How to Fake Waking Up

Caught sleeping and need to fake waking up to hide it?


Steps

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    Make groans and give incomplete responses to the waker without opening your eyes.
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    Squint your eyes (with or without light coming in the room) and rub them if you would like.
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    Once you become "conscious," put your hands up behind your head or to your cheeks and take in a deep breath with your nose only. Upon letting air out, groan some more.
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    Slowly look round at the waker, and groan again.
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    Eventually, open your eyes wide and either lay there on your back/sit up in bed/or sit on the edge of the bed with your head down for about a minute.
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    While looking as if it were a painful task, make your way out of the bed and stretch upon getting out.
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    Ask what time it is, and perhaps mumble to yourself
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    If they turn on the light put the covers over your head and roll around and say "stop"
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    To really fool them, put a tiny bit of black eye shadow under your eyes. This will prove that you "just woke up".
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    Act tired in front of everyone, but not too tired or people may think you didn't get enough sleep.
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    Pretend to "light sleep".
    1. If someone woke you up at 6:00 in the morning, go to bed a little bit earlier to teach them not to wake you up so early (at least not on school days.)
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Warnings

  • Make sure you don't exaggerate any of the above steps or they might not believe you.
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  • If they don't believe you, there's no real way of proving you weren't asleep the entire night and you faked waking up.
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Updated: October 18, 2022
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Categories: Sleep Health

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