Morning alarms

I only set one alarm on weekdays and weekends. It's for 8:00 Am and my first class is at 9:30 Am. I usually go to sleep around 3:00 Am and get 4-5 hours of sleep. I'm never late (or early) to anything, I tend to show up to everything as exactly on time as I can down to the minute.

I used to hate getting up in the morning when I was a kid too, but after doing this for so many years it's just normal to me now. I take failure personally too and I see being late to something as a failure, so avoid it at all costs. I see being too early as a failure to budget my time accurately too since some gets wasted that I could have been using for something else if I didn't get there early.

Setting multiple alarms is a bad idea. It seems like it makes sense on the surface since it gives you backups, but in reality all that does is train your brain to ignore the alarm. If you only set one alarm and force yourself to get up (without pressing the snooze button) your brain is taught to obey the alarm and get up when it says to get up. If you set multiple alarms it does the opposite, and teaches your brain to ignore alarms because it gets used to ignoring multiple alarms every day.

Don't put the alarm next to your bed either. Put it across the room so you're forced to physically get up and walk to turn it off. Then you either have to semi-wake up to walk, or lay there being annoyed and woken up more by the never-ending alarm sound, either of which helps you wake up.

 

I just have 1 for both, although i should probably have two on the weekdays because i'm always late getting up. I think it's true (although don't quote me on this) that if you get woken up by your alarm you haven't had a good nights sleep as your body clock should just wake you up anyway?

 

Yes, agree 100%. I never understood how people have a series of alarms going off over the course of an hour.....Even if I got the shittiest sleep, I know if I don't get up asap, then I'm falling back asleep and am fucked. Setting only one alarm and getting up asap also seems like the most efficient way to get the most sleep rather than the last 30 min getting ruined by the first of the alarms lol

 

Set one alarm and put it someplace where you have to leave the bed to turn it off. Or get this:
https://www.amazon.com/Clocky-Original-Runaway-Alarm-Wheels/dp/B000TAS9XQ

The best way to get up, is to actually get up and start moving. Laying in bed waiting for other alarms is just asking to always be late.

 

I never, or should I say rarely, set any alarms! I am typically up enough time for preparation for my work schedule. Key is to go early enough to bed and give my body around 7hrs of sleep. Strange enough, if I set an alarm to get up earlier than usual for an early flight or something, I'll wake up several times before the alarm sounds and I'm typically up and running before it! but of course exceptions sometimes happen!

 

On weekdays I usually have two: one to wake me up, and one to turn on my bearded dragon's lights before I leave for work. Sometimes I set a third one if my team's playing a midweek fixture and I want to be up to watch it. I set no alarms on weekends. Fuck that.

 

I hardly ever set an alarm. If I have to be up at 3 for a flight or something I might set the alarm on my phone, but for day to day living I pretty much always wake up with plenty of time. I really thought the whole multiple alarms thing was just something from TV and movies. I'm a little surprised to hear people actually do it tbh.

 

I'm one of those people who set multiple alarms. Hate waking up early and don't you dare send me a book about how if I wake up even earlier I can be the next millionaire or whatever. You can keep your extra hours of productivity

But seriously, its not that I hate waking up but I hate rushing in the morning Right now I have a pretty cool job where I can come in between 9 - 10 am. I gave up pretending I can be punctual in the morning so I just let my boss know from the get go. Most don't care as long as I get my work done and raise the money they need. I also refuse to give you a meeting before 10 unless you are important enough. Call me spoiled (or nuts, your pick)

If and when I do have to be somewhere in the morning and time matters, then I have this alarm that makes me do 2 math problems and then scan a bar code of an object that I put in my bathroom before I can turn it off. The sounds are crying babies, guns, police alarms and the like. I know, sounds like hell but it works haha never been late to anything important that way. Everything else can wait.

My cousins and I did train ourselves to wake up at a certain time without an alarm clock when we were younger. Its something that you can definitely do, but its just not something I care for.

 

I had never thought about it that way. For me, the plus side of snoozing is that the "lightweight' sleep you get between alarms seems more dream-intensive. And so also seems more restful.

But in fact, I am also leaning toward your jump-in-the-pool approach.

 

I've always used one alarm, mostly when I was in school. I actually do have my clock on the other side of my room, but I don't have the alarm set, because now my parents and I get up for work about the same time, so my mom just wakes me up.

Plus, my body is used to my work schedule now, so I tend to wake up a few minutes before I'm supposed to get up anyway.

 

One on Monday and Wednesday, I go to college on those days. And sometimes I work the in the morning shift, so that, too.

 

I don’t sleep well so I always set alarms on my iPad to wake me up. When I was at college last year I realized it wasn’t going to go well because I was sleeping through 7 alarms every morning. I know I’m in trouble when even alarms don’t wake me up. It wouldn’t have been so bad if my alarms woke me from my naps. When one hour ends up being four I have no chance of sleep that night.

 

You can use the natural alarm technique. Just drink half a litre of water before going to bed. It usually wakes you up after 8 hours. If I go to bed at 11, I wake up around 6.15, 6.30 ish.

 

Alarms? I haven't used an alarm in years, even when I went to school. I'm a light sleeper and wake myself up throughout the night to check the time if I need to rise early.

Also one's body clock gets set after the course of time. If I require more sleep, I just go to bed early, and nearly always wake up about the same time.

 

I set one for weekdays and one for the weekends, but it go s off every 10 minutes. I usually sleep through the first and get up on the 4th

 

I use my phone so just 1 to get me up during the week.

 

This question is kind of hard to answer. If there were no "other" option, I woud've went with one.
I set one alarm, but I usually wake up around 40 minutes before I have to get up and stay awake during that time. I usually try to go back to sleep but can't. In that case, I shut off the alarm and instead set the timer for 40 minutes (or so).