# Vibrating wristwatch alarm-- do they work? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 10, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vibrating-wristwatch-alarm-do-they-work/422173 "2007-10-10T03:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vibrating-wristwatch-alarm-do-they-work/422173/1 "2007-10-10T03:24:28Z")
My husband gets up at 4:30am. I get up at 7am. I’m the type of person who, once awakened, esp. by a loud noise, has trouble getting back to sleep. As you can imagine, our schedule conflict here is causing some distress. We’re thinking a a wristwatch with a vibrating alarm might be the way to go. Thing is, of course my husband is a deep sleeper who tends to ignore alarms unless they’re pretty hard to ignore. My question is, has anyone (deep sleepers especially) used a vibrating wristwatch to wake up? Is it effective? Do you have a specific one you’d recommend? We’ve found some on eBay that vary widely in price. He doesn’t want to use a pillow vibrating alarm because he winds up not on the pillow half the time, so that wouldn’t work. Thanks for any experiences you’ve had with these. ---
**Author:** ![Confused](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Confused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Confused)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2007, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vibrating-wristwatch-alarm-do-they-work/422173/2 "2007-10-10T09:15:00Z")
Nope never tried those vibrating alarms. I was thinking maybe one of you folks could wear ear plugs? But then I wondered how you’d wake up, unless those sunrise simulator alarm clocks works for you like this one: [http://www.biobrite.com/products.php?category=SunRise%20Clocks](http://www.biobrite.com/products.php?category=SunRise%20Clocks) Bloody expensive though.