Snoozing alarms

[Sun Wukong]

Curious (yes, my life is that empty) about who snoozes their alarm clock in the morning, and how often you end up beating it.

I have never been a morning person, to put it mildly, but can get myself out of bed at any time if I need to. I can't vouch for my following mood, but I'll be mobile.

However, lately I have an annoying combination of shit bed, shit sleep and nothing desperately urgent to wake up for... and a couple of other issues.

And the alarm is pretty much redundant these days. It goes off every day at an optimistic but not unfair time.

I get out of bet several hours later, having repeatedly snoozed.

Does anyone else find if you just admit you're a lazy shit, set your alarm for a later time, and not snooze it... you get up earlier.

Or is that just me?


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[Beehive Bedlam]

I like to set it 15 minutes prior to when I have to get up then I have a chance to deal with the morning wood and release some love cream from my massive testicals before going to work.

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[J0Al1]

Quite why anyone would want to wake themselves up more than once is beyond me.

It's also been studied and apparently you feel more awake for the day if you only get woken up once (and get up on alarm).

[Alpineandy]

I'm not a morning person, which is annoying as the break of dawn is such a great time of day.

The best alarm I ever had was a 'day-light' alarm. It turned a light on and played music which gradually got louder.
One of the few things I regret my EX taking...

As for standard bleeping alarms, I hate them and would regularly decide I was awake, turn the alarm off and then have a 30+ minute 'blink' which turned the remaining x minutes into a nightmare rush to get out the door.
Oddly when I travel My mobile has a good 'pleasant' alarm but I rarely use it at home..
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[Rogerborg]

There are free apps that'll do that: try "Light Alarm Clock".

I have upgraded myself with a preternatural time sense and usually wake a minute or so before the alarm is set to go off, so it's largely moot.
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[stinkwheel]

I snooze three times but usually lie and read a book for a while after the first one goes off.

In the winter when it's dark, I put the light on at the first alarm and doze off again. The second one wakes me up properly. I can't wake up properly in the dark.
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[MahatmaAndhi]

I set three alarms at 15 minute intervals, but get kicked in the head most mornings by my 2yo son.
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[Flatbadger]

I use a radio with a clock on it, listening to the BBC local news is better than BEEP, but not much admittedly. The snooze button is covered with engrained dirt and dust, as it isn't touched.

Also the news stories help to get me out of bed - the Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie situation had me fraught this morning.
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[andyscooter]

I'm the oopposite

If I need to get up I set an alarm for that time just in case but always get up ten minutes before it goes off
Doesn't matter if it's 8 o clock or three o clock in the morning I still wake up ten minutes earlier
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[BrownTrousers]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

I have two alarms 15 minutes apart, both play music. I sometimes snooze the second one once. I vary the music, but it's always something that starts quietly and builds.
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[pepperami]

I hate getting up and will continually press snooze if given the chance.

So I put the alarm out of reach so that I HAVE to get up to turn it off .
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[Tracey Suntan-King]

In what turned out to be vain attempt to get my teenage daughter up in the mornings, I bought an alarm clock which launched a gyroscope thingy across the room and could only be silenced by getting out of bed, retrieving the missile and placing it back onto the clock.

So, I thought, no snoozing for her.....ha!

On day 2 as I made breakfast, I saw both parts fly past the kitchen window fro the bedroom above and smash onto the patio.

Some people just gotta snooze.
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[MCN]

Mines is 05:00 jump out immediately at about 05:20-ish Snooze every 8 mins.

I love snooze. Unless the noise is annoying.

I spent some time (No pun) looking for a good alarm. I have two of these one for work and one for travel to work.

Oregon Scientific RM822 Radio Controlled Travel Alarm Clock

The noise increases in volume as you ignore it. I've never not heard it and I can sleep like a log.

(The radio control never works where I work though. )
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[sensi5446]

I set the alarm for the time I need to get up, I don't like being woken up any earlier then I have to. I do normally wake up a few mins before the alarm goes off.

I actually wake up a lot of the time panicking that I've slept in and I'll be late for work, think this comes from school days.

[trevoriv]

My 16 month old daughter wakes up at 6am on the dot every day regardless of how well (or not) she's slept.

Unfortunately has no snooze option.

Watching sun rises is nice though.
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[thx1138]

can go from asleep to eyes open and brain firing on all cylinders in about 30 seconds, other people in the household find this annoying

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[Rogerborg]