EPTThe good old "Turn off" button the alarm clock - Page 11
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dANiELcanuck
Canada217 Posts
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kittensrcute
United States617 Posts
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Yuljan
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Rob28
Canada705 Posts
Your sleep schedule sounds like mine, so you may want to look into this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome | ||
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Sinterklaas75
34 Posts
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 No, it doesn't work. If I put my alarm clock that far away, I just don't wake up from it. And when I put it right beside my bed, I put it off in my sleep. I never even remember turning the alarm clock off. I am thinking about using my 10 year old computer as an alarm clock. I will put speakers on it that will blast at HIGH volume when it's time. To turn them off, I have to solve an easy chess puzzle (but just hard enough for a sleeping brain, so I HAVE to wake up). Ofcourse I put my speakers somewhere where I can't just turn off the volume knob. And yes, I am thinking about doing this for real. | ||
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rhmiller907
United States118 Posts
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Lucumo
6850 Posts
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. That and I use 3 alarm clocks. | ||
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Karis Vas Ryaar
United States4396 Posts
the snooze button works pretty well in all honesty. | ||
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freetgy
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llKenZyll
United States853 Posts
On January 05 2012 07:00 freetgy wrote: put the clock farther away so you are forced to stand up? read OP plz | ||
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Latham
9580 Posts
Can't help you here =/ GL | ||
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Haydin
United States1481 Posts
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
Or try the dawn simulator, which is a sexy thing that gradually lights up the room at the time you want. pretty sure I just won the thread. | ||
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Ghost151
United States290 Posts
-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. | ||
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Sinterklaas75
34 Posts
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. I use the snooze button with intervals of 3 to 5 minutes for an hour long. I do this with 10 different alarm clocks on my mobile (it's the maximum). I tried all sorts of different musical genres (I tried reggae, death metal, classical music, smooth jazz, etc...). I tried the vibration setting. Nothing worked. Almost every day I just turn off the alarm clocks in my sleep. I never remember doing it. Back when I was a child, my mom could just use the vacuum cleaner in my room while I was sleeping. I never woke up from it. I guess I have some serious issues. | ||
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Thorakh
Netherlands1788 Posts
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megapants
United States1314 Posts
comaduck's suggestion is interesting, too. i'm definitely going to try that. edit: added quote 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. | ||
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ravemir
Portugal595 Posts
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BM_Rawbertson
43 Posts
Or if it's the weekend, like it sounds like your case is, I set goals a lot kind of like "I need to be at the skatepark by 3 oclock" or "I want to play 10 games of sc2 by 1pm" | ||
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Incze
Romania2058 Posts
Try it | ||
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