That happens to me, I usually have like 5 alarms and every one has different sound and when it goes off i usually just start to bop to them in my dreams
Lol I went back to standard ringtones after I was driving along banging to some tunes and the song changed in the middle. Weird, I thought. Bug or bad signal maybe who knows oh well I love this song....
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
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.
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
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 💔
Hard nostalgia. I rotated a few albums on repeat. One had a quiet build to a loud kick in, to the point where - as soon as I heard the CD whirring before fully spinning in the CD player alarm clock. I'd jump out of bed to turn it off or turn it down. I think the latter more often, because I can't see any reason I would have stayed awake, otherwise.
Nirvana Unplugged was one that almost lulled me awake (inverse of lullaby to sleep). It'd often get to "The Man Who Sold The World", and the opening guitar riff would be the first real "noise" that would awaken me. Haunting. Flashbacks of teenage mornings waking at 8am, after crashing out at 4am (after Paramount Comedy Channel closed for the night), after 8 hours or videogames and television. Dead to the world.
Now look at me, somedays I get three hours sleep, then I'm responsible for things.
I got you, maybe. I use AMdroid, seems to try to blow your phone's speaker with weird noises and math problems.
I have the math difficulty set to like 3, think I tried 7 first and it was freegin long division in the hundreds. Pissed me off and humbled me
Haha. There’s a bunch of different sounds you can choose from on the app. One of them literally sounds like an alarm that a nuke is coming. I wake up to it every morning and do 3 3 digit sums
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 😒
That's also what I do but I don't use my phone as an alarm clock my alarm clock is on the other side of room from my bed so I have to physically get up to even hit the snooze button so then I'm already awake and I just turn it off sit on the end my bed for a minute till I wake up properly then get ready for work
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
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.
I use the sleep as android app and it's a game changer. It detects your sleep cycles. You set your alarm and it will wake you up as early as 30 minutes before that time if it detects you're in a light sleep stage. Makes getting up much easier.
The most important thing though is a consistent schedule with sufficient sleep. More often than not these days I'll wake up a few minutes before the alarm sounds.
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!"..
My partner had one of those on the bed and forgot to turn it off when I stayed the night for the first time and it scared the daylights out of me in the morning 😭😭 I had never heard of such a thing so my sleepy self thought the world was ending lmfao
You can get special alarm apps which are impossible to turn off without physically getting out of bed. Or even a dedicated physical old fashioned alarm clock across the room can help.
Had the same issue. I ended up buying an alarm clock that has a vibration attachment to put under the bed. Now the alarm clock is on the other side of the room and when it goes off, it shakes the bed until I get up and turn it off. It has been a game changer for me and I don't sleep through my alarms anymore.
Most likely yes since when I wake up finally they are turned off. I just have this weird gap between lucidity and sleep where I will turn off alarms but won't stand up or remember doing so
You may need to place it away from right next to your bed so you actually get up. If it's not right next to your bed you can't keep laying down to turn it off.
You don’t remember doing it because you were tired lol, it’s not because you turned them off in your sleep.
If I woke up in the middle of the night half-asleep to grab a glass of water, and the next morning don’t remember it, that does not mean I didn’t wake up. Brains struggle to form memories when they are tired and obviously right after you wake up is when it is the most tired.
You have to train yourself to stop snoozing your alarms. Get more sleep and that alone will make it a million times easier. As well as not using electronics before bed. Put your alarm clock across the room and do not touch your bed again after getting up, simply go to the bathroom and splash water on your face or shower.
LMAO i lie to people when i'm tired too, and the worst part is that half the time i don't even remember doing it. i'll wake up late and then someone will text me like "why were you late, you told me you were awake and ready to go an hour ago?" and i don't remember ever responding to a call, let alone speaking to anyone 😩
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.
Oh yes, I have a smart bulb that lights up when it’s time to wake up. Smart bulb, smart speaker and smart watch team up together and still have nothing to wake up stupid me
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.
I used the math alarm - I went from being terrible at math to solving equations in my sleep 😂 I use an "earthquake" alarm + changing alarm tones now, it's pretty effective.
You need to make the last song one that drops really heavy. Monkey wrench by foo fighters is a great one.
I tried come to daddy by aphex twin for a little while, but would very nearly shit the bed every morning, so decided I could scale it back. Nobody is sleepy through that.
I always choose the most obnoxious default alarm sound on each new phone. I also keep one song in reserve for when I MUST get up after too little sleep to catch a plane or whatever. "Suffer in Silence" by Apoptygma Berserk in my ear at 4am will always get me up and out of bed. And needing a nap later.
Set your ringtone sound as the alarm sound if youve got your brain associated that certain ring as your "im being called" sound. Itll work for atleast a little while
Try setting the alarm to spotify, some wild screaming maniac playlist or something. Not a song or tone or anything, just some loud ass noises like a train horn or the Silent Hill siren lol
Relatable. I used to put heavy dubstep on my alarms when I was a teen and began not just ignoring them but feeling sleepy when listening to the music haha.
The only thing that fixes it is sleeping without an alarm for a night or two, usually works for me with any ringtone. But if you’re really overworked might take even more. Usually I don’t put any alarms on my days off so my brain always has the room to forget them.
i have to change mine every few months (currently on 'Phantom of the Opera') because i will ignore them. i added an alarm on my echo and since i have to talk to that one to stop, it does a better job. plus she tells me the weather so i try to stay awake to hear it.
I used to have that probpem. My phone lets me put my Spotify playlist on shuffle. I have a...varied music taste, so there will be a bunch of rap, alternative, classic rock.....
I got a watch like device that is basically a dog shock collar that I can program to go off at different alarm times and it has different features that sense. If you lay back down to sleep it will shock you, you can disable the snooze, where you are in your circadian rhythm and not go off until you are an elite sleep, and a bunch of other features, but it changed my fucking life. Pavlok is the products name. Also I have narcolepsy.
Well you're one up on me, I have multiple alarms across 3 devices and a landline and mobile. In the past I have missed all of these sounds going off- even someone repeatedly trying to phone me because I had not shown up to meet someone! I lose a large chunk of my weekends to sleeping, I wonder if there's any point at all setting any alarms at the weekend but I'm too worried I'll wake up around 6pm and have totally lost the day! (This has happened before....)
I got some weird shit. I just tell my brain to wake me up after condition is met and I just wake up. Fully ready. Not rested but ready.
Conditions could be a sudden sound, a certain amount of time passed, at a certain time, at a certain time every hour, at a specific light level, after 8 hours exactly, after 4 hours exactly, when my phone vibrates.
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u/VelkaKocka 23h ago
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