Does waking up to an alarm clock ever get pleasant? After so many years waking up to it, after changing the ring tone so many times, and after playing with different snoozing strategies, I have never enjoyed the 1 second shock that I get every time the alarm clock runs off. It is not so much about what time I wake up but how it happens. I am a morning person, I enjoy the sense of victory that waking up early gives me, the feeling of having beaten everyone to the day, and the thought that I will be done with it before everyone else.