On Alarms and waking up
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and if the klaxon doesn't work then a
hydraulic ramPneumatic cylinder positioned under the headboard and triggered by the relay will at least guarantee that he doesn't sleep through the alarm in bed.FTFY, and comedic imagery.
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and if the klaxon doesn't work then a hydraulic ram positioned under the headboard and triggered by the relay will at least guarantee that he doesn't sleep through the alarm in bed.
https://youtu.be/mk6zbY8i4_8?t=1m10s
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Blarg. My four alarms failed today so I rolled into work real late. Does anyone know of alarms that aren't just loud sounds for waking you up?
107.7 The End in Seattle has this DJ named Gregor, who is so offensively awful that the instant his voice comes on the radio I can guarantee you will get up.
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hydraulic ram would work too.
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A pneumatic cylinder can generally move more quickly. If you just dump him on the floor, he might fall back asleep. Launch him in to the next room, and his ass is waking up.
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fair enough. of course you may spend a mint in drywall for that to work.... also the medical bills for when he fails to miss the studs....
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Launch him in to the next room, and his ass is waking up.
It's not waking up, it's staying awake.
I'm willing to bet, most of you wake up to alarms, then fall asleep and your brain hasn't had the time to process what happened into memory.
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I'm willing to bet, most of you wake up to alarms, then fall asleep and your brain hasn't had the time to process what happened into memory.
That is essentially what happens with me. Regardless, if I get launched off a catapult, I would be willing to wager that I would stay awake...
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Um, concussion?
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You guys always pick nits.
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I'm willing to bet, most of you wake up to alarms, then fall asleep and your brain hasn't had the time to process what happened into memory.
The trick is to stagger the alarms for, say, every 10 minutes (or whatever works for you). First alarm wakes you up, second alarm stops you from going back to sleep...
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The trick is to stagger the alarms
That helps certainly, but you should use ones that sound different from each other as otherwise you treat the later like the first (at least in my experience).
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Does anyone know of alarms that aren't just loud sounds for waking you up?
They do make alarm clocks for deaf people. Usually some kind of light bright enough that it even penetrates closed eyelids, but many also use a vibration as the signal.
When Howard Smith put together his 1977 documentary Gizmo!, consisting almost entirely of wacky old-time footage of inventors explaining their creations, he found that the most popular concept for these ancestors of Doc Brown was the automatic spaghetti fork, but if one goes by the film itself, surefire alarm clocks had to be a close second. One tilts the bed so you fall out onto the floor (wouldn't work well for me; I'm on a futon only about four inches off the floor to begin with), and another pulls the covers off the bed with a quick yank.
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a quick yank
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That is the weirdest filename ever.
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So here's how my Saturday went.
9am wake up. Snooze.
10am wake up. Put on audiobook. Snooze.
10am-2pm rewind audiobook to the last part I remember and snooze alternately.
2pm go have breakfast, lunch and dinner at the burrito joint
3pm return home, resume audiobook snooze sequence.
10pm run out of audiobook, change books. Make excuses for missing St Patricks drinking festival.
2am realize there is no way I'm going to sleep, chug energy drink.
230am Set sleep timer on audiobook app
330am sleep timer goes off,sleep occurs.
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2pm go have breakfast
Woke up at 2PM today myself. Can't have breakfast right away, it's just how I am. Will soon. Also, headache.
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I get the slept too long headache around 9 hours. What cures it is one of caffeine, food, or more sleep. There is no way to tell them apart. Somehow, I avoided it yesterday. I'm feeling it come on right now, though, so I should probably stop snoozing.
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Yeah, I don't get it either.
It might be that I'm cross contaminating the headache sample with headaches due to the fact that I'm too lazy to go see an eye doctor, but those don't make sense when you're just waking up.
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Stupid saturday night.
- Tried to go to bed at midnight
- Stayed up pointlessly tweaking themes on my new phone until 1:30am.
- Tried to sleep without success for over an hour.
- Remebered I have Terraria installed, start playing that to take my mind off not sleeping.
- It's now, what, 4am? Try to sleep again.
- 8am alarm must've gone off at some point...
- 9am alarm gets snoozed until about 10am...
- Make some coffee, go back to the bedroom.
- Wake up next to a cup of cold coffee, it's now about 11:40am. Gah.
- And now I probably won't be sleepy until 1 or 2am tonight...
Filed under: I wrote every instance of 'now' in this post as 'not'...
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I have a slightly easier time getting up these days, but I've had a few ways to force it in the past.
I use Alarm s Clock Extreme for Android, which I have set to start snoozes at 5 minutes, reduce the snooze length by 1 minute at a time, and to actually stop it you need to solve some maths problems.
I find that the most difficult part is getting out of bed, once that's done I can resist the temptation to go back, so a radio alarm across the room that plays for 20 odd minutes before blaring an actual alarm is good. It worked especially well when I had a cabin bed and had to climb down a ladder to turn it off.
As Blakey said, having an annoying DJ on said radio is also good incentive to turn the twat off. I used Shaun Keaveny on BBC 6 Music for that. Nobody has any right too be that chirpy in the morning
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As Blakey said, having an annoying DJ on said radio is also good incentive to turn the twat off. I used Shaun Keaveny on BBC 6 Music for that. Nobody has any right too be that chirpy in the morning
Nick Grimshaw on Radio 1 would work too. I'd run across the room to turn that unfunny bastard off.
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That's indeed a desirable situation. But you need to force yourself to go to sleep at a reasonable hour instead of procrastinating.
I find if I go to sleep early enough, I will naturally wake up before my alarm clock goes off.
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I slowly began slipping and today was the first day I completely dozed over my alarm, though I managed to wake up right on time to get up and leave.
Disable the snooze. I find it focuses the mind wonderfully.
Going to sleep means waking up and going to work, fuck that.
QFFT.
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I'm not quite that bad; I've got my alarm clock set to 7:30 but I'm liable to hit the snooze without waking up properly
When I had that problem, I solved it by putting my clock on the other side of the room.
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When I had that problem, I solved it by putting my clock on the other side of the room.
Does wonders for your aim, that does.
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Underwear.
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Disable the snooze. I find it focuses the mind wonderfully.
My alarm has the bells and hammer.
It doesn't have a snooze button.
I'm suspicious that it wakes up my neighbor first.
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I'm suspicious that it wakes up my neighbor first.
One time many years ago, my neighbour went on vacation without turning their alarm off, so at about 6:30am every day I would hear it through the wall for however long it took until it shut off automatically (maybe an hour)....
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Does wonders for your aim, that does.
You know you can place it in such a way that it can't be reached that way, such a behind a protective shield.
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Yeah, that's pretty bad. I had that happen once. It might even be worse-than-@mikeTheLiar bad.
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Does wonders for your aim, that does.
Not if turning off your alarm requires manipulating a slide-switch ;)
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depends on what you throw at it.
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depends on what you throw at it.
http://www.alignmentrescue.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/addams-family-thing-1.jpg
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I have an appointment at the dentist at 9am tomorrow. This means I really need to be up at 8am at the very latest, so I have to wake up, drink coffee and get out of the house.
Preperations so far:
- Moved my cellphone to the far side of the room, so I have to get out of bed to interact with it.
Alarms set for:- 7am
- 7:30am
- 8am
- Set my old cellphone charging at the foot of the bed, slightly nearer to me, but still inconvenient.
Alarms set for:
- 7am
- 7:30am
It's about 10:30pm right now, so if I try to go to sleep in the next hour or so, I should be able to get a full 8 hours and awake feeling rested and ready to have my teeth cleaned...
- Moved my cellphone to the far side of the room, so I have to get out of bed to interact with it.
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Here is my set up: phone on the night stand. Alarm set to 6:00. It goes off. I turn it off and immediately get the uck out of bed. Repeat every morning.
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I sometimes sleep through my alarm, or maybe I disable it without actually waking up, not 100% sure, but the net result is the same.
Have a Morning Person Trophy though:
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I hate mornings ...
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I have an appointment at the dentist at 9am tomorrow. This means I really need to be up at 8am at the very latest, so I have to wake up, drink coffee and get out of the house.
For values of "wake up" that include "get myself to the dentist's office just in time to fall asleep in the chair as he starts on my mouth".
Seriously, you want to be fully alert for that?
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Here is my set up: phone on the night stand. Alarm set to 6:00. It goes off. I turn it off and immediately get the uck out of bed. Repeat every morning.
Phone/pod nearby set for 4, wake up, check clock or phone/pod... after 3.5?, turn off alarm, get up. Weekdays.
Weekends... wait for Sun to shine or a son to sit on my head.
You're not supposed to be able to make up lost sleep, but this "system" somehow mostly works for moi.
So my pod went for a swim a bit ago, and my phone is PITA to turn off the alarm (and I have to remember to re-arm it for tomorrow)... re-arming, cool that's done. ...
Here's the important bit in my wall of text
Does anybody use an app that has, I dunno, an "Anti-Snooze" button? -- "I'm awake! Don't go off!" button?
Here's the important bit in my wall of textI use alarms for several things*, and the default pod app lets me store a bunch that I activate/de-activate as needed... and the Anti-snooze button would be good for those things too.
*E.g. medicate child.
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Does anybody use an app that has, I dunno, an "Anti-Snooze" button? -- "I'm awake! Don't go off!" button?
....... that sounds like an amazing idea!
/me goes off to tinker with the cyanogenmod source code to see if such a thing could reasonably be done in stock android