snooze alarm poll

Multiple times or you're not actually a real human being.

currently I set an alarm at 7:50 and one at 7:51, so I basically give myself a minute of snooze. I usually time things so that I don't have much opportunity to snooze because I already got as much real sleep as my schedule would allow.

usually hit it as many times as i can before my phone turns into an asshole and cuts me off (five times, i think)

of course i wouldn't do it so much if i didn't know there'll be a cut-off, fucking nanny state

multi

once or twice

twice

my natural inclination is at least 3 times before rising. i try to restrain myself to one but that rarely works unless I get like, 9 hours of sleep or some shit and who the fuck can do that on a regular basis

too many times. i need one of those alarms that make you solve math problems in order to snooze or something. some mornings feel like i'm snoozing my life away :-(

snoozing away in a flophouse?

i have ranted at je55e about this before but i don't understand the snooze button, it seems so complicated and based on weird self-delusion. just set the alarm for when you need to get up and then get up when it goes off. i'm not a very heavy sleeper though.

i never snooze/cause sleep is the cousin of death

yeah if you are just better at getting up then you get more actual sleep time, that is a fair compromise, idk why you'd want to fill your life w/ half sleep

I sometimes use the snooze bar, I sometimes do not use the snooze bar. Sometimes I use the snooze bar more than once.

I also sometimes use an alarm, and sometimes do not use an alarm.

don't use it. my alarm is on the other side of the room, which forces me to get out of bed to turn it off

I am old, so I use a clock radio. I listen to the radio for half an hour before getting up. Unless I really, really need to get up for something important, like a flight. Then I wake up two hours before the alarm goes off, then an hour, then half an hour, etc.

i have ranted at je55e about this before but i don't understand the snooze button, it seems so complicated and based on weird self-delusion. just set the alarm for when you need to get up and then get up when it goes off. i'm not a very heavy sleeper though.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, January 3, 2013 5:45 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

waking up is hard/going back to sleep is the best feeling in the world

i hit the snooze 3-5 times. so does my gf, which is the worse kind of reinforcement. i want to be a 0 snoozer

I got so pissed off with how awkward it was to hit snooze on my phone that I now set three alarms a snooze apart, then fall asleep after the last one.

4 equal times over the space of an hour, one full hour needed to come round if tired. Usually wake up before the alarm 90% of the time though.

Generally just hit it once, and then the nagging anticipation of the second alarm usually gets me out of bed before it actually goes off. (It helps to use a really aggravating alarm tone.)

Never snooze. Basically I just hop up.

snooze into oblivion. then i wake up

Never snooze. Basically I just hop up.

It amazes me that anyone can do this.

Maybe being able to fall asleep before 2am would help :(

Clicked on many times, though in actual fact I get up, stumble to the kitchen, and reset the alarm two or three times. I also simultaneously reset the alarm beside my bed the same two or three times. I know I'd risk sleeping in if I just used a snooze alarm, even more so if I depended on a single clock. I have this whole elaborate ritual that's quite silly but necessary: waking up is not easy.

I fantasize about being able to "just hop up." I think I would trade a lot for it, as my sleep issues have caused some serious problems for me. Fucking hell waking up is hard.

Twice this morning. The number of snoozes depends on how actively the cats participate in waking me up.

I preferred my old alarm clock, which had a bigger snooze button, but the cats knocked it off the table and broke it.

Maybe I could get by without an alarm clock.

My alarm clock is backup: I'm usually awake by 7 a.m., holiday or not, hungover or not. Painful.

Considering waking up to a news broadcast for the first time ever--it's starting to seem like it might be enjoyable to set alarm for 20 mins earlier and hear a measured, non-hysterical person telling me about the mass shootings/obstructionist politics of the day. No, I mean it. Now the only problem is that I don't own a radio....

I would love to be able to wake up quickly as well. I use my phone as an alarm clock with a free app that lets you snooze 4 times then you have to answer a mental arithmetic question. That just about wakes me up enough. Prior to that I used a regular clock radio and snoozed about 3 times and then either woke up enough to get out of bed or fell back to sleep and was late for work.

Putting the alarm clock across the room doesn't work. I get out of bed still half asleep, turn it off and go back to bed. Haven't woken up enough to register I shouldn't be doing that.

can't vote, still hitting snooze from a couple hours ago

hit the snooze, post this thread, repeat

we're a soozit

i know there are apps that track your sleep cycles (no idea how accurately) but i've been wondering if there's an alarm clock app that wakes you up at the right moment between cycles? cause it would be the best and i'd consider getting a smart phone for that alone.

No snooze alarm. I use a sunrise simulator so the light comes on gradually, starting about 20 minutes before I want to be up. I have an analog alarm clock (that plays the Totoro song) set, but I'm almost always awake and out of bed before it goes off.

as i make my own schedule what i usually do is hit snooze a few times then somehow turn it off at some point then wake up three hours later and say OH FFS.

I have a sunrise-simulating light but I always roll over

My alarm is my lower back. It's usually set for about 6:30; I hit the snooze button by rolling over and usually get 60-90 more minutes.

Never snooze. Basically I just hop up.

omg you are the devil

^^^

as i make my own schedule what i usually do is hit snooze a few times then somehow turn it off at some point then wake up three hours later and say OH FFS.

― Merdeyeux, Saturday, January 5, 2013 2:28 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep :(

Snooze forever

Jeff usually wakes me up and I try to hit snooze on him.

I just don't want to get out of bed and it takes awhile to convince my sleepy head that I really must.

i have ranted at je55e about this before but i don't understand the snooze button, it seems so complicated and based on weird self-delusion. just set the alarm for when you need to get up and then get up when it goes off. i'm not a very heavy sleeper though.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, January 3, 2013 5:45 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

waking up is hard/going back to sleep is the best feeling in the world

Exactly. It's not about getting extra sleep but about the delicious feeling of being half asleep and half awake.

once i was trying to hit snooze and confusedly turned on the bedside lamp instead, to laughter from the far side of the bed

the snooze on my phone is only five minutes, which aggravates me whenever i travel. on the bright side, i get to wake up to 'ain't talkin' 'bout love'

Coward dies 1000 deaths. Snoozer suffers 10,000 wake-ups.

all your wakeups are brutal; a good portion of mine involve the sublime pleasure of rolling over

all this reminds me that there is really nothing better at all than waking up in the middle of the night and realizing that a) it's still pretty early and you have a lot of time to sleep, then b) it's the weekend and you don't have to get up anyway

i have a lot of feelings about sleep

I had a "Happiness Is..." Peanuts book that featured Linus observing (a.)

linus was pretty endlessly otm

ope, my snooze 12 hours ago finally went off again

gonna donnadon wuzzaaay

mookie otm. Also, getting laughed at for poorly hitting an alarm is great hilarious morning action. You can grump about it in the moment, but in the end being a morning grump has to have an element of humor.

beep beep beep beep beep beep

stepad yura dad

One time my clock came unplugged and Jeff plugged it in without resetting the time and I turned the alarm on without noticing the time and my alarm went off at 2:30 and I got up and turned on the shower thinking it was 6:30. Then I was like, wait why is it so dark? And I checked the clock on the stove and went back to bed.

Unrelated: Jeff woke me up this morning by playing "Hip to Be Square."

omg you are the devil

― mookieproof, Friday, January 4, 2013

alarm is on mr veg's side of the bed. we got a new-fangled clock a few years back - but i had to glue a piece of foam to the snooze alarm because the buttons on our clock are all stupidly flush. mr veg would flap his hand around & hit all the wrong buttons, turning on the radio or turning the alarm off...it was a bad situation for a while there

but it's better than when i first met mr veg. he had an old 70's clock radio & the alarm was terrifying. He made it so it was both beeping and alarm.
But the beeping was like a SUPERLOUD submarine dive siren, and the radio was deliberately tuned between two station, also crazy loud.
so it was like WONK WONK PSSSHHHHTTT HEY HEY MAMA SAID THE WAY YOU GROOVE HIGHWAY 50 EASTBOUND SLOW TO WATT PHHHHSSSSHT WONK WONK

i had a heart attack the first time the alarm went off. and then i yelled at him, lol

beeeeep beeeep beeeep

now how did a zonadon

don't use it. my alarm is on the other side of the room, which forces me to get out of bed to turn it off

― steaklife (donna rouge), Thursday, 3 January 2013 19:08 (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

waking & getting up is easily the worst part of every day for me & i think & bitch about it a lot & even so i just don't have the balls to put myself through this painstakingly logical & effective method. i don't even have a go-back-to-bed impulse once i'm standing up, i'm fine after like five minutes, but it's just so brutal to have to drag yourself up. those first couple minutes. my eyes hurt & it's like my body is tied to another one of my body.

this is a separate poll, i'm sure, but basically without an alarm i will sleep indefinitely like those dudes in 'voyage of the dawn treader'. do you *need* an alarm to wake up?

yep

i would sleep forever without one

i leave the blinds open at night, so no matter how tired i am when i fall asleep, i wake up the next morning with the sun in my eyes. i set an alarm but i almost always beat it waking up.

does anyone else turn the shower water on and then climb back into bed for a minute? or is that just me

just you but i love it

i've fallen back asleep a couple of times doing that which is usually bad news

i can't climb back into bed without sleeping for 2 hours

minnesota sometimes involves starting your car and falling back asleep, which is probably worse

i love getting back into bed but it's a) a baaaad idea for me and b) hardly ever happens without a) becoming apparent

i know there are apps that track your sleep cycles (no idea how accurately) but i've been wondering if there's an alarm clock app that wakes you up at the right moment between cycles? cause it would be the best and i'd consider getting a smart phone for that alone.

WDYSCLL? (search for: SleepCycle)

efficacy is... questionable

if yr gonna say fuck it, then fuck it. fuck a snooze alarm.

you snooze, you lose

used to use a radio alarm for shift work. R4 at first, but it was quite early so it used to be a case of UK Theme > Shipping Forecast > Get up during Farming Today.

Then I got bored of that (the nausea of waking up had associated itself with the radio schedule) and switched to classical music on R3. The first time the alarm went off under my new regime they were playing a modern interpretation of Leopoldo Mozart's Toy Symphony (for Wolfgang and Nannerl), which was exceptionally cacophonous and had the noisy ringing of a toy fire-engine's alarm bells when the alarm went off, so I immediately sat bolt upright in bed, in a cold sweat, with my heart going like the clappers.

The second morning they were playing something, I don't think it was Debussy but it was similar, about an enchanted island, and as I lay there listening I fell into a profoundly satisfactory sleep where I was travelling to work down the A4 in my enchanted island bed boat, feeling refreshed and tranquil. Overslept by about two hours. Excuse of impressionistic piano piece didn't really cut it as it happened.

Alarm on phone these days. Tend to wake up before it as well, really only a backstop safeguard most of the time, mainly because my sleep hasn't been great for a while.

Yeah I once got woken by an alarm that was someone's radio set to talk radio and when it went off, the first thing it happened to burst out with was loud raucous laughter. Which in my addled half asleep state I interpreted as evil cackling and woke up and FREAKED OUT.

Now I either use quiet mumbly talk radio on soft, or in summer I just rely on the sun tbh. It cracks thru the curtains at 6am, and thats good enough to get me up and going. No alarming noises neccesary!

awoke this morning at 7:45 without alarm, ugh

the nausea of waking up

This is why I can't do the clock across the room thing. Jumping immediately out of bed to make a noise stop makes me want to puke.

I tried a clock with a flashing light, because I thought it would be more pleasant than noise, but instead I would have horrible dreams about staring at the sun or being interrogated or cops shining flashlights in my face. When Jeff doesn't get up first, I use my phone and wake up to a song that's calm (best if it starts quiet and builds - for a long time it was "The Rain Song") and that is as good as it gets.

I did get right up today but that's because I forgot to switch some vital laundry over to the dryer, and oh look I'm back in bed now.

The most effective way to get me out of bed after the alarm is the old cat, who views any horizontal human as a napping place and will return to sleep on me and 1) ugh don't step on my ladder, cat, and 2) I feel guilty disturbing her so I get up before she can settle in.

uh bladder. I don't sleep with a ladder.

Woke up at 7:30 this morning without an alarm (was planning on getting up at 8:00). Then Carl had to immediately get up because she forgot to put my clothes in the dryer that I need this morning. Now Carl is sleeping again and posting on ILX at the same time.

I still have one of these that I don't use because it left marks on my forehead (NAGL). I really liked the data it gave me though. I used to think it took me forever to fall asleep, but most of the time it was less that 20 minutes. Our perception at sleepy time is skewed. It also has this feature that is supposed to wake you up at the time in which you are most amenable to it, but I never used it because it would almost always wake me up earlier than I wanted to.

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Yeah I once got woken by an alarm that was someone's radio set to talk radio and when it went off, the first thing it happened to burst out with was loud raucous laughter. Which in my addled half asleep state I interpreted as evil cackling and woke up and FREAKED OUT.

Because (out of a sense of duty more than anything) I wake up to current affairs radio, I regularly have dreams where I'm sitting in on very boring meetings.

My most alarming wake-up was a clock radio in high school set to the local rock station, which happened to go off one morning just as the a capella intro to "Oh Sherry" was starting: "SHOULDA BEEN GOOOONE...KNOWING HOW I MADE YOU FEEL." Still terrifies me.

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I ride the snooze, I need more than one nudge bc I sleep heavy
like one time I was out of town at a hotel for some work training, and the fire alarm went off at 2 AM, the whole building evacuated
except for me, who was sound asleep
I need many alarms

efficacy is... questionable

disagree, I looooove SleepCycle's gradual wake-up and cycle-reading (but I set the phone's own alarm clock for one minute after SleepCycle's latest possible alarm time, so that I can turn SC off as a snooze and have a more annoying alarm wake me up properly)

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SNOOZE

SNOOZE

I have a sordid history with alarm clocks. I've been through many of them. Most were shockingly inadequate. My first didn't even have a snooze button.

My best one was when I was in middle school and I got a hand-me-down from my dad, an ancient 1960s clock-radio with a vacuum tube (valve) radio. The radio would turn on in the morning first with a faint click that I'd only hear if I was already awake, which served as a warning, then it would take 20 seconds to warm up before gradually fading into full volume, which eased me out of bed nicely. But that was followed with a series of awful, painfully flawed clocks. There was the one that had green LEDs so bright it lit up the whole room so I had to turn it face down, and the alarm sounded like a loud French ambulance siren. Several clocks I've used let you snooze only a few times, then decide you probably don't want to wake up and stop ringing afterward, then I wake up 2 hours later.

I'll never forget my gf from my third year of university, my first good relationship. Falling asleep in her arms was wonderful; waking up with her was not because her alarm clock went off with a loud CLICK followed by what sounded like a bird on amphetamines. I'll never forget that, either. Don't recall ever using the snooze though, because neither of us could stand hearing that sound more than once each morning.

My current alarm clock also dates from around that time, a Radio Shack clock radio I picked carefully. It has two alarm settings, the alarm time can be changed slow or fast in either direction instead of making you hold down a button for 23-1/2 seconds to change the waking time to a half hour earlier, has a battery backup, and a huge snooze button that can't be confused for the tiny alarm-off switch.

I miss having a clock radio. For the past 5 years, I've just been waking up to some dumb ringtone.

I currently wake up to Surfin' Bird.

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holy shit.

i fucking love technology

i never felt so much a part of something as today, right now.

a wave of change is sweeping the nation, just ten more minutes from now

holy god!

fuck the snooze btw

God that's reassuring. I always feel like a schmuck when someone else is here and I hit snooze a bunch of times, I think I'm waiting for them to yell at me or something.

well tbf multiple snoozes can be a little annoying to the guest. it's not the end of the world or anything, though. i say this as a committed snoozer (4-6 times, usually)

When I was in college I would routinely set my alarm for like 2 hrs before I actually had to get up and hit snooze the entire time. My roommate and I already hated each other though o it didn't matter.

Probably hit it at least 4 times this morning.

I can sleep through someone else hitting snooze! They have to alert me that was my wake-up they were snoozin'. If it wasn't, I keep on keepin' on.

When I was in college I would routinely set my alarm for like 2 hrs before I actually had to get up and hit snooze the entire time.
Me in high school.

I like that the outliers are those freaky one-time snoozers.

I'm pro-snooze but setting an alarm two hours earlier and hitting snooze is a perverse denial of two precious hours of uninterrupted sleep.

When I become cognizant enough to think about this thread after the third snooze this morning, I decided that I was awake enough to get out of bed.

The radio would turn on in the morning first with a faint click that I'd only hear if I was already awake, which served as a warning, then it would take 20 seconds to warm up before gradually fading into full volume, which eased me out of bed nicely.

This sounds perfect, even the little *click* that started things off.