Why is it that on weekends, I wake up promptly at the time my alarm goes off during the work week–and during the work week, I’m stirred from a deep sleep when the alarm goes off at the same frickin’ time?
Why is it that by midweek, I’m waking up before the alarm goes off?
Grumble.
What are your most frustrating “Why is its”?
I used to think the world was against me. Now I know better. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
Because you LOOK FORWARD to whatever you are going to do on the weekend, and you HATE YOUR JOB WITH A PASSION, and would love to sleep through it.
Am I close here?
Yer pal,
Satan
I always wake up before the alarm goes off, too. And then I can’t get back to sleep because I know the alarm will go off in twenty minutes.
My guess is that the alarm comes as such a great shock to your system that your body will do anything to avoid it, even waking up early. Aarrgh.
Let every student of nature take this as a rule – that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.
Actually, Satan, I love my job (most days), and on weekends I’m looking forward to sleeping in.
I like sleep, dammit. Grumble grumble.
I used to think the world was against me. Now I know better. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
Then why set your alarm on the weekends?
Um…She’s saying that the alarm is off on the weekends, but she wakes up at the normal time it goes off anyways. Correct me if I’m wrong.
The problem is that when the alarm is on, she sleeps through it, when its off shes up before it would theoretically go off. Why? I have no earthly idea.
The shit that bugs me, I can’t sleep from about 11 PM - 4 AM, but I am tired around 8-9 PM regardless of how much sleep I get. Really fucks things up when I’ve got something important to do in the morning.
I wake up three seconds before the alarm goes off, shut it off a quarter of second after it’s gone off, fall asleep half a second after that, and loose all memory of my actions. Then I wake up in a panic 15 minutes before I’m supposed to be out of the house and rush to work.
I didn’t know what was happening. I thought something was wrong with the clock until I caught myself doing it. I had no idea my subcouncious (or something else) was doing that.
I decided to put the alarm clock a few meters away from my bed so I’d have to drag myself out of the bed and really wake up. I discovered that one meter wasn’t enough because I could still stretch and take care of it without leaving my blankets. Two meters, and I would carry the blankets with me, shut the clock and fall asleep on the ground.
Now I put it up my desk so there’s no way I can shut it without going vertical and REALLY waking up.
Yeah, I love sleeping. ZZZ ZZZ ZZZ
Only humans commit inhuman acts.
Momotaro,
That distance shit won’t work forever. It has worn off for me. I have to walk 4 meters to my alarm clock, and I usually place it under the laundry drying rack (new word perhaps ?) on the floor, and I still am able to shut off the alarm, wake up way too late and forget all about shutting the damn thing off in the first place.
So, I either need more alarm clocks that are hidden in the most obscure but audible places (ceiling, cupboards, balcony), or I need one of them Looney Tunes installations with a bucket of cold water on a shelf, suspended by a stick which in turn has rope attached to it, which in turn spans the entire room and is strung alongside a burning candle, which takes exactly 7 hours to burn from the top to rope-level so 7 hours after I light it, I wake up with a bucket of water pouring down on me.
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
Alarm goes off at 5:30, I hit snooze thinking that I won’t ‘do’ my hair.
Alarm goes off at 5:45, I hit snooze thinking I’ll leave my hair wet.
Alarm goes off at 6:00, I hit snooze thinking maybe I won’t eat any breakfast.
Alarm goes off at 6:15, I hit snooze.
Alarm goes off at 6:30, I jump out of bed, run to the shower, grab some clothes off of the floor and get dressed. Grab my son out of bed throw clothes on him and run out of the house. Drop him off. Drive like a maniac to work. Get to work late. Feel like shit all day because I didn’t ‘do’ my hair and I’m still tired.
Sometimes I wake up a few minutes before the alarm goes off (6:07 am precisely hehehe) and go back to sleep. When the damn thing rings, I’m really dazed and confused, as if I’d been sleeping days and days on end. I hate getting out of bed.
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Here’s an alarm clock technique that I read about somewhere. I’ve never tried it myself, though.
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[li]Set alarm clock and lock it in a metal box next to the bed. For best results, use a really jangly alarm clock that rings for a long time.[/li][li]Put the key in a tall umbrella stand[/li][li]Place the umbrella stand as far away from the bedroom as possible. If there’s a flight of stairs or two involved, so much the better.[/li][li]Fill the umbrella stand with ice water.[/li][/list]
When the alarm clock goes off in the morning, it will be amplified by the metal box. To shut it off, you will have to get out of bed, go a great distance, stick your arm (up to the shoulder) in ice water, unlock the box and shut off the alarm clock.
If it were me, I’d be so tired by all this early-morning activity that I’d go back to bed. You’re welcome to try it, though.
Never attribute to malice anything that can be attributed to stupidity.
– Unknown
LauraRae-
I have the same problem. I can’t sleep past 7-7:30 on the weekends although I want to sleep forever. During the week though I am constantly startled awake by the alarm at 7:00 I dont know why!
and does that few minutes make all the difference?
-Frankie Still tired on a tuesday!
I wake up fifteen minutes before my alarm goes off too.
The STRANGE thing is that I get up, shut it off, and start getting ready. I’m starting to wonder if I even need to turn the alarm on in the first place?
– Sylence
And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.
I wake up fifteen minutes before my alarm goes off too.
The STRANGE thing is that I get up, shut it off, and start getting ready. I’m starting to wonder if I even need to turn the alarm on in the first place?
– Sylence
And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.
I wake up fifteen minutes before my alarm goes off too.
The STRANGE thing is that I get up, shut it off, and start getting ready. I’m starting to wonder if I even need to turn the alarm on in the first place?
– Sylence
And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.
Man, I have got to get that nervous twitching fixed. . .
– Sylence
And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references.
Either A) beat the metal box on the floor until clock is silenced; or B) throw metal box out window, then go back to sleep.
When I was single, I had two alarm clocks in the bedroom. Each was randomly set 1-15 ahead (I either set them when I did not know the exact time or got a friend to set them within the 15 minute parameter), located on opposite sides of the room, set to go off at full volume 1 minute apart. Still didn’t wake me up consistently.
Now I have a wife to punch me repeatedly in the ribs. Very effective. I highly reccomend that all heavy sleepers get married (but not to each other).
The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. – E. Grebenik
Being deaf,I don’t use an alarm clock [althought they do make them for me] but have always been able to wake up at the right time [99.5% of the time anyway]
I always thought I could see the clock when Im asleep, somehow.
Not to make fun of it, but I’m REALLY curious as to how an alarm clock for deaf people functions… something like my bucket of water stunt posted earlier ?
O damn. I STILL made fun of it. I’m incorrigable. Beat me silly and call me names, Handy…
Coldfire
“You know how complex women are”
Coldfire, it could turn on the lights or maybe just a light.
Handy, some believe that we have internal clocks that can wake us up as you seem to do without a clock or external force. I usually wake up a few minutes before time to get up and then want to go back to sleep.
Jeffery