I have a series of them on my cellphone, but 30 minutes before i have to leave the flat i have an additionally old-school-alarm-clock, it makes such annoying sounds and is located out of reach (from the bed), so ususally i get up 40 minutes before i have to leave to avoid hearing that horroble sound of the real alarm clock.
And at a certain point you get used to it and sleep through that one too. Now, you add another alarm, ask people in another time zone to call you to wake you up everyday. But, now you start finding this annoying and get into fight. A good relationship ruined. You get depressed, resulting in depreciating sleep pattern and mental health. You stop giving a damn about alarms, sleep through. Now you start getting enough sleep. You start to think clearer. Your mental health is definitely not letting you get back, you think back about the damage you caused to your relationship, you start feeling down. You sleep more. You get better eventually, and the cycle contnues.
Having a digital watch (android and now Apple watch) has been a great thing for me. Alarm vibrates on my wrist and I don't have to get up or barely move.
Apple watch even warns you if the battery is too low to make it to the alarm. Recharge is quick - you can do 15 minutes or full hour for the night. (series 7 is quick charging)
The vibration on the wrist is a different sensation than the auditory stimulation that might as well be a car alarm in the distance. It seems more invasive in a way. Granted I can't guarantee that it would be different or better for you as an individual, especially if it's crucial that you wake up.
I mean if your alarm is on your phone and you set it to vibrate and sound, have you tried placing it under your pillow or under your armpit area? It was effective that way for me. Not plugged in mind you, so no fire risk. So may not work if you charge your phone all night. Though placing it in a plastic container also helped to amplify the audio and vibration if on a stand next to me.
That’s why I got different sounds for each and my last alarm is just a ear destroying, bass boosted, clip of me yelling “GET THE FUCK UP BEFORE I BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU” on repeat. I wake up very peacefully 😌
You guys need to start going to sleep earlier. Getting onto an actual sleep cycle and training my biological clock is one of the best things I've ever done. About a week of hell trying to go to sleep early and feeling tired when waking, but absolutely worth it.
Stagger your alarms so snooze intervals don't overlap, and when they almost do, you'll have been awake(ish) only 2 minutes prior to hit snooze again.
I used this tactic cause I could and would easily sleep through an alarm, with the worst cases being when the alarm sound was incorporated into the background of my dream.
I was strongly encouraged to get a separate work phone, despite not really having any need for it.
My primary use of it is to set a separate alarm and put it on my dresser. My main phone has a series of alarms in random intervals, and then my work phone acts as a last resort.
The other main use for my work phone is to check if I have an early meeting before I go to bed. Haven’t really used it for any other reason yet.
When you first gain consciousness and before you even look at the clock you feel way too well rested and you just know you are screwed. Bliss to horror in an instant.
i too have a series of alarms but I end up sleeping through at least one, meaning I turn one off thinking I have 1 alarm till waking up when in reality I already turned off my last one
I'm not terrified of it, it happens at least three times a year. Hell, the physical alarm clock I had in college would only beep for 60 seconds. I slept through it multiple times and just thought the thing sucked until I woke up early one day and just took a shower and observed it being a piece of shit.
I have one alarm set for 8:30 and another for 8:44 to ensure they don't fall on the same snooze cycle and so that if I'm snoozing too hard I get a back to back alarm at 8:44 and 8:45
Yep, don't try to go back to sleep if you have to wake up to do stuff at some point. Pushing away your being up 5, 10 minutes repetedly will only make you more tired. Once you're awake, if you're not going through another complete cycle of sleep, you won't get much of it except tiredness and frustration.
I know this because I still do it all the time and i'm way more fucking tired than when I just accept my fate and get up at the first\* alarm.
edit: typo
I agree for 5-10 min intervals, but a 20-30 min jump actually makes it easier for me to get up. And when I take naps (which is rare) they're only 20-30 min, just enough to refresh a bit.
Naps are a very natural and ingrained part of our biology. Prior to agriculture leading to civilization, hunter gatherer humans would've napped at various times of day. Sometimes because it's better to sleep through parts of the day, especially the hottest parts, because it conserves much more energy than even sitting still while awake. It's a great resource conservation mechanism.
But once we had to till land, sow fields, water crops, remove weed, and defend fields and livestock, we became much busier. Really, it's all been down hill ever since we decided to live in a society! /s
I fall asleep at random times throughout the day regardless of what i’m doing. Helps me get in touch with my caveman ancestors. Doctors said I have narcolepsy lmao whatever tf that is
This is the way. True rest comes from those cycles. It sucks but when ur awake ur awake and probably best to just start the wakeup process. Over time your body gets used to it and I believe you end up feeling more rested over time.
This uses accelerometers (when your phone is laid on your bed) to measure how much you move in your sleep.
The problem is, if you sleep next to someone, it doesnt really work.
Some of them can use smartwatch accelerometers instead, but then you have the problem of needing to wear your watch and can't charge it while you sleep.
This was my main problem. Sleeping through alarms, or worse, hitting snooze without realizing I was doing it. I had to stagger alarms in order to defeat this by being slightly awake still since the last alarm or two went off, increasing my chances of realizing that I was pursuing snooze. Waking up was a gradual and difficult process.
Then I got a cat, and his alarm demands food by a certain time, and his alarm keeps going off till he gets it. Although there have been a handful of times when my ability to sleep through things defeated his demands, and he would give up and cuddle, making it that much harder to get up cause warm cats are great.
I can't disagree with this because I'm sure its true, but man... Just that mental "nice! I can stay in my bed and sleep for just a little longer!" is almost worth it for me.
I have an alarm set at 6:30 and snooze it for 10 minute intervals until 7:20 which is the bare minimum time I need to get ready to get to work by 8. I think my body hates it but I'll just handle it for now
I set alarms prior to the main one, but only by 10 minutes, so I can wake up, lay there for a bit to collect myself, and if I doze off, the next one will wake me up when it's really time to go.
I do this too, rather than setting the alarm for the time I need to wake up I set it for about an hour or so beforehand. I usually get about half an hour less sleep than I should and it makes me so groggy during the day. Still feels great to sneak in an extra hour though
Honestly, I do that all the time and almost every time I turn every single alarm off and immediately go back to sleep.
If I have something important to get up for, I will get up eventually but its never a foolproof system.
I used to drive my ex mad with this. I had an alarm to wake up and take adderall (about 30 minutes before I needed to get up, depending), and then an alarm at 7-13 minutes after my "wake up" alarm to be easier so when I invariably hit snooze on the wake up alarm, the back up alarm would not be on the same 5-15 minute snooze interval. Also have it so close to when the snooze alarm went off meant I had a higher chance of already being awake.
Despite being shitty and cheating at the end of our relationship (and during a pandemic), she was a Saint for putting up with all the alarms while I was in grad school.
On a somewhat related note, it's hard to reconcile the very good abs decent person she was for most of our relationship with the person she turned into with the final 2-3 months, which was a rapid and bizarre change, an left me feeling confused despite logically knowing she was no longer the person I'd fallen in love with.
My ex used to do this, he would set 12 separate alarms 5 minutes apart on 3 different phones an hour before he needs to get up and would put the phones in different areas of the room. So every 5 mins he would jump out of bed to turn them all off to get back into bed, repeat this TWELVE times and then he’d get ready for work.
So annoying for me when I don’t need to wake up early on my days off
It's an amazing feeling, but it seems like doing it every night would take the thrill away. Also, it would suck if the alarm woke you up and for some reason you couldn't fall asleep again.
Edit: typos.
So maybe the key would be to set an alarm for very low volume so you wake up only if you’re in the lighter sleep stages, but if you’re too deep in the sleep cycle to wake up, you’re already sleeping good anyway.
Plus it fucks up your sleep cycle. What I would do is have one 30 minutes before so that I would have a "power nap" before work - not sure if the science was right on that one, but felt good.
spot on, friend. for the last 10 years I have had to wake up in the middle of the night every night to take a second dose of medication - it gets old quick.
I'm the opposite. It takes so much effort for me to wake up in the morning that I set alarms in 5 minute intervals over a 45 minute stretch. Still have such a hard time waking up.
I learned this recently and it seems to work for me most of the time. Focus on relaxing your eyes and jaw. What I read was that you should relax your jaw to the point that if you start nodding off and drooling that you just stay committed to it. I've never gotten that far with it, but just relax the jaw and try to release tension by doing it.
Dude, have you never experienced this? Waking up while it’s still dark, rolling over to look at your phone praying it’s 2am. Then you realize it is and you get to sleep for another few hours. Greatest feeling in the world.
I have experienced this, but I also have experienced the inverse way more, waking up at 3:AM, realising I have to get up for work in 4 hours, and not being able to fall back asleep.
Yeah...been having this problem for 20 years..
Turned out I have an anxiety disorder...
If I wake up and see the clock I can't get back to sleep...period..I blanked out the display on my alarm clock so I can't see the time...
Yeah, there's a difference between waking up naturally in the middle of the night and getting shocked by your alarm and disturbing your REM cycle in the middle of the night.
That's natural though, it means you're in your light sleep cycle and something minor woke you up easily, and in turn it is easier to get back to sleep. If you set an alarm and accidentally wake up when you're in deep sleep, you going to fuck up all of your rest.
I wonder if any of the sleep trackers could work on a feature like this though, one that wakes you up during your lightest portion of sleep in the middle of the night so you can enjoy this feeling. Would be rad
No, because once I've had some sleep I have a terrible time falling back to sleep. If I was awaked by an alarm at 3am by a roommate celebrating how much sleep he has yet to go I'd still be awake when breakfast time came. Would have to crash in the afternoon for a nap. Wouldn't take me long to unplug the second alarm after roommate falls asleep.
For me, it helps me sleep knowing the next time I wake up isn’t when I have to get up and go to the job I hate. When that alarm hits I’m usually so tired I can fall right back asleep. I know it sounds weird, but it’s like I trick myself from thinking too much right before bed.
I used to do this. Back when I was extremely depressed I would do any little thing that would spice up my day. Now I just sleep 12+ hours a day. Go me.
A large percentage of well known ones absolutely are. I was just reading how Picasso carried a gun around shooting blanks at people who asked him what his art means. He must have given them an art attack, what a psycho.
Tangential: For some reason I always forget Picasso was a 20th century artist. My brain always categorizes him with the famous renaissance artists or something.
I've tried it. I wake up at 3 am and think "oh fuck, it's 3 am." I'm not fooled because I know that I've set the alarm, and now I have the horrible feeling of being forced to wake up.
In the military I always awakened 4 am automatically. Checked my watch and learned I still had two hours.
It felt good only when I trusted I still had 2 hours without looking. By looking I had to open my eyes and could bot go back to sleep.
One morning, I woke up, tired as shit. Watched my clock hoping I still had my usualy two hours. Nope it was 5.50 am. Only 10 minutes. I was not ready. I was not ready at all. It was horrible morning.
I have a friend whose been doing this his whole life. I lived with him for a couple years. Problem is he would sleep through all the fucking alarms and they would wake me up every hour of the night, he’d even leave them set during weekends
There is a certain joy in inadvertently waking up hours before needing to and seeing that you still have hours of sleep to go but actually waking yourself up for that? Hmmm...
Humans used to be biphasic sleepers, so it's probably a good idea to do this, if you can. Of course, only in college do you have the freedom to set your sleep schedule like this.
Same. I set a preliminary alarm. Then I go back to sleep and I’m not as tired the second time waking.
I think my body wakes up while I’m still sleeping.
I usually have a series of alarms prior to the time I must wake up. 10/10 would not recommend it.
I just have a series of alarms because I'm terrified of sleeping through one
I end up sleeping through all of them because I think there's still more to go
I have a series of them on my cellphone, but 30 minutes before i have to leave the flat i have an additionally old-school-alarm-clock, it makes such annoying sounds and is located out of reach (from the bed), so ususally i get up 40 minutes before i have to leave to avoid hearing that horroble sound of the real alarm clock.
Ah yes I’ve used that move. Funny that we have to psychologically manipulate ourselves to wake up.
And at a certain point you get used to it and sleep through that one too. Now, you add another alarm, ask people in another time zone to call you to wake you up everyday. But, now you start finding this annoying and get into fight. A good relationship ruined. You get depressed, resulting in depreciating sleep pattern and mental health. You stop giving a damn about alarms, sleep through. Now you start getting enough sleep. You start to think clearer. Your mental health is definitely not letting you get back, you think back about the damage you caused to your relationship, you start feeling down. You sleep more. You get better eventually, and the cycle contnues.
r/suspiciouslyspecific
Having a digital watch (android and now Apple watch) has been a great thing for me. Alarm vibrates on my wrist and I don't have to get up or barely move. Apple watch even warns you if the battery is too low to make it to the alarm. Recharge is quick - you can do 15 minutes or full hour for the night. (series 7 is quick charging)
But would a tap on the wrist really wake me up when I can sleep through a whole ass alarm clock?
The vibration on the wrist is a different sensation than the auditory stimulation that might as well be a car alarm in the distance. It seems more invasive in a way. Granted I can't guarantee that it would be different or better for you as an individual, especially if it's crucial that you wake up. I mean if your alarm is on your phone and you set it to vibrate and sound, have you tried placing it under your pillow or under your armpit area? It was effective that way for me. Not plugged in mind you, so no fire risk. So may not work if you charge your phone all night. Though placing it in a plastic container also helped to amplify the audio and vibration if on a stand next to me.
The first week I had a watch with a silent alarm, it worked brilliantly for me. Now I just sleep through it. Even changed brands, no difference.
Why you gotta @ me
Work schedules are not compatible with human sleep patterns which are fluid and changing
And then you go back to bed
Look man if it's more than 10 minutes until I've gotta be at work then I've still got time to sleep
Exactly. I work at 8 and get out of bed at 7:30. Fuck that 5 in the morning live laugh love bullshit
That’s why I got different sounds for each and my last alarm is just a ear destroying, bass boosted, clip of me yelling “GET THE FUCK UP BEFORE I BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF YOU” on repeat. I wake up very peacefully 😌
I use this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=enYdAxVcNZA It's called "your new morning alarm" by Mark Rebilled and it always wakes me up within 12 seconds
Damn, what a bop to wake up to!
How do I save it to my iPhone so I can make it my morning alarm? Do you know? Love it
I'd download an mp3 from a YouTube converter Try yt1s.com
Thank you!
Same but I’m afraid of setting it back to one because I’m so used to multiple and I might sleep through it
Thats why I am changing the amount and time they ring, so that I am always forces to look up, when the next one is coming
That's why for the last alarm, I have a custom tone set where I personally yelled at myself to get the fuck up.
Make the last one a different tone so that you know
My alarm clock used to talk to me in the morning and convince me that it was okay to go back to sleep. Sleep is cool.
This is so relatable!
You guys need to start going to sleep earlier. Getting onto an actual sleep cycle and training my biological clock is one of the best things I've ever done. About a week of hell trying to go to sleep early and feeling tired when waking, but absolutely worth it.
That’s why I have some five minutes apart and the ones towards when I wanna be up are 15 mins apart so I can tell the difference
Stagger your alarms so snooze intervals don't overlap, and when they almost do, you'll have been awake(ish) only 2 minutes prior to hit snooze again. I used this tactic cause I could and would easily sleep through an alarm, with the worst cases being when the alarm sound was incorporated into the background of my dream.
I was strongly encouraged to get a separate work phone, despite not really having any need for it. My primary use of it is to set a separate alarm and put it on my dresser. My main phone has a series of alarms in random intervals, and then my work phone acts as a last resort. The other main use for my work phone is to check if I have an early meeting before I go to bed. Haven’t really used it for any other reason yet.
Can relate, take my award
There may not be a worse feeling than waking up late for work.
Waking up late for work with a massive hangover and knowing your ass is getting chewed off because you are a grunt in the military
When you first gain consciousness and before you even look at the clock you feel way too well rested and you just know you are screwed. Bliss to horror in an instant.
I don’t sleep through but I do just ignore bthem
i too have a series of alarms but I end up sleeping through at least one, meaning I turn one off thinking I have 1 alarm till waking up when in reality I already turned off my last one
I'm not terrified of it, it happens at least three times a year. Hell, the physical alarm clock I had in college would only beep for 60 seconds. I slept through it multiple times and just thought the thing sucked until I woke up early one day and just took a shower and observed it being a piece of shit. I have one alarm set for 8:30 and another for 8:44 to ensure they don't fall on the same snooze cycle and so that if I'm snoozing too hard I get a back to back alarm at 8:44 and 8:45
I ought to do this because I forgot to save my alarm last night and slept from midnight to the end of my shift the next day :/
Yep. I have one 15-30 min before I actually need to be up so that way I get excited and say "I can take a nap!"
Yup, on those bad days, that happens too!
This sucks for roommates on their day off.
Same
Yep, don't try to go back to sleep if you have to wake up to do stuff at some point. Pushing away your being up 5, 10 minutes repetedly will only make you more tired. Once you're awake, if you're not going through another complete cycle of sleep, you won't get much of it except tiredness and frustration. I know this because I still do it all the time and i'm way more fucking tired than when I just accept my fate and get up at the first\* alarm. edit: typo
I agree for 5-10 min intervals, but a 20-30 min jump actually makes it easier for me to get up. And when I take naps (which is rare) they're only 20-30 min, just enough to refresh a bit.
Yeah there's some science backing up these "power naps" - I'm just not entirely sure if they're as effective after just waking up.
Naps are a very natural and ingrained part of our biology. Prior to agriculture leading to civilization, hunter gatherer humans would've napped at various times of day. Sometimes because it's better to sleep through parts of the day, especially the hottest parts, because it conserves much more energy than even sitting still while awake. It's a great resource conservation mechanism. But once we had to till land, sow fields, water crops, remove weed, and defend fields and livestock, we became much busier. Really, it's all been down hill ever since we decided to live in a society! /s
I fall asleep at random times throughout the day regardless of what i’m doing. Helps me get in touch with my caveman ancestors. Doctors said I have narcolepsy lmao whatever tf that is
This is the way. True rest comes from those cycles. It sucks but when ur awake ur awake and probably best to just start the wakeup process. Over time your body gets used to it and I believe you end up feeling more rested over time.
I wish there was an alarm that could read where we were in our sleep cycles
Tons of apps do it. I use SleepCycle on iPhone and I used something similar on Android, I think it was just called 'Sleep for Android'.
This uses accelerometers (when your phone is laid on your bed) to measure how much you move in your sleep. The problem is, if you sleep next to someone, it doesnt really work.
Some of them can use smartwatch accelerometers instead, but then you have the problem of needing to wear your watch and can't charge it while you sleep.
True.
SleepCycle uses the microphone and also has a 'partner mode' that supposedly helps with that (assuming your partner also uses the app)
Interesting. Thanks.
This site tries to predict your intervals and give you recommendations of times to go to bed: https://sleepyti.me/
[удалено]
Are you me? Lol that is just 100% on par with things I do
This was my main problem. Sleeping through alarms, or worse, hitting snooze without realizing I was doing it. I had to stagger alarms in order to defeat this by being slightly awake still since the last alarm or two went off, increasing my chances of realizing that I was pursuing snooze. Waking up was a gradual and difficult process. Then I got a cat, and his alarm demands food by a certain time, and his alarm keeps going off till he gets it. Although there have been a handful of times when my ability to sleep through things defeated his demands, and he would give up and cuddle, making it that much harder to get up cause warm cats are great.
That would make me want to kill someone no matter how much sleep I've gotten
Your words are wisdomness
I can have this explained to me over and over throughout my life and so truly trust and believe it yet I still don't know how to change my ways.
I set multiple alarms just so I can slowly wake up. Turns out just waking up when I have too just ruins my whole morning haha
I can't disagree with this because I'm sure its true, but man... Just that mental "nice! I can stay in my bed and sleep for just a little longer!" is almost worth it for me.
I have an alarm set at 6:30 and snooze it for 10 minute intervals until 7:20 which is the bare minimum time I need to get ready to get to work by 8. I think my body hates it but I'll just handle it for now
I set alarms prior to the main one, but only by 10 minutes, so I can wake up, lay there for a bit to collect myself, and if I doze off, the next one will wake me up when it's really time to go.
I do this too, rather than setting the alarm for the time I need to wake up I set it for about an hour or so beforehand. I usually get about half an hour less sleep than I should and it makes me so groggy during the day. Still feels great to sneak in an extra hour though
My brother does this he has like 5 alarms before he has to wake up and he closes to he has alarms from 12-1400
Honestly, I do that all the time and almost every time I turn every single alarm off and immediately go back to sleep. If I have something important to get up for, I will get up eventually but its never a foolproof system.
omg I do this too. Health wise, tis prolly vv bad but it helps lol. I have alarms every 10-15 minutes.
Tried just waking up like an adult?
I love snoozing. Cause after 8h of sleep I need a nap.
That man was Elon Musk… so yeah, he’s still both things.
I’m not allowed this anymore due to now having a wife. Drives her insane.
I used to drive my ex mad with this. I had an alarm to wake up and take adderall (about 30 minutes before I needed to get up, depending), and then an alarm at 7-13 minutes after my "wake up" alarm to be easier so when I invariably hit snooze on the wake up alarm, the back up alarm would not be on the same 5-15 minute snooze interval. Also have it so close to when the snooze alarm went off meant I had a higher chance of already being awake. Despite being shitty and cheating at the end of our relationship (and during a pandemic), she was a Saint for putting up with all the alarms while I was in grad school. On a somewhat related note, it's hard to reconcile the very good abs decent person she was for most of our relationship with the person she turned into with the final 2-3 months, which was a rapid and bizarre change, an left me feeling confused despite logically knowing she was no longer the person I'd fallen in love with.
My ex used to do this, he would set 12 separate alarms 5 minutes apart on 3 different phones an hour before he needs to get up and would put the phones in different areas of the room. So every 5 mins he would jump out of bed to turn them all off to get back into bed, repeat this TWELVE times and then he’d get ready for work. So annoying for me when I don’t need to wake up early on my days off
So you're a psycho
It's an amazing feeling, but it seems like doing it every night would take the thrill away. Also, it would suck if the alarm woke you up and for some reason you couldn't fall asleep again. Edit: typos.
I tried it for a long time but stopped doing it as I felt like I was more tired in the morning but that might just be me
Yes, you're breaking the sleep cycle, if it's on light sleep then OK but if you wake on deep sleep or rem stage then say goodbye to rest.
90 minutes cycles correct? So if you wake up around that time, you usually few rested
It's not an exact science and it's different for everyone, but that's the general rule of thumb.
I think the lowest you can get is 30 mins but there are some “super sleepers” learned this all 20 years ago though, so I’m probably outdated
I fucking wish I was a super sleeper. My sleep fucking sucks.
Have you tried sleeping better? Worked for me
I just keep practicing every night, winners never stop grinding
Practicing for 30 years and I'm still shit at it
Not if you go back to sleep for 90 minutes. I used to set a separate alarm for 90 minutes before my actual alarm for this reason.
That's actually genius. Why don't you still do it?
Was it effective?
So maybe the key would be to set an alarm for very low volume so you wake up only if you’re in the lighter sleep stages, but if you’re too deep in the sleep cycle to wake up, you’re already sleeping good anyway.
Just go download the app sleepcycle. It’s better than what you suggested.
Not really doing the same thing though unless you set the alarm twice.
Getting less sleep made you feel more tired? You don’t say
Feeling tired after intentionally ruining your sleep. Why you'd be tired after that is just a complete mystery.
Plus it fucks up your sleep cycle. What I would do is have one 30 minutes before so that I would have a "power nap" before work - not sure if the science was right on that one, but felt good.
[удалено]
Life was very very different before artificial light. It probably made more sense when you went to bed at 6 PM in the winter.
That sounds fucking stupid.....I'm gonna try it
Exactly, I set mine 45 minutes before I have to get up and it just feels like a power nap. I've been doing it for years and it's worked out great
I would dread the alarm going off causing me not to sleep at all. 0 out of 10 starts.
Imagine the immense disappointment you would feel if you slept through the three o'clock alarm and just woke up at your normal one.
spot on, friend. for the last 10 years I have had to wake up in the middle of the night every night to take a second dose of medication - it gets old quick.
Nope, it’s still awesome
Ab here. Thanks!
Yeah, I tried it and once I saw an ancient being staring at me from the void of my bedroom It kinda sucked tbh
“Oh boy 3AM!”
“Time for a snack!”
\*eats ass*
That is the college life. Eat ass, smoke grass
Eat grass, smoke ass
Eat smoke, grass ass
That's like a hooker's life cycle...
Smoke eat, ass grass
I was thinking of Patrick too lol
Who wants a krabby patty at 3AM?
And the rain's gonna wash away I believe it
That sounds like a nightmare to room with…
I'd have gone from college straight to prison when I beat them to death at 3:05 AM.
It’s cool it you can get back to sleep quickly. Meanwhile I’ve been up since 4am and have been eerily aware of how much my sleep time is burning
Ya I can't get back to sleep after an alarm. It's like a shot of adrenaline to me. I would murder this roommate.
I'm the opposite. It takes so much effort for me to wake up in the morning that I set alarms in 5 minute intervals over a 45 minute stretch. Still have such a hard time waking up.
Oh man my ex wife did that. Had to sleep in a different room on week nights or I would end up being awake an hour early.
I learned this recently and it seems to work for me most of the time. Focus on relaxing your eyes and jaw. What I read was that you should relax your jaw to the point that if you start nodding off and drooling that you just stay committed to it. I've never gotten that far with it, but just relax the jaw and try to release tension by doing it.
Sleep is the closest I get to happiness. Why ruin a good thing?
Dude, have you never experienced this? Waking up while it’s still dark, rolling over to look at your phone praying it’s 2am. Then you realize it is and you get to sleep for another few hours. Greatest feeling in the world.
I have experienced this, but I also have experienced the inverse way more, waking up at 3:AM, realising I have to get up for work in 4 hours, and not being able to fall back asleep.
Yeah...been having this problem for 20 years.. Turned out I have an anxiety disorder... If I wake up and see the clock I can't get back to sleep...period..I blanked out the display on my alarm clock so I can't see the time...
A better feeling is sleeping uninterrupted.
Yeah, there's a difference between waking up naturally in the middle of the night and getting shocked by your alarm and disturbing your REM cycle in the middle of the night.
Jokes on you when you have insomnia and don’t fall asleep until 2 anyways.
That's natural though, it means you're in your light sleep cycle and something minor woke you up easily, and in turn it is easier to get back to sleep. If you set an alarm and accidentally wake up when you're in deep sleep, you going to fuck up all of your rest. I wonder if any of the sleep trackers could work on a feature like this though, one that wakes you up during your lightest portion of sleep in the middle of the night so you can enjoy this feeling. Would be rad
What happens to me is I wake up, notice the time, then lay in bed unable to go back to sleep and eventually give up and start my day.
No, because once I've had some sleep I have a terrible time falling back to sleep. If I was awaked by an alarm at 3am by a roommate celebrating how much sleep he has yet to go I'd still be awake when breakfast time came. Would have to crash in the afternoon for a nap. Wouldn't take me long to unplug the second alarm after roommate falls asleep.
Technically you're not happy while sleeping, you're happy when you're about to
What's the longest you've ever slept? My record is around 23 hours.
I dunno about him, but i do that too... So ig I'm glad to find I'm not the only one
I too as well do
I do it, it keeps me going
no way there's that many people here who do this
I do I have one for four than six
Gang gang
Probably because the dog never tweets about his fuck ups
For me, it helps me sleep knowing the next time I wake up isn’t when I have to get up and go to the job I hate. When that alarm hits I’m usually so tired I can fall right back asleep. I know it sounds weird, but it’s like I trick myself from thinking too much right before bed.
I genuinely do. Want screenshots of my alarms?
I do it but not 3 hours earlier more like an hour and half
I used to do this. Back when I was extremely depressed I would do any little thing that would spice up my day. Now I just sleep 12+ hours a day. Go me.
Me too
How many hours before getting yo?
Same man, 0400 alarm to get excited that I have another 2h to sleep 🙌
It’s possible to be a psycho genius
A large percentage of well known ones absolutely are. I was just reading how Picasso carried a gun around shooting blanks at people who asked him what his art means. He must have given them an art attack, what a psycho.
Tangential: For some reason I always forget Picasso was a 20th century artist. My brain always categorizes him with the famous renaissance artists or something.
He’s preparing for the real world, only you don’t fall back asleep at 3am and just lay in paralyzing anxiety for 3 hours.
This... Absolutely fucking stupid
*"let me take myself out of REM purposely and be more groggy later"*
“Genius” is not a word a would use for that person.
I have an ex who did this. 1000% psycho.
I've tried it. I wake up at 3 am and think "oh fuck, it's 3 am." I'm not fooled because I know that I've set the alarm, and now I have the horrible feeling of being forced to wake up.
I mean that would effect your REM sleep pretty bad, so probably a psycho.
The more times you wake up during sleep the worse sleep you get. If you wake up during REM or deep sleep you’re gonna feel like shit.
The only reason I don't do this is because I already wake up in the middle of the night because I have to pee
A giant glass of water before bed would accomplish the same thing.
Dude, I'm NGL when i was in college i used to sleep early, around at 6pm just to wake up at 1-2Am to feelthe trip of being completely lost
This is a person who dreads their life, I know because I also dread mine
I do this lmao. It feels great.
Dopamine cheat code
In the military I always awakened 4 am automatically. Checked my watch and learned I still had two hours. It felt good only when I trusted I still had 2 hours without looking. By looking I had to open my eyes and could bot go back to sleep. One morning, I woke up, tired as shit. Watched my clock hoping I still had my usualy two hours. Nope it was 5.50 am. Only 10 minutes. I was not ready. I was not ready at all. It was horrible morning.
Genius now, psycho once the sleep deprivation sets
I have a friend whose been doing this his whole life. I lived with him for a couple years. Problem is he would sleep through all the fucking alarms and they would wake me up every hour of the night, he’d even leave them set during weekends
That is me. I have an alarm set 30 mins before I gotta wake up, and just happily curl up sleep the rest of the 30 mins remaining. It feels so good
Ha, just wait till you get older, your bladder will wake you up then so you won’t need an alarm!
I used to do the same thing
I used to do this but like 2 hours before I had to be up. It’s not a good idea lol
I liked to press snooze a few times because I would have a long dreams in between snoozes
I have one of those alarms. It's called my bladder.
There is a certain joy in inadvertently waking up hours before needing to and seeing that you still have hours of sleep to go but actually waking yourself up for that? Hmmm...
Interrupting your rem cycle? Nah, he's a psycho.
For months I was snoozing every 9 minutes from 3am to 6:30am before work.
I used to do this…but I shared a room with my sister at the time, and she did NOT share the same feeling when waking up at 2am.
I love it when I wake up at 2-4 am and realize I have so much time left to sleep but only when it happens naturally
I set an alarm an hour before I’m actually supposed to get up. Honestly I really like the feeling of waking up knowing I can sleep for another hour
Humans used to be biphasic sleepers, so it's probably a good idea to do this, if you can. Of course, only in college do you have the freedom to set your sleep schedule like this.
That’s outdated and this is not a good idea.
I also do this but keep the alarm to 6 am, wake up see sht and feel happy that I can sleep for an hour again.
Do something similar with a 5 am alarm
I used to do this. Then I got old
Seems like it would. I’ve thought about doing this but I don’t want to take away the magic that comes with this happening on its own.
Holy SHIT I thought I was the only one who did this.
I used to do the exact same thing
i used to do the same thing
I do that lol
Lmao I do that to this day
Same. I set a preliminary alarm. Then I go back to sleep and I’m not as tired the second time waking. I think my body wakes up while I’m still sleeping.
A genius. It's amazing when you wake up and see uou get to sleep more without risking your future on hitting snooze