On January 04 2012 19:17 AmericanUmlaut wrote: You could try reproducing. I haven't used my alarm clock since my daughter was born. Little kids don't have snooze buttons, and they tend to wake up pretty early.
Imagine your parents telling you one day that the only reason they decided to have you was so that your father could use you as his new alarm clock so that he didn't have to get out of bed out of his own will
I sleep through alarm clocks. Doesn't matter how loud or what noise. I sleep until I wake up, I tend to go to bed early if I can. There's the old drink 8 glasses of water before bed trick though, that never fails to wake me up!
I am convinced i sleepwalk when my alarm goes off , and i deactivate all 4 of my alarms.
so i decided to get creative : Google it : D There are tons of awesome and cheap alarm clocks. I personally bought the Shape up alarm clock ... it looks like a small weight and you have to lift it 30 times for it to stop ringing..that should wake me up..
I also bought an app called Freaky Alarm (iPhone) in which i can control<<How much i want to get up>>, and according to what i choose i get math problems of higher and higher difficulty :D (not hard , at all just something to fire up my brain in the morning )
I am a HEAVY sleeper. I'm certain you could drop a bomb in my yard, and I'd sleep through it.
Tip 1) Set 2-3 alarms, spread 15mins apart. First alarm so you know its time to get up, second and third to piss you off/keep you up while you're trying to fall back asleep.
If that fails
Tip 2) Drinking a cup of water before bed will get you up :p
lol from what u can see on the teamliquid little tittle, it looked like the good old "turn off" i thought it was gonna be about girls and sexuality lol opps
And on the dresser is the alarm clock... the distance is literally cross-room, forcing myself to get out of bed just to turn it off... then i proceed to get clothes and take a shower immediately (since my door is right next to the dresser)
I snooze for an hour and barely manage to force myself out of bed. The problem with this is that I use my phone as an alarm and often press the turn off button instead of the snooze and its gg nn. The screen tells me which button is which but I'm so tired I can't read it no matter what, its like the letter jump around forming random words! Sometimes I get mad at it thinking its insulting me!! Its like I'm so tired I'm not even concious and barely remember any of it after an hour.
I have this problem too. That being said, it's all about Routine. (Of which, I have very little - go being a University student)
What has worked decently for me was having an alarm clock on my phone that had a snooze button. I usually set the alarm about 30 minutes before when I "have" to get up, and then I wack at it a few times. Usually what ends up happening is I'll get up 45 minutes after that, and rush through my morning, but I'll manage to be on time for what I need to do.
If you can get into a routine and a sleep cycle your body can adjust to, you'll be golden though. Quality of sleep will improve as well.
LOL 2am and u wake up 12 afternoon jeez dude 10 hours sleep is alot and i LOVE my sleep aswell!
I cant beleive putting alarm clock other side of your room didnt work! Worked for me, but i have the unbeatable alarm clock...My mum/dad LOL, they just hurl abuse at me switch my light on at 8am so im up for work everyday! When there on holiday im normally home alone so i do set an alarm then but i seem to have no problem then!
Tip, put alarm on your TV too or get an Alarm radio? And if your on your own, or when u wake up everyone else is up/not there put the volume really loud so when it goes off its stupidly loud and "frightens" you awake something like that.
I sleep with my clothes on which makes getting out of bed really easy.
Then I just do the morning things before the shower in the clothes from yesterday, and just put on new ones after the shower (Showering is last on my morning schedule)
Then i'll put 1 alarm clock (power point one) on one side, and the mobile phone one on the other. I'll put the mobile phone one under a bag or something so I have to move more to turn it off (which wakes me up).
If I don't wake up to my alarm clock, I don't make it in time for lectures. I have to get up therefore I do. I usually feel shit for about an hour then it's fine
I can only talk for myself here, but for me to get up I need motivation. I need some reason to get up - or it's just not gonna happen until the laws of quantum physics (more specifically the Feynman path integral) makes my entire body suddenly appear out of bed. Movitation for me doesn't just come from within. It comes from real tasks or meetings I must do. For me the most effective one is work.
I set four different alarms, all with some form of snooze function and with different starting times. That way it becomes too much of a hassle to turn all of them off. Also alarms that wake you up gently is preferable, the ones that slowly starts to light up works well unless you are really tired.
If you aren't motivated to get up, nothing will get you up. In my student days I would sleep over my alarm without even bothering to snooze. My brain would just ignore the obnoxious loud BEEPs. Right now If I don't get up I get fired, I usually wake up just minutes before the alarm actually goes off.
EPT
