Yep. I don’t even set
Yep.
Yep. I don’t even
Yep. I don’t even set my alarm.
I am HEAVILY alarmclock dependent. And I sleep like the dead. Not at all a happy combination.
I can’t wake up without an alarm of some sort. Usually I have to set my alarm an hour or so ahead of the time I actually have to get up, mostly because I love the snooze button. I really should stick the alarm somewhere out of reach, but I’m lazy :).
As for waking up before my alarm goes off? Sometimes I can, but thats only if I have something that I REALLY want to go to or if I have been waking up at the same time consecutively. Even then it is very very rare.
Thank God for loud and annoying alarms because w/o them I wouldn’t get out of bed in the mornings. (I tried the music ones, but its more relaxing to just stay in bed and listen to the music than to actually get up :)) They need to invent some sort of alarm like George Jetson’s where you got flipped out of bed 
THAT would wake me up.
Does anyone else have an easier time getting up when they get less sleep instead of more??
Poor Gunny. I think his computer crashed.
I can’t wake up without an alarm. I have mine set to wake me up to music, and it’s across the room. I can’t use the klaxon kind, because I wake up scared to death and usually hit my head on the ceiling (damn bunk bed). Then I’m nervous and my heart is racing and I can’t even calm down enough to take my shower.
Even with the alarm, though, I can hardly wake up in the mornings. I’m not even human until I’ve taken my shower and gotten dressed.
I can’t even wake up WITH an alarm. 
I’ve slept through three - I had a redundant alarm system, each set up to wake me about 15 minutes after the previous.
I actually managed to turn off all three in my sleep, even when one was half way across the room. This happened at
least three or four times.
What in the screaming blue fuck was that? I typed “Yep”, clicked submit, nothing happened (the board was really slow at the time), added “I don’t even set my alarm”, clicked submit again, it got up to 39% and hung there, the disconnected. Then the electricity went off.
On a related note, that’s gotta be a record–seven different-contented posts in less than a minute.
Anyway, if I set a time to wake up, I wake up at that time. If I don’t set a time, I sleep until noon. The last time I bothered to set the alarm (for the latest possible moment I could wake up and still be on time) I woke up 15 minutes before.
Done that, only I have 4 alarms in my apartment, plus the coffee pot kicks on automatically, and the TV turns on. The alarms are situated next to my bed, across the bedroom, in the kitchen, and in the living room. It’s a small apartment, so I can definately hear them, but I’ve been known to turn them all off and oversleep by about 4 hours.
I usually wake up whenever I’m supposed to, quite often a couple of minutes before the alarm goes off. (Though I’m not a morning person, so “wake up” is sort of a relative term). It doesn’t seem to matter if the time I’m supposed to get up changes (but, if I don’t have to be up any particular time, I’ll sleep late).
I typically wake up before I’m actually supposed to roll out of bed (6:00 or so), but because I know the alarm is there, I usually roll over and head back to Nod. My best dreams typically happen between 6:00 and 6:30 (“late, absolutely have to be out of bed” time) for some reason.
Of course, on the weekends, I still wake up because of my patented Kitty Siren. Mr. Kitty feels it is his God-given right to have his Kitty Breakfast at the same time every morning regardless of my schedule. I mean, who do I think I am, after all? After a few throws off bed, he harumphs off and decides to allow me to sleep until I decide to get off. What a magnanimous gesture on his part!
If I’m getting up at a different time than usual, I can wake up by myself. For my normal daily routine, I have trouble getting up even with an alarm. Clock radio alarms don’t wake me at all, and I have to set the alarm about an hour earlier than I intend to wake up, because I keep hitting the snooze button. In fact, I don’t normally even remember hitting the snooze for the first half hour or so.
I do this also, but it comes and goes. When I start habitually turning off the alarm in my sleep, I tape down the “off” switch. (I haven’t been able to peel the tape off in my sleep yet. :)) After a week or so, I can safely take the tape off again.
Yep.
Every day at 5:45 am, regardless of when I go to sleep, fortunatly, I only need about 4 hours a night, and I’m fine.
Then about once a month I sleep for about 10 hours straight and catch up.
Al.
Yep.
Every day at 5:45 am, regardless of when I go to sleep, fortunatly, I only need about 4 hours a night, and I’m fine.
Then about once a month I sleep for about 10 hours straight and catch up.
Al.
Egad. I’m terrible. The fact that I’m supposed to start my office job at 7 O’fucking Clock AM just because corporate HQ is on the east coast makes it worse.
I have been known to hit the snooze bar for hours.
I’ve gone through a half a dozen alarm clocks in 11 years on this job. When I need a new one, I have to find one that’s loud enough to actually penetrate my Sleep of the Dead. And that’s becoming harder and harder each time.
Fortunately, my computer’s MP3 player has an alarm feature. I just play some really offensive Punk or Jackyl or something… but that doesn’t always work, either
Typically I don’t make it to work before 9am these days.
And I have the perverse ability to wake up to an alarm set early for an important meeting, then hit the snooze bar and fall fast asleep, only waking in time to notice the time and say “oh shit,” throw some clothes on, race to the meeting in a daze, and walk in five minutes late looking like I slept in an alley or something.
Ugh.
I wake up before my alarm. I wake up around 4, then 5 to 5:15, then around 6:30. Unforunately, I want to sleep until my alarm goes off at 6:45.
First off: Gunny, that was just cool!
To the OP: Before I took this assignment in Louisville, I used an alarm on an old watch to wake up. I’d been using it for, oh, maybe 14 years before it finally gave up the ghost. Because it was a watch, I could never “snooze” so I got up when it went off and that was that.
Thing is, for the last three or four years, I’d been getting up about five minutes before it went off. I’d wake up, lay there until it went off, then get out of bed.
Nowadays, though, I use a clock radio and I have flex-time. For the first time in my life, not only do I use the snooze button, but I’ve actully slept through my alarm. It sucks.
On weekends (or holidays, in todays case), though I still wake up at about seven on the nose, look at the clock, roll over and sleep until eleven. 
I saw an article recently about researchers saying that prolonged sleep deprivation can harm your health, lead to various bad things, etc. A researcher was quoted as having said that anyone who needs an alarm clock to wake up isn’t getting enough sleep.
I find that completely implausible. Maybe he’s one of those people who wake up consistantly without needing an alarm, but I don’t believe that everyone can do that. I think many people do need an alarm, even if they are getting enough sleep.
I have a hard time getting up in the morning. I have a loud alarm, which I keep on the other side of the room, so I have to get up and walk over to turn it off. I set it earlier then I really need to get up, then usually hit the snooze button too many times, and have to rush.
I really don’t see how I’m ever supposed to get a good night’s sleep on this planet, anyway. It’s day is just not long enough. I mean, suppose I sleep as long as I need to, wake up, stay awake until I’m ready for another night’s sleep – just suppose I do this. A period of sleep followed by a period of awakeness. How many hours would these two periods add up to? I don’t know, as I never have the opportunity to do this. But I do know it would be several hours more then 24. Maybe 30? – Twenty hours awake, ten asleep. So how am I supposed to adjust to a 24 hour day? Once I’ve completely wakened up (something that takes a while) (be it from enough slep or not), I’m not going to be ready to fall asleep again for a long time.
Months ago, on this board, someone started a thread called something like “Please help me get to sleep”. Many people posted tales of insomnia. It dawned on me that if I tried to do what these people were trying to do, I’d consider myself an insomniac, too. The people posting were dutifully going to bed at a sensible hour and then lying there for hours, unable to sleep. I’d never thought of myself as having insomnia, because I never try to go to sleep at a reasonable time. I just don’t even try. I don’t go to bed until I’m sleepy enough to go to sleep within a few minutes. This is often just three or four hours before I should get up. But what would be the point of going to bed any sooner? I wouldn’t sleep. Might as well spend those hours on the SDMB, or reading, or something.
No, unless the ‘alarm’ starts kissing me on the neck.
Abby