On days that I have to work, I have the alarm clock set to 5:30 AM. But even when I have the day off, I have the alarm set to wake me up at that time.
Why do I do such an odd thing? I like the feeling of knowing I can go back to sleep. I can think to myself “haha, my co-workers have to work today. Suckers!” Then I fall back into a blissfull sleep. Plus I often wake up in the middle of a dream (I rarely remember my dreams otherwise).
Anyone else do this?
I used to do it all the time when I was younger; I’d set the alarm to wake me an hour before I actually wanted to get up, then reset it for twenty minutes each time; I had lots and lots of dreams this way.
hey magnetout, me too! I still do this! It’s fun. My dreams are often more lucid and I can do stuff in them.
I’ll chip in with a me too. I really like that feeling where you just doze and slowly become ready for the day. My alarm is set an hour before I have to get up. On a good day, I’ll even get up 20mins earlier as a result.
I used to do this too - when it works it feels soooo good! Unfortunately these days I can’t get back to sleep again afterwards, so I try to avoid all interference with my lie-ins.
I used to do this too until the time that I woke up and reset the alarm only to find that when I next reset the alarm I was only dreaming that I was resetting the alarm and in reality I was dead. Or was that the Twilight Zone?
Eh, not sure if it’s odd or not. I will say this though; I like your attitude, that’s f’n classic. Waking yourself up just to think to yourself what bunch of suckers your coworkers are.
Hmm, I may have to try this myself now…
I find it really difficult to go back to sleep once I’ve been woken up. So I don’t do it. I prefer to stay asleep!
I have never learned to get out of bed when the alarm goes off. I almost have to set the alarm early, then hit the snooze button a few times before finally waking up. I use a clock-radio now, but the same thing happened when I used an alarm.
And, yes, I love sleeping through the radio when I finally get a day off.
I’m a snooze maniac. I set my alarm a bit early because I love the feeling of getting out of bed to hit snooze and then running back across the room to jump into my warm bed to snuggle back under the covers.
I couldn’t have said it better.
I used to set my alarm clock early if I had to go to work on just a couple hours of sleep. It was kind of my way of psyching my body into thinking it was getting more sleep than it actually was.