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It probably wasn’t intentional, but back when I had an actual physical alarm clock it made this electronic-buzz-static sort of sound just before the actual alarm started beeping. I got pretty good at hitting the snooze before the alarm went off
Mine does a whirring noise from starting up the CD player so that seems to work (the CD is peaceful lullaby music, the alarm is the CD cranked up to 13)
I have been waking up to peaceful sounds and songs since early aughts and never looked back. Just reading this brings shivers - being jarred awake with those noises is juuuust not for me.
I’m a huge fan of lights that simulate the sunrise. They make me wake up fully and comfortably. The absolute perfect way to start my day. Unfortunately it works equally well on my wife who goes to bed and wakes up several hours after I do and hates that thing. Eventually I’m likely to win on this fight, but until I’m too deaf for alarms or she and I have to wake up at the same time, I suck it up and accept that I love her more than a comfortable start to my day.
Peaceful sounds unfortunately don’t wake me
how do/did you deal with the fear that you’d just sleep through the alarm?
You could always have a proper alarm a few minutes later as a fallback…
that’s a really good idea. a gentle wake alarm, followed by a “FUCKING WAKE UP” alarm; that way you can try to wake peacefully and if that fails get jolted awake.
fat lot of that does me now that I’ve had a child, but I wondered how that could have worked.
My alarm is, “song that plays when you encounter a coelacanth.”
My smartwatch’s vibration alarm goes off five minutes before my phone does, usually it’s enough to wake me and I disable the phone’s alarm (if it’s close to the alarm time I have the option to bypass it for today)
Put Painkiller by Judas as the third song.
My brother used Sold Me by Seether while we were growing up. He hooked it up to a stereo and would try to get up and turn it off before the heavy guitars kick in and wake up the whole house. That’s only 8 seconds. It never really worked and of course I had to share the room with him
well, I don’t just immediately wake up to sound, it’s sort of gradual.
I can tell how long it’s been going on by where it’s at but not waking is not an issue.
100%. Gentle increment is the one. Obnoxious loud noises first thing just put me in a bad mood.
can you not change the alarm sound on an iPhone?
Yeah, you can. I don’t understand this post.
Why would you want your alarm to be less effective?
Don’t want to start my day off with anger at an annoying sound. Waking up me might just dismiss that instead of snoozing it in annoyance.
Yeah, I had to set my alarm to force me to scan a QR code on my coffee maker to snooze, because barely awake me got too good at solving math problems. There’s no way I’d be waking up if the music was pleasant.
I made my alarm a lullaby to calm myself down.
Reminds me of this funny video exaggerating the difference between default Android and iPhone alarms:
I have no idea how I manage to wake up 1 to 20 minutes before my alarm sometimes.
What do you mean I woke up at 05:59? Have I been counting without knowing it??
The weird thing is that if I don’t set the alarm, I’ll wake up 30 or so minutes after it would’ve went off… So I usually set alarms and stop them before they go off.
Idk what the iPhone one in particular sounds like, but after growing to hate alarm sounds (and sleeping through a few less obnoxious ones) I ended up moving to a system that turns the lights on automatically at a certain time (at a lower brightness). That seems a bit less unpleasant even if getting woken up is never fun
Try Android lol
This is what got me past using alarms. Wake up before the alarm enough times and you just stop setting them.
And hear I use an air raid/tornado siren as my alarm noise
As do I! Although as a siren enthusiast I’m completely desensitized to the sound and have slept through it before lmao. I own a functional 3D printed 1/3 scale model of the siren I use for my alarm, maybe I should use that instead? xD
wait - yours makes a noise?
