Occasionally, she'd wake me up during the night to let me know that I'd crossed it.

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When I was young, my father used to give me a hard shake to wake me up.

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Its hard to wake up during depressing times so wake me up pls.

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And it will wake me up out of a dead sleep.

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My few experiments with this were rather unsuccessful, with the alarm once going off before I managed to get to sleep and another time failing to wake me up at all.

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Please wake me up at 10am.

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Indeed, when I was living in Indonesia as a child, when my mother would wake me up early in the morning to teach me, among the books that she used to pull off the shelf were the legends of Greek mythology.

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From colored lighting and ambient music to digital art (on your TV), temperature, window blinds and specially designed mood-enhanced wake-up calls (like "wake me gently" or "wake me wildly"), you can direct the room's whole look and feel, all without having to get out of bed.

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So I try to make sure no one wakes me up until I'm ready to wake up.

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This is a good wake-up call for people like me.

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Lots of people can't wake up properly in the morning without me.

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To me it is just a big wake up call.

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And I have been shocked and upset when New Yorkers have said to me they barely paid attention to that wake-up call.

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Gorilla day begins for me with a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call at the Serena Hotel, then a two-hour drive to the Volcanoes National Park, where gorillas live on the Rwanda-Congo-Uganda border.

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As she battles with depression, Noch Noch is on a quest to be the wake-up call for others in similar plights in her blog, Be Me.

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It was 8 am, and around me the denizens of the open-plan platzkartny (third class) carriage were starting to wake up.

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