[Kickb]

I have 9 alarms set on my phone. The first alarm is at 6am and the last one is at 7pm.

I sleep through eight alarms from 6-645.

At 645 I get in the shower. I have fallen asleep in the shower before so I have an alarm set at 7 which is also when I get out.

Then I throw my clothes on and am out the door by 710. If I'm lucky, traffic will only be awful instead of terrible and I'll be in my cubicle at 8am.

Cant wait to move to a spot that's ten minutes away.

I miss my drug dealer hours. Waking up at 3 and 4 in the afternoon, best days of my life I tell ya!

This isthe aalarm noise I use.

[presidentcarter]

It's weird...I used to have to set 2-3 alarms in various places in my room to get up, but for the last few months I've been waking up on my own without any alarms. Granted, it's always a little later than I should wake up (I'll wake up on my own usually by 8:40, out the door by 9:00 and at my desk by 9:10 since I live less than a mile from work).

9 alarms is crazy. You should get one of those apps where you have to solve a math problem or something to turn the alarm off.

[Pacesetter20]

1, unless I have been drinking and need to ensure that I wake up or am waking up at a very unusual hour.

[Thomas the Rhymer]

In winter it can take 4 - 5 alarms every 15 minutes to wake me up.

In summer, 1 is usually enough, sometimes 2. In midsummer I often wake up before the alarm rings.

[Statsi]

I set one alarm and don't hit snooze. I didn't think it was that hard to do?

[Drazen]

What I have been doing is I go on my phone's calendar As i am going to bed and I plan out where exactly I'm gonna have breakfast or where I'm going to grab coffee and what time. You want to stay on time so I naturally wake up since I have something to do on my schedule.

2 alarms.

[Suits]

Two. Always.

I've had bad luck with alarms that experienced intermittent defects that caused them to occasionally fail to sound.

And I hate being late for class/work.

[presidentcarter]

(06-26-2013 01:16 AM)Statsi Wrote:  

I set one alarm and don't hit snooze. I didn't think it was that hard to do?

Typical morning person.

[Joseph_Dantes]

set your phone alarm. make sure it will not auto turn off too quickly. check the alarm settings. set vibration on high.

put on socks. put the phone in one sock. vibration against foot will wake you quickly. tons of nerves on the bottom of foot, going straight deep into the brain.

when alarm goes off, immediately grab it and start checking email. even a bleary zombie likes to check email. the blue light pouring into your retinas from the screen will continue the awakening process. a daylight zeitgeiber.

when you are a bit more awake, turn on your phone's flashlight function, shine it into your eyes, and finish yourself off. you should be out of bed and moving once your pupils are contracted and you can bear the light.

source: i am going through polyphasic adaptation to dual core schedule. this works for me.

[JayD]

(06-26-2013 02:27 AM)Joseph_Dantes Wrote:  

when alarm goes off, immediately grab it and start checking email. even a bleary zombie likes to check email. the blue light pouring into your retinas from the screen will continue the awakening process. a daylight zeitgeiber.

when you are a bit more awake, turn on your phone's flashlight function, shine it into your eyes, and finish yourself off.

Not sure if trolling...

More traditional ways:
Drink a glass of water
Alarm tone which starts from low volume to high to gradually waking you up instead of jolting you awake.
Taking a shower before going to bed

Has helped me with waking up easier

[thebassist]

I had your classic beeping alarm for my last 4 years of high school.

I swear, after a while, I just couldn't fucking take it anymore, that shit just stressed me out. Now I just wake up to my ringtone, which is not that unpleasant at all. I don't feel like I'm being jolted awake anymore.

To this day if I hear beeping noises similar to my old alarm my heartbeat spikes and I'm just ready to punch something.

[poutsara]

It's bad. I can go through about 5 alarms before I get up, over the span of half an hour or sometimes more. It's getting worse too. On rare occasions where it's literally life or death if I don't wake up on time, I have a special alarm I set off that is mix of a bunch of jungle animals roaring and hooting, with some gun blasts going off in the background. That shit will wake you up. Actually the first time I did that I thought I was about to die, and I got the hell up fast. I try not to use this alarm that often so I don't become immune to its effects.

[Hoodlum]

None. I wake up naturally at between 6am and 7am every day, refreshed.

[tiggaling]

I just set the alarm once and press snooze a few times...

Damn, that alarm sound would fry me! I haven't needed to get one, but I would recommend a product like this if you want to wake up more gently!

http://www.now-zen.com/Zen_Alarm_Clock.html

[user10726]

I only set an alarm for 10am if the day ahead of me includes a lot of work to do, and this is my alarm tone, I love it.

[FretDancer]

(06-26-2013 01:07 AM)presidentcarter Wrote:  

You should get one of those apps where you have to solve a math problem or something to turn the alarm off.

This sounds interesting, would like to give it a try. Any in particular you would recommend?

[Sherman]

I don't have an alarm. There are canaries outside my room, and they get up and start singing as soon as the sun comes up. Currently they start singing promptly from 5:30 to 5:35 am. They also act as a nice snooze alarm because if I doze off they will wake me up again.

[Jeimuzu]

Just the one at 8am. Although if I do have it by the side of my bed I usually wake up and turn it off, then KO until gone mid day.

So usually I set it and then chuck it to the other side of the room.

[EisenBarde]

I set an MP3 alarm on my computer, pick whatever song I want to wake up to the night before.

When I need to kick ass first thing in the morning it's heavy stuff.

[Hotwheels]

Three.

One alarm clock in bedroom, one next to my lazy boy, and my cell phone next to my head.

I do not like getting up at 415AM.

[artur jedi]

None. Waking up early is beta.

[cardguy]

I fucking hate 'morning people'.

Waking up in the morning is a nightmare for me. It feels like I am being dragged from the bowels of hell.

I wish I had a night job. Would love to start work at midnight.

I used to like Dean Martin until I saw this quote. The quote suggests to me he is a morning person. Since it takes me about 7 hours to feel wide awake after waking up.

Quote:

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

I always loved the following Bill Hicks joke:

Quote:

I need 8 hours sleep a night. And about ten during the day.

Anyway - if fucks me right off when 'morning' people laught at 'night' people feeling tired. I just wish society could be reset for a couple of months so that instead of starting work at 9 in the morning - people had to start work at 9 in the evening. And finish at 5 in the morning.

There would be a fucking riot. Yet - for the 30-40% of us who are 'night' people - this is the shit we have to deal with our entire lives.

And to give you two contrasts.

George W. Bush used to wake up at 5 in the morning.

And Bill Clinton used to go to bed at 5 in the morning.

Fuck the morning people. I laugh at the losers who get tired at 9 or 10 in the evening.

And they are more stupid than the 'night' people:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-...ning-larks

What is odd for me - is that even if I wake up at 6 in the morning - I won't actually be tired until about 5 the following morning. Whatever it is I have - I have it really bad.

[Fujiwara]

I usually set a single alarm. Whatever the device that I am using, I make sure that it is out of arm's reach, otherwise I will unconsciously turn it off and sleep through.

[Hotwheels]

(06-26-2013 02:30 PM)cardguy Wrote:  

What is odd for me - is that even if I wake up at 6 in the morning - I won't actually be tired until about 5 the following morning. Whatever it is I have - I have it really bad.

Sunday nights are the worst for me. Generally go on about 2 hours sleep on Mondays and still can't get to sleep before about 11PM Monday night.

Hotwheels=not a morning person.

[cardguy]

A recent habit of mine is to wake up late on Sunday (maybe 2pm?). Skip sleep on Sunday night - and then crash into bed early after work on Monday evening (around 7pm).

It kinda' works for me. It feels like I get to extend the weekend by an extra night. And by the time I am feeling good again (and back in sync with the rest of the world) - it is Tuesday evening. So - it feels like you skip through the first couple of days of the work week. And it means I get to have a nice 10 hour sleep on Monday night.

Also there is nothing more enjoyable than going to bed exhausted - and knowing you can sleep as long as you want. It feels better than sex - and it is realy fun knowing you will be in a deep sleep within a minute of hitting the pillow.

And I hate forcing myself to sleep when I am wide awake. Particularly since it usually results in poor quality sleep as you are constantly aware of the hours slipping by before you have to wake up. So - the above takes care of that as well.

The only down side is I get very sleepy between 11am and 1pm on the Monday. But then again - I am often sleepy at work anyway. So - it isn't much difference.

Having done this - on and off for a year now I am very aware of the power of the body clock. It is interesting - but you can be awake for 26 hours. And totally exhausted. Yet - often - a couple of hours later your body kicks on into 'a new day' and you are wide awake.

The whole thing of skipping sleep is quite interesting. I have heard some artists use it as a 'high' to help them be creative. Apparently My Bloody Valentine used sleep deprivation as a tool when recording there classic 'Loveless' album.

Still - in my case - I am hardly skipping sleep. Since by waking up at 2pm - and then going to bed at 7pm (the following night) - it is more like just staying awake for along time. But - your body clock does perceive it as skipping a night's sleep.

Sleep deprivation is also an effective (albeit temporary) cure for depression.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...depression

Anyway - after thinking alot (and experimenting alot) with sleep patterns a year ago. I was pleased to find out that R. Buckminster Fuller did the same thing when he was alive as well. Since he was one of the most interesting geniuses of the twentieth century.