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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That can also be your poor fucking housemate if you got one. One day, after 5 snoozes at 5am, I went to the dude's door and yelled, "Either get the fuck up or I'll pour an ice-cold bucket of water over your head and bed the next time it rings!" I wasn't joking. He never used the snooze function again.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Now that is what I call setting firm boundaries.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do this and my SO and I wake up at different times

Thank you smart watch vibration alarm

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Now we only need a smart buttplug vibration alarm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I didn't make that sort of threat or anything, but I sure as hell got mad when my wife did something like 8 snoozes one morning when I got to sleep in. Being half asleep and angry really sucks. Thankfully, she never did it again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know the "most annoying noise in the world" bit from Dumb and Dumber? I had a roommate with THAT and about five other loud ass annoying things as his alarms. If I didn't have to get out of bed to do so I would have done the same.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dorm mate made me detest people like this, only took a couple of mornings before I became the alarm clock

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That sucks. My guess is that they were happy you had replaced their parents in this role.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was more like a drill sarge than a mommy after that snooze button got hit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they were still able to pass the responsibility of getting up at the right time to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And to his girlfriend after me, but a small part of him lives in fear of my wake-up call to this day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I hope it involved a bucket of ice, or spiders.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Better option, go old school.

Don't use your phone alarm, buy an alarm clock. One with a very loud alarm that does not stop until you turn it off.

Place in your room as far away from the bed as possible, so that you have to get out to turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then go back in your bed for a few minutes and miss work

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hate to sound like a parent, then you need to go to bed earlier.

I haven't used an alarm in about a decade because I value sleep. Most of us live in a constant state of sleep deprivation and it is one of the worst things you can do for your health.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah great point. I'll go tell my clinical insomnia all we need is more sleep.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sorry you have that and truly hope you find an effective treatment, but the vast majority of people who are sleep deprived do not suffer from medically induced insomnia.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And I'll tell my landlord to cut my rent in half so I don't need two jobs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

go to bed earlier if you can't fall asleep then go to bed at 7 or 6 pm after 2hrs or 3hrs you will fall asleep goddammit

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure chronic lack of sleep has started impacting my memory and ability to perform consistently on some cognitive tasks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't doubt it.

I remember reading experiments where being awake for 24 hours impacts the ability to drive more than a blood alcohol level of 0.05 and by 36 hours it is 0.15.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you telling me it's not healthy to sleep 4 hours for most of the week then like 16 on the weekends?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know you are not serious but you cannot make up sleep debt. Crashing like this on the weekends just makes it worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I know you are not serious

Allow me to introduce myself

It's 4:14, I need to be up to look after my daughter at 7. 👌🥱🫠

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's how I know I would be a bad parent. If I go to bed at 4am, there's nothing nor no one that would make me stand up at 7am

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I thought the same, but I think I'm doing a good job! Doing great at looking after her, not so great at looking after myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nah that's terrible. Gotta bump up those weekend numbers, think you can do 20 a day?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But what shall I do; The Talos Principle is too addicting.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to do this when I was a kid. Then as I got older my body learned how to grab objects while still sleeping and throw them at the clock.

That's when I just got an alarm clock with a sound that would scare me half to death. Nothing wakes you up better than your heart rushing blood to your brain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Im guessing your morning woods became morning brains

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I used to do this, and then I got a beagle. Now, if I don't get up with the first alarm, my beagle screams until I get up. He's so loud lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

For the people who have this issue, I cannot recommend sleep as android (android only) highly enough, especially if you have a smart watch with heart rate monitoring.

I set an alarm for 07:00 and it wakes me up between 06:30-07:00. But it does so in the best phase of your sleep, so you feel wel rested.

Also I have it set to vibrate my watch, instead of making noise. And I love it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But you have to sleep with a watch... That makes it unusable for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to have a watch, the tracking is more accurate with a watch. You can also track with just your phone. You 'll have to lay it next to you on the bed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Ok interesting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It also supports those math, scan qr, etc extra modes for alarms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your link seems broken, but for any other readers it seems to refer to "Sleep as Android: Smart Alarm" by Urbandroid / Petr Nalevka

Rated 4.4/5 @ 10M downloads.

Personally I don't have a smart watch, and have been looking for an alarm app for my phone that lets me group my set of alarms, disable and enable them all at once, and move them all together X hours and minutes eariler / later.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Does the link work now?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Those are all your roommates

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've not used any alarm at all for the past 20 years. It's amazing. I just automatically wake up at the same time every day. And go to sleep about the same time every day.

Adjust your life so you can do this, if you can.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I started to not sleep in (so much) after I had kids. I still wouldn't call myself a morning person but these days 8am is sleeping in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This only happened to me when I was in my 30s. I think my brain chemistry did not allow me when I was younger and in my 20s to do this. Now I can barely stay up late and I wake up consistently before my alarm.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf is this image? It looks horrific.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It all the different alarms spaced very closely together pummelling the OP for not waking up on time.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Who else just ends up sleeping through all of them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Most of y'all don't have a diagnosed sleep disorder and it shows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wtf is going on at that picture? This dude looks like he is dying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I thought it was just me that did this

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