I know a lot of men believe that morning wood is a gift, a sort of sign that your body wants you to start the day off right. When they wake up with one, they'll put it to good use.
However, for me, it's not that way. I do sometimes wake up with an erection, but it's practically worthless. It's as hard as a regular erection, but it's mostly numb. I can stroke it and keep it standing, but I barely feel any pleasure from it. I usually have to go a half hour or more before I have an orgasm with morning wood. I normally wouldn't complain about going for half an hour or longer, but it's typically a really dull half hour. It's like I'm awake, but my penis is sleeping in. I've stopped trying to use it, since the results are so disappointing. (Actually, it's worse than worthless. Not only can I not effectively masturbate with it, but it makes it hard to pee, too.)
I have no problem the rest of the time. If I get up, then start masturbating about a half hour after I wake up, I'll have full pleasurable sensations from first touch through orgasm. Things are fine other times of the day, too.
I've tried my hands, I've tried lubes, and I've tried toys, but it's always the same.

Does anyone here have any tips or tricks for how I can make it wake up when I do? I'd like to be able to enjoy my morning wood, too. There's just something exciting about the thought of an orgasm to start the day. (After all, I already end the day with one...)

Probably you want to have a piss ! Should make it go down then you can start busiess as usual! Myself I have np problem and the morning wood gets looked after in my morning shower !

Funny i have almost the same experiences , if i try to jack when i first wake up its different , the stroking feels really good but when i cum the orgasm sucks not intense at all , still worth it but not that satisfying....

quite agree, waking up all horny & that is bloody inconvenient, the body just isnt ready for where the mind wants to go. but sometimes after a nice long hot shower, the damn thing is just raging, i mean burning, screaming, stiff-as-steel & extra-long & theres no time to take it slow & build up a good reserve, just stretching & swelling it to the max for a few minutes whilst looking at hot pix is enough to blow - too bad it mostly dribbles, the energy released feels like it should be shooting across the room. then its hurry up or be late for work, bloody hell can't even enjoy the buzz!

I thought it was just me. Sometimes if I wake up hard, I'll stroke myself some, just for the hell of it, but I don't usually go to orgasm. If I do, it takes me a while get there, the sensations aren't very strong, and the orgasm is unsatisfying. I've never had a really good wank in the morning.

I appear to be in the minority because I don't get morning wood.

The phenomenon of nocturnal erections is actually not linked to sexual arousal. ALot of men (especially younger, more sexually excitable ones) mistake this for arousal. What is actually happening is that the bladder fills during the night. As the bladder fills, it presses on the prostate and causes the penis to enlarge because of prostatic stimulation. THe problem with Stroking off your morning wood- is that "all systems are set for go" to take a piss. Once you switch your brain to think "lets ejaculate instead" it takes alot longer for the valves, etc to switch over from urine to semen mode. Often these ejaculations will feel "forced" and will produce alot less semen. IF you just get up and urinate before taking care of it-- the body will relax and the sex organs will automatically be rewired for sex and not for urination

well that would explain also why the urge to piss upon rising sometimes has to fight a formidable but useless hard-on

If we ever get the chance to design an upgraded human body, we should definitely look into working on this. The penis should only get hard when it's going to be used for fun. This is what we get for having bodies designed by a civil engineer--who else would put a waste facility right next to the recreational facility?

http://sexuality.about.com/od/malesexualanatomy/a/morning_erectio.htm?iam=dpile_100

I enjoy the morning wood but perhaps it's because I'm naturally a morning person, usually wake at six or earlier and never have any trouble in getting out of bed in the mornings.

I was hoping for an answer about using the erection immediately, but it sounds like the best advice is to let it subside and try again in a bit, which I already knew would work. So, basically, it sounds that I'm out of luck. Oh well. Nothing really wrong with waiting a half hour or so before taking care of business. Just a little disappointing, that's all.

As for the full bladder explanation, I don't buy it.
A) I don't get erections during the day when I have to go. If a full bladder frequently caused erections, they'd make upside-down urinals.
B) Prostate stimulation is a friend of mine, and that, sir, is not prostate stimulation.
C) I was able to try an experiment today. I woke up with an erection and a full bladder and I took care of neither one. I got out of bed, did some other things for a while (roughly half hour or so), then began masturbating. Despite the full bladder, the sensation and response was pretty much normal, not the dullness I'd experience while using the morning wood.

I have the same problem. I usually wake up with wood and take care of it in the shower but it takes much longer than usual to cum and the sensations aren't as strong as a wank at other times. I assume my brain and nerves don't wake up as quickly as my cock

My experience is similar. In fact I try to avoid getting rid of my morning wood with a JO. The orgasms just arent as strong, so I just let my wood go down on its own and save the JO for later.