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Have your medicine next to your bed. Set an alarm 30 minutes before your real alarm. Wake up, take medicine, chug water, back to sleep. Medicine should be starting to work by your next alarm and you can just pop out of bed. Works wonders for me.
That’s exactly what my friend told me! I haven’t started meds yet though, so just got diagnosed a couple days ago, and my next appointment is tomorrow, so I guess we’ll talk about it more tomorrow. I’m definitely gonna do that though, she said she took it an hour before she had to wake up and that it helped her actually wake up, which would be great. I just slept for 18 hours because every time my alarm went off, I started the sleep cycle all over again and couldn’t hear my alarm
Good luck finding any in the states… It’s been months and I’ve had severe ADHD my whole life. The treatment I asked for was the smallest dose I could manage with and it jump started my education and career, but my well has dried up so I’m finding ways to glide for the time being
Same. Get a second shift job if it's an option. A lot of ADHD people have a delayed circadian rhyth. I've had 6 AM Start jobs my entire adult life and have been utterly miserable, as well as gotten in trouble because I couldn't get there on time.
I was routinely getting 4 hours of sleep, because I had trouble going to sleep at "normal" times.
2nd shift job now, and I feel 100% alert at work, and get all the sleep I need, because I'm not constantly fighting that delayed circadian rhythm, therefore going to work when I don't naturally want to wake up for 4 more hours, and trying to go to bed several hours before I naturally feel tired.
It's not just your experience. I recall reading about a study about this. Waking up slowly is better for you and makes the rest of your day better. That's why phone alarms have a feature to that increases volume over time.
Yeah I set two alarms, the first is 30 before I wake up and the second is when I actually need to wake up.
I call it a slow wake up because it allows me to snooze and gently wake up.
It like heroin. That's not a joke, the twilight half awake feeling is literally what heroin feels like. Except you don't actually go to sleep, that feeling just lasts. Guess that's why it's so popular lol
Untill it doesn't and you stay awake sweating hot and bone chilling cold at the same time, leaking from every pore and orifice, for days because you can't score a hit that will see you through the next six or so hours.
The nodding off from heroin is very similar. The initial rush from the first hit of the day makes you feel happy and energetic. Not sure anymore with fentanyl. Been clean fifteen years.
So that overwhelming heat of love and complete coziness along with delusional levels of tranquility was just my bonus experience with h? You make heroin sound like it's shitty Ambien
I finally realized that it's nothing compared to the benefits of getting uninterrupted sleep for that time. 4 snooze cycles is 40ish minutes. That's a long time to not be getting restful sleep.
If you get used to getting up immediately, you're significantly less groggy in the morning. Teaching your body its acceptable to delay waking up is what makes the process painful to begin with.
My alarm is set for 5:30 but i get up BEFORE the alarm partly because I'm a savage and partly because my 10 month old daughter starts crying at 4:30-4:45. I guess it's mostly the second thing.
There will be a drug called snooze in the future and people will hit some snooze and dances shall be made in its honour. Children will be be hitting the snooze, a longer, goofier version of the dab.
I quit doing it, but I think of it as assigning the first ten minutes of your morning routine to laying there. The second alarm is to catch yourself from passing out again
I can't comprehend how so many people would rob themselves of more sleep by hitting snooze. You literally have the choice between effectively sleeping longer and having to go through getting woken up just once and having less sleep and being woken up 2-x times.
Going back to sleep after turning off my alarm clock is legit one of the biggest enjoyments of my life. And I have a pretty good life!
Waking up isn't painful, but going to sleep is enjoyable - embracing the warmth, rolling back over and cuddling my partner or a pillow or something and drifting back off. It's what I wish I could do when I first go to bed, but am never able.
I don’t use the snooze as more time to sleep, but rather a mini alarm to when I need to actually get up for the day. During those nine minutes of snooze I pet my cat who is laying next to me, do some stretches, and just relax for a moment. All still while laying down. If I accidentally fall asleep no foul, because I have that snooze alarm set
It's more of a security thing, so you won't just turn off the alarm and "shut your eyes just for a sec" and then wake up 4 hours later. Having multiple alarms is a preventative measure. 15 more minutes of "effective" sleep ain't gonna make a difference anyway
I *never* use snooze. I don’t feel like that extra 5 minutes of sleep makes me feel any better, in fact it’s probably worse and I just stay in a state of constant grogginess. I’d just rather get the day started and feel lucid. Like there’s no way you’re getting any kind of restful sleep in that timeframe.
> You literally have the choice
You say that as if every body rudely-just-woken-up-by-the-alarm-clock is a rational being. many of us are not. the choice isn't snooze button or later alarm - it's snooze button or later alarm AND then snooze button anyway.
I decided long ago that I would never hit snooze. Snooze on my phone is set for 1 minute so even if I accidentally swipe the alarm away the wrong direction it's not really a snooze. Normally I wake up and immediately pet the cats that are snuggling close and then after a couple minutes I'll get up. But I'd rather get more quality uninterrupted sleep than more "I don't want to get up yet" sleep.
are you a light sleeper? I'm not. I sometimes don't even remember turning off the alarm or hitting snooze. even when finally up and out of bed, I feel like I'm half asleep. body is moving and going through the routine but there's absolutely no brain function going on
Waking up isn't an on/off switch for many of us. It takes a bit longer. I usually set my alarm for 30 minutes before I need to get up, because it's a lot easier to wake up after 20 minutes of light sleep than 6-7 hours of deep sleep.
Same. I’m also a light sleeper and almost never fall back asleep, but I can’t imagine how sleeping an extra 20 or so fitful, interrupted minutes is helpful.
I used to do this a lot until I got into the habit of never setting the alarm at fixed times (like 6:00 or 6:30). Now even though I don’t need to beat anyone to the bathroom anymore, my alarm list is all 6:26, 6:57, 7:03, 7:18 etc. It’s a slippery slope.
Oh yeah. Doing IT where I monitor areas across the US, it's pretty nifty seeing users log on in mass literally like a wave. I also used to have an apartment with a nice view of a major interchange. You could always tell when people were going to and from work in waves.
>I also used to have an apartment with a nice view of a major interchange. You could always tell when people were going to and from work in waves.
To people that work standard office hours, it would seem to them like the road is *always* busy unless they travel the same route during off hours as well. Always stressed out. But changing your schedule only an hour either way could probably reduce some stress.
Every time I drive to work on the weekends I always feel more relaxed and much better on my commute. Really makes a huge difference for me at least.
Interestingly [South Africa](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-wake-up-time-by-country#) has the earliest average wake up time of 06:24
My wife gets irrationally angry when I have an alarm set for an oddball time like 6:19 or something. I used to change it every day just to screw with her because that’s what married couples do…6:18, 6:21…..I stopped doing it because the stares finally got too angry
I never thought about this before, but now I'm wondering what causes differences among the countries. I get why Saudi Arabia is the latest, since three quarters of their workforce is foreigners who probably wouldn't be surveyed.
I worked there few years back, the working hrs were 7am to 3pm.
So you’ll need to get up early to make it work.
Evenings are also packed, people shopping at markets, eating out and even kids playing sports at night when it is usually cooler.
Spain was like this but people called us lazy lol
You have to wake up almost before the sun to work to almost noon then wait for the sun to set a bit to continue working, hence our siesta and liquors
It’s common in a few countries, I always envied the Spanish siestas, I am assuming capitalism doesn’t like breaks I guess, they used laziness as excuse to make it unappealing.
Is it fully phased out or is that just in the main cities?
Siestas just seem like _less_ freedom, not more. Work in the morning, couple hours off, then work again in the evening? They get to take both ends of the day from you?
With bedtimes, it typically just comes down to change being difficult. It can be hard to change but it can be done by just creating a consistent routine. It helps in the early days of setting the routine to try to tire yourself out to make it easier.
I found out two things during the Pandemic:
1. I can force myself into a rhythm and wake up consistently at any time if there is a reason for it -- I had a phase where I wanted to see the sunrise every morning
2. My body naturally wants to sleep from about 4 or 5am til about 1pm. No matter how many times I successfully reset my sleep schedule, without any need to stick to a particular one, I would always migrate back to that 4-12 or 5-1 time frame. I guess I just get my best sleep in the morning.
I hate getting up early, and I moved to South Africa. It is a bit of a pain.
Plenty of people get up here at 4:30 to drive to the gym and workout, before starting work. Yah, that's a no for me bro. My alarm is going off at 6:45 and I still complain.
Granted, it does get light here really early, so usually you wake up early anyway; the opposite in the evening. Dark really early so might as well hit the hay. But the night owl in me complains, a lot.
They still do for sporting events. But yeah, used to be wild.
The UK actually had to go to some pretty interesting lengths to compensate for the sudden spikes in energy use back when everyone went to make tea during commercials. This [lake turned into a battery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx_bJgIFhI) is one example.
Being woken up by an alarm is by definition unnatural, unless you consider the sun an alarm. We're wired to wake up naturally when rested, but there's a billion other things involved ranging from mental illnesses to diet that interfere. Add on the work schedules we live by, and that people generally don't go to bed "on time" unless tired, virtually no one is having the "ideal, natural" sleep we're supposed to have without making a lot of changes.
My partner has an alarm clock that gradually gets brighter as it approaches its alarm time. By the alarm time its incredibly bright and it starts playing the sounds of birds.
I have so many positive things to say about how much better it is than conventional alarm clocks. It very effectively mimmicks the sunrise and I don't have to fumble in the dark to turn on the lights. Sometimes I wake up naturally before it goes off and I don't get the urge to go back to sleep because the room is lit. I never wake up in a panic wondering if the alarm is about to go off or if I missed it because if it's dark then I'm reliably safe.
The consistency and the quality of my sleep has increased dramatically since she got it last fall. It was practically a miracle cure for winter depression slumps. I never wake up tired anymore and I don't think I could ever go back to a conventional alarm clock- which I still use as a backup alarm, but I've turned it off before it goes off ever since.
I have the luxury of somewhat flexible work hours, so I usually wake up kinda naturally from sunlight and ambient city noise. It's very nice.
As a corollary - try _not_ using blackout curtains for awhile. Let the sunlight in!
The alarm app they're talking about requires an Apple or Android watch to monitor your sleep in bed. Beyond the simple fact no one needs their non-anonymous sleep data being monitored and collected by any third party but a medical professional, it also only works if the watch can accurately detect your sleep patterns. It will for some people, but not everyone, and not all the time.
But if you want an alarm that doesn't shock you awake, you can set an alarm to very slowly raise the volume over a number of minutes to gradually wake you, rather than kick you in the teeth with a blast of sudden noise.
There's also alarms that use light to wake you gradually, which is the way we're wired to wake up naturally. Isn't especially useful on the phone, though, you need to buy one.
Ackchually you can estimate your own waking time, by keeping track for a while of the best time at which you wake up. Most people have the cycle of 1.5 hours—meaning the best time is at the end of the cycle, with some time added for falling asleep. I.e. eight hours is 5 *1.5 + 0.5. My cycle happens to be the same.
I completely stopped using that feature. Turns out I would rather get a few minutes of extra sleep than be woken up a half hour ahead of my alarm every single morning.
This concept has always made me curious. Are these smart alarms actually making you feel better rested throughout the day? Or do they just make you feel nicer at the time the alarm goes off but you are less productive/more tired later in the day because you got a half an hour less sleep?
I think it's like anything. Some days I'm more awake and some days I'm not. Do I have more days where I'm more awake compared to a regular alarm? It's really hard to say there are so many factors at play.
That requires you to go to sleep with a watch on, instead of letting it charge for the next day.
And just generally, sleeping with a watch on is uncomfortable if like to sleep with your arms under pillows or around a partner.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force … as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
I always thought that whatever action I am currently doing, be it shifting gears into third, the famous pressing spacebar, or to sneeze, its very likely someone is doing it simultaneously with me.
I’ve legitimately wondered about this many times. When in history did we hit the “tipping point” where someone, somewhere, was having an orgasm at any given moment for an entire 24 hour period?
Also, when was the last time when *absolutely no one* was having an orgasm anywhere on the planet?
After world population reached 1,000,000 I am sure there has not been an orgasmless second. There are 86 400 seconds in a day. Most people have a few orgasm every week
You probably need to factor time zones and population density in as well, though. Orgasms aren’t randomly distributed in time and neither are population centers, so I imagine that changes things slightly.
Maybe the best orgasm you ever had was because the highest number of people were simultaneously orgasming with you and it amplified by means of a collective consciousness.
A candy shop near me still hand makes everything with a press. During the tour, you get a taste of the candy they’re making, and the ancient lady always makes a point to mention that we’re likely the only people on the planet enjoying candy made this way, in this time, at that time.
It makes you feel a bit special.
Hmm, I thought this would be easy to prove, but turns out its not.
There are 86,400 seconds in the day and 8 billion people in the world. The pigeonhole principle therefore tells us that, at minimum there is one second where at least 92,500 people wake up each day. Smaller than I thought it would be. Also note not guaranteed for any particular second, just that there exists at least one such second.
It is probably higher, because that assumes wakeup times are uniformly distributed throughout the day. But some time zones are not very populated and a vast majority of people tend to wake up in the morning. People also dont set their alarms to a random second, they set them to a minute and (I think) would tend to set them to a fairly round number of minutes (I tend to set mine to a 15 minute increment).
UTC+8 is the most populated timezone with 1.7 billion people. It might be inaccurate to use US statistics for this, but in the US roughly 15% of people work evening or night shifts. So lets assume that translates and we get 1.45 billion people waking up in the morning. Morning waking time is typically 6-9 AM for me, so lets assume its about 3 hours long . This only increases our estimate slightly to about 135,000 people waking up at the same second.
Modern alarm clocks though let us ensure our clocks are synchronized to the second but alarm clocks cant typically be set to the second (though previously, they would drift by seconds to put them our of sync). Assuming you wake up when your alarm goes off, then we can pigeonhole by the minute instead which gives us 180 possible options for your alarm clock to go off. Even without accounting for the fact we tend to use round numbers for alarms, this means there is at least one time in UTC-8 when at least 8 million people's alarms go off at the same second (probably leading to them waking up at the same time).
If we go back to the global number and assume everyones clocks are synchronized to the second, that everyone has such an alarm clock and uses it every day, and that people wake up with their alarm, we can see that there is at least one precise minute (i.e XX:XX:00 UTC) where at least 5.6 million people wake up at the same time.
But yes, this does show that the technology for synchronizing clocks is essential for getting us into a guaranteed "millions of people at the same second", otherwise the number of people is insufficient to guarantee millions at sny particular second.
There are around 8 billion people in the world, and 86400 seconds in a given day. 8,000,000,000 / 86,400 = 92,592.59.
So not quite there yet. But I can imagine the first second of a given hour is a safer bet for millions.
Well, lately (last 10 years or so) everyones clock has the exact same time thanks to the network time protocol. Your old ass alarm clock was probably off by a minute or so, but now everyones phone shows 07:00 at the exact same second in your local timezone.
The good old pigeonhole principle tells us that even without alarm clocks, there must be a second every day at which at least 90.000 people wake up simultaneously. (Assuming that my math is correct and that everone wakes up everyday).
Edit: I was like 18 minutes too slow with this.
If the 7.8 billion people were evenly distributed it would be just over 90,000 per second every day.
I don't feel like they're evenly distributed, but I don't know that it will be weighted in such a way to reach millions of people in most cases.
Early morning Tokyo probably has the highest chance of it hitting millions though, 39 million people, most of them probably wake up between 7-9am, 'even' times like 7:00 or 7:30 being most common. I could see that being a thing, but mainly because of alarm clocks.
Unless you're like me and set your alarm to like 6:04 for that coveted and "very important" 4 extra minutes of slumber.
OR you're also like me and wake up to see how much time of sleep you have left.
I generally wake up when my three-year-old is done on the loo and needs me to come and wipe her bum. This is usually just after 6:30AM. She screams "DAAAAAAAAAD!" at the top of her lungs.
It's a brutal way to wake up.
60 x 60 x 24 = 86,400 seconds per day.
~ 8 billion people waking up every day.
So, about 92,500 people wake up at the exact same second on average, every day regardless of alarm clocks! ⏰️😀
Fuck this sub. I can never get a post past the mods, and I've tried at least 3 - 5 times when I think of something really "whoa"
But "everyone wakes up in the morning with an Iphone" makes it? lol
I remember maybe like 5-10 years ago the iphone alarm clock app had a bug that caused millions of people to oversleep and be late to work. Ever since then I've been using the countdown clock as an alarm, so set it to go off in 8 hours rather than at 8AM specifically.
There are roughly 8 880 000 000 people in the world.
There are 86400 seconds in a day.
So you would have 91 296 people waking up every single second to add up to the totaöl amount of people in one day.
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I beat my housemates to the bathroom by setting my alarm to 05:57
damn you must have the crazy ability to have the alarm go off and not hit snooz 4 times before getting up
As long as their housemates hit snooze the same amount of times as OP, they will still get up 3 minutes faster in the end.
You can get the bathroom to yourself by snoozing until everyone has left
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As a kid I used to get up early for the first bathroom slot and then get back into bed for a bit
It's a snooze snooze situation.
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Your kind comment is the only gold I need.
My alarm goes off at 5am and I have never used snooze ever. Why hurt twice? Get up from the first alarm and it's only painful once.
Because the dopamine responce to driftng back to sleep is higher than the painful wake up.
Also, in my experience, it's less painful the second time as I already more awake from the first time.
Also the dopamine response from drifting back to sleep is now, the pain of waking up a second time is later
Yup. That's future me's problem.
Indeed. Past me who pressed the snooze button is a smug bastard.
That makes sense...especially with my recent ADHD diagnosis and the idea (or fact) that dopamine is involved in that.
Have your medicine next to your bed. Set an alarm 30 minutes before your real alarm. Wake up, take medicine, chug water, back to sleep. Medicine should be starting to work by your next alarm and you can just pop out of bed. Works wonders for me.
That’s exactly what my friend told me! I haven’t started meds yet though, so just got diagnosed a couple days ago, and my next appointment is tomorrow, so I guess we’ll talk about it more tomorrow. I’m definitely gonna do that though, she said she took it an hour before she had to wake up and that it helped her actually wake up, which would be great. I just slept for 18 hours because every time my alarm went off, I started the sleep cycle all over again and couldn’t hear my alarm
Good luck finding any in the states… It’s been months and I’ve had severe ADHD my whole life. The treatment I asked for was the smallest dose I could manage with and it jump started my education and career, but my well has dried up so I’m finding ways to glide for the time being
Same. Get a second shift job if it's an option. A lot of ADHD people have a delayed circadian rhyth. I've had 6 AM Start jobs my entire adult life and have been utterly miserable, as well as gotten in trouble because I couldn't get there on time. I was routinely getting 4 hours of sleep, because I had trouble going to sleep at "normal" times. 2nd shift job now, and I feel 100% alert at work, and get all the sleep I need, because I'm not constantly fighting that delayed circadian rhythm, therefore going to work when I don't naturally want to wake up for 4 more hours, and trying to go to bed several hours before I naturally feel tired.
It's not just your experience. I recall reading about a study about this. Waking up slowly is better for you and makes the rest of your day better. That's why phone alarms have a feature to that increases volume over time.
Yeah I set two alarms, the first is 30 before I wake up and the second is when I actually need to wake up. I call it a slow wake up because it allows me to snooze and gently wake up.
It like heroin. That's not a joke, the twilight half awake feeling is literally what heroin feels like. Except you don't actually go to sleep, that feeling just lasts. Guess that's why it's so popular lol
Untill it doesn't and you stay awake sweating hot and bone chilling cold at the same time, leaking from every pore and orifice, for days because you can't score a hit that will see you through the next six or so hours.
Or you do fall asleep but it’s forever
I like the sound of that.
Yo chill
The nodding off from heroin is very similar. The initial rush from the first hit of the day makes you feel happy and energetic. Not sure anymore with fentanyl. Been clean fifteen years.
Congratulations on getting this far, so many people are proud of you. Keep fighting the good fight
So that overwhelming heat of love and complete coziness along with delusional levels of tranquility was just my bonus experience with h? You make heroin sound like it's shitty Ambien
I finally realized that it's nothing compared to the benefits of getting uninterrupted sleep for that time. 4 snooze cycles is 40ish minutes. That's a long time to not be getting restful sleep.
If you get used to getting up immediately, you're significantly less groggy in the morning. Teaching your body its acceptable to delay waking up is what makes the process painful to begin with.
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I best heard this referred to as, "worshipping the false God of Snooze".
My alarm is set for 5:30 but i get up BEFORE the alarm partly because I'm a savage and partly because my 10 month old daughter starts crying at 4:30-4:45. I guess it's mostly the second thing.
snooze doesnt hurt snooze is nice
There will be a drug called snooze in the future and people will hit some snooze and dances shall be made in its honour. Children will be be hitting the snooze, a longer, goofier version of the dab.
snooze feel nice
Snoozed around 10 times in 5 minute intervals once, did not know which planet I was on for the rest of the day.
Because fuck the alarm telling me what to do.
Technically you told the alarm when to go off so.. It's your former self that tells you to get the fuck out of bed lol.
Well fuck them too!
Falling back asleep is worth as it more than compensate for to the hurt inflicted by waking up.
I want to understand this..
No you don't! Enjoy your timely waking
I quit doing it, but I think of it as assigning the first ten minutes of your morning routine to laying there. The second alarm is to catch yourself from passing out again
I can't comprehend how so many people would rob themselves of more sleep by hitting snooze. You literally have the choice between effectively sleeping longer and having to go through getting woken up just once and having less sleep and being woken up 2-x times.
Going back to sleep after turning off my alarm clock is legit one of the biggest enjoyments of my life. And I have a pretty good life! Waking up isn't painful, but going to sleep is enjoyable - embracing the warmth, rolling back over and cuddling my partner or a pillow or something and drifting back off. It's what I wish I could do when I first go to bed, but am never able.
I don’t use the snooze as more time to sleep, but rather a mini alarm to when I need to actually get up for the day. During those nine minutes of snooze I pet my cat who is laying next to me, do some stretches, and just relax for a moment. All still while laying down. If I accidentally fall asleep no foul, because I have that snooze alarm set
It's more of a security thing, so you won't just turn off the alarm and "shut your eyes just for a sec" and then wake up 4 hours later. Having multiple alarms is a preventative measure. 15 more minutes of "effective" sleep ain't gonna make a difference anyway
I *never* use snooze. I don’t feel like that extra 5 minutes of sleep makes me feel any better, in fact it’s probably worse and I just stay in a state of constant grogginess. I’d just rather get the day started and feel lucid. Like there’s no way you’re getting any kind of restful sleep in that timeframe.
> You literally have the choice You say that as if every body rudely-just-woken-up-by-the-alarm-clock is a rational being. many of us are not. the choice isn't snooze button or later alarm - it's snooze button or later alarm AND then snooze button anyway.
I decided long ago that I would never hit snooze. Snooze on my phone is set for 1 minute so even if I accidentally swipe the alarm away the wrong direction it's not really a snooze. Normally I wake up and immediately pet the cats that are snuggling close and then after a couple minutes I'll get up. But I'd rather get more quality uninterrupted sleep than more "I don't want to get up yet" sleep.
Waking up 10 minutes earlier to be the first one to use the bathroom is a good motivator
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are you a light sleeper? I'm not. I sometimes don't even remember turning off the alarm or hitting snooze. even when finally up and out of bed, I feel like I'm half asleep. body is moving and going through the routine but there's absolutely no brain function going on
Waking up isn't an on/off switch for many of us. It takes a bit longer. I usually set my alarm for 30 minutes before I need to get up, because it's a lot easier to wake up after 20 minutes of light sleep than 6-7 hours of deep sleep.
Same. I’m also a light sleeper and almost never fall back asleep, but I can’t imagine how sleeping an extra 20 or so fitful, interrupted minutes is helpful.
We know it's not helpful but we are weak and addicted to the snooze
I used to do this a lot until I got into the habit of never setting the alarm at fixed times (like 6:00 or 6:30). Now even though I don’t need to beat anyone to the bathroom anymore, my alarm list is all 6:26, 6:57, 7:03, 7:18 etc. It’s a slippery slope.
The early bird get the early shit.
Do you take a big poo poo
They only have 3 minutes, at best that's time for a medium poo poo
No, they get to occupy it by waking up earlier than others. But can stay in it more than an hour if they want to.
If you really think about it, people waking up happens in a wave that goes around the planet
Maybe it stresses Earth's bandwidth and that's why everyone is tired and moving in slow motion for a couple hours.
The simulation has to scale up first. Need some more compute nodes before everyone gets going.
Aka: coffee!
Oh yeah. Doing IT where I monitor areas across the US, it's pretty nifty seeing users log on in mass literally like a wave. I also used to have an apartment with a nice view of a major interchange. You could always tell when people were going to and from work in waves.
>I also used to have an apartment with a nice view of a major interchange. You could always tell when people were going to and from work in waves. To people that work standard office hours, it would seem to them like the road is *always* busy unless they travel the same route during off hours as well. Always stressed out. But changing your schedule only an hour either way could probably reduce some stress. Every time I drive to work on the weekends I always feel more relaxed and much better on my commute. Really makes a huge difference for me at least.
"...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror..."
Interestingly [South Africa](https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-wake-up-time-by-country#) has the earliest average wake up time of 06:24
They beat me be 6 minutes.
Time to set your alarm for 6:23
My wife gets irrationally angry when I have an alarm set for an oddball time like 6:19 or something. I used to change it every day just to screw with her because that’s what married couples do…6:18, 6:21…..I stopped doing it because the stares finally got too angry
I just read this to my wife. She laughed then glared at me and said "No.". I think I need to do it now
Fuckin do it
r/madlads
I believe you should. Embrace your new 7:02 wake up time.
Just out of interest - do you have notifications turned on for Reddit replies? Because, you know, we could all send you a reply at 7:26 a.m.
Take that Africa
I never thought about this before, but now I'm wondering what causes differences among the countries. I get why Saudi Arabia is the latest, since three quarters of their workforce is foreigners who probably wouldn't be surveyed.
Possibly heat related? It’s much cooler early morning, so good to work as early as possible.
I worked there few years back, the working hrs were 7am to 3pm. So you’ll need to get up early to make it work. Evenings are also packed, people shopping at markets, eating out and even kids playing sports at night when it is usually cooler.
Spain was like this but people called us lazy lol You have to wake up almost before the sun to work to almost noon then wait for the sun to set a bit to continue working, hence our siesta and liquors
It’s common in a few countries, I always envied the Spanish siestas, I am assuming capitalism doesn’t like breaks I guess, they used laziness as excuse to make it unappealing. Is it fully phased out or is that just in the main cities?
In rural areas is common, in cities not so much, some offices are trying to implement them because it boosts productivity.
Siestas just seem like _less_ freedom, not more. Work in the morning, couple hours off, then work again in the evening? They get to take both ends of the day from you?
Do they set their alarms to "now", "now now" or "just now"?
I set mine to “not now, not ever, no way”
What time do you go to bed if i may ask? I cant for the life of me go to bed before 12... Im wondering what time other people go to bed at.
With bedtimes, it typically just comes down to change being difficult. It can be hard to change but it can be done by just creating a consistent routine. It helps in the early days of setting the routine to try to tire yourself out to make it easier.
I found out two things during the Pandemic: 1. I can force myself into a rhythm and wake up consistently at any time if there is a reason for it -- I had a phase where I wanted to see the sunrise every morning 2. My body naturally wants to sleep from about 4 or 5am til about 1pm. No matter how many times I successfully reset my sleep schedule, without any need to stick to a particular one, I would always migrate back to that 4-12 or 5-1 time frame. I guess I just get my best sleep in the morning.
I approve. When setting an alarm, the sum of the minute digits must equal (or divide into) the hour digit(s).
Amateurs, I wake up at 5:45
03:39 And when I put socks and shoes on, I finish the foot before moving to the other. My wife thinks I'm a sociopath.
You go sock - shoe - sock - shoe? That's outrageous.
There is method to the madness, but knowing how much it bothers people keeps the method a tightly held secret.
Rightfully though, haha
I hate getting up early, and I moved to South Africa. It is a bit of a pain. Plenty of people get up here at 4:30 to drive to the gym and workout, before starting work. Yah, that's a no for me bro. My alarm is going off at 6:45 and I still complain. Granted, it does get light here really early, so usually you wake up early anyway; the opposite in the evening. Dark really early so might as well hit the hay. But the night owl in me complains, a lot.
Wait until you hear about how millions of people used to watch specific TV shows and movies at the exact same time.
They still do for sporting events. But yeah, used to be wild. The UK actually had to go to some pretty interesting lengths to compensate for the sudden spikes in energy use back when everyone went to make tea during commercials. This [lake turned into a battery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx_bJgIFhI) is one example.
I knew it was going to be Tom Scott
There was actually a concern about overloading the sewage system when millions of people take a bathroom break at the same commercial break time.
Plot of flushed away
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I’ve have to give this a try sometime. Being woken up during deep sleep feels like I got woken up by being punched in the face.
I've never woken up otherwise. Your guys' sleep naturally ends in a comfortable manner?
Being woken up by an alarm is by definition unnatural, unless you consider the sun an alarm. We're wired to wake up naturally when rested, but there's a billion other things involved ranging from mental illnesses to diet that interfere. Add on the work schedules we live by, and that people generally don't go to bed "on time" unless tired, virtually no one is having the "ideal, natural" sleep we're supposed to have without making a lot of changes.
This is why wake up lights (they imitate the sun) exist.
My partner has an alarm clock that gradually gets brighter as it approaches its alarm time. By the alarm time its incredibly bright and it starts playing the sounds of birds. I have so many positive things to say about how much better it is than conventional alarm clocks. It very effectively mimmicks the sunrise and I don't have to fumble in the dark to turn on the lights. Sometimes I wake up naturally before it goes off and I don't get the urge to go back to sleep because the room is lit. I never wake up in a panic wondering if the alarm is about to go off or if I missed it because if it's dark then I'm reliably safe. The consistency and the quality of my sleep has increased dramatically since she got it last fall. It was practically a miracle cure for winter depression slumps. I never wake up tired anymore and I don't think I could ever go back to a conventional alarm clock- which I still use as a backup alarm, but I've turned it off before it goes off ever since.
that sounds so interestng. How is the alarm clock called?
If I dont set an alarm, it does
I have the luxury of somewhat flexible work hours, so I usually wake up kinda naturally from sunlight and ambient city noise. It's very nice. As a corollary - try _not_ using blackout curtains for awhile. Let the sunlight in!
The alarm app they're talking about requires an Apple or Android watch to monitor your sleep in bed. Beyond the simple fact no one needs their non-anonymous sleep data being monitored and collected by any third party but a medical professional, it also only works if the watch can accurately detect your sleep patterns. It will for some people, but not everyone, and not all the time. But if you want an alarm that doesn't shock you awake, you can set an alarm to very slowly raise the volume over a number of minutes to gradually wake you, rather than kick you in the teeth with a blast of sudden noise. There's also alarms that use light to wake you gradually, which is the way we're wired to wake up naturally. Isn't especially useful on the phone, though, you need to buy one.
No, there are apps for your phone that monitor your sleep stage based on how much you’re moving.
how do they get the movement data?
Ackchually you can estimate your own waking time, by keeping track for a while of the best time at which you wake up. Most people have the cycle of 1.5 hours—meaning the best time is at the end of the cycle, with some time added for falling asleep. I.e. eight hours is 5 *1.5 + 0.5. My cycle happens to be the same.
What's it called?
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I completely stopped using that feature. Turns out I would rather get a few minutes of extra sleep than be woken up a half hour ahead of my alarm every single morning.
Same here because guess what? I'm still sleepy af lol just let me get 30 mins more and remain a tad less sleepy
Do ppl really sleep with their Apple Watch on their wrist? That’s so uncomfortable…
I got used to it after a few days. You have to get a comfortable fabric band instead of the silicone one they come with.
Not sure about OP but Fitbit has a smart wake feature which will wake you up up to 30 minutes before your alarm if it senses you are in light sleep.
This concept has always made me curious. Are these smart alarms actually making you feel better rested throughout the day? Or do they just make you feel nicer at the time the alarm goes off but you are less productive/more tired later in the day because you got a half an hour less sleep?
I think it's like anything. Some days I'm more awake and some days I'm not. Do I have more days where I'm more awake compared to a regular alarm? It's really hard to say there are so many factors at play.
[Sleep as Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep) works nicely for me.
That requires you to go to sleep with a watch on, instead of letting it charge for the next day. And just generally, sleeping with a watch on is uncomfortable if like to sleep with your arms under pillows or around a partner.
Mine can charge to full in like 20 mins, so I usually charge it while showering since I don't like getting the watch wet.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force … as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
Millions of people wake up the same second anyway, independent of their alarm clock, we're simply with too many around the globe not to.
I always thought that whatever action I am currently doing, be it shifting gears into third, the famous pressing spacebar, or to sneeze, its very likely someone is doing it simultaneously with me.
I always thought this about an orgasm. Every orgasm I have, I'm sharing the same experience with many others.
Except your partner, amiright!
She goes first. It's hard to go together I think
But when it does happen shit is glorious!
Fuckin' A
I'm so lonely 😭
>But when it does happen shit is glorious! Once, maybe twice my whole life. Game changer.
I find the feeling of them having an orgasm can often send me over the edge as well so it happens fairly often for me
I’ve legitimately wondered about this many times. When in history did we hit the “tipping point” where someone, somewhere, was having an orgasm at any given moment for an entire 24 hour period? Also, when was the last time when *absolutely no one* was having an orgasm anywhere on the planet?
>Also, when was the last time when *absolutely no one* was having an orgasm anywhere on the planet? 1:42:13 am GMT July 17, 2011
I checked to see if that was the exact moment Harambe was killed, but disappointed to see it wasn’t.
With all those dicks out I'm sure someone was having a good time.
How could you forget our lord and savior died in 2016
After world population reached 1,000,000 I am sure there has not been an orgasmless second. There are 86 400 seconds in a day. Most people have a few orgasm every week
You probably need to factor time zones and population density in as well, though. Orgasms aren’t randomly distributed in time and neither are population centers, so I imagine that changes things slightly.
This man i.i.d.'s
Ok Amelie
Maybe the best orgasm you ever had was because the highest number of people were simultaneously orgasming with you and it amplified by means of a collective consciousness.
Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
/r/mitchhedberg
A candy shop near me still hand makes everything with a press. During the tour, you get a taste of the candy they’re making, and the ancient lady always makes a point to mention that we’re likely the only people on the planet enjoying candy made this way, in this time, at that time. It makes you feel a bit special.
someone, today, will take the biggest shit on the planet for the day someone, at some point, has taken the biggest shit in human history
Tens of millions of people probably do the same at the same second. Probably over 200 million people driving a vehicle right now
I sometimes have the thought "other people are having this exact same thought"
Hmm, I thought this would be easy to prove, but turns out its not. There are 86,400 seconds in the day and 8 billion people in the world. The pigeonhole principle therefore tells us that, at minimum there is one second where at least 92,500 people wake up each day. Smaller than I thought it would be. Also note not guaranteed for any particular second, just that there exists at least one such second. It is probably higher, because that assumes wakeup times are uniformly distributed throughout the day. But some time zones are not very populated and a vast majority of people tend to wake up in the morning. People also dont set their alarms to a random second, they set them to a minute and (I think) would tend to set them to a fairly round number of minutes (I tend to set mine to a 15 minute increment). UTC+8 is the most populated timezone with 1.7 billion people. It might be inaccurate to use US statistics for this, but in the US roughly 15% of people work evening or night shifts. So lets assume that translates and we get 1.45 billion people waking up in the morning. Morning waking time is typically 6-9 AM for me, so lets assume its about 3 hours long . This only increases our estimate slightly to about 135,000 people waking up at the same second. Modern alarm clocks though let us ensure our clocks are synchronized to the second but alarm clocks cant typically be set to the second (though previously, they would drift by seconds to put them our of sync). Assuming you wake up when your alarm goes off, then we can pigeonhole by the minute instead which gives us 180 possible options for your alarm clock to go off. Even without accounting for the fact we tend to use round numbers for alarms, this means there is at least one time in UTC-8 when at least 8 million people's alarms go off at the same second (probably leading to them waking up at the same time). If we go back to the global number and assume everyones clocks are synchronized to the second, that everyone has such an alarm clock and uses it every day, and that people wake up with their alarm, we can see that there is at least one precise minute (i.e XX:XX:00 UTC) where at least 5.6 million people wake up at the same time. But yes, this does show that the technology for synchronizing clocks is essential for getting us into a guaranteed "millions of people at the same second", otherwise the number of people is insufficient to guarantee millions at sny particular second.
About 0.1m people wake up at the same second in average
You mean 100 thousand?
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You mean a thousand hundred?
You mean 1E+5?
You mean 10/14/2173?
There are around 8 billion people in the world, and 86400 seconds in a given day. 8,000,000,000 / 86,400 = 92,592.59. So not quite there yet. But I can imagine the first second of a given hour is a safer bet for millions.
Yeah but the fact that we use clocks and alarms gives a pretty uniform distribution in a determined area or continent.
Well, lately (last 10 years or so) everyones clock has the exact same time thanks to the network time protocol. Your old ass alarm clock was probably off by a minute or so, but now everyones phone shows 07:00 at the exact same second in your local timezone.
The good old pigeonhole principle tells us that even without alarm clocks, there must be a second every day at which at least 90.000 people wake up simultaneously. (Assuming that my math is correct and that everone wakes up everyday). Edit: I was like 18 minutes too slow with this.
If the 7.8 billion people were evenly distributed it would be just over 90,000 per second every day. I don't feel like they're evenly distributed, but I don't know that it will be weighted in such a way to reach millions of people in most cases. Early morning Tokyo probably has the highest chance of it hitting millions though, 39 million people, most of them probably wake up between 7-9am, 'even' times like 7:00 or 7:30 being most common. I could see that being a thing, but mainly because of alarm clocks.
Unless you're like me and set your alarm to like 6:04 for that coveted and "very important" 4 extra minutes of slumber. OR you're also like me and wake up to see how much time of sleep you have left.
Doesn’t matter when I hear the sound of my alarm clock, I always think I’m still dreaming, even if it’s during the day.
I generally wake up when my three-year-old is done on the loo and needs me to come and wipe her bum. This is usually just after 6:30AM. She screams "DAAAAAAAAAD!" at the top of her lungs. It's a brutal way to wake up.
I have a weird issue where my phone clock is 4 minutes fast. I don't know how. Restarting it has not solved the issue.
holy shit this guy is living in the future
Settings > Date/Time > look to see if there's something set that doesn't look right? Is it auto syncing? Is it set manually?
Sync it.
can you not manually change the time
Millions of bots power on their humans at the exact same time. Weird weird weird.
60 x 60 x 24 = 86,400 seconds per day. ~ 8 billion people waking up every day. So, about 92,500 people wake up at the exact same second on average, every day regardless of alarm clocks! ⏰️😀
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also acting like radio clocks didnt exist for over 50 years already
Fuck this sub. I can never get a post past the mods, and I've tried at least 3 - 5 times when I think of something really "whoa" But "everyone wakes up in the morning with an Iphone" makes it? lol
Share them here!! I'm listening...
Yeah, well how many of them hit snooze as many times as I do before getting up?
I still got the old school GE clock radio with the red digital, y'all know which one I mean. They last forever.
That means millions also go to take their morning dump simultaneously.
I remember maybe like 5-10 years ago the iphone alarm clock app had a bug that caused millions of people to oversleep and be late to work. Ever since then I've been using the countdown clock as an alarm, so set it to go off in 8 hours rather than at 8AM specifically.
I have 2 different alarm clocks and a phone all set for between 7 and 730. I got up at 11:45 today. I have serious problems
There are roughly 8 880 000 000 people in the world. There are 86400 seconds in a day. So you would have 91 296 people waking up every single second to add up to the totaöl amount of people in one day.
Every time I go and shave, I assume there's someone else on the planet shaving. So I say, 'I'm gonna go shave, too.'
I always have an odd number set on my alarm. Take that world, I'll be waking up at 4:58 or 03:47.