Snoozer. I set my alarm for 0430 and ride it out until 0500. Then it’s out the door by 0530. God, I hate weekdays. Also, my alarm will go off every day unless I turn it off. So, like the other poster, mine goes off on the weekends and I love ignoring it!!
I don’t snooze. My alarm goes off, then I lay in bed for about 2 min and then I get out of bed. I just don’t see the sense in setting my alarm for earlier than it needs to be just so I can go back to sleep. Of course, most mornings I would love to hit the snooze and go back to sleep, but I’m not going to wake up earlier just so I can.
My fiance, OTOH, is horribly addicted to the snooze. She will set her alarm 45 mins before she has to get up then set the clock 30 min fast. So she generally snoozes a good 1:15 every morning.
I have to be at work at 6:30, she starts at 8:00. Lucky for me, I’m out of bed before her morning snooze ritual starts.
Here’s what you should do.
Set the alarm for two hours before you actually need to get up, but don’t put it on the buzzing beepy alarm, which is just annoying, and instead put it on radio. Then you have two full hours of gentle wake-up time.
Works for me. Being jolted awake just pisses me off, so I don’t know why people do it to themselves.
No. Once I’m awake, I’m awake, and it’s really hard for me to get back to sleep, particularly if I’m anticipating that the alarm clock will go off again. Besides, I hate being woken by the alarm clock, so why would I want to do it twice in one morning?
Most mornings, I’m already half awake by the time the alarm sounds, so I get up right away. But if it wakes me out of a sound sleep, I’ll push the snooze button (7 minutes) once, to doze a little more and wrap my mind around the fact that I have to get up soon.
On Monday mornings, my hubby leaves for his work week in Baltimore. When his alarm goes off at 5:30, he’ll have me hit the snooze alarm (the clock is on my side of the bed, but has a double alarm) so we’ll have 7 minutes to snuggle before he has to get up and get ready to go.
I am a ‘turn the alarm right off and fall back to sleep, missing the first three hours of work’ person. I really shouldn’t have trained myself to avoid the snooze button.
I hit snooze twice and get up exactly on the hour as my clock is set for 6:44 and it has 8 minute cycles. If I didn’t have anything planned I’d sleep until 8:30. If I didn’t have kids. Or dogs.
My Wifes alarm goes off at 4:45 and she usually snoozes for a bit. At that point in the morning I’m in a very light sleep mode so I kind of doze on and off and pet the dogs (who sleep with us) until my alarm goes off at 5:15.
My alarm clock is a cat. No snooze button that I can find.
I don’t think I’ve ever used the snooze button. I value having time to get ready in the morning over getting more sleep, so I just get out of bed when it goes off the first time. I’m a morning person, though, so it isn’t hard.
I used to be a multiple-snoozer, but as I get older it’s harder to drift back to sleep after the radio goes on. Now I usually just snooze once, then get up.
I’m way too addicted to my snooze button. To solve that problem, I’ve been thinking about one of these alarm clocks:
How the hell do all these people manage with alarms going off at times with a “5” (or even a “4”!) at the beginning? No way on Earth I could do that on a regular basis. Fortunately I don’t have to leave home till 8.45am, although some nights I don’t get home till about 12.30am. I’m more likely to see 4.45am from the back end than get up at that time.
I don’t need an alarm clock. I wake up around the same time every morning, which is well before I need to go to work, which is flexible, anyway. I find that waking up on one’s own is far less painful than being awakened by an alarm clock.
If you say you’re “not a morning person”, it’s because you are being a “night person”. If you’d just cop to the fact that there’s nothing good on TV, posting on message boards late at night is a waste of time (hah!), and you’re not going to bed that attractive person sitting down the bar from you, then you, too can have pain-free, alarm-less mornings with plenty of time to get ready for work.
I looked through the posts and I think I’m a weirdo.
I don’t hit the snooze button. I simply lay in bed as the alarm continues to sound. After 5-10 minutes (gone as far as 35 minutes) of the beeping I finally get up the will to arise, shut off the alarm, and go get ready.
I’m by no means a morning person, but the one thing I’ve learned is that the hardest part about getting up at 4:30am is the first 15 minutes. After that… it’s on.
All very well, except when you don’t get out of the office till 10.45pm and then have a near-two-hour commute to get home 
Never snooze, but it hardly matters since my dog goes off a minute before the alarm is set to. He nuzzles me to tell me it is time for breakfast.
Well, this morning being typical, three dogs wanted to go out at about 4:30. I got up, let them out, told Grace the doberman she needed to go too. She’s a lazy dog and didn’t want to get up yet. I went back to sleep. At 5:00, two cats decided to have a fight on top of me in bed. I yelled at them and went back to sleep. At 5:15 Grace decided she was ready to go out. I let her out and went back to sleep. At 5:45 the clock radio comes on. I hit snooze twice and I’m up by 6:00.
No wonder I’m so tired!
StG
The inventor of the snooze button is a god to me. They should have received the Nobel prizes for Medicine and Peace. Edison? Salk? Bell? They’re pikers compared to that glorious unknown hero.
When my alarm goes off at 5 AM, I will usually hit the snooze to try to recapture a few more minutes of bliss. But some mornings the 10 minute nap isn’t enough and I’ll have to do it again. And again. Sometimes, I have just enough presence of mind at the first alarm that I am actually able to reset the alarm time so I can get 25 minutes of uninterrupted sleep.
My worst offense is on the mornings when I am supposed to get up at 4. I tell myself that it would be a good idea to get into work early so I can get some extra stuff done. When that f’ing clock buzzes at 4, a little voice in my head says, “Who the hell you trying to impress? Go back to sleep.”
Since I don’t want to press the snooze repeatedly until 5 (or 5:10, or 5:20) and disturb my wife, I will get out of bed, shuffle to the guest bedroom where I will set my cell phone alarm, and then go back to sleep. I apparently have an innate ability to reprogram alarm clocks while in a semi-comatose state.
I am the farthest thing from a morning person. When I was in the Army there were a few occasions where my sergeant sent me to sick call because I looked so lousy when I showed up for morning PT. Naturally, I took him up on the offer and, since sick call didn’t start until 8, I was able to go back to my room and catch a few extra Z’s.
Well aren’t we just all “rise and shiny” in the morning.
I’ve lived a highly reginined life and I’ve gone to sleep early like a good boy should…
I f**king hate the morning.
Some people just have a more difficult time waking up than others. Also, my job is deadline intensive so flexible scheduels aren’t an option. I catch the first train to DC and the last one back regularly. My average day goes from 430am to 8pm and that’s just getting home, not to mention performing personal tasks.
You gotta do what you gotta do.