If Cubby wants to wake me up he has a few things he does before he goes for the hair bitting or the head bitting. He will keep his face right in my face most of the time that will wake me up, if that doesn't work he will bite my nose and if that still doesn't work he will go for the eye lids, which almost always will work if nothing else did. When he bites my eye lids, he will tug on it a little which is more than enough pain to wake up anyone. But once it didn't work and he started biting my hair and head. I woke up and there he was wanting to cuddle. So that is what he got then after 2 minutes he fell asleep.