Who else utterly depends on their alarm clock to wake up in the morning?

[I Saw OJ]

I can 'tell' myself to get up at a specific time and usually do with in +/- 5 minutes. I still use an alarm though, just to be sure.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
i am late to work despite the best efforts of my boombox alarm clock. i use the most startling cd track 1 i have, led zeppelin 1 - good times, bad times, and half the time my coma is undisturbed. maybe i need an electroshock collar or something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWCdOK0b8FU

 

[tRaptor]

I set 2 alarms 1 clock radio and my cell. I have no trust in the clock radio, i swear it doesn't work some of the time. Anyway now that I'm out of college and get up at about the same time every day I do find myself getting into that rhythm. But generally the alarm still gets me up.

When I was in college I used to have my lamp turn on automatically just before the alarm, that way when the alarm work me up and I woke to turn it off the chances of me going back to sleep where gone. But that was when I had to get up at a different time about every day.

 

[BoomerD]

Once I get used to a certain schedule, I tend to wake up within 30 minutes of my alarm setting, but on weekends, I'm learning to roll over and go back to sleep...something I could never do when I was working. My schedule used to be up between 2:30 and 3:00 a.m. so IF I could sleep till 6 I felt like I really slept in...nowadays, on the weekends, I MIGHT crawl out of bed at 9 or 10...(of course, my M-TH wake up is at 5 a.m. so I can drink a pot of coffee before my 8 a.m classes...

 

[imported_Imp]

I sure need one. Just this past Friday, I woke up early and took a "nap" before my afternoon classes. I had about an hour, but when I woke up with about half an hour to go, I said "10 more minutes". Well... turns out my body doesn't know 10 minutes from 1 hour, and boy did I haul ass to class.

On the otherhand, I screwed up my body clock at an early age and wake up on my own around 12pm in the afternoon. I feel "drunk" if I get up at 8, which I must do twice a week currently. During the summer when I had to get up for work at 7:30 daily, I regularly woke up on my own at 6:45 (honestly, it was around that exact time nearly everytime it happened). Of course I was not going to give up an extra 45 minutes.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Originally posted by: Leros
I often wake up 1-2 hours before my alarm goes off feeling refreshed. I don't know if I am really refreshed but I feel that way for those few moments. I roll over go back to sleep, wake up 1-2 hours later and feel like utter crap. I'll be exhausted.

Should I be waking up the first time or am I tricking myself into thinking I'm rested?

The fist time you wake up is at the end of a sleeping cycle, which means you came out of a deep sleep naturally. The second time is in the middle of the cycle so you feel like crap when you wake. I think it's best to go back to sleep since you'll actually be more rested, and your alertness will last longer in the day.

edit: to answer the question, I'd get fired without my alarm clock.

 

[FoBoT]

i only set it when i have to get up before someone else, otherwise, them getting ready is enough noise to wake me up

 

[nageov3t]

when I did shift work I was.

waking up at a different time every day ftl.

but now that I'm a 9-5'er, I usually wake up around 8-8:30 pm regardless of what time my alarm clock is set for, unless I was up super late the night before or something.

 

[Judgement]

Originally posted by: Leros
I often wake up 1-2 hours before my alarm goes off feeling refreshed. I don't know if I am really refreshed but I feel that way for those few moments. I roll over go back to sleep, wake up 1-2 hours later and feel like utter crap. I'll be exhausted.

Should I be waking up the first time or am I tricking myself into thinking I'm rested?

Waking up naturally always feels better than an abrupt noise waking you out of a deep sleep.. but you will feel much worse in the afternoon if you don't go back and finish the rest of your scheduled sleep time.

 

[BrownTown]

I set 3 alarms (2 alarm clocks and my watch), but I actually can tell myself to get up at a specified time if it is really something important. However my problem is things that are less important I can easily sleep through. So I have never slept through a test, but I often sleep through quizzes and don't turn in the homework I stayed up all night doing (most frustrating thing ever). Its really a matter of time, I cannot sleep straight for more than ~6 hours, after that I keep waking up and falling back asleep, so I can sleep for 12 hours, but really in that time I will wake up 20 times and just keep going back to sleep. Thats actually kinda cool because each time you wake up the dream you are having is remembered to some extent. If I sleep for 12 hours I will remember 5-10 dreams from the previous night and often have the cool types of dreams such as lucid dreams or "nested dreams" where you are dreaming and then "wake up" but really are still dreaming and more shit starts happening.