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[Golden_Pigeon]

What the deal with them ? Why do something like that. It's like infliging to oneself the painful process of waking up and sleeping up every 5 minutes.

ENLIGHT ME

edit: also, provide solutions for living an healthy life around such monsters.

 

[OneEightZero]

This, but also set it for every 10 minutes afterwards and you'll have my partner.

 

[13ruce]

I have a internal clock whenever i set my alarm i always wake up 5 minutes prior it goes off.

So no need to put it earlier or whatever.
I set 2 alarms 10 mins apart just incase tho always instead of just one.

Edit:
My sister does the snooze thing and i hate it lol. Thing goes off for a hour straight every 5 mins again for a whole hour.

 

[Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order]

If waking up is a process rather than instant for you, you want to set aside time for it.

 

[WickedCobra03]

I do not understand this. I get snoozing like once or whatever, but I know people who snooze for the alarm to go off 5 minutes later to just hit snooze again.... this goes on for that hour you were talking about.

I don't get how this helps, but also, is probably really annoying for anyone around you. Right? Like no one likes hearing an alarm go off every 5 minutes, be it a soulmate, roomate, sibling, etc... right?

 

[Golden_Pigeon]

If waking up is a process rather than instant for you, you want to set aside time for it.

it's a torture for the others who have light sleep though, i almost never go back to sleep after the first alarm

I don't get how this helps, but also, is probably really annoying for anyone around you. Right? Like no one likes hearing an alarm go off every 5 minutes, be it a soulmate, roomate, sibling, etc... right?

It's horrendous

 

[Earthbound64]

I have a internal clock whenever i set my alarm i always wake up 5 minutes prior it goes off.

So no need to put it earlier or whatever.
I set 2 alarms 10 mins apart just incase tho always instead of just one.

This is pretty much me.

it's a torture for the others who have light sleep though, i almost never go back to sleep after the first alarm

People are different, news at 11.

 

[joelseph]

I have an internal poop timer that goes off at 6:30am.

 

[NoblesseOblige]

I have a internal clock whenever i set my alarm i always wake up 5 minutes prior it goes off.

So no need to put it earlier or whatever.

Same. My alarm is just a backup in case I don't wake up.

 

[MIMIC]

Haha, I do this. I don't know why.

But I sometimes set it for 30 or 20 minutes before I actually wake up.

 

[Boem]

I'm so lucky I have someone sleeping next to me because I sleep right through even the most annoying alarms. And she sets 2 alarms every morning - I don't even notice until she wakes me up herself.

If we ever break up I'll be fired within a week.

 

[yanipheonu]

I use Sleep for Android, which has a feature where it wakes you up within a set period of time, supposedly when it detects you were in a light level of sleep where you're more likely to get up easier.

I find it usually goes off ~30 min before the actual set alarm. I find it wakes me up well.

 

[gutter_trash]

i'm a sleepy head, I struggle to get up, slamming the snooze multiple times are like layers of baby steps into waking up, but really slowly

 

[blame space]

I hate to be awake. it takes a long time.

 

[Earthbound64]

But, yeah, my ex-wife used to do that. She would set the alarm for like half an hour before she had to get up (which was hours before I had to get up), and then ignore it while it while it was going off, until I had to get up to turn the darn thing off and wake her up because apparently that's just what I had to do.

Of course, she's my ex-wife now.
(Not for that reason - but it does help with getting a good night's sleep).

 

[Ogodei]

I could see it. Sometimes i get anxiety just knowing the alarm clock is on and that hurts my sleep. So you turn it off to help yourself get asleep, and then turn it on later when you're mid-cycle and it's easier to go back to sleep.

 

[sn00zer]

I used to set it to two hours before cuz I liked the feeling of having way more time to sleep

 

[bootsthecat]

I have my first alarm go off 2 hours before the time I really need to wake up for work. I do it so if I got enough sleep, I can get up and have an extra 2 hours to do stuff; otherwise, I kill it and get the extra z's.

I don't get hitting snooze every 10 mins for an hour, like what's the point. You get no good extra sleep.

Also I am in the 'clock across the room' camp. When that alarm goes off, I have to get out of bed to turn it off.

 

[Haly]

What the deal with them ? Why do something like that. It's like infliging to oneself the painful process of waking up and sleeping up every 5 minutes.

ENLIGHT ME

So you can get 30 minutes of "lying in the bed but not really sleeping because you need to get up for work but you're still tired and bed is comfortable" time without fucking over yourself.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

So I don't feel groggy.

 

[Dali]

Had an ex that did this. Except it was multiple hours early. Every 10 or 15 minutes she'd hit snooze through the duration.

 

[blame space]

I'd say there are at least five distinct levels of my waking life. three of them occur between my seven daily alarms.

 

[Golden_Pigeon]

A lot of sleeping monsters in this thread

 

[Sgt. Kabukiman]

Waking up is super difficult for me and I'm self-employed so technically I don't even have to set an alarm but if I don't wake up early I don't get anything done. So I have a whole goddamn process. When I was still in school, I did the one hour before waking up thing. Now, it's like this:

7:00 - light relaxing music
7:15 - all right move your ass and go start the coffee machine in the kitchen then come back to bed
7:30 - let's start the day you piece of shit

Works like a charm.

 

[BeforeU]

Because 5min of exrra sleep in the morning is as good as sex

 

[blame space]

do you guys ever have dreams that you're sleeping through your alarms?

 

[TheCochese]

I wish I could wake up instantly. Or within thirty minutes even.

 

[Futureman]

It feels so good to wake up from the nasty alarm and then go back to sleep until the snooze quicks in.

I set mine at 6:30 and get out of bed at 7.

 

[gutter_trash]

A lot of sleeping monsters in this thread

in winter, I can stay in bed for 12 hours+

 

[ponpo]

Being awake early and allowing yourself some lazy bed time > having to move immediately upon alarm.

 

[A Link to the Past]

I set an alarm to go off four hours before I wake up because I enjoy falling back to sleep.

 

[Golden_Pigeon]

in winter, I can stay in bed for 12 hours+

Abomination.

 

[Earthbound64]

I set an alarm to go off four hours before I wake up

What kind of monster are you?

 

[blame space]

I set seven alarms. one for every hour before I have to wake up.

 

[Golden_Pigeon]

I set seven alarms. one for every hour before I have to wake up.

One for each circle of hell you'll have to go through

 

[Haly]

do you guys ever have dreams that you're sleeping through your alarms?

I've had dreams where I slept through an alarm only to wake up to a dream that I slept through an alarm.

Two layers is as deep as I ever went though afaik.

 

[compo]

I need time a brief grievance period before I can muster the courage to drag myself out of bed.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

sometimes it takes three hours of an alarm clock going off every five hours before i can fully awake

and that's with an app that requires me to solve pretty difficult arithmetic problems to snooze

 

[Golden_Pigeon]

I need time a brief grievance period before I can mustard the courage to drag myself out of bed.

 

[Robdraggoo]

I do this.

The older I got the harder it was to wake up.

I also will sometimes hit the snooze fall back asleep, but dreamed I actually got up, got in the shower and started my day.

So if that alarm doesn't go off again, my subconscious won't even tell me to get up.

 

[RandomHopeInc]

I set mine for 7 am usually, I wake up, turn it off, then wake up at 8am. I wish I could could fix it, but I get intermittent insomnia at night.

 

[Mr-Joker]

What the deal with them ? Why do something like that. It's like infliging to oneself the painful process of waking up and sleeping up every 5 minutes.

ENLIGHT ME

Because like how some people are light sleepers some are heavy sleepers and need that extra steps to arouse them from sleep.

 

[Herne]

A friend of mine used to do it just for the "pleasure of falling asleep again".

 

[compo]

First off, exactly. Secondly, you caught my ninja edit where I originally said mustard instead of muster. I guess I'm going to have to live with that now.

 

[Jakten]

I spent years, thanks to college and a shitty job, sleep deprived from many all-nighters so my sleep schedule is eternally fucked. I have to set my alarm early because I'm trained to sleep walk and shut it off so I need it to repeat till I gradually wake. I've even tried having to run across the room and solve math problems to turn it off and I will still not wake up. I haven't slept a normal sleep schedule in like 12 years. I'm positive I am going to have severe health issues as I get older if I don't already.

 

[B4s5C]

I used to close my eyes and distract myself while pressing the minute button for the time. Then I would set my alarm which would force me to wake up because I have no idea what time it really was.

Now I just have a sleep monitoring system and a light bulb that simulates the sunrise.

 

[Golden_Pigeon]

First off, exactly. Secondly, you caught my ninja edit where I originally said mustard instead of muster. I guess I'm going to have to live with that now.

Don't worry my english is so poor that i thought it was kinda of a slack new slang for waking up.

 

[dyergram]

My girlfriend does this it's infuriating.

 

[BibiMaghoo]

I do this because for many years I had to. I was simply incapable of getting out of bed on time. I would sit up, turn off the alarm and go back to sleep with no memory of even doing it. I have 3 alarms set before I intend to get out of bed, the first about 40 minutes before I get up. Even now I am able to have conversations, sit up in bed and do other random things that I have no memory at all of doing when I am in a sleepy state. I cannot trust a single alarm to get me out of bed.

 

[blame space]

who likes to wake up

it's a hard sell