What are your tricks for making sure you wake up in the morning?

I have never been a morning person and lately it's been getting more difficult to get out of bed in the morning. I think my issue is that I will wake up an hour before my alarm goes off then proceed to have lucid dreams so I don't want to wake up and leave the dream.

I currently have two alarms that go off 3 minutes apart (one alarm at my bedside the other across the room). I tried waking my brain up by playing a game but that didn't work (played a game in scrabble but as soon as I played a lengthy word I fell asleep).