Forgot to set my alarm!!! But..

cormie

I woke up at exactly (to the minute) the same time I usually set it to.. and it's not the first time this has happened. Does this happen to anyone else?

:v:

Ickle Magoo

I (annoyingly) do that at the weekends when no alarm is set....7.30am - BING! I'm awake! :rolleyes:

feylya

Your body is just used to getting up at that time. There's nothing unusual about it.

Ickle Magoo

That's true....sometimes I wake at the weekends at 7.25, sometimes 7.35 - so I think the times I wake at 7.30 on the dot are just coincidence...:)

masterK

I had a similar scary experience during the night, I woke up and had a quick look at my watch, it was 4:34. Exactly one year to the minute since my daughter was born, I woke my wife up to tell her my experience, she wasn't too impressed.

Mr Magnolia

masterK wrote:

I had a similar scary experience during the night, I woke up and had a quick look at my watch, it was 4:34. Exactly one year to the minute since my daughter was born, I woke my wife up to tell her my experience, she wasn't too impressed.

That's nuts!?!

OP, Happens me alot at weekends (05:36am).

My father-in-law wakes exactly 1 minute before his alarm clock every day. It's one of the old analog clocks and there's the smallest of clicks 1 minute before the alarm sounds, this wakens him!

franksm

It's freaky, but true

Unfortunately you can't depend on it though - next time you see a bed-head arrive late for work, ask him

TerrorFirmer

It's not unusual, your body adjusts. Normally with or without an alarm I initially wake at 7 - staying awake is another matter though

godtabh

Its a pain in the arse at the weekends. Waking at 6:30 on Saturday and Sunday morning isnt good for you!

joe_chicken

about 3 years ago i went for roughly a week waking up at 4:11 exactly... every night

well thats not exactly true, one of the times i woke up and thought: "no, I'm not looking at the clock, its just gonna say 4:11".. so i waited about 2 minutes... looked at my clock and it was.......... 4:11


It freaked me out

Canis Lupus

MobileInfantry wrote:

It's not unusual, your body adjusts. Normally with or without an alarm I initially wake at 7 - staying awake is another matter though

Can you explain then how.... lets say you have to be awake at a certain time early in the morning, say you have to catch a plane or drive somewhere I can more or less everytime think to myself I need to wake at 4.30am and wake naturally between 10-15 mins before the alarm goes off.

Despite that fact that yes I know that when you wake every morning at a given time it's natural to wake up before the alarm, drives me mad on the weekend but has anyone else experienced the same as me?

franksm

kearnsr wrote:

Its a pain in the arse at the weekends. Waking at 6:30 on Saturday and Sunday morning isnt good for you!

Yeah, pain in the ar$e is right. I'm a "morning person" now, but not by choice. I live near Clonsilla so have to be out the door showered & shaved by 0630h every morning in order to beat the traffic. I normally get to Leopardstown by 0710h or so. Leave it any later, say 0700h and I won't arrive until 0820h.

What it means is that I still wake up early at weekends. Notice how it's only near the end of your holidays that your bodyclock is adjusting itself to late mornings ? aaaarrrgh

Irishstabber

Canis Lupus wrote:

Can you explain then how.... lets say you have to be awake at a certain time early in the morning, say you have to catch a plane or drive somewhere I can more or less everytime think to myself I need to wake at 4.30am and wake naturally between 10-15 mins before the alarm goes off.

Despite that fact that yes I know that when you wake every morning at a given time it's natural to wake up before the alarm, drives me mad on the weekend but has anyone else experienced the same as me?

Yea that happens to me before I travel. I think its just that your body knows you have to do something and something that cannot be put off(flights dont wait for you)...Sometimes it even happens if I wanna watch something early in the mornings or late during the night(ie a boxing match or rugby from Oz)

Sam Vimes

not about waking up but i went through about a month where any time i looked at my watch it was 11:11. i once even waited a minute because i knew it would be 11:11 if i looked at it. when i went to look at it, guess what time it was!! and i had a phone in my pocket. a minute or two later i took it out and it had just turned 11:11 on that.

If I know I have to be up early, I'll wake up early. One time there was a show on tv I wanted to see at 5am. I was recording it of course, but I woke up at 445 anyway
Often I can predict the time without having looked at my phone in a while too, it's cool.

As for the alarm, the tiny blip my phone does before the few seconds pause then the actual alarm is usually enough to wake me up

joe_chicken

Commander Vimes wrote:

not about waking up but i went through about a month where any time i looked at my watch it was 11:11. i once even waited a minute because i knew it would be 11:11 if i looked at it. when i went to look at it, guess what time it was!! and i had a phone in my pocket. a minute or two later i took it out and it had just turned 11:11 on that.

it must be something to do with 11 minutes past

spiderlegs

It's just your body clock. It gets so used to waking up at the same time that it begins to do it automatically. It's either crap or handy depending which way you look at it.

Ruaidhri

I used to be able to wake up at whatever time i needed to wake up,sans alarm clock. Needless to say college,and you're total lack of knowing what time/day it is has knocked this ability out of me.

dundalk cailin

i get up at different times every morning, so i defintiely wouldnt rely on my body alarm
but as soon as i wake up i recall exactly what i have to do, before i properly wake up, like if i have class at 8am, and wake at 6.30am i jump outta bed cos i know i gotta leave by a certain time etc.
and if i have something like a flight i dont properly sleep cos im afraid to in case i miss it...strange, cos im so punctual, ill be early for my own funeral (yea adjusting that phrase to suit me!)

MarinoMark

I woke up at 4.37am after a horrible nightmare about me having a hole in my heart,I then discovered a polo mint in my pyjama pocket....Phew !!!

Wigertoods

Quite reqularly i wake up the same time as the alarm.but only during the week.
On the weekend I have Heineken to keep me asleep.

The Bollox

forget that whole biological alarmclock. I have a much worse problem; my alarm goes off and I stay asleep for up to half an hour! WTF! it really pisses me off. I mean this morning I thought my alarm was some siren in my dream, but then someone in my dream said to me "that's not

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(can't remember what it was) it's your alarm, get up!". now that wasn't so bad, it was 10/15 mins after the alarm started, but instead of getting up, I said to myself that I would, but instead fell back asleep, with the feckin' alarm still blaring!

dundalk cailin

ah yea i incorporate my alarm into my dream as various noises, but i realise then!

7aken

its got something to do with circadian rhythms and your subconcious telling your body clock to wake at a certain time. wrote an essay in college on it.

phantom_lord

Canis Lupus wrote:

Can you explain then how.... lets say you have to be awake at a certain time early in the morning, say you have to catch a plane or drive somewhere I can more or less everytime think to myself I need to wake at 4.30am and wake naturally between 10-15 mins before the alarm goes off.

Despite that fact that yes I know that when you wake every morning at a given time it's natural to wake up before the alarm, drives me mad on the weekend but has anyone else experienced the same as me?

Yeah that pretty much happens whenever I need to get up at an earlier time than usual. It's kinda funny that if I have to get up hours earlier than normal I feel less sleeply than normal..

Canis Lupus

Usually cos it's out of the ordinary, try getting up early for a few days in a row and your brain shuts down in protest like it was doing to me all week till I went to bed early last night to catch up.

bounty_hunter

Sparks400 wrote:

My father-in-law wakes exactly 1 minute before his alarm clock every day. It's one of the old analog clocks and there's the smallest of clicks 1 minute before the alarm sounds, this wakens him!

I get this too. When I'm using my analog clock I instictively wake up when I hear the tiny click before the alarm goes off, just in time to switch it off before the awful alarm sound beats me out of bed.

scuba steve

ya i hate when it happens me on weekends sometimes

jesus_thats_gre

feylya wrote:

Your body is just used to getting up at that time. There's nothing unusual about it.

Says himself of all people who couldn't grasp the notion that going to bed at a regular time everynight would solve his problem of not being able to get to sleep until 5am every morning??

PAINLESS

somethin similar but even weirder happens to me all the time.
a lot of times when i look at my watch or phone or computer or whatever to see what time it is its nearly always double figures. like 10.10 17.17 03.03 etc... i get this a few times a day!!
its freaky!! im now convinced im gonna die in the year 2020.

Siogfinsceal

tis your body clock it gets used to you getting up at the same time

daiixi

pfft .. I woke up an hour after my alarm was meant to go off this morning though only got into work 25 minutes late

Am paranoid I'm going to sleep in tomorrow morning as I was dumb and booked a 7am flight!!!

mad m

Anyone ever find that If they do happen to sleep in way past there normal get up time that they have this bloody headache the whole day....Aghh!

kensutz

I use that method to wake up before I travel back home to make sure I don't miss my flights. It works most of the time because I keep thinking I have to wake up before say 06:30 and I'm always up around 6. Last time I had to be up at 03:45 and I kept telling myself that I have to get up for then, I woke at 3am and had to venture down to Luton.

Oral Slang

Whatever about waking up just before the alarm goes off, which happens to me a lot, I used to regularly wake up at random times & think it was time to get up. When I was in school I'd wake up at say 4.00, think it was 7.00 & get up.

Sometimes I'd realise quickly that it was 4, but sometimes I get dressed & even have my breakfast. Used to only happen in winter though, because of the dark mornings. I'd be so fed up & couldn't get back asleep! :mad:

BossArky

Once when I was fairly young I woke up in the middle of the night, took a sleepy look at the clock which was pointing out 3 o'clock in the morning. My sleep ridden head took it as 9 o'clock so I went down and put on my primary school uniform, then realised what happened and went back to bed.

PlayGirl

happens all the time.. i'm not a morning person though so i find it easy to get back to sleep!

:cool:

mada999

mad m wrote:

Anyone ever find that If they do happen to sleep in way past there normal get up time that they have this bloody headache the whole day....Aghh!

yep..happens to me...also happens when i wake up before my normal getting up time...pain in the head usually above the eye!

OTliddy

7aken wrote:

its got something to do with circadian rhythms and your subconcious telling your body clock to wake at a certain time. wrote an essay in college on it.

Intruiging. I wake up at whatever time I want to. I do this method: the amount of times you bang your head on your pillow=the hour you want to wake up. I can even get it to precise times like a quarter past an hour(by doing a quarter bang).

I also always seem to look at my watch at "landmark" times, like exactly on the hour or at 11.11 and 11 seconds.

Rb

I never set my alarm, I just wake when I want to and then plan my day accordingly.

xzanti

Yep... Always happens to me.. Some nights I wake up every hour thinking its time to get up.. It's rather annoying