despertarse

The everyday reflexive verb for waking up yourself — me desperté temprano, ¿a qué hora te despiertas normalmente? This is the form learners should default to for describing their own waking up, as opposed to plain despertar, which more often wakes someone/something else or awakens a feeling.

• Me desperté a las seis de la mañana. — I woke up at six in the morning.
• ¿A qué hora te despiertas los fines de semana? — What time do you wake up on weekends?
• Nos despertamos con el sonido de la lluvia. — We woke up to the sound of the rain.

Dropping the reflexive pronoun and saying desperté a las seis for "I woke up at six" — while heard in some places, me desperté is the safer, universally understood everyday choice, and dropping se risks sounding like a transitive verb missing its object.

Often confused with despertar.