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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months 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] 5 points 11 months ago

Now that is what I call setting firm boundaries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months 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] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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] 1 points 11 months ago

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

Thank you smart watch vibration alarm

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Who else just ends up sleeping through all of them

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 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] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 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] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Ok interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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] 2 points 11 months ago

Does the link work now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I thought it was just me that did this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is this image? It looks horrific.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Then wake the hell up. If you set an alarm at least wake up when it rings bruh.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Once you learn about the magical alarm app Gentle Wakeup (paid, worth it, made by a doctor), you will throw all your alarms out of the window. It changed my life.

Wanna hear genuinely useful sleep tips?

  • Get your sunshine fix for Vitamin D. It regulates body's internal clock aka circadian rhythm. 20-30 minutes twice a week, with minimum clothing for maximum exposure.
  • Calculate your sleep cycles. It varies between 90-100 minutes, and you take 4-5 of them. Usually 4 if not an old age person.
  • Use the Gentle Wakeup alarm app and set it accordingly with nice music.
  • Set one alarm at the end of 3rd sleep cycle block, and one at the 4th (or 4th and 5th if old age).
  • Sleep at night as intended, and not at 6am scrolling like a zombie. Even 12 midnight can work out well for an office goer.

Your sleep is fixed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Those are all your roommates