Oversleeping...

[notwen]

This is the second time in 2 weeks I've over slept. The first time it was only an hour, and that meant I missed my carpool, but I was still able to get in to work at a reasonable time.

Today I overslept 3 AND A HALF HOURS...

How? How in the HELL do I oversleep 3 1/2 hours through 2 alarms? There's no point in going in to work now, by the time I get in it's going to be really late, btter just to call in and take the whole day off. But here I am burning a day off for basicly nothing.

The only thing I can figure out is that the first alarm I'm hitting the off button while still mostly asleep... even with the alarm clock across the room.

Right now I hate myself. I hate myself for missing work, I hate myself for blowing time off, and I hate myself for missing the day in the carpool that I was supposed to drive...

I'm going to buy a second physical alarm clock today... and hope that will solve the problem. Maybe if I have multiple alarms unconnected to each other it won't happen anymore...

[Gnmish Gearbinder]

Tape the alarm off button or disable the snooze.

Or get multiple alarms...across the room. That's what I have. To turn off my first alarm I have to leap across my fiancee. I sleep in the corner. To get to the second one I have to crawl to the end of the bed. I set the second one a minute and a half after the first.

I'm never late anymore.

Annoyed, but never late. gnmish.gearbinder.ring.warden.sullon.zek
What's the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see 'em?

[EZ_Gyorg]

Don't stay up late.

[notwen]

I really /dont/ stay up tha late...

[Kaielen]

Bribe someone in your carpool to come beat you awake each morning. Make sure it's someone you trust, though. Don't want Bob from Accounting slipping you the stiffy when you don't know which way his door swings.

[EZ_Prenn]

When i got 3 hours of sleep friday and saturday night to make 8 am raids a couple of years ago, I developed a pattern of doing that.

One morning I woke up reflexively yelling "@#%$!" as I hit the floor. My leg was asleep, so when I got out of bed to turn my alarm off uncosciously, it buckled, and down I went.

I have decided to put an empty 2 liter or a cereal box on top of my alarm clock, hoping that I'll knock them off and wake myself up.

Mind you, I have to walk across the room to turn my alarm off and I do it anyway sometimes. Back in the raid example, my alarm clock was on the other side of my desk under my monitor. Sensei Pren{Dragon Army}[Tribunal Server]
So I take shelter in tomorrow
Tomorrow will bring a brand new day
Think I can make it right tomorrow,
Think I need more sleep today...

[Brelkor]

Put your alarm clock across the room. When you have to get up to hit the snooze or reset button, you be awake pretty quickly. Brelkor the Blackhammer, The Masta Back Stabba, retired rogue

"Wake up on fire every day
And I never say goodbye
Pre-determined destiny
I've never been afraid to die"[i]
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[EZ_Dulben apBliadd]

Hide it in different spots every night...not like in a drawer otr anything that would muffle the sound - but just in a not so easy to access spot.

Just make sure you don't stubb your toe trying to find it Gravedigger? When you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain?
~ Dave Matthews ~

[notwen]

People need to stop suggesting things I'm already doing.

To reiterate: my current alarm clock is already across the room from my bed, and I'm getting second physical alarm clock today.

[Nenjin]

Try going to bed an hour earlier than you normally do. My body is so used to the rythyms I put it through, I usually wake up 2-3 times before after I go to sleep. Once, about 4am, second, about 6am, lastly, 20 minutes before my alarm goes off. It's the "open an eye, see the clock, close the eye" kind of waking up, but it keeps me on track. And I HATE waking up and seeing a time on the clock that you know you shouldn't be seeing from your own bed. That instantaenous, first thing in the morning OH @#%$ really sucks. "They will come back, come back again, as long as the Red Earth rolls. He never wasted a tree or a leaf, why should he squander souls?"

[EZ_Aldarion Shard]

im not sure if you use a snooze button, but if so, stop. under no circumstances allow yourself to use one. it helps a lot, when your brain knows it is not going to get to go back to sleep it doesnt trick you into sleeping in. Veda Kai'Rin

[EZ_Bondori Zafiro]

Just dont get into the bad habit im in, where you set the alarm clock 1 hour before you have to get up and just hit the snooze 20 times.

Usually by the time its actually time to get up im pretty awake ;P

[Nenjin]

Another thing you could try is instead of hitting snooze, reset the alarm. Once you miss 8am 3 times in a row because you are too bleary eyed to coordinate properly, you start asking yourself if that 10 minutes is really all that nessecary. Only problem is when you set it, roll over, and don't realize you set it for 8pm "They will come back, come back again, as long as the Red Earth rolls. He never wasted a tree or a leaf, why should he squander souls?"

[EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper]

For a while there, I was over sleeping badly for work at least once a month. The worst was the first time that happened. I'm supposed to be at work at 7:30am each morning. One morning, I didn't even wake up until 10:45am. I had not only slept through my alarm snoozing for over an hour, but I slept through my boss calling my house 3 times that morning, leaving 3 messages, one addressed to my then bf all worried saying I hadn't made it into work and wanted to make sure I wasn't dead on the road somewhere. I finally rolled into work after 11am. I've never felt more stupid than to admit to my boss that I had over slept. Fortunately she was understanding. The other times, I over slept by 1-2 hours. By the third time, I discovered a $50 gift certificate to Wal-Mart in my mailbox at work. I took that as a hint and bought a new alarm clock plus a battery operated one in case the power went out.

I now make it a habit to ask my fiance to wake me up before he heads out the door.

[Yalum]

My solution was to find employment with liberal flextime...

My alarm clock pisses me off though, because it shuts off after an hour, even if you've been hitting snooze for that hour. Very annoying. Nothing sounds better to a sleep-clogged mind than "if I hit this twice more it'll leave me alone until noon."

[EZ_Gyorg]

If your not getting 8 full hours, your not sleeping enough. I'm not saying you can't live on less, but 8 is the rough minimum to wake up fresh. Also, once you get into a rythm your body will help you. If you go to bed at roughly the same time, (+-30min consistantly), and wake up at exactly the same time and are getting enough sleep you'll pop right up.

That said, cut the snooze button off. There isn't any use for it.

[EZ_Bondori Zafiro]

Quote:That said, cut the snooze button off. There isn't any use for it.

YOU sir, are NOT taking away my 15 minutes of sleep time!

[Greldek]

Hook up some wires and stuffs to your alarm clock, so that when you hit snooze or off.. you get shocked!
That should wake you up.
~

[Kaielen]

Alarm Clock

There was a bed that would slowly raise also, eventually making it to where you slid out of bed over the course of 10 minutes or so. Then after you were on the floor, you were unable to reset the bed for an entire hour. I can't find the link to that one, though. Those crazy British invented it.

[EZ_Swipey]

I overslept for a final once. I managed to rush with only 5 minutes left Lucky for me the professor had nothing to do for the next 2 hours and, in his infinite kindness, allowed me to use those 2 hours to take the test.

My suggestion for solving the sleep-through/unconsious snooze manipulation is to get a clock radio (since it has a volume control that you can set to "painfully loud") tune it to something really annoying, set it for the latest time you can possibly get up, and put it out of arms reach of the bed.

[Meddik]

I don't know where I saw it at, but they make one alarm clock with a built in light. It starts off quietly with no light, and over the course of about 5-10 minutes, goes gradually to full volume and a bright light.

Its similar to the approach I use. My wife gets up before me, and I have her go ahead and make her usual noise, turn on the TV, etc. etc. I gradually wake up. If its just a sudden noise like a full blast alarm clock,it won't do squat for me. I can literally get up, go into the bathroom and turn off the clock, and climb back into bed without realizing that I did it. Trojan Horseshoes

[EZ_Myrkskog]

I am having the exact same problem lately. I've slept in twice this week. This time i'm going to be late too


Whenever I go to bed tired, I wake up tired. If I go to bed when i'm pretty much awake, I can get up fine.

[EZ_Gyorg]

Hey, if you want 15min more sleep, set your clock 15min later!

[EZ_Aldarion Shard]

snooze buttons are more evil than Reality TV, boy bands, and the RIAA rolled into one, and equally useless.
Veda Kai'Rin

[EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper]

I'm a terribly heavy sleeper. I have 2 alarm clocks now. One that's a plug in CD/radio alarm clock and one that's battery operated. Both have snooze buttons and I managed to sleep through BOTH of them while snoozing both of them for over an hour in my drowsy state.

[Elerion]

Last year my boss (!) bought me a brand new alarm clock to go with the two I had already. It was so noisy it had me up with a heart attack every morning at 8. But then gradually, my body adjusted to the sound, and after about 2 months I could sleep through it ringing constantly for 30 minutes without even waking up.

Now, I use my cell phone (with snooze) to ring for about 10 minutes (two snoozes) before the previously mentioned monster starts from across the room. That usually gets me up. If I'm really tired though, I just stick my head under the pillow and keep sleeping

[Dragynphyre]

I cycle through alarm clocks from time to time, so I don't get used to the sound -

and dangit if someone didn't already take my idea for having a light get gradually brighter and brighter to wake you up - I have real problems getting up on cloudy days when the sun isn't coming in through my eastern exposure bedroom windows. (Back In Black)
Delissandra Splitshadow - Veteran Deceiver of the Circle of Unseen Hands
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Cause I'm back on the track
And I'm beatin' the flack
Nobody's gonna get me on another rap

[EZ_Zyzzyx]

Ah yes, the evil of snooze buttons. I am still prey to that damn thing. I've got an air mattress on the floor, takes a bit of effort to crawl out and stand up. Yet with my alarm clock on the other side of the room, I can get up, walk over, hit snooze, and go back to bed. Repeat every 9 minutes for up to 2 hours. Usually only 45 minutes or so.


Curious bit is, I can have the most wacko dreams during those 9 minute snoozes. Almost makes it worthwhile.

[Elerion]

Speaking of dreams, last night I
1. was in a shooting episode, where a friend of mine got shot 7 times (without dying, it just hurt as hell), and I offered to "carry the shots for him", so the shots magically transferred to me and so I walked around with 7 bullets in me for a few hours (which hurt as hell too)
2. had sex with two 17 year old girls (!) - at the same time
3. had my balls bitten off (seriously, OFF) by a dog
4. shot said dog twice in the face with a bigass magnum I was carrying for some reason, which was sorta a shame cause it belonged to my friendly neighbour
5. ate a whole pack of cigs, with cardboard and all, in a bet


I really have to find out what I ate that evening so I can eat it again.

[EZ_Jasminne]

this is how i do it:

- set alarm #1 an hour before i need to get up
- set alarm #2 for the right time
- when alarm #1 rings, hit snooze as needed

by the time alarm #2 rings i am more than halfway awake.

no more oversleeping!

[EZ_Dikamin Shadowassasin]

I got a idea somehow make it so your bed shocks you when you alarm goes off. Make the shocker adjustable for even the most stubborn sleepers.

The more you hit snooze the stronger it shocks you. Dikamin Retired
Dwarven Rogue of the 58th season
Rodcet Nife

[notwen]

Quote:
this is how i do it:

- set alarm #1 an hour before i need to get up
- set alarm #2 for the right time
- when alarm #1 rings, hit snooze as needed

by the time alarm #2 rings i am more than halfway awake.


That is essentially the way I had it set up, but both alarms were on the same device. So if I sleepily hit the off button,... yeap, turned the second one off too, before it ever went off.

Bought the new alarm clock and stuck it under the bed, to go off at a last minute at which I must get up. Under the bed, it'll be a real bitch to get to, shouldn't be any reason I can't wake up with that if the first two fail....

Edit: Holy wierd quote tag errors... Edited by: notwen at: 9/20/03 5:46 am

[EZ_Synrax]

Does everyone rely so heavily on their alarm clocks?

I open my window and shades before going to bed. A combination of the alarm clock with the morning sun blinding down on my face, birds and bugs chirping nonstop, and the cold frigid air helps wake me up.

[EZ_Swipey]

I generally dont rely on my alarmclock at all anymore. I started working graveyard shift about 18 months ago. I sleep in the morning when my friends are working, get up and be social in the evening, then go to work in the wee hours.

[notwen]

Quote:I open my window and shades before going to bed. A combination of the alarm clock with the morning sun blinding down on my face, birds and bugs chirping nonstop, and the cold frigid air helps wake me up.

I'd never get to sleep in the first place like that, except in the odd few months of perfect weather, and even then it's doubtful. Plus I get up well before the sun rises, so that wouldn't be any help either...

[EZ_Kinare]

The next-door neighbor's yapper dog does it for me ever time...

/kill

[EZ_Aldarion Shard]

Quote:Does everyone rely so heavily on their alarm clocks?

To be honest, no. And I attribute it entirely to my boycott of snooze buttons.

These days, I wake up as my alarm is *about* to go off. No light in my face, no neighbors dog barking... my brain just somehow knew it had to get up at 6, so when the clock hits 5:59 it wakes me up. The only theory I can come up with as to how a non-morning person like myself could have come to this point is years of alarm clock training... as soon as the thing goes off, I get out of bed and into the shower.

I believe that using snooze buttons short circuits this training pattern, and getting up immediately reinforces it. Veda Kai'Rin

[Trolo]

Quote:Just dont get into the bad habit im in, where you set the alarm clock 1 hour before you have to get up and just hit the snooze 20 times.

Usually by the time its actually time to get up im pretty awake ;P

Same thing I do. Really helps me wake up when I have to wake up 10 times in one morning.

[Glip the Gnome]

Stinks to be all you guys :P

I'm a really light sleeper. People just walking on the carpet into my room will wake me up everytime.

I tend to have to get up at a lot of different times throughout the week though, so I just use my cellphone. Never had a problem with it

[EZ_Synrax]

Quote:These days, I wake up as my alarm is *about* to go off. No light in my face, no neighbors dog barking... my brain just somehow knew it had to get up at 6, so when the clock hits 5:59 it wakes me up.

Strange because I do that too. Waking up 1 minute just before the alarm goes off is very uncanny.

[EZ_Urusai]

If im sleeping in my own room with the door locked I can sleep until 1 or so if I felt like it. But if im sleeping somewhere else I tend to wake up on my own about 7am.

I used to be teased for sleeping in as well as waking up so early. Now its just for the early since one of them tends to sleep to 3 on days we wanted to start doing things at 10. Meanwhile ive been on his playstation since 7.

Oh, And thats only the weekends I wake up at 7, even if we didnt go to sleep until 5am. On the weekdays I dont really wake up until 10 even though im at work at 9 (if I dont lay in bed to long) Lucklly however work dosn't care a whole lot as long as I get everything done and put in 40 hours. Ah, the joys of being a programmer.

[EZ_Nyssa Rainwhisper]

Quote:Stinks to be all you guys :P

I'm a really light sleeper. People just walking on the carpet into my room will wake me up everytime.

Actually, it stinks to be you. Just how the hell do you get a good night's sleep when you wake up to people flushing the toilet? Being such a light sleeper just makes you prone to people's cruelty.

[Glip the Gnome]

I only live with one other person, and I'm always the last one up. Other people getting up usually wakes me up though, it comes in handy though, for example:

Whenever Aidden is visiting he'll always leave really early in the morning, and he tries to get up and sneak out without waking me up and it hasn't worked so far... so the mere fact that I'm foiling Aidden's plans makes it a good thing

[Elerion]

Quote:Whenever Aidden is visiting he'll always leave really early in the morning, and he tries to get up and sneak out without waking me up and it hasn't worked so far...

That is soooooo disturbing

[deuce]

I'm one of the people that just wake up at the same time everyday. No matter what time I go to sleep I wake up at 6:30 every day. Which kinda sucks on the weekend if I stay up till 1am. And only get 5 and a half hours of sleep. But that just means to take a nap! And naps on weekends are gooood.

Also,

Quote:Whenever Aidden is visiting he'll always leave really early in the morning, and he tries to get up and sneak out without waking me up and it hasn't worked so far... so the mere fact that I'm foiling Aidden's plans makes it a good thing

There's quite a few jokes for this, but i'll just say that if Aidden shacks up with you more then once you'd think he'd be polite and you know make you breakfast or something, Don't you just feel used glip? I didn't know aidden had a thing for gnomes

[EZ_EQ Ruges]

I travel alot so my tme zone constantly changes. and I take long vacations where I get into the habit of staying up till 5am and sleeping in till 3pm, or there abouts. My work lets my wake up time vary from 6am-11am depending on the days happenings. Although when I have to get up at 6am the days will be hard and somtimes like to take a nap latter in the afternoon. So my body does not know when to sleep or wake up. I have problems falling asleep and have problems waking up.

I use an alarm called a screaming meanie, you set it by how many hours you want to sleep, and it has 2 sound settings. the lower one sounds like a smoke alarm and the louder one sounds well much louder then a smoke alarm. in order to shut it off you have to hit these buttons in just the right order.

Worked really well for the longest while, but as the same with anything else you will get use to the sound. I have sleeped over an hour with that sound going off. I have shut it off in my sleep.

I have tried putting it across the room. with works most of the time. but If I know it is not imparitive that I get up. I will just turn it off and crawl back into my sweet sweet bed. and wait to fully wake up. Which in most casses, I just fall back asleep. Kicking myself in the butt when I do wake up. Ruges Barbarian Overlord of HoD

[EZ_NegBB]

Big bell type alarm clocks are the way to go. A friend of mine had them with the "bells" TWO inches large. Scared the @#$*^@ out of me.

[Jazya]

Quote:Big bell type alarm clocks are the way to go. A friend of mine had them with the "bells" TWO inches large. Scared the @#$*^@ out of me. I completely and wholeheartedly agree. You NEVER get used to those rings. Your Sister in Arms,

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[EZ_Rekna]

Go to bed earlier.... if you have to be at work by 8 go to bed by 10.