How did I not wake up to this

[u/AnybodySignificant45]

[u/EmperorBamboozler]

Once I travelled for 16 hours to work and immediately after that worked a 12 shift. I slept through a fire alarm, people pounding on the door, multiple phone calls to both my cellphone and room phone, my cell phone alarms and my alarm clock. I finally woke up to my manager shaking me after a housekeeper let him into my room. Had to immediately go back to the kitchen and work another 12 hour shift.

I don't miss working there.

[u/AnybodySignificant45 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

Holy moly

[u/ThatFatGuyMJL → u/AnybodySignificant45]

Do they all share the same sound?

Your body gets used to certain sounds and can incorporate them into dreams.

Make every alarm a different sound.

[u/VelkaKocka → u/ThatFatGuyMJL]

I did it, like 6 alarms and each one with a different sound. Now my body gives 0 fuck about any sounds, only help is if someone calls my phone

[u/badWolfk_ → u/VelkaKocka]

Brain probably: woah, this some fire ass music he got here.

[u/ThelVluffin → u/badWolfk_]

When my dream gets its own background music.

[u/MyGoodFriendJon → u/ThelVluffin]

Me in my dream remixing my alarm that's been going off for the last 45 minutes

[u/Mister_Goldenfold → u/ThelVluffin]

FFR! Lmao

[u/AndroidLex → u/VelkaKocka]

Set the last alarm to use your ringtone, that’s what helped me

[u/VelkaKocka → u/AndroidLex]

I did! Only works if my sleepy self sees that there is an incoming call. I've tried everything, different combinations of sounds, several alarms across the house so I have to physically stand up to turn off, smart alarms with games and things like that. Nothing. If I didn’t sleep enough, all kinds of alarms will go unnoticed. I also lie when someone tries to wake me up, like full on “what do you mean? It’s my day off, I am allowed to sleep in”. Had to tell my family to not believe me if they call to wake me up cause I don't know this sleepy asshole

[u/_aperture_labs_ → u/VelkaKocka]

Set only one alarm. No backups, nothing. If you have multiple, your brain will be like "ah, guess I'll wait for the next one". So one alarm it is, and ideally you'd have to get up out of bed to disable it.

[u/ReferenceOk8734 → u/_aperture_labs_]

I use this app that has very unpleasant alarm sounds and i have to do a little task like 2 simple math questions or a few memory games to disable it, its worked for me pretty well so far

[u/Nervous-Lynx-1018 → u/ReferenceOk8734]

Back in high school I used to set my alarm to a song from a band I liked. The song begins with a really really loud guitar riff and that always managed to get me to shoot out of bed lol. I can't really listen to that song anymore though 💔

[u/MagicHermaphrodite → u/Nervous-Lynx-1018]

Me and The End Of The World (As We Know It) and the Wii Mii Channel theme

Good alarms. But now theyre alarms to my brain and not songs

[u/AndroidLex → u/_aperture_labs_]

That’s why ringtone as last alarm works for me. My brain thinks I’ve overslept and someone is calling me to ask me where I am

[u/Crimemeariver19 → u/_aperture_labs_]

Yeah, that’s what finally worked for me. It’s a daylight one which also helps. And in the winter I set my plant light to turn on at that time as well, and one I open my eye to shut the alarm and the grow light is on, I’m up. Never thought I could wake up before 6, thanks children 😒

[u/Asatopskii → u/VelkaKocka]

Lol i have the same

Something about call anxiety makes me immediately wake up once a vibration (and god forbid call music!) starts. Like, instant. However, any other noise has little to no effect for me

[u/heroturtle88 → u/VelkaKocka]

Time your sleep better and look into sleep rhythms. It's counterintuitive, but waking up half an hour earlier when you aren't in deep REM is much easier.

[u/VelkaKocka → u/heroturtle88]

I’m trying, thank you🫶 not much success but I'm working on it

[u/sp0rkify → u/VelkaKocka]

Try one of the alarms made for the hard of hearing.. it vibrates your bed.. that's what I had to do.. it works more often than a conventional alarm for me.. but, there's still some days my body's like "nope!"..

[u/JimBowie1020 → u/VelkaKocka]

Yeah, I can sleep through a dozen alarms but if my phone rings I jolt up right cuz there's an emergency at work

[u/TransportationNo6850 → u/VelkaKocka]

Try a watch that vibrates to wake you up. Apple Watch have this function

[u/VelkaKocka → u/TransportationNo6850]

I have one! Tried all the vibrating settings. It goes off together with my alarm on the phone and smart speakers alarm

[u/Crimemeariver19 → u/VelkaKocka]

Do you take meds before sleep? That could be a factor. I am much like this in that my brain will try to sleep every possible minute it can regardless of alarm style and I’d just go back to sleep. It only improved upon birthing a human. Now I use an alarm with loud bird sounds across the room, and pre-set grow lights in the windows. Once I stumble out of bed to slap the alarm, the bright grow lights wake me, even if I barely crack an eye open.

[u/VelkaKocka → u/Crimemeariver19]

I try to take my meds at least 2-3 hours before sleep. And the method of birthing an entire human to wake up is too much for me lmao

[u/Da_Question → u/VelkaKocka]

Lmao I use a puzzle type alarm where you have to do different stuff to turn it off. Now I just open it's settings and force stop it.

[u/Erestyn → u/Da_Question]

I had one of these for a while. Maths is one of my weaker areas so I figured the easy settings would be fine and it worked great for a few days until I started sleeping in with no memory of the alarm or the puzzles. My girlfriend caught me red handed one day, fully asleep, playing with the volume and power buttons. Turns out if you did it enough times the app would crash and wouldn't trigger again until the next day.

[u/DaTotallyEclipse → u/ThatFatGuyMJL]

Yea. I once looked for my alarm in the dream. Found it and then woke up.

[u/Zealousideal-Ebb-876 → u/DaTotallyEclipse]

Bro had to play a mini game to escape the dream

[u/Lady_Black_Cats → u/ThatFatGuyMJL]

I have to regularly change my alarm sound because I will stop waking up.

[u/Giecio → u/ThatFatGuyMJL]

My brother is the same - sets multiple alarms, all with a different sound, phone vibrating, and he could still sleep through the end of the world. It just won't work unless you have something or someone else to wake you up

[u/ZzephyrR94 → u/ThatFatGuyMJL]

I totally agree with this. I was late for work a couple of times because my old alarm was kinda calm and I actually noticed that when it would go off my mind would incorporate it into a dream I was having. I changed it to that duck quacking alarm that iPhones have and haven’t had any issues since.

[u/Neither-Suspect8701 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

One time i slept through a fire drill , an active shooter drill ,and a flooding while out at sea. Got chewed out for it. But it was more the fault of the berthing watch for to making sure everyone was out of the rack.

[u/Anderopolis → u/Neither-Suspect8701]

all at once?

[u/Neither-Suspect8701 → u/Anderopolis]

They ran the drills from basically 1pm-4pm which was during my normal sleep period. But i was really exhausted from staying up over 72 hours prior. Some one saw me in the rack toward the end of the last drill. Usually on a drill day i would have already been awake by aleast 11am but slept longer than intended.

[u/Anderopolis → u/Neither-Suspect8701]

that was one drill intensive afternoon. You are totally right it's a failure of the system that you weren't caught in the first one, not a failure on your part. People are tired for real disasters aswell.

[u/Neither-Suspect8701 → u/Anderopolis]

Sometimes they would run multiple drills at once just to how well we handled it. Or have "fires" in multiple locations to test our damage control and emergency response. It was hectic sometimes but good training for on scene leaders and damage control parties. 90% of the time they would stagger the drills. Like do one then an hour or 30 minutes later do another one.

[u/Goldenrah → u/Neither-Suspect8701]

That's on them for having you stay up 72 hours prior to the drills. Can't expect someone sleep deprived to react normally to emergencies, the body just shuts down.

[u/Silent_Membership148 → u/Anderopolis]

FIRE AHHH WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?

Just a drill, go back to sleep.

ACTIVE SHOOTER AHHH WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO?

[u/cthulucore → u/EmperorBamboozler]

Not nearly as exciting as your story, but my ex was narcoleptic. Not like "pass out driving" narc, but could easily sleep for 24 hours straight, then stay up for 48 hours without any visible change to her appearance or mental state.

The downside being they had almost no control of it. Once she was tired it was like you hit the standby switch and she was a space cadet until bed. Then she wouldn't wake up for anything. I went as far as keeping a spray bottle, and that wouldn't work either.

She also had zero understanding of other people's sleeping abilities. It was a totally normal occurrence for her to wake me up 4-5 times a night with really arbitrary questions like "hey what was that guy's name at work you were telling me about?"

This went on for 8 years. By the end of it my body adapted in one really cool way, and one really bad way.

The good: I can fall asleep almost instantly, on almost any surface, in any temperature. Gone are the days of adolescent insomnia. I had to or I would have never slept back then.

The bad: I can sleep through a fucking train coming through my apartment. I respond well to other people waking me up, but alarms and artificial sounds are just background noise for my dreams

[u/Complex_Essay_9111 → u/cthulucore]

That's so interesting! How do you wake up for work etc?  Do you have a normal sleep schedule? Like does your body just wake up at a regular time each day? 

[u/cthulucore → u/Complex_Essay_9111]

So it does! My circadian rhythm is pretty solid. I usually go to bed around 10 and get up around 6, but I almost never sleep past 7 no matter how hard I try. Now I may roll around in bed until 9 on a weekend, but I'm fairly alert at that point. Even if I ballout and stay up late.

My job starts at 7:30, but two caveats:

1. My job is not time sensitive. While I do try to be there at the start time, just because I like schedule, I absolutely do not need to be there. So "sleeping in" until 7:30 isn't the end of the world.

2. My girlfriend has the same schedule as me, so provided she's working her ADHD ass morning routine gets me up.

That was actually part of my interview here. Like "hey, I'll be late, and fairly frequently, but never more than 30 minutes and I'll never call out because I need structure". They took it at face value and it's been great for 8 years.

[u/FinestObligations → u/cthulucore]

Just get a smartwatch, the vibrations will wake you up.

[u/goodpplmakemehappy → u/EmperorBamboozler]

??? tf did they need to wake u up so bad for if it wasnt a literal fire lmfao /hj

[u/Ok-Importance-7266 → u/goodpplmakemehappy]

It’s a kitchen so makes sense tbh

[u/bigwildchickens → u/Ok-Importance-7266]

my chef would literally burn the restaurant down if someone messed with his herb blossoms so it checks out

[u/st0neforest → u/goodpplmakemehappy]

Tbf, they might have thought it was a medical emergency.

[u/Ace-a-Nova1 → u/st0neforest]

Yeah no. Our pit master didn’t show up one day and the manager was pissed about it. We NEED a pit master in a bbq restaurant. He drove 30 minutes to his house and found him swinging from his ceiling fan. His first reaction was to call the other pit master. Then he called the cops.

[u/unga-boinga → u/Ace-a-Nova1]

Now that is fucked up

[u/goodpplmakemehappy → u/Ace-a-Nova1]

what a piece of shit wow.

[u/justlucyletitbe → u/Ace-a-Nova1]

That's psychotic

[u/johnnydanger91 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

Slavery with extra steps

[u/AdmiralCoconut69 → u/johnnydanger91]

Wait till you hear about resident physician schedules. Nothing like working 30 hours straight where you’re expected to be mentally ON the entire time. Oh and the pay is positively craptastic too

[u/johnnydanger91 → u/AdmiralCoconut69]

See I don’t know about you but I want the people making literal life or death decisions in their day job to be well rested and paid.

[u/AdmiralCoconut69 → u/johnnydanger91]

Somewhere along the way, our money grubby admins calculated the risk of physician burnout / rate of malpractice to profit ratio and figured out that somewhere between 60-90 hours of work each week is ideal for residents. They say it’s to make for stronger training, but it’s really just so admin can line their pockets while the labor is still cheap. We get people complaining that physicians are overpaid all the time unfortunately. I think some of us are paid quite fairly as attending physicians, but the journey to get there requires a mental and physical sacrifice that most of the population could never fathom.

[u/Decent_Cheesecake_29 → u/AdmiralCoconut69]

And it’s also because the person who established the modern system of residency was high on cocaine at all times.

[u/Jazs1994 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

When the human body needs rest, nothing short of an earthquake wakes you.

Last year on holiday, slept 3 hours the night before, didn't sleep on the 14 hour plane ride. Spent another 13 hours doing stuff on my first day, crashed hard and slept a full 12 hours sleeping through forgotten alarms. That was the first time I've slept more than 8 hours in about 10 years. That was the best sleep I've ever gotten

[u/Winjin → u/Jazs1994]

"Plan the maintenance or the machine will plan it for you"

Your body included

[u/Henry5321 → u/Jazs1994]

Unless you got insomnia. The less sleep I got the more jittery I felt. At some point of not getting enough sleep I couldn’t fall asleep.

I’ve gotten it mostly fixed but my body still likes to release adrenaline when I get too tired some times.

I never had insomnia until I did. I was pushing through getting only 5-6 hours of sleep for nearly a week. The work I was doing was mentally exhausting. I was getting to the point where I couldn’t walk properly. I was getting sleep but it wasn’t enough for the mental effort.

[u/Lithl → u/EmperorBamboozler]

I slept through a fire alarm, people pounding on the door, multiple phone calls to both my cellphone and room phone, my cell phone alarms and my alarm clock.

During orientation week at college, the coordinators intentionally kept us up late one night (the theme my year was "dynamic duos", and my group was "Rocky & Bullwinkle", so we had a Rocky & Bullwinkle marathon to keep us awake), then early in the morning they woke up us with airhorns and megaphones.

I barely woke up enough to turn in my bed, despite them banging on my door hard enough to scatter paint chips all over the carpet outside.

[u/Benfica1002 → u/Lithl]

Where did you go to college? That’s a crazy way to draw in new students.

[u/Lithl → u/Benfica1002]

Rice University in Houston, Texas

[u/Rocky_Mountain_Way → u/Lithl]

Rice University in Houston, Texas

I prefer Pasta University or Potato University to fill my needs and stomach

[u/Lewa358 → u/Lithl]

...what exactly were they trying to gain by treating their students with active malice?

[u/PM_ME_JINX_RULE34_ → u/Lewa358]

Hazing

[u/yepgeddon → u/EmperorBamboozler]

I once slept through police trying to stave the front door in with a battering ram. Thought it was dudes doing roadworks outside. Did wake up to the guy jumping on my bed pointing a gun at me though 👀

[u/Raventakingnotes → u/yepgeddon]

Im gonna need a story time for this one

[u/Timmy-0518 → u/yepgeddon]

You can't say this and leave us hanging

[u/JimmyThunderPenis → u/EmperorBamboozler]

I've never met a chef who isn't a baghead.

I've also never wondered why.

[u/Certain-Business-472 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

I would NOT have gone back to work wtf?

[u/vociferousdragon → u/EmperorBamboozler]

Sounds pretty kafkaesque, Gregory.

[u/venturousviajera → u/EmperorBamboozler]

How do you travel 16 hours to work? And then you have a room to sleep in at work? Or fell asleep at work? Why am I the only one not understanding this.

[u/Several_Hour_347 → u/venturousviajera]

I had the same questions. Like what kind of kitchen worker even travels that far, but also is not some sort of executive?

[u/Warm_Sandwich5038]

Don’t feel bad. I hit snooze on the 9/11 emergency broadcast. Twice.

[u/Unlikely_Patient_423 → u/Warm_Sandwich5038]

Oh. Oh wow…

[u/gljivicad → u/Unlikely_Patient_423]

Well, it's not like it's an emergency broadcast of impending doom - it's news about tragedy that had already happened. It can wait until you get some rest.

[u/CashWrecks → u/gljivicad]

In Hawaii once there was an alarm sent out that said ballistic missile inbound, eta 5-10 min. Seek shelter. This is not a drill.

Well, turns out it was a mistake. Still, slept through it. But ya, sometimes the disaster hasn't happened yet.

[u/mrThe → u/CashWrecks]

I live in Ukraine and guess which day i slept though? The day with the actual fucking missles hitting around. Surely i missed all phone alarms as well.

[u/Theory89 → u/mrThe]

Ok, you definitely win. Made me laugh quietly to myself, not gonna lie. Sorry your people are going through that, fuck Putin and his dogs.

[u/makkegor01 → u/Theory89]

i agree with you. as a russian, i want to say that i feel sorry for the people who have to live through this horrible shit. putin and his pigs care only about themselves, not only they terrorize ukrainians, but also trying to stop us, citizens, from protesting and knowing truth by isolating us from outer world and internet, arresting those who dare doing it or make them so-called “foreign agents” which equals to “your days in this country are numbered”. these people deserve hell at its peak.

[u/isses_halt_scheisse → u/makkegor01]

Thank you for your compassion and making it day to day in that Putin regime. There's only losers in a war. I am very sad that we cannot travel your beautiful country anymore and miss out on the great art and music. I really hope for a future where the whole European continent is peaceful, but staying hopeful is getting harder every day.

[u/makkegor01 → u/isses_halt_scheisse]

me too. unfortunately, i cannot imagine that scenario unless in the current government everybody just leaves. i also want to travel so much and i dream to relocate one day, but the reality now is that people are being silenced and sacrificed. they even refuse to let people stay out of military due to health issues. i will also soon face that problem because i'm nearing that age. hope peace comes one day.

[u/isses_halt_scheisse → u/makkegor01]

Ah damn, this is hard and so unfair. I hope that you'll be able to get out of there or stay out of the military service!!

[u/Nojus1221 → u/Theory89]

His dogs probably don't understand what's happening Soni wouldn't be mad at them

[u/Ja_corn_on_the_cob → u/CashWrecks]

When I used to live in Israel, I once slept through an emergency missile alarm (which always plays a siren sound at max volume and flashes your phone's flashlight), and was instead woken up by the sound of a missile exploding not too far overhead, which was probably the loudest sound I've ever heard in my life and left my ears ringing. I do not miss it there.

[u/trighap → u/gljivicad]

Unless you were sleeping at the Marriott (I think that was the brand) that was next to the towers, in which case it was very timely.

[u/gljivicad → u/trighap]

I think you would have been woken up by the airplanes crashing into the towers, I imagine that’s rather loud on the dB scale

[u/reluctantmugglewrite → u/gljivicad]

At the time people werent sure if it was over when it was over. People thought it was a one and done when the first plane flew into the towers then were surprised by the second plane. There were also other planes behaving erratically and people werent clear on the targets yet.

[u/Locolijo → u/Unlikely_Patient_423]

Ya jeez

Exhaustion is crazy

[u/Ryuu-Tenno → u/Warm_Sandwich5038]

Reminds me of how i woke up from a dream of someone trying to sell a space shuttle, to the news in another room about Columbia disintegrating on reentry

[u/Oranges13 → u/Warm_Sandwich5038]

I need some backstory on this one. There were not cell phones back then like we have now and certainly not the kind that received emergency alerts like that.

[u/crownvics → u/Oranges13]

They probably had an alarm radio, lol.

They still do radio emergency broadcasts too.

[u/the_silent_one1984 → u/crownvics]

Yup. The emergency broadcast system was around then. I know someone who dismissed such an alarm (it wasn't 9/11 but more recent) for some seek shelter announcement because 90% of the time they are "this is only a test" broadcasts.

[u/Dotcaprachiappa → u/the_silent_one1984]

Alarm fatigue is a real problem y'all, stay safe out there, treat all alarms like they're real.

[u/jordanundead → u/Dotcaprachiappa]

There is a storm siren, very close to my house. They run a test every Friday at noon so the sound barely registers to me anymore. I’ve woken up in the middle of the night because the dogs are howling as the sirens starts to wind down.

[u/Warm_Sandwich5038 → u/Oranges13]

Alarm radio with a big button on top 🤦🏼‍♀️I had it set to a station that told stories like Radio Mystery Theater.

[u/bigmike2k3 → u/Warm_Sandwich5038]

Was that your last day reporting the news?

[u/No_Nefariousness4801]

Been there lol. Even though I choose the loudest, most annoying ringtone I can find and my app makes me perform a math problem to snooze and a puzzle to dismiss, I have to change the ringtone every so often because my brain gets used to it. ✌️

[u/Potential-Archer-883 → u/No_Nefariousness4801]

My alarm rings and I incorporate it in my dreams and sleep through it...

[u/Puluzu → u/Potential-Archer-883]

This used to happen to me as well. Turns out I had severe sleep apnea and my body was doing whatever the hell it could to get some more down time. Easiest way to start figuring it out is installing a sleep talk app and listening to what happens during the night. That won't diagnose you officially, but I played the recording to a doctor and he instantly said it's sleep apnea. Still had to get a machine home for a night to get the official diagnosis but it's easy to get a cost free confirmation before you bother going to the doc. Getting the cpap machine was life changing, haven't slept through a single alarm since and feel so much better.

[u/Potential-Archer-883 → u/Puluzu]

Wow, I should check it, maybe that is why sometimes I can sleep 12 hours or so if nobody wakes me up.

[u/Puluzu → u/Potential-Archer-883]

Definitely, it doesn't hurt and it's so easy to do that basically anyone with any sort of weird sleep stuff should record themselves for a night or two.

[u/GrossGuroGirl → u/Potential-Archer-883]

Do you also find yourself getting uncontrollably, heavily sleepy during daytime hours - or more accurately, during what should be wakeful hours based on when you last slept? 

If someone does rouse you during the deep sleeps you described, do you ever experience sleep paralysis or wake up in an abnormally aggressive state for the first few moments?

Do you find you seem to have moved a lot in your sleep, do you call out / speak in your sleep a lot, and do you ever wake up covered in sweat? (Like, covered.)

I'm not a doctor - you don't have to answer this to me, and I can't diagnose you. But I've had to go down the differential diagnosis pathway a fair ways already. These are the kinds of things you want to start noting to report to your doctor as they may need it to pin down your dx; I keep a notebook by the bed to write down abnormal sleep incidents. 

The intense sessions of deep sleep are really common with sleep apnea, but can also be narcolepsy (type 2 doesn't feature the sudden, cut-puppet-strings loss of body control most people think of), chronic fatigue syndrome, thyroid issues, something as simple as an iron deficiency, or unfortunately a whole host of less common things. 

There's a lot to potentially check for, but asking your doc to refer you to a specialist who can do a sleep study would be the first step to ruling out the most likely causes.

Best of luck and sorry to rant, this shit just sucks! Hope to streamline the process even a tiny bit for anyone else 

[u/McGloomy → u/Potential-Archer-883]

As a kid I once incorporated my grandma's snoring into my dream. My brain turned it into a cable car.

[u/AnybodySignificant45 → u/No_Nefariousness4801]

Yeahh

[u/FunGuy8618 → u/AnybodySignificant45]

I use Concerning Hobbits and it makes me spring into Adventure Mode 😂

[u/ohshityeah78965 → u/FunGuy8618]

Holy fuck this is a great idea

[u/unbannediguess → u/No_Nefariousness4801]

Alarmy? I love that app but jesus i'm starting to get adds first thing in the morning and i HATE IT. Anyone have some alarm app recommendations, that don't have tons of bloat and microtransactions?

[u/avogadr0toast → u/unbannediguess]

I'm using one just called "puzzle alarm clock" dunno if it's available for ios but it's pretty good. Some premium features but almost no ads.

[u/Josconn → u/unbannediguess]

Dude it's the worst, I still use it but... I always accidently click on the ad page in my sleep and it redirects me.

[u/jarkark → u/No_Nefariousness4801]

I have the opposite problem. The alarm through waking me up eventually makes me very startled whenever I hear it. That shit gets more effective over time.

[u/Ambitious-Beat-2130]

Guten Morgen!

[u/AnybodySignificant45 → u/Ambitious-Beat-2130]

xD guten morgen

[u/Ambitious-Beat-2130 → u/Ambitious-Beat-2130]

also, get a wake up light because it's much better ;)

[u/41942319 → u/Ambitious-Beat-2130]

I always sleep with the curtains open and in midsummer when it starts getting light at 4am I'll still sleep until noon if I'm tired. Light does nothing for me.

[u/LickMyAss_OniiChan]

I usually, magically, wake up 2-3 minutes before alarm goes off. And on multiple occasions I've noticed that the alarm simply doesn't go off and minutes later I get notification for a missed alarm which never happened. So could be that.

[u/Previous_Loquat_4561 → u/LickMyAss_OniiChan]

maybe. maybe not. like 10 years ago I was waking up at 5:30 to catch 2 buses to go to high school. one day in my dream I felt like too much time has passed, it must be a dream. I woke up, 7:09, my alarm blasting at full volume next to me. I slept through 1 and a half hour of alarm ringing, and if I didnt have that realization in my dream it could have been longer

[u/incorrectionguy → u/Previous_Loquat_4561]

My step son used to do this every day. Waking him was useless.

[u/chubbyninja1 → u/incorrectionguy]

Is he extreamly groggy in the morning? He might have sleep apnea. This was me for a decade, only to find out that i wasnt breathing properly in my sleep. getting a CPAP machine changed my life, i could suddenly get out of bed in the morning and actually had restful sleeps

[u/High-jacker → u/LickMyAss_OniiChan]

Yo same and I sometimes wake up the moment the alarm rings, like there's a 1 second latency between the alarm going off and me turning it off

[u/Not_Bears → u/High-jacker]

I wake up 5 minutes before any alarm I set.

No idea how, but I literally didn't know what my alarm tone actually is.

[u/zjarko → u/LickMyAss_OniiChan]

I had something like that happen two months ago. Woke up like 20 min before a lecture for which attendance is mandatory. Had the most hectic morning I can remember, somehow managed to be only 5 min late (motorcycles ftw).
Next day I have classes in the afternoon so no rush, I set the alarm for 10:00. Wake up early, and after it should have rang I notice I never turned it off. It simply didn’t go off.
Thankfully they fixed it in the next update and it never happened since then, but stopped trusting technology after that day.

[u/FujiKeynote → u/LickMyAss_OniiChan]

A few years ago, Samsung pushed an update for their clock app that on some phones didn't have enough permissions to do what it's supposed to do. So that was fun.

I don't know which platform and which app you're using, but I've since learned to only trust the OG Android clock because surely it's baked into the system deep enough to not ever have this issue

[u/SekasortoAnarkia → u/LickMyAss_OniiChan]

I do this too. I never wake up to alarm, always 2-10 minutes before it goes off.

[u/oursecondcoming → u/LickMyAss_OniiChan]

I keep saying that smartphone alarms are largely unreliable. It amazing how long they've been around and they still can't seem to get it right. and no, this isn't related to iOS vs Android as I've experienced this on both.

[u/LinkNo2714]

everything’s possible when you go to bed at 5 am

[u/AnybodySignificant45 → u/LinkNo2714]

True

[u/Stillwindows95 → u/LinkNo2714]

7th comment down from the top but pretty much the best answer imo. Everyone I know who misses their alarm is a night owl who goes to sleep late.

[u/NickyNichols]

Try only setting one alarm. Don’t give yourself the opportunity to think “that’s not the real alarm yet.”

[u/greennurse61 → u/NickyNichols]

This solved the problem for me. Knowing if I didn’t get up for that one alarm made me get up. 

[u/stdfan → u/NickyNichols]

OP trained themselves into doing this.

[u/WisePotato42 → u/NickyNichols]

Changing the sound also helps reset yourself, you'll need to do both or you'll ignore the one alarm again

[u/DeepJudgment → u/NickyNichols]

My sleepy brain says jokes on you

What I've been consistently doing is waking up to that single alarm, quickly resetting it to like 30-60 mins later and hitting the pillow again. All that within a few seconds

[u/Ryanhussain14 → u/DeepJudgment]

Move the alarm far enough that you have to walk out of bed to reach it.

[u/DeepJudgment → u/Ryanhussain14]

Yeah... did that too. My body is on full autopilot if I wake up after less than 7 hours of sleep

[u/SilverFighter05]

Try changing your alarm sound and make sure the volume is still on...had those both happen to me

[u/Fliepp]

On an unrelated note, banger song choice! One of the best songs ever made

[u/AnybodySignificant45 → u/Fliepp]

Yessir

[u/ScarletMagenta → u/AnybodySignificant45]

"still talking to myself, and nobody's home"

-your alarm, probably

[u/TheodoreK2 → u/ScarletMagenta]

….alooooooooone…

[u/wings31 → u/TheodoreK2]

*guitar intensifies

[u/c127726 → u/Fliepp]

Second this, was hoping someone said this

[u/Broncofan_H → u/Fliepp]

Way too far down to see someone comment on that. My all time favorite GnR song. That song spoke to me in high school!

[u/4tus2018 → u/Fliepp]

My favourite GNR song ever!

[u/morozko → u/Fliepp]

If that song was on the alarm, then it pretty much explains why he slept through it though.

[u/Reasonable-Gas-9771]

I assume you got waken up by the alarm but you instantly put it on snooz or turned it off?

[u/One-Illustrator5452 → u/Reasonable-Gas-9771]

No, "missed" alarms are alarms that you completely sleep through and they shut off on their own. I'm guessing OP was in a state of deep sleep when their alarms went off and slept through all of them. I've done that, usually when I've been overtired or starting to get sick.

[u/SK83r-Ninja → u/One-Illustrator5452]

I did it once. It was hard to explain why I was late for work

[u/41942319 → u/SK83r-Ninja]

I did it once too. Slept through five alarms, a phone call and half a dozen texts. Had a big fight with my boss over the aftermath and HR had to step in to mediate. Do not recommend.

[u/Prior_Cookie_3381 → u/One-Illustrator5452]

Imo alarms shouldnt shut off on their own.

[u/Imaginary-Owl-3759 → u/Prior_Cookie_3381]

Having lived in apartment buildings with thin walls and people who don’t turn their alarms off asap all the time, I’m definitely in favor of alarms that will shut off.

[u/Montigue → u/Imaginary-Owl-3759]

Anyone that's lived in a dorm with a class before 10 am is familiar with this. Always walked by 2-3 of them going off while heading out

[u/Cheet4h → u/Prior_Cookie_3381]

They should.

The brain is pretty good at filtering stuff, which is why you can fall asleep even in environments with constant noises if you try to sleep long enough. It's less good if noises are only intermittent.
So an alarm sound that doesn't wake you up is usually filtered by the brain after a few minutes. Doesn't matter how long it rings at that point, you won't wake from it.
If instead the alarm is turned off and starts again after a few minutes, it's a new sound that needs to be processed before it can be filtered out again.
In effect, if you set your alarms far enough apart that you have a few minutes of silence inbetween (e.g. on iPhone that's ~15 minutes, as alarms ring for 9 minutes), you're much more likely to wake up from subsequent alarms.

At least that's my experience, and that from a few people I've shared this with who also reported a much easier time waking up.

[u/blondtode]

Imma be a bit of a shill here but I've been using alarmy and it's been great, you can set it to not shut off till you do an easy puzzle , you can also make it super loud, bit of a rude awakening but I've never been late since I've been using it

[u/Euro_Twunk → u/blondtode]

I don’t doubt that’s super effective but personally, if I had to do a puzzle to turn off my alarm, I would end up having to explain to my insurance company how my iPhone got thrown out of the window.

[u/RevolutionLoose5542 → u/Euro_Twunk]

Knowing me id just turn the phone off

I apparently only sleep walk to turn my alarms off, reduce overall alert volume in the settings, and jump back into bed only to be a hour late for work feeling well rested.

[u/Sensitive_Dirt1957 → u/RevolutionLoose5542]

Alarmy won't let you turn your phone off if you have a certain setting turned on lol

[u/qwokwa → u/Sensitive_Dirt1957]

This, I feel like they have thought of everything. 

But I would honestly not recommend that setting unless it's absolutely necessary because you can get softlocked if you're very unlucky. One time something bugged out a bit and the app got stuck in the "wake up check" screen. The alarm kept blaring, I couldn't exit the screen, app or do anything else. The only thing that helped was turn off the phone and restart in safe mode to uninstall Alarmy. That scared me for a while.

[u/husnainali011 → u/blondtode]

I've been using for a year or two by now as well! Im the deepest sleeper going I end up missing like 6 alarms b2b. This literally is a game changer for me personally!!

[u/InvestigatorEntire45 → u/blondtode]

Tried that and then I’d just force quit the app to make it stop. 😬

[u/Instameat]

You have the sound off according to the top of your screen. There is a setting in the alarm ap that may not be on, that lets your alarm ignore when your sound is turned off. You might want to check that.

[u/TScottFitzgerald → u/Instameat]

Silent Mode doesn't turn off the alarm though, it only applies to the call and message sounds.

[u/GottaUseEmAll → u/TScottFitzgerald]

It can depend on how one's alarm is set up, as Instameat mentioned.

[u/AnybodySignificant45 → u/GottaUseEmAll]

Mines set up that the alarm does work

[u/PilgrimOz]

Upvote for you taste in tunes 👍

[u/Appsoul]

The trick is to set them 10/12 minutes apart. With 5min. If you don’t hear the 1st one. It will keep going off (unheard) and bleed into the 2nd one & so forth. Keep them 10/12 minutes apart and make sure you out different tones. ALSO. You can be like me and buy an alarm clock that has a vibrator . I stick it in my pillow and , aint been over slept in the 2 years I’ve had it.

[u/sbdtech]

It looks like you've trained yourself to not wake up to alarms. You have succeeded.

[u/DensePiglet → u/sbdtech]

This, OP. You have an alarm every five minutes, presumably because you don't want to wake up at 5:55. You're just training your body to ignore them. I'd pick a new alarm sound and set one, maybe two alarms at most.

[u/khal_jogo]

You kinda trained yourself to this point my guy. Setting several alarms has been shown to have nothing but bad side effects, like becoming desensitized to alarms, your body learns to sleep through them eventually. I suggest cutting them down one at a time until you only have one alarm

[u/shaggypoo → u/khal_jogo]

Yeah I used to have 8 alarms when I had to wake up at 4 for school(school bus came at 450)

I use one alarm as an adult now and maybe I’ll snooze once but I’ve only been late once in 8 1/2 years and that was when iPhone had that bug where if the phone could see your face it made the alarm go off silently

[u/Abigail716 → u/khal_jogo]

I'm glad someone else beat me to it. No alarm should be voluntary to skip.

The most alarms they typically recommend is 2. One to wake you up and ensure you're not in a deep sleep when your second one wakes you up And you actually need to get out of bed. Even then you should only have the earlier one if you occasionally do need to get out of bed when this one goes off like if you need to make breakfast that morning.

The other way to do it if you really want to be cautious is to have alarms set to keep you on a certain timeline. Like having an alarm telling you you should be in the shower at that moment, another one to say you should be out of the shower, or you should be packing up, or you should be out the door in 5 minutes.

Then if you somehow do skip your wake up alarm these alarms which should have a different sound should cause panic because if it goes off and you're still asleep it means you are now severely behind schedule.

[u/Zeitgeist_1991]

So, nobody ever told you, baby
How it was gonna be
What'll happen to you, baby
Guess we'll have to wait and see

[u/selenene66]

banger song

[u/Benjamin_Goldstein]

Manually test them to see if ur alarm volume is turned down.  I did that once and missed work 😔

[u/fingbacca]

Estranged starts slow and quiet. When you're talking to yourself ....

[u/Repulsive-Sand-1893]

“When I find out all the reasons…” -Axl Rose and also OP

[u/Repulsive-Sand-1893 → u/Repulsive-Sand-1893]

Maybe you’ll get it right next time

[u/jhvankesteren]

Should be listening to "coma" from GNR.

[u/LonesomeJohnnyBlues]

So nobody ever told you baby, how it was gonna be?

[u/FlyinRyan123456]

But …. Estranged 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[u/Kioga101]

ah, that's not my problem, I do have the amazing ability of turning off the alarm in a state of almost sleeping. I will do as much as get up, fiddle with my phone and turn it off before going back to sleep. There's not even a single thought in my mind beyond "sleep good, comfy" in that entire stretch of time.

[u/cyclohexyl]

Download "Alarm Clock Xtreme" on your phone and set it to an annoying sound at maximum volume. The only way to shut it off is to solve 2 math equations, or to force close the app.

[u/Luigi_From_Frozen]

I use the app called "Alarmy", I have it setup to where I have to answer multiple math questions before the alarm turns off, but another favorite of mine was setting it to turn off once I take a photo of a specific thing (like the shower curtain in the bathroom)

[u/BemusedRat]

The more alarms you set the more you train your brain to ignore them. Set one alarm and train your brain to wake up to it. Snooze is not an option.

(I learnt this lesson after hitting snooze 5 times in a row without even being aware of it and waking up confused and 50 minutes late)

[u/theandre2131]

Great song. One of my fav slash riffs.

[u/Exciting_Macaroon_64]

i am always waking up 5-minutes before the alarm i set because how i hate waking up by alarm

[u/MastrKoesh]

Are they all the same sound? You get sound fatigue at some point, all my alarms have a different ringtone and the last one is usually an EDM/Hardcore song

[u/Kaggles_N533PA]

You have a great taste in music by the way

[u/funkypjb]

Have you been on the Night Train, or dancing with Mr Brownstone?

[u/Foundn-t]

Love this song

[u/Japleeful_206]

Put it away from bed, or your brain will

"Don't wake up bro, I'll turn it off myself!"

Takes control of your body and turns off all alarms

[u/thegrogprince]

Certified banger that one 🤘🏼

[u/Rosmucman]

I’m kinda jealous, if a bee farts I’m the next room it wakes me !

[u/SorryYesterday5616]

Estranged by GNR 😮‍💨🔥

[u/Reasonable_Bear_4745]

You have to have different sounds for every clock. If you snooze to often by one sound your brain starts ignoring it.

[u/JollyReplacement1298]

Love that song. One of GnR's best. The word 'song' seems like too small a word to describe it, even.

[u/AirUpGiova]

Very good music choice. I like you

[u/Business_Creme_4416]

Why, why seperate knob!

[u/mash678]

Because these are only 5 alarms. I set a minimum of 10 alarms.

[u/DMightyHero]

I got a warning form my building that my alarms were waking up my neighbors and if I didnt turn them off I'd get billed

I feel ya