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Do you press it? How many times each morning?
It is the only habit my wife has that makes me nuts. I can't stand it. I rarely need the alarm myself. I almost always wake up 2 - 3 minutes before I am supposed to be up. Mornings when I can sleep in though, and she hits it 2 or more times, I want to scream. I can always fall back to sleep after the first alarm, the second one always has me wide awake.
Don't get me started on the old college days when those in rooms next door would hit it, and run to class without turning the alarm off.
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they have silent alarm clocks now. You wear a bracelet that vibrates when its time to wake you.
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I have mine set for 8:00am. I hit the snooze repeatedly until 8:36am.
Though, like you, I rarely need the alarm; I just use it as a safeguard. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually not woken up before it goes off.
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Two cellphones that I own go off repeatedly at seperate intervals until I get up. My slovenly approach to life has taught me that I dont have to get up at nine to be on time for work, nine twenty-one is just fine especially when you can time it to the ringtone alarms going off.
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quote:Originally posted by Sean Monahan: I have mine set for 8:00am. I hit the snooze repeatedly until 8:36am.
Though, like you, I rarely need the alarm; I just use it as a safeguard. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually not woken up before it goes off.
I wake up approximately 30 seconds before the alarm goes off almost every morning, but I still hit it twice- it's really incredible how one can tell immediately upon waking just about what time it is without even looking at a watch.
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What if the people who think they have an accurate inner alarm clock are just not remembering the 32 times they came partly awake to check the time on the bedside clock before the last time?
Try not to let your blown mind spray on the LCD.
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quote:Originally posted by Sean Monahan: I have mine set for 8:00am. I hit the snooze repeatedly until 8:36am.
Though, like you, I rarely need the alarm; I just use it as a safeguard. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually not woken up before it goes off.
quote:Originally posted by Sean Monahan: I have mine set for 8:00am. I hit the snooze repeatedly until 8:36am.
Though, like you, I rarely need the alarm; I just use it as a safeguard. I can count on one hand the number of times I've actually not woken up before it goes off.
...In the last five days?
Hobbes
Actually, in about the last 20 years.
It's seems to be a sophisticated biological alarm clock. Even when I was in college, and my schedule was such that I needed to get up at a different time every day, my bio-clock would always wake me up at the appropriate time (about a half hour before the alarm). And on the days when I don't need to get up, it doesn't go off.
Though I wonder if what is actually happening is that I'm periodically waking up, checking the time, and falling immediately back asleep without ever remembering it.
In response to the OP, I should also say that I live alone and do not share my bed. If I did, I don't think I would do the repeated snooze alarm thing.
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Unless I went to sleep less than four hours before, I always wake up before my alarm.
However, just because my body woke up on its own doesn't mean I got enough sleep, and on mornings where I didn't, I'll stay in bed as long as I can trying to rest, which often involves hitting snooze a lot.
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quote:Though I wonder if what is actually happening is that I'm periodically waking up, checking the time, and falling immediately back asleep without ever remembering it.
You kind of ruined my post.
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quote:Though I wonder if what is actually happening is that I'm periodically waking up, checking the time, and falling immediately back asleep without ever remembering it.
You kind of ruined my post.
I think I may have to experiment with this. Turn the clock off, or position it so I can't see it, and see what happens.
ETA: D'oh! scifibum, somehow in this thread your post is the only one I missed.
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quote:Originally posted by scifibum: What if the people who think they have an accurate inner alarm clock are just not remembering the 32 times they came partly awake to check the time on the bedside clock before the last time?
I do often wake up in advance of the alarm by 20 or even 30 minutes, so you may be right.
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That can't be me - you can't see the numbers unless you push the button. I'd need to be waking up, reaching over, pushing the buttom and lifting it to me (I sleep below the level of the bedside table), and then putting it back and not remembering any of it. That seems unlikely.
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quote:Originally posted by katharina: That can't be me - you can't see the numbers unless you push the button. I'd need to be waking up, reaching over, pushing the buttom and lifting it to me (I sleep below the level of the bedside table), and then putting it back and not remembering any of it. That seems unlikely.
Do you never have any memory of doing such a thing, or do you only remember the times you remember doing it? DUH DUH DUH!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: they have silent alarm clocks now. You wear a bracelet that vibrates when its time to wake you.
Is this also for being under house arrest?
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I have sleep apnea so this is troublesome for me but my computer has a digital alarm clock (software) that I have set to use a specific mp3 music file to wake me up (Soviet March RA3 ost), Ill often wake up several times a night in 30 minute intervals so I just check my phone for the time and then go back to sleep instantly.
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I'm a deep sleeper and I hate mornings. I set three separate alarm on my iphone. The second alarm goes off 5 minutes after the first, and the third goes off 10 minutes after the second. And each alarm is its own sound. Waking myself up gradually is the only way I can get up.
I don't use the snooze option because I won't even remember how many times I've hit it until its too late. By training my brain to recognize my "final alarm," it helps keep me on schedule.
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I'm very erratic. Though I never wake up before my alarm, sometimes I'll set an early-ish alarm (6:30) and will hop right out of bed while other times I will hit snooze repeatedly for an hour or more. This morning I snooze buttoned my way from 7:00 to 9:00.
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I use the kitchen timer built into the stove top in my kitchen. This forces me to go out there, and reset it for the next unit of time to sleep, then I go back to bed. My usual intervals are something like 20, 15, 10, 5 minutes. I'm sure this really bugs my wife but I haven't found a better solution yet. After getting up and showering I usually carpool to work. Sometimes I fall back asleep in the car for the 30 minute ride.
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I can get up, walk across the room, turn off the alarm and go back to bed without remembering any of it.
Needless to say I have multiple alarm clocks and my cell phone, and I usually rotate through them for about an hour and a half before my brain is truly awake enough to realize that "yes, it is time to get up" and "Yes, I will get fired if I don't get up NOW".
So be glad I'm not your wife, because I never hit the snooze button twice - it's more like twenty times!
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I set my alarm so the snooze only workd twice. that way I can't just keep snoozing and sleep throught the whole morning. If I make it possible to keep letting myself sleep I will undoubtedly sleep. I would sleep all day if I didn't have things to do every darn single day.
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quote:Originally posted by DDDaysh: I can get up, walk across the room, turn off the alarm and go back to bed without remembering any of it.
Needless to say I have multiple alarm clocks and my cell phone, and I usually rotate through them for about an hour and a half before my brain is truly awake enough to realize that "yes, it is time to get up" and "Yes, I will get fired if I don't get up NOW".
So be glad I'm not your wife, because I never hit the snooze button twice - it's more like twenty times!
Hehe. That's pretty much me, too. My wife is worse, though, so no complaints from her.
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My mornings go in nine-minute chunks. I always, always set my alarm earlier than I need so that I can hit the snooze button a couple more times. Somehow, it just feels better to "get" a bit of extra sleep than it does to get up immediately.
Then again, I am an odd one.
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quote:Originally posted by DDDaysh: I can get up, walk across the room, turn off the alarm and go back to bed without remembering any of it.
Needless to say I have multiple alarm clocks and my cell phone, and I usually rotate through them for about an hour and a half before my brain is truly awake enough to realize that "yes, it is time to get up" and "Yes, I will get fired if I don't get up NOW".
So be glad I'm not your wife, because I never hit the snooze button twice - it's more like twenty times!
Hehe. That's pretty much me, too. My wife is worse, though, so no complaints from her.
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I had a housemate in college who was a notorious snoozer. Every day, she planned to get up and go running at 5:30, but she never actually got up until close to 7. Add to this that she slept on the top bunk, which meant that every time her alarm went off, it would take about 5 minuted for her to convince herself to get out of bed, walk to the other end of the room and hit snooze. Then she'd climb back into bed and we'd do the whole thing over again in 20 minutes. Everyone on our side of the house started wearing earplugs, or her body would probably be in a ditch somewhere. There was a lot of sleep-loss-related rage.
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I program my cell phone and actual alarm clock to go off about 20 minutes before I know I actually have to be up, and vary the interval length between subsequent alarms depending on how urgent it is that I get up on time that day. Usually I hit the snooze on the two different alarms 5-15 times before I turn them off and wake up. My internal alarm clock is actually pretty good when I'm fairly well rested, but I almost never adhere to it.
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Generally all I have to do is set my alarm clock. I usually wake up in time for me to turn it off before it actually goes off.
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I haven't needed an alarm clock in ten years. I still have one, but there hasn't been a day in ten years in which I haven't woken up before the alarm and walked across the room to turn it off before it could ring.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I haven't needed an alarm clock in ten years. I still have one, but there hasn't been a day in ten years in which I haven't woken up before the alarm and walked across the room to turn it off before it could ring.
Well, clearly, you're not human. Just sayin.
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This morning I pressed the snooze button twice. I don't know why... I might have had something to do with thefact that I changed my covers last night and was enjoying the sensation of fresh bedding.
There is no rule to my use of the snooze button. At times I will have more difficulties getting up in the mornings and I'll be using pressing that button every morning. But since I have to catch a bus to get to work, getting up later just means I have to do everything else in less time.
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I generally like to set the alarm for the last possible minute. Given the choice, I would rather take my 5 minutes extra without the interruption of an annoying beep. My husband is the opposite and I have pretty much learned to ignore the first alarm.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I haven't needed an alarm clock in ten years. I still have one, but there hasn't been a day in ten years in which I haven't woken up before the alarm and walked across the room to turn it off before it could ring.
Well, clearly, you're not human. Just sayin.
Shh. It's programmed to think that it's human.
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: I haven't needed an alarm clock in ten years. I still have one, but there hasn't been a day in ten years in which I haven't woken up before the alarm and walked across the room to turn it off before it could ring.
Well, clearly, you're not human. Just sayin.
It just means that he's probably actually getting good sleep. Most of us don't. Anyone who can sleep through multiple alarms while habitually turning them off is almost assuredly getting bad sleep.
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