A rooster alarm from my phone, slowly increasing in volume until I snooze it.
On weekends I enjoy the occasional chance to just sleep until I naturally wake up. Luxury.
It will seem like I’m astroturfing as the first post I make on this form is advocating a product but I wake up to wake up light. It’s just a bright light that slowly gets brighter until it’s about as bright as it would be if the sun was up. I set it to reach full brightness around 4am and it’s very nice because most days I just pleasantly wake up without some jarring sound and with my eyes already sort of adjusted to light. I have another alarm in case I don’t wake up to the light. It’s an app that is supposed to wake you up between sleep cycles by leaving it on your bed so it can monitor your movement. But I don’t really feel like it’s any better than chance.
I’ve got an alarm clock on a shelf across the room that wakes me up.
Then nine minutes later its snooze timer runs out and it wakes me up again.
Then nine minutes later it is joined by a second alarm clock.
Nine minutes later both clocks go off again. And then I get up and shut them off for real.
Or, alternatively, it’s a weekend, and I wake up to blissful silence when my body feels like it. Sometimes it’s close to noon.
The smell of coffee. I set the timer on the coffeemaker to brew at 10:30 AM. ( Afternoon shifter…don’t get home till around midnight )
If the A/C ( or heat ) is on, the smell of coffee is stronger and more well traveled. Those mild times of the year it’s not on, it might take 20+ minutes for the smell of coffee to waft its way to me bedroom.
Don’t need any stinking alarm clocks, but really, force of habit usually has me waking around that time anyway.
Why did 9 minutes become the default snooze?
Thanks begbert2!!
The Missus has an alarm on her phone that (mis)reads the trending headlines–she’s a politics junkie. It goes off at 5:00. She shuts it off and plays Snooze Alarm for maybe an hour. But I’M up now so I can get the coffee & breakfast ready for us. Usually I’m awake maybe half an hour before it ever goes off but I don’t feel compelled to get out of bed until the alarm goes off. On weekends my eyes just flick open within 30 minutes either side of 5:00 and I set about enjoying the morning as it may suit me while everyone else sleeps.
Am I the first? If, a big IF, I sleep, waking is frought with all manner of problems. It’s usually the Siamese death howl. Must be fed, must be fed, must be fed. I sleepwalk through their morning breakfast. Next it’s the dogs needing to go out and pee. Next it’s my need to eat something to keep from sinking into a diabetic coma.
If all that goes down and Mr.Wrekker has found his own way out the door I may sleep another hour.
It is never pleasant. I suffer terribly in the mornings. It’s probably what’s keeps awake at night. Vicious cycle of my life. Alas.
Insomnia is a cruel bedfellow. (oops, unintended pun)
I have a clock radio that I got for Christmas back in, like, 1996 or something that still works just fine. I set it to go off at 4:30 AM, and typically snooze it a few times. It’s set to a Top 40 station that starts their morning show at 5:00 AM, and I like most of the songs they play but the morning show chatter irritates me. So it’s good motivation to know that I have half an hour to get my ass out of bed!
This time of year gobbling turkeys. They roost in trees a little ways from my bedroom window and like to get up promptly at 7 a.m., after which the males will start in right away. Earlier than my preference or need( like BrickBat I work evenings and sleep in ), but they quickly wander away and I can usually go back to sleep and get another hour or two in if I’m tired enough. If I’m not up by 9 or 10 the cats will finish the job.
Mrs. ToKnow gets up before I do, so most mornings I wake up to her alarm, which is Mister Rogers singing “You Are Special.” If she snoozes that, 15 minutes later it’s Mister Rogers singing “Be Brave, Be Strong.” Then my alarm goes off 15 minutes after that, one of the Samsung Galaxy default alarms, which I transferred over to my Moto G5 plus because I hated all the options Moto provided.
An alarm clock next to my bed beeps.
My alarm clock radio is set on WXRT, a modern rock station. I used to have it on a classic rock station, but more times than not, it would wake me up to some suck-ass DJ or advertisement instead of music.
I wake up several times, thanks to the joys of an aging bladder.
The final couple are when The Big Crow comes to bed (he’s a night owl, so this is anywhere from 3 to 5 in the AM.) And then to the sound of his CPAP, which he says doesn’t make a sound. I disagree. Sometimes this is accompanied by soft snoring or, worse, the flapping of his soft palate or sinuses or something. That doesn’t happen often but I really think he should see his doctor about that.
A dual alarm clock radio. The first alarm is just the most annoying buzzer I could find. The second alarm is the radio with the volume cranked to max to let me know that I really can’t snooze anymore and absolutely have to move now. On days where I have to get up a lot earlier than normal there’s the cell phone alarm with an annoying eagle screech. The trio is to make sure I’m not just slapping the snoozes on both without awareness or just sleeping through the blaring without moving. I’m not a morning person and have experience sleeping at live fire tank ranges. That third alarm is not just for a hypothetical. It’s a proven issue.
Oh and swearing. Lots of swearing. Pretty much every day dealing with a schedule that’s considered normal involves swearing.
Depending on the morning, it’s either MEOW!, or BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP., or blessed silence.
Lone cat, one who sleeps on my pillow, that knows I’ve stopped snoring. Which he also does in spades.
Time to eat at 4am, and he’ll scratch my neck. Hate that. Always yell at him. Does no good.
“Every time I scratch the Big Hairless Cat, I get fud. this is so cool!!!”
“New Morning” alarm tone on the rare mornings that my wife doesn’t wake me first with her rummaging about.