The good old "Turn off" button the alarm clock - Page 11

On January 05 2012 06:25 Rob28 wrote:
The old "physically put your alarm far away from you so you have to get up to turn it off" trick works fine.

Your sleep schedule sounds like mine, so you may want to look into this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

On January 04 2012 09:43 Lmui wrote:
The snooze button is the way to go. 8 minute intervals is usually enough that I can wake up by the 3rd or 4th alarm.

On January 05 2012 07:00 freetgy wrote:
put the clock farther away so you are forced to stand up?

On January 05 2012 07:18 Ghost151 wrote:
1.) Learn to snooze button
-Get in the habit of snoozing your clock instead of shutting it off. It has the same effect and it will not shut the alarm OFF, so it can be ready to bug you again in ~5 minutes.


2.) set multiple alarms
-I use my phone for an alarm clock and set either 2 or 3 seperate alarms. If I manage to turn off one there is another to keep going, and so on.


3.) set alarms within short intervals of each other
-if you set alarms within short intervals, say 3-4 minutes, then they go off more often than one alarm at "x" time + snooze or another alarm at a different time + snooze. The smaller amount of time between alarms allows less time for relaxation between stimuli as well and will serve to annoy you awake over time rather than one jarring awakening and then nothing. My alarms have 5 minute snooze periods, so I set them within 4 minutes of each other; this means if I snooze the first alarm there's only one minute between the next 2 rings. It allows for little time to fall back asleep, that's for sure.


optional.) pick something that makes a less annoying sound to wake you
-Personally I hate the sound of alarms so much I will usually throw or otherwise beat my normal clock up when it begins blaring. Instead of something like a banshee-wailing klaxxon, with my phone I can set custom rings and I pick music that I like. This is a way to trick me into waking up; by wanting to listen to the song and follow along in my head, I have to become more alert and pay attention to it, so I wake up faster than normal if I let it run for a bit. If you do this you may want to pick a song you are not overly fond of, because in time you can be conditioned to react in exactly the same way to that music as a normal alarm and you might end up despising the music for it!

I have also used just vibration and setting the phone near me on the bed, which more or less worked the same for a while (may not help deep sleepers much) and setting my fan/tv on a timer to turn off/on. The change in stimuli often arouses me with a "WTF happened?" attitude trying to figure out why I just woke up, but it works.

On January 04 2012 10:11 ComaDuck wrote:
I found a position which I'm not good at sleeping in, and when my alarm goes off I instantly go to it. For me it's putting my knees up. As soon as my alarm goes off I pull my legs back so my knees are up and for some reason I just don't go back to sleep.