Poll: How many need an alarm to wake up?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_clock


Den

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Well Den, you have made my day. Now, I know what that silly contraption is.
Will Wikapedia now keep it away from me, since I almost always get up when I am finished sleeping. Except of course for the occasional nocturnal bathroom break, after which I return to sleep until... Wait for it... I am finished sleeping.
Well occasionally something may interrupt me before I finish, a ringing phone or a doorbell. Sometimes those events grab my I attention and don't allow me to go back and finish sleeping. Thankfully that does not happen to often.
Perhaps one day you or some doctor fill figure out how to cause/allow me to be fully rested when I finish sleeping. That is the next challenge on my to do list.

Currently I use 5 alarms to wake me. And I have been known to sleep thru all 5, as well as the phone. My latest scheme to get up in time for appointments is 3 of the alarms are located on 3 different sides of the room, the other two are on my phone & the second one on my phone makes a very loud screeching noise that repeats on a 3 minute start-over cycle.

I am really hard to wake. If my hubby is home (usually only on weekends) he says my average wake up time is 1 hour, so that is how I schedule my alarms. I go to bed at the same time (although I do read myself to sleep), & try to awake at the same time. My all-time worst 'over sleep' was I slept thru 3 appointments & a friend came over at 4pm to check on me when my mother-in-law called her from the rehab because she was worried, I was supposed to be there at 2:30pm & wasn't answering the phone.

As you can see, its hard for me to wake up. Once actually awake, I'm up & going, its just that when I don't hear the alarm, apparently I can sleep forever.

I've had trouble with alarms for years, but since my mother in-law has been in the rehab, the problem has blossomed out of control. If anyone has suggestions, I'd welcome them.

Jen

Kind of hard to get up at 2:00 Am without one.

I always wake up before my alarm, but it does tell me that it is time to get out of bed in the morning.

Don't need to now that I am retired. What a blessing. Throw the evil alarm clocks away.
We should wake up naturally at the end of a sleep cycle.

(Of course, tell thet to a youngster, who is sure the boogieman lives under his bad and wants a drink of water.)

Why does the WSJ care? It's all about the money . . .

It's a business and financial newspaper. Did you expect them to do a review of the best men's pyjamas?

I virtually always wake up spontaneously, though I always set alarm clock when I have need to get up earlier than my normal time.

Some men wear PJs?

jnk wrote:Some men wear PJs?

I've seen 'em in apnea commercials!

Some people buy apnea?

If you didn't buy apnea why are you here? The comradery.

I normally use one alarm clock with it set early enough to go 4 times before I have to get up. I do get up more easily than I used to.

If I have to get up really early, which means less sleep, I will set a timer across the room so that I am forced to get out of bed to turn it off. I can turn off my alarm clock without any memory of doing it. I sometimes remember the first one, but not the next two, or none at all until the last one. Back when i was in college, I had two clocks next to the bed and a third one across the room. I still have that 3rd one as it is the most horrible sound ever, a happy chirping bird. Everybody in my house has used this hideous clock. I remember when I was 11 or 12, and my brother had this clock. It would go off forever and drive me crazy. That was 30 years ago. I keep this clock packed in my luggage since I don't trust that a hotel clock will wake me. I set my timer for 2 minutes before the chirpy clock. If I wake up properly, I can turn off the chirpy clock before it goes. If not, the chirpy clock is the "save my ass" clock. I try to never hear it, but I when I do, I know I needed it.

I am a severe night owl. I typically go bed between 4 and 6am. I get up at 12:40pm for work. If I have the day off and don't have to go anywhere, I will get up around 2 or 3pm. With my travel ad cat shows, I frequently have to get up around 6 or 7am. Even if I manage to get to sleep by midnight or 1am, that is still short on sleep and really not the time of day that my brain is used to getting up. So, I really have to rely on an alarm.

Before CPAP 2 alarms needed and many presses of the snooze button even if I'd had an early night and it was a struggle to get going. Now with CPAP I nearly always wake before the alarm goes off and can bounce out of bed. Over the first 2 weeks of CPAP I had to progressively make bedtime later as I was waking up between 3.30-4.30 am and was wide awake, definitely now a quality rather than quantity girl when it comes to sleep these days

Long before cpap, my bladder woke me before the alarm.