Willow ,'Storyteller'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
That's why I have the radio as my alarm AND a second alarm. Wake up to the radio - listen to NPR and they keep reminding me of the time.
These days, Dylan is my alarm clock, but before he was born I used to set my alarm to turn on NPR about 30 minutes before I needed to be up, and then the buzzer to go off when I *really* needed to be up. The only downside was drifting back to sleep and dreaming about the news.
I don't understand using the snooze button. You set the alarm to when you have to get up, if you can hit the snooze button then you didn't have to get up as early as you set the alarm. Just set the alarm later and get the good sleep instead of the crappy snooze sleep.
It works better for deep sleepers/slow wakers like me. The first alarm isn't enough to actually get you fully awake, but the noise and hitting the snooze button pulls you far enough out of sleep that the next alarm can wake you up for real.
Morning people are freaky freaks who freak my shit out.
My cat uses the alarm to tell when she can come over to my bed and get petted.
There should be a snooze alarm that hits me back after I hit it twice.
Ha! yeah. I could use one of those. I'm a terrible, TERRIBLE snooze alarm abuser.
I would very much like a nap. I may have to go to the couch in the bathroom and have a quick shut eye over lunch.
Gud, I have THREE alarms. It's what it takes to wake me up. Having to do something helps wake me up. Which is why one of the alarms is one the floor out of reach. My only thought when the alarm goes off is NOOOOOooooooo for at least a cycle or two. Eventually it occurs to me I have to get up. But not right away. I'll take even bad sleep.
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I used to set my alarm to turn on NPR about 30 minutes before I needed to be up, and then the buzzer to go off when I *really* needed to be up.
hah. Yeah, NPR starts up first for me too.
Morning people are freaky freaks who freak my shit out.
I'm not really a morning person. I just wake up well and I'm driven by guilt to get up and exercise.
If I'm really tired when the alarm goes off, I set it for one hour later and then just go to work at 9:00 instead of 8:00.
Looks like I'm the freak. Typically I wake up about 10 minutes before the alarm goes off.
God, I WISH. Part of the thing for me is, I'm GOING to hit the snooze alarm. I just am. Partly because I'm lazy, partly because I actually really like the feeling of drifting back to sleep. That means that if I set the alarm for when I really need to get up, I'd hit the snooze anyway, so then I'd be late. As it is, I'm already hitting it past the point I need to get up because I'm so tired.