On January 04 2012 10:21 jlim wrote:
get some fancy clock alarm with speakers and record in it BM of all sorts, so at the morning you get all mad and get up to turn off/destroy the damn thing

u gotta be a rager for it to work tho

LOL!!! An alarm that BMs. "hey fuck you, your macro is so bad, cheeser"

Hulavuta

United States1252 Posts

January 04 2012 02:32 GMT

#62

EDIT: nvm

IMoperator

4476 Posts

January 04 2012 02:32 GMT

#63

I always wake up before the alarm anyway, so i don't really have this problem.

1Eris1

United States5797 Posts

January 04 2012 02:35 GMT

#64

I turn mine up to full volume. Since I've pretty much trained myself to wake up 5-10 minutes before my alarm, if I don't get up to turn it off (it's on the opposite side of the room) everyone's going to scream at me for waking them up.

shinosai

United States1577 Posts

January 04 2012 02:35 GMT

#65

I'm convinced that I need an alarm clock that can't be turned off unless I solve a puzzle first. My brain has bad logic when I hear the alarm in the morning. The night before? I absolutely must get up. Then the morning comes... "it's not that important... you can miss this class. no big deal"

3 hours later RAGE

Tektos

Australia1321 Posts

January 04 2012 02:36 GMT

#66

nvm quoted person edited

Dugrok

Canada377 Posts

January 04 2012 02:41 GMT

#67

I've read (I think it was on Lifehacker... it was a few years ago anyway) that if you sleep in 90-minute intervals you'll wake up feeling awake instead of tired. So that means if you're going to bed at 2 am and want to wake up at say, 8 am, you should be fine. However, if you want to wake up at 7, you'll be 30 minutes into you « sleepy » phase.

Here's a link to the original article. It's interesting, don't know if it's even possible, but I've been trying to aim for 90-minute multiples and it seems to work... though I can't say I notice that often.

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/90-minutes-sleep-cycle.html

Ben...

Canada3485 Posts

January 04 2012 02:45 GMT

#68

Willpower seems like the only thing that works for me now. Starting in two days, I have to get up at 7AM, something I haven't done in 6 months, so I have been trying to force myself to get up. So far I have slept through my alarms. I almost feel like it's because I know I don't have to do anything. Luckily, today I forced myself to get up at 7:30 so I should be okay now, though I felt terrible the whole day.

You could look into getting a math-based alarm for your phone. I have been looking for one but so far most of them are just addition or subtraction questions. I need harder questions than that to wake me up.

Arkless

Canada1547 Posts

January 04 2012 02:46 GMT

#69

I use to have the same problem sort of, except I would shut it off entirely, in my sleep. Leading me to wake up late for work a few times saying WTF IT'S SET ON! So I put it on a night table across my room now so I have to physically get up to shut it off. But ever since I started doing it that way, I now wake up 10 minutes or so before my alarm no matter what time I set it for, it's kinda crazy actually. I do sometimes make it to the alarm though, I would say 4/30x per month I wake up to the actual alarm. And find I wake up a little more tired than usual. Anyone else here experience the same?????

valheru

Australia966 Posts

January 04 2012 02:47 GMT

#70

It sounds dumb but what works (for me) is to have a really fucking loud alarm. I wake up about 5-10 mins before it goes of in that dozy kinda state and when the really fucking loud alarm goes off I have the ''ÁH WHAT THE SHIT??!'' reaction and wake up. It's also helpful for the off button to be finicky. Also I keep a beanie on top of my alarm clock at night because it's digital and really bright so I can't press the snooze button.

Jonoman92

United States9107 Posts

January 04 2012 02:49 GMT

#71

On January 04 2012 11:03 micronesia wrote:

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It looks like he didn't read the OP. If you had looked more closely, you too could have realized this. The power is yours.

Not sure why you think so Micronesia. The OP never says whether his alarm clock is bedside or across the room somewhere. It's pretty good advice. Btw, I do what you do. My cell phone alarm goes off by my bed and 2 minutes later my digital clock across the room goes off and gets me up for real if the first didn't do the trick.

edit: Wait, why is this still in general and not blogs?

Selendis

Australia509 Posts

January 04 2012 02:49 GMT

#72

On January 04 2012 11:30 Lebzetu wrote:

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LOL!!! An alarm that BMs. "hey fuck you, your macro is so bad, cheeser"

If you are any good at programming, you can probably write a script and record an audio file for it to play at a designated time. Then you just turn your speakers up full blast before bed and close any other annoying programs.

And then voila!

You wake up to Idra at 200 Decibels.

Emnjay808

United States10665 Posts

January 04 2012 02:49 GMT

#73

This is interesting, I never have trouble waking up through my alarm clock. Once it goes off I let it run for a bit, then hit the snooze, then lie back down and stretch and take care of my "wood", then hit the snooze at least once more before I fully get up and get ready for my day.

I also notice that its easier for me to get up in the morning when I know I have no plans, example: I have no class, work, errands. But when I do have a day ahead of me, its like I resent it and try to stall out the day longer by being blissfully asleep =D

micronesia

United States24757 Posts

January 04 2012 02:50 GMT

#74

On January 04 2012 11:49 Jonoman92 wrote:

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You and shallow[sillygoose] did not read the OP carefully enough.

IamNatural

64 Posts

January 04 2012 02:50 GMT

#75

go to sleep before 2am.............

lSasquatchl

United States309 Posts

January 04 2012 02:51 GMT

#76

Drink a huge glass of water before you go to bed. Your bladder will make you get out of bed in the morning.

JosephAM

Canada131 Posts

January 04 2012 02:52 GMT

#77

I use my phone and set the alarm to play something really stupid I wouldn't want other people hear coming out of my room. I set it to play loud, and I turn on that "solve a simple math equation to turn off the alarm" setting. Wake up in a rush to turn off the alarm every morning and it definitely wakes me up.

Seeker

Where dat snitch at?37064 Posts

January 04 2012 02:52 GMT

#78

I normally put my iPhone alarm on. I use this thing called RTonemaker, where I can use my own songs to make ringtones. I use that as my alarm. Hearing my favorite songs in full blast mode wakes me up instantly.

Then, here is the most important part:

After you turn off your alarm, head immediately to the bathroom and wash your face. Most of the time that will wake you up and you won't go back to sleep

llKenZyll

United States853 Posts

January 04 2012 02:54 GMT

#79

On January 04 2012 11:51 TheSasquatch wrote:
Drink a huge glass of water before you go to bed. Your bladder will make you get out of bed in the morning.

I like that idea.

JoeAWESOME

Sweden1080 Posts

January 04 2012 02:55 GMT

#80

Try to place it in a bag or something and make it hard to open up! Then you need to take some time to turn it off and it can wake you up enough so you have the will power to not go back to bed!

Another thing is that you might consider going to bed a bit earlier!