Waking up.

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I have a problem with waking up. If I am abruptly woken up by anything, I am growgy, and have problems with sensory processing for the rest of the day. If I am allowed to 'come to," my day goes much better with fewer problems.

I'lm wondering if this is a common thing for people on the spectrum, or if it's just me.

Same here. I cannot stand to be waken by an alarm clock. If I need to get up at a certain time in the morning. I just go to bed earlier so I can wake up before the alarm goes off.

I can have a bit of a problem with this as well. Especially if I wake up in the middle of a dream - I can be "off" the whole day if that happens.

It's good to hear I'm not the only one. I can do better on 4 hours where I wake naturally than compared to 7 hours forced awake.

I'm a lighter sleeper, so I barely sleep through noise, except if the noise is quite quiet or if I'm right in a deep sleep. But I use an alarm on my phone to wake me up, otherwise I would wake up whenever my body's ready. I thought that was normal, as most people I know rely on alarms to wake them up.

What I do is set 3 alarms on my phone; the first one for just over an hour before I have to get up, the second one for about 15 minute I have to get up, then the final one for the time I have to get up. I do this because it's nice to wake up and know you still have another hour of sleep so it gives you a chance to turn over and go back to sleep and perhaps have a dream (I like dreaming). Then I get awoken by the next alarm and I know I have to get up soon so I sort of drift off into a very light sleep, then the final alarm goes off and I feel more ready to get up. I used to just set one alarm and had to get out of bed as soon as that one alarm went off, and so didn't give me a chance to wake up fully.

I don't feel groggy for the rest of the day though, only for about half hour or so at the most. I usually wake up groggy when interrupted during an afternoon nap. Sometimes I have woke up wondering what time of the day it was. Once I was in the middle of an afternoon nap and was woken by a noise outside, but I must have been very drowsy because my brain was still half-asleep, and I wondered out into the kitchen and found myself pouring cereal into a cup. Then my mum came in and asked why I wasn't having cereal in a bowl, and I was like ''oh yes....'' and got out a bowl.

I have a terrible time waking up, always have. I am not really conscious for the first half hour. I'm disoriented and clumsy.

I think I have a built in alarm clock or something, usually I'll wake up 5 minutes before the alarm goes off, regardless of when it's set. As long as I get about 6 hours of sleep I can do this. Any less increases the chance of needing the alarm clock.

I just accidentally stumbled onto a perfect solution for this. It never occurred to me to use my iPod alarm with a clock, but now I have a clock to do that with. So I have two alarms on it. The first one is really nice classical music to wake me up gently. The second one that goes off a few minutes before I actually have to get up is rock. Works great!

It practically takes a bomb being detonated next to me to wake me up. I sleep on the top of a bunk bed and I have too alarm clocks on the floor. Every morning I manage to get out of bed, hit the snoozes, and climb back up the ladder without waking up! It can take anywhere from a half hour to even several hours before I finally am conscious. Sometimes I turn them off instead of hitting snooze. And when I do get up, I am very groggy and sluggish.I've missed a lot of classes because of this. I even slept through a small fire in our house once.

on weekends and days where there is no school/work, i usually fall asleep around 1, and i will start to somewhat wake up around 9...but i won't be actually standing until 10 or 11!
in between, it's just a state of being groggy, half-dreaming and jumping between awake and adrift.
on school days, i usually have 2 alarms, 10 minutes apart.
i am a very light sleeper however. i'm waken up by the slightest thump.

I don't sleep much. If I go to bed early, I'm awake at midnight and I'm up for the rest of the day but usually, I'm up until 3-4 in the morning and catch a few hours then. I most always wake up feeling refreshed even though I only get/need a few hours sleep. Try and wake me during those hours of sleep though and you'll be lucky. Even though I don't sleep for more than a few hours, once I'm asleep, you could drive a freight train through the room and I won't wake up