add interesting posts and I am not the only one awake!!

Tenko

I have an internal body clock . I used to get up at 6 for work and 3 years after retiring , I still wake at 6-6.30. Plus the birdsong

Yep....I've got that one - ie the "internal body clock".

It makes even less sense with me - as I've been retired for even longer (ie over 10 years) and yet still I tend to be up at around 6 a.m. (as that's what I had to do for work).

These days I've been having a new phenomenon - of many nights where my dreams (what snippets I remember when I wake up) aren't fantastical "could only happen in dreams" type stuff. They feel like I'm living a whole different life (at a younger stage than I currently am) and there's snippets of jobs, relationships, social life (just as realistic as the ones I actually had iyswim) and that's a new phenomenon to me.

Wondering if anyone else has "alternate true-to-life real life scenarios" going on in their dreams at night.....

My dog, whining for her breakfast.

One of three things wakes me up. The collared doves on my roof, the cat meowing for his breakfast or my bladder.
I would like a nice lie-in sometimes, but it never happens.

Internal alarm clock set at 5.30am.

Morning here in Oz. Just wakened to a very wet bed! Hot water bottle disaster. Off to buy electric blanket!

Well Redhead56 I'd be unplugging Alexa and turning the pressure valve down on the tap.
My dog wakes me at 7.30 on the dot needs his breakfast & a walk.

Usually my bladder ,but sometimes cramp .
Today was a very unpleasant nightmare .
Occasionally it's birds and sunshine .

Ladyleftfieldlover

Often my bladder or more recently the blackbirds who are nesting just beyond my window. Their squawking is deafening.

Dont suffer silence about these sodding black birds
Destroy the nest, It's as simple as that, Problem solved.

Withnobsonit: oh dear, that’s an unpleasant thought, not to mention illegal.

I usually wake up to the radio tuning in to Farming Today on radio 4, though I’m always pleased when I wake earlier in time for the news briefing and the shipping forecast - that really sets me up for a happy, settled kind of a day.

Bertie woke me up every morning around 4:30. He's a little birdie with a beautiful, distinctive voice calling out WEEBOO! WEEBOO!

On the 21st of July, we had a massive storm here with loads of thunder and lightning and rain, and sadly, I've not heard little Bertie since then.

I hope he's OK...

Other than him, a desperation to wee and a mad thirst wakes me up!

WithNobsOnIt

Your attitude towards the blackbirds is vile and vicious and psychopathic and narcy.

I know they can be really noisy, but that's in their nature, it's their way of communicating.

Would you destroy a nursery and all the kids because the kids are all screaming?

LEAVE THOSE BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS ALONE.