I woke up just before 5 a.m., which is my normal time. I set an alarm, but it only goes off maybe 3-4 times a year. My DH assumes something is wrong -- I'm sick, maybe -- when I actually wake to an alarm. I am no more likely to need an alarm to get up super early for a flight than I am at my regular time. I just hate alarms.

I only use an alarm if I have an early flight or obligation. Then I wake before it goes off anyway. Waking to an alarm just sounds awful to me, and I wake early anyway.

I'm theoretically trying this intermittent fasting thing where you don't eat for 14-16 hours a day and cram all the eating into 8 hours. This conflicts with my desire to eat when I first wake up and snack in the evening. Not sure this is going to work out for me.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, the world has gone mad.

I never ever used to need an alarm -- I would set it, as a backup, but I always woke up about 3 minutes before it was set to go off. (This infuriated my college roommate. She said it just wasn't natural to just...wake up when you needed to.)

Then I hit my 30s and my body was like, "Yeah, sleep is WAY better, and I might even ignore that alarm thingie." God knows I sleep through Tim's alarm every morning.

I've been waking up before my alarm lately, and I don't like it. I've been waking up with stiff neck and shoulders, so I think I need new pillows.

The only time I do not need an alarm is occasionally when I am at someone else's house. I am part bear and will sleep upwards of 10 hours at a pop given the chance. Also a night owl and will stay up way too late if I do not watch myself.

I have always needed an alarm, and several snoozes, to get up. But in the last year I'm finding I wake up at 6 am every day, no matter what. It's disturbing.

several snoozes

I don't understand the snooze alarm. My mind gets stuck at, "if you like/need the sleep, why not set for the latest time possible and just get up rather than dealing with that @!$&#@ alarm noise and interrupted sleep more than once?"

I worked out an understanding ("NEVER, NO EXCEPTIONS") with my DH when we started sharing a bed.

I don't understand the snooze alarm. My mind gets stuck at, "if you like/need the sleep, why not set for the latest time possible and just get up rather than dealing with that @!$&#@ alarm noise and interrupted sleep more than once?"

Right there with you. Snooze alarms are the devil.

I worked out an understanding ("NEVER, NO EXCEPTIONS") with my DH when we started sharing a bed.

I threatened Tim with grievous bodily harm when he set his alarm on a Sunday (why) and then hit snooze like 4 times. We are now a No Goddamn Snooze Alarm household.

My alarm is NPR. I am not a fan of noise alarms.

But lookie here, we continue to exemplify the wise words "different people like different things"

My alarm is an Echo Spot that plays the radio starting at 6:30 and then a regular alarm at 7. So the radio wakes me up gradually and by the time the actual alarm goes off I'm ready for it.