So my husband has narcolepsy w/o cataplexy and he has it bad. He can sleep thru the sonic bomb alarm clock for quite some time and it's starting to take it's toll with his job and our sons school... So I got creative. Hopefully it'll let me add the pics in here, its been a while since I've posted pics in a forum lol. Pardon the juice cup spots, it's amazing what you see with a flash and I was too lazy to take pics after I cleaned it up lol
Lady's and gents I give you the narco alarm clock!
This houses the most involved alarm clock set up you have ever seen. I have to get my husband angry and thinking to get him awake, otherwise he's back in rem before he hits the pillow. Let me walk you thru how this goes off.
The crate is attached to the top of the nightstand with hinges on one side, and a combo lock on the other. First to go off is the always annoying sonic bomb, which brags it's as loud as a jack hammer but I doubt that. It's benefit is that you can control the volume, as well as the tone so you never get use to the sound of it. It also has a bed shaker disc but honestly, I think he slept better with it going off, go figure. So the sonic bomb is going off... IF this wake him up, he has to undo the combo, quick has the code on the back but I switch it out between 2 others so it doesn't get redundant.
So the combos off, he can silence the sonic bomb. But see those speakers... Yeah 8-10 minutes after the bomb starts going off, my cell opens a playlist of the most annoying alarm sounds and sayings the android market had to offer. Were talking roosters crowing, trumpets and, you get the idea. The playlist shuffles between these tones and random high energy music that either talks about morning or get up being awake lol. (Figured that should get thru his skull!)
Not in this pic, but normally hubby has a nuvugil bottle in the cage with a bottle of water. Inside the med bottle, is his morning dose and a key that opens....
A keyed lock that is all the way down there at the bottom.... That is, if he can shake the nuvugil bottle just so to get the key lol... Once it's opened, you see...
A set of median level computer speakers. This is where my phone sits, but I can't take pics with it while it's there so we will just pretend lol. My cell hooks straight into the speakers and there is a charger in the drawer to keep it alive. I've thought about key locking my phone but I'll save that for when he gets too use to the already annoying extremely loud wake up ritual lol. The power supplies are ran out the back of the drawer to a power strip I attached to the side of the night stand. To keep him from just yanking it out of the wall, I picked up this baby proofing thing that locks your plugs in the wall...
The top drawer is empty for whatever I decide this needs... Have to keep changing it up normally, but I'm hoping that due to it's high volume, and the children in our house who are light sleepers, they can be my unintentional wave... Yeah I lost count.
Hubby has joked around about putting a police strobe, you know the ones they stick to the roof of the car when they get a call in the older movies. The sonic bomb has "light therapy" but for lil blinking LEDs just don't wake up my rip van winkle.
So the overall cost of this is as follows... Not exact numbers
Sonic bomb @ $25-$40 online
Computer speaker set @ $89... But you can use any speakers that plug into the wall and have a volume control.
Nightstand @ $7 at a yard sale
Crate @ walmart -$4
Hinges @ $3 - cheap smaller hedges, width should fit the top rim of the crate with room to screw in.
Combo locks. x 3 @ $2.88 ea
Lock bracket things, the name escapes me. But they were 1.87 @ walmart x 2
Keyed lock , $5 just cause we needed to have 2 keys.
And let's not forget the power strip, which isn't necessary to mount down, I just didn't was hubby to start ti get smarter
And I use my smartphone, but you can hook anything that has a dependable alarm clock... I've found the shuffle feature helps keep him on his toes
