I don't ever use the snooze button either. What I do is put my alarm clock at a distance where I have to get out of bed to turn it off. But I have some sort of internal clock that I can wake up if I need to go somewhere in the morning, even with 5 hours of sleep etc.

Jonoman92

United States9110 Posts

January 04 2012 03:05 GMT

#84

On January 04 2012 11:50 micronesia wrote:

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

F%$^ I don't know how to read...

gerreor

Canada6 Posts

January 04 2012 03:08 GMT

#85

My advice is to set a song that you really like and will want to have playing when you start your day. I think that alarms that have really annoying sounds are just a terrible way to regain consciousness.

I wake up to chrono trigger every day and it is great.

Synwave

United States2803 Posts

January 04 2012 03:09 GMT

#86

I find if I make myself get up everytime (and usually hop directly into a shower to avoid the temptation to sit there...and slowly fall asleep again) that it becomes easier and easier. However after a week during vacation the habit is a bit broken. I think it basically comes down to willpower + conditioning. If you condition yourself to get up no matter what the will to do so becomes easier and easier over time.

That and I have a cat that as soon as the alarm goes off is in my face pawing at me for foods. This helps tremendously as I know he will not leave me alone and I feel bad if I ignore his hunger >^..^<

noobcakes

United States526 Posts

January 04 2012 03:11 GMT

#87

Too many times I give in to temptation and I just not go to school. It's great :D

Hall0wed

United States8486 Posts

January 04 2012 03:11 GMT

#88

You think you waste the day with those hours, I sleep from 10am-6pm currently...

Anyway it is really easy, just put it somewhere where you have to get up to turn it off. One year at school I had my bed lofted so I had to climb down from the ceiling to turn off my alarm, made it much easier to go to class every morning (it stopped working well near the end of the year though, I would end up laying on my futon every morning after turning off the alarm and I would sleep there for several extra hours).

WightyCity

Canada887 Posts

January 04 2012 03:11 GMT

#89

i hear it and run to make coffee and breakfast.

obesechicken13

United States10467 Posts

January 04 2012 03:15 GMT

#90

I put my alarm in a box and then put a lock around the box and the key in the bathroom.

fritfrat

United States50 Posts

January 04 2012 03:15 GMT

#91

On January 04 2012 11:57 TALegion wrote:
I put my alarm clock on the other side of the room.

I think it's funny that after multiple posts discussing how someone got warned for saying this because it was in the OP, someone just said it again. I guess it's different since it's not a direct suggestion, but still

Anyways, try turning the light on when you turn off your across-the-room alarm clock

Doesn't work too well with roommates or spouses, but it worked well for me when I could use it.

sorrowptoss

Canada1431 Posts

January 04 2012 03:15 GMT

#92

Lol, alarm clocks don't even wake me up in the first place; I just keep sleeping through the loud buzzing/ringing. This is really a problem that I have since I usually end up waking up really late... Any suggestions to help me?

Daikas

United States118 Posts

January 04 2012 03:16 GMT

#93

I find that being waken up gently as opposed to a sudden loud beeping/ringing alarm makes for a much more soothing morning experience. Even though the sudden loud ringing will cause my heart to jump, I end up still being tired and just rush run over to my alarm clock to hit that snooze button.

My droid alarm clock allows for the sound to start quiet and slowly get louder. And the calm music of final fantasy usually helps put a smile on my face. I'll sometimes just let it play through the entire song before I get out of bed and turn the alarm off.

lawls544

United States36 Posts

January 04 2012 03:17 GMT

#94

Here is what I used a few years ago.

For those who cannot tell, it's a cell phone alarm. It's resting at an angle, and the vibration from the alarm causes it to slide off the shelf and onto my lower torso.

saltywet

Hong Kong1316 Posts

January 04 2012 03:18 GMT

#95

On January 04 2012 09:54 psychopat wrote:
I don't think I've ever used the snooze button... it's a stupid button to begin with. Instead of setting it 30 minutes early to allow for a bunch of snoozes, I just set it at a time where I know I need to get up. It lets me get more actual sleep instead of compounding the problem and pissing me off at the same time.

If you're having problems getting up when the alarms rings and they're not related to disease/depression/etc, then you quite simply aren't getting enough sleep and you need to make an effort to get more (or go to bed at times that don't mess over your circadian rhythm too much)

well as a student, more than often i DONT get enough sleep, and in the case that this happens and i have problems getting up, setting the snooze to 2 hours before my wake up time and 30minute-1hour intervals gets me up. even if i go to sleep at 6 am and need to get up by 9 am.

stormchaser

Canada1009 Posts

January 04 2012 03:20 GMT

#96

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.

Or wake you up in the middle of the night

I wake up off of feel, I dunno how it works, but my body just wakes me up at around 8:00 am every morning. I hate using alarms.

Cel.erity

United States4890 Posts

January 04 2012 03:21 GMT

#97

Alarm clocks don't work on me at all. Even if the alarm is on the other side of the room, I'll just turn it off and go back to sleep without remembering anything. I find the thing that works best is to set 4-5 alarms at weird intervals, like if I need to wake up at 7am I'll set 6:35, 6:41, 6:50, 6:52, 6:57. That usually does the trick. Even I can't sleep through a half hour of disturbance.

seaofsaturn

United States489 Posts

January 04 2012 03:23 GMT

#98

Adjust your eating habits. If you are eating dinner at 11 pm then it tells your body to sleep at 2 am. Eating at normal times basically tricks your body's clock into sleeping normally. Circumvents the whole alarm system. Works great for time zone changes too.

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

January 04 2012 03:24 GMT

#99

I have heard setting it to have your total sleep time in multiples of 90 minutes will wake you up at a good time in the sleep cycle, so you can wake up more easily.

Personally I don't usually use an alarm, I naturally wake up at about 6:30 every day. When I used an alarm more consistently I would just let the 9-minute snooze run a few times and I would get up, although I remember when I was younger I would wake up the first time. Probably because I went to bed earlier then, not because of my age.

Recently I've been pushing myself to overcome a lack of performance and self control when tired or drowsy, and I'm learning stay focused and alert. Being able to do this naturally has an advantage over relying on caffine, because you can begin it right when you wake up.

Ben...

Canada3485 Posts

January 04 2012 03:29 GMT

#100

On January 04 2012 12:20 stormchaser wrote:

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Or wake you up in the middle of the night

I wake up off of feel, I dunno how it works, but my body just wakes me up at around 8:00 am every morning. I hate using alarms.

See that's the thing with me, I used to never need an alarm either, I woke up at 7:00 every morning on the minute without an alarm but then as soon as I started working during summer a few years back I started relying on alarms and I have never broken that habit. At the same time, when I wake up to an alarm I always feel groggy and tired but when I used to be able to wake up on my own, I would feel fully rested. I think part of it is I stay up too late on my laptop. I've cut that out now and started reading instead so hopefully that will help a bunch (I have the whole A Song of Ice and Fire series ordered from Amazon to reinforce this idea, really pumped to read those, I love watching Game of Thrones).

Also, I just looked and finally found a non-awful math-based alarm for my phone so that should help a ton.

Edit: I also used to do an alarm every minute for 10 minutes, but eventually I got lazy/smart enough to just turn them all off after the first one so that ended up failing. The above mentioned odd time intervals is what I used up until a month ago when finals started when I just turned off my alarms and either woke up at 10AM or when my mom or dog nagged me into getting out of bed.