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[Lulu23]

I totally do that. It's been really bad in the past where I had it going off every 5 minutes for an hour, but now it's only like every 5 minutes for 15 minutes.

I do it because beds are extra comfy when I wake up and I don't want to miss the whole fun being asleep.

 

[Z3M0G]

When i was single, i used to sleep with the blinds open for the morning sun and kept my alarm clock at the other end of the room, forcing me to get up.

Today we sleep in pitch darkness with zero light and i do the 5-5-5-5-5 with the phone next to my head, then get up 10 min after that...

 

[norm9]

Takes me about an hour to wake up so I set it an hour early.

 

[Sami+]

Nope I can't fuck with this. Wake up when you gotta, snooze once, then force yourself outta bed sorry hon but I can't be playing this hot and cold with the alarm clock game.

 

[MGrant]

Going back to sleep after an alarm feels 10 times better than going to sleep normally. I give myself a snooze alarm and then a real alarm 30 minutes later for this reason.

 

[lastplayed]

I set it 30 mins before I have to get up. I hate waking up and having to get up that instant.

 

[Dongs Macabre]

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[Brandon F]

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.

Pretty much me, but 6:30am is my begin time. I usually browse the news on my phone before stumbling into the kitchen to make coffee though.

 

[hateradio]

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

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

who likes to wake up

it's a hard sell

Why are you writing an indie song from 2005?



Oh shit, is that what you've been doing this whole time. OHMYGOOOOOOOOD.GIF

 

[blame space]

because that's where I am stuck, forever.

 

[TetraGenesis]

Because if I set it at the time I need to be up, I'd end up waking up an hour late. (I'm more of a 30-45 minute boy though, to be precise.)

 

[Phrozenflame500]

Because I have no self-discipline so I may as well plan for it.

 

[newdayrocks]

My wife sets like 10 alarms for the morning, and actually gets up during any random alarm. Sometimes the first, sometimes the last, sometimes in between.

I set one alarm at 5 a.m every day, and get up at that time, if I'm even still asleep by that time.

 

[DarthWoo]

I don't even need to bother with that. I am only woken by my alarm perhaps one day out of the month. The rest of the month, without fail, I wake up 30-45 minutes prior to the time it is set, much to my annoyance. Oddly enough, as I lay in bed until a minute before it will go off and manually turn it off then, the last ten minutes seems like longer than it actually is.

 

[norm9]

Not counting the alarm clock on my nightstand that is set for 6:59am, my phone alarm has the following: 6:00, 6:05, 6:15, 6:30, 6:55, 7:00, and 8:00, all set to the tune of "Surf Rider" by The Lively Ones.

 

[Timedog]

Do you think it'd be possible to get good sleep on a rollercoaster if you were tired enough?

 

[Rentahamster]

It's a sloppy method, but some people just have their ways. I probably couldn't sleep together with someone like that for an extended period of time.

 

[Ryuuroden]

Holy hell this is my other half. She does this and it's hell on my days off and when she does get up she needs my help with things so I have to get up anyways when it's my day working I have to get up an hour before she does so it doesn't matter but it means I have to get up early every day then

 

[blame space]

Do you think it'd be possible to get good sleep on a rollercoaster if you were tired enough?

no.

 

[Chmpocalypse]

I do it every day. I find it easier to wake up than if I set only one alarm.

 

[Man God]

The only residual pain I feel from a back injury is after I sleep so I pretty much have to do this to give me time to prepare to get out of bed in a way to not leave me crippled for the next 12 hours. As a kid I'd sometimes snooze but more often wake up right before the alarm went off and shut it off.

 

[midramble]

People hate me for this (including myself). On normal days I'll set an alarm 30 minutes early and every 5 minutes after.

On important days It'll be an hour early every 5 and when it's 15 till every 2.

I've tried every form of alarm but it gets to a point where I hit snooze in my sleep. Sometimes it takes me sleep snoozing multiple times in quick succession for me to realize what I'm doing.

Hell, back in highschool I'd even raise the stakes by putting a TV alarm that would turn on the news full blast at wakeup time and have an alarm 5 minutes before. I would even put the remote on the other side of the room.

I got to the point that I'd hear the click of the crt turning on dive halfway across the room to turn off the TV before the sound kicked in and fall back asleep with the remote in my hand. All of this mostly unconscious.

These days the only thing that gets me moving is hearing my wife making coffee as I associate that sound with "if I don't get up now I wont be able to leave for work with her and that makes her sad".

 

[RockmanBN]

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.

Yep. I don't have any memory of having the alarm wake me up, I've always been awake before it. My brother is the opposite with how many times he needs to snooze his phone before he finally decides to wake up.

 

[TheCochese]

If anyone can teach me to wake up at the same time every day without having to do this, I'm all ears.

I've tried exercise, going to bed earlier, stop using electronics...I also have trouble getting to sleep some nights, which I'm sure is contributing.

 

[wandering goat]

I just do it once, 10 minutes before I need to get up. There's nothing like the feeling of knowing you can sleep for just a little more. I have my watch vibrate both times to wake me up and then my phone as backup 15 minutes after the first alarm, but I never have to let it ring - the little extra is just enough of a buffer to progress gently out of the sleeping stage instead of having the real world hit you all at once.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Do you think it'd be possible to get good sleep on a rollercoaster if you were tired enough?

world record holders have stayed on roller-coasters for weeks so i assume you can get sleep

 

[wenis]

I set up 3 alarms 3 hours before I'm supposed to wake up. I could not function without this.

 

[Miles X]

It's incredibly difficult for some of us to just wake up to an alarm and jump out of bed, arms in the air, full of life.

 

[tryagainlater]

Because you're aware that you're sleeping when you keep waking up so it feels like extra sleep even though you're technically getting less.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

My wife..drives me crazy..

 

[norm9]

If I didn't drink so much, I probably wouldn't need to be so paranoid about oversleeping.

 

[Ampersands]

I do this because it takes about a half-hour for the message my brain sends to my body to wake up is received.

I also like it because I get to tell people that I wake up earlier than I actually do.

 

[jph139]

I have my alarm go off every five minutes from 5:45. I don't get up until 6:30.

And yesterday I still managed to oversleep by 25 minutes.

I would probably sleep for like 12 hours a night if it were feasible.

 

[LNBL]

Mhh an hour before hand is a bit much, I do however put 6-9 alarms in 30-45 minutes just in case i snooze to much..

 

[whitehawk]

I do this.

I love that feeling of being super tired and in bed.

 

[Demoskinos]

I have an alarm 30 minutes before I need to get up one set when I need to get up then one set for safety 5 minutes after that. I sleep like I'm in a goddamn coma so I need all the time I can get to wake up hence the 30 minute alarm before hand. Helps wake me up out of that deep sleep. Then i can just chill for another 30 in bed before I actually get up.

 

[Lucian Cat]

I had a bf like this. He'd set his alarm for 4am and sleep through it. I'd have to wake him to turn it off but he'd snooze it so it went off every 10 minutes til 6am when I would get up for work. He'd still be in bed when I left and I resented him every time I stayed there.

Never again.

 

[Benzychenz]

Yeah I don't get it, I'd rather set a single alarm at the second I need to get out of bed to have the maximum amount of uninterrupted sleep.
I feel groggy when I wake up but jump straight into the shower and that does the trick.

 

[Teh Lurv]

I take it one step further and set my alarm clock a half hour fast, otherwise I tend to doze off again and sleep through the alarm. My half-asleep brain sees the clock at 7am and goes "oh shit, I needed to get up by 6:30!" and pushes me awake.

 

[Trace]

If you use a snooze button you're basically asking to be late for work/school/whatever. Set the alarm for when you actually want to get up and make sure it's out of reach so you actually have to get up to turn it off.

I had an alarm that was basically a 90s air raid siren, nothing gets the adrenaline going like that.

 

[TheLastCandle]

I do this. I'm super angry and annoyed when I first get up in the morning, so having another hour when I first wake up makes me feel a little better when I get out of bed.

I'm not a morning person.

 

[Sabercrusader]

I would agree, but I'm unfortunately getting in the habit of setting my alarm for 6:30, when I normally get up for work, then heading back to sleep because I set another alarm on my phone for 6:45, when I absolutely need to get up or I will be late.

Honestly it doesn't even help much. I've found that the best way for me to wake up is to simply get the fuck up and stay up. Don't lay back down or anything until I've at least showered. It helps that my alarm is loud and annoying as fuck and it's across the room so I have to get up to turn it off.

 

[Fuzzy]

I don't even get people who set it early then use snooze. I can't even have the alarm near my bed because I'll turn it off and stay sleeping and not remember that it went off at all. My alarm clock is across the room so I need to get out of bed.

 

[Matrix XII]

I usually set my alarm for 30 minutes before I have to wake up with 3 x 10 minute intervals. Waking up is a process for me and that's how I cope. Luckily my wife is the same way. We have all kinds of alarms going off in the morning but it works.

 

[Yoshimitsu126]

I set one alarm to time I need to wake up across the room. Set another on my phone downstairs to be 10 minutes later to get myself out of my room.

I used to do 5 minutes, but somehow it takes it me longer than that to get down before it rings.

When I was dorming with no living room, I did set an alarm two hours before I needed to wake up and another at the time I had to awake. But then that got tiring and I did the 10 mins before and 10 mins later.

 

[TheGrue]

This is something I'll never understand. I set the alarm for when I want to get up and then I instantly get out of bed when it goes off.

 

[thefro]

This is something I'll never understand. I set the alarm for when I want to get up and then I instantly get out of bed when it goes off.

It's generally not going to bed/getting up at a consistent time, getting too little sleep, or you setting an alarm that happens to hit in the middle of a REM cycle. You can track all that with apps and adjust.

The exceptions would be people with babies who have to get up in the middle of the night, light sleepers who wake up any time random noises happens, or people with sleep disorders.

 

[SwordStruck]

Try 2 hours + 15 minute intervals.

 

[gatling]

I can't sleep more than 7 hours unless I'm sick. I try not to cut into actual sleep time by dozing through what could be part of a natural cycle. I've been with someone who scrolls through 5 alarms on his phone, all various types of snooze alarms, each one more annoying than the last based on severity of his situation.

 

[Telephone Man]

Because I sometimes have a hard enough time falling asleep, thus not leaving me enough sleep time to wake up naturally.