Got a "deaf spot" for alarm clocks?!

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MuFu

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I slept right through mine today and missed a three hour Engineering Systems exam. :oops:

Normally I at least remember switching it off and falling back to sleep, but occasionally I just wake up hours after I was supposed to an don't remember a thing. Means having to retake the exam in the summer now and cutting a holiday to Malaysia/Australia short. Arse. :rolleyes: :(

MuFu.
 
I find that I become acustom to sound of my alram clocks after about 6 months. Now I use the radio instead. OTH a alram that sounds like a phone works very good. I think that we are so used to responding to that type of sound that our brain cannot ignore it. :D
 
Oh, I know that all too well. My solution: Massive alarm attack!!!
At the moment I'm using: Two cell phones (private and company), a radio alarm and a "normal" alarm clock with a quite unnerving sound and 4 alarm times.
It works - at least most of the time... 8)
 
Snyder said:
At the moment I'm using: Two cell phones (private and company), a radio alarm and a "normal" alarm clock with a quite unnerving sound and 4 alarm times.
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:oops:

I use my phone alarm, which gets louder and louder until it's almost painful on the ears. I guess setting it so it is incredibly loud straight away might have the desired effect.

Perhaps I need to employ a "4-pronged attack" system like yours. :D

MuFu.
 
WOW @ Snyder, quite the setup you have there! ;)

But seriously, I know the problem very well, my brain will adapt to any alarm sound in a matter of weeks, then it just blends it out. That's why I only set the alarm when I really need it (putting it at the other end of the room also helps, that way you have to get up to switch it off!), otherwise I'd end up broke but with a huge alarm clock collection. One of the advantages of working freelance is that I can mostly make my own hours, so most of the time I don't really need an alarm. As a consequence my day-night cycle is currently like 4 hours different from most other people's though, which can lead to its own host of problems, hehehe.

Radio alarms don't work for me either, used to do that during school, but many years ago I somehow started to weave the music into my dreams subconciously, never woke up from radio alarm since... oh well. Good to see I'm not alone with my problem though. :)
 
Mufu,

I always used to use my Radio alarm tuned into Radio 1.

The banshee wail that is Sara Cox's voice soon wakes you up and gets you out of bed! It can also cause minor psychosis... but I'm better now :devilish:
 
I have a system here for ya'. It involves sprinklers, salt water, and a high electrical bill... :devilish:

OK seriously, I had a high-dB system earlier. One of the good old alarm clocks with a hammer hitting on two bells. Put it on a tin can to make it sound a bit louder, and then place it in the other end of the room. It worked very well for me, but I stoped using that one morning. I did as ususal fly out of the bed within a few seconds, rushed towards the other end of the room, but got dizzy from low blood pressure, and had to lean against something.

I could actually lift the hole cactus with the barbed thorns stuck into my hand. Took quite some time to remove all of them.
(But I sure did wake up.)
 
Take a really *loud* alarm clock and place it a few meters away from your bed so you have to get up to turn the alarm off - and place it next to a sexy picture.
 
I adapted this habit a year ago when I was playing Planetarion and had to wake up like 3 times every night. For the first days it went just fine but after that I failed to launch my attacks couple times in a row. Strange thing is that from the beginning i put the alarm clock few meters away from me but somehow I was able to turn it off and not remember it next morning.

This habit got worse and worse and after two weeks I managed to switch off two alarm clocks without knowing it. Well, three clocks was my sweet-spot. I didn't miss a single attack for next few weeks. Then I got this "wtf I'm doing"-feeling, quit playing PA and started sleeping my nights well. Nowadays one alarm clock is just fine :)
 
Ahh, PA! Seems like ages ago when I played that one, had a couple of decent rounds tho. Lot of late nights playing that and EmpireQuest (similar to PA but smaller community) but after a while it wears on you...
 
I set my CD player /Alarm clock to wake me up with Pink Floyd's "Time". All those alarm bells going off is so annoying that you can't help but wake up!
 
Um... there must be someone who hasn't got trouble waking up! :)

I, for one, have the luxury of being waken by just about any kind of alarm. When I still had a clock radio I had it set on a low-noise channel (P1 or P2 for you Swedes) and on a volume just above absolute silence. Usually, what awoke me was the scratchy sound of the radio starting.

As a matter of fact, I can only recall one time when I have slept through an alarm, and that was in late '96 right after a gruesome exercise in my military service. On the other hand, then it was not a timid radio but a mechanical clock from hell! :?

I do not however have any special problems with sleeping in a noisy environment - not more than other people anyway. I suppose that I subconsciously prepare myself for the sound that should wake me.

Well, time to go to bed... my puny wrist-watch will get me out of it by 5:30 tomorrow! :D
 
OK seriously, I had a high-dB system earlier. One of the good old alarm clocks with a hammer hitting on two bells. Put it on a tin can to make it sound a bit louder, and then place it in the other end of the room. It worked very well for me, but I stoped using that one morning. I did as ususal fly out of the bed within a few seconds, rushed towards the other end of the room, but got dizzy from low blood pressure, and had to lean against something.
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I'e tried one of them old things before to wake me up in the mornings.

Stopped using it after a few days though, sure it gets you up...but also nearly gives you a heart-attack...
 
Loud, and across the room is the only solution for me.
If its close enough for me to turn off without waking up (anywhere within 7 feet :) then it deosnt work after about a week.
 
One of my best friends always wakes up at about 8am. Doesn't matter what time he goes to bed (within reason), where he is or whether he uses an alarm clock or not - at 8am he wakes up without fail. :oops:

MuFu.
 
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