Switching Alarms Off

Endurance Man · 15-08-2006 10:50AM #1

Well im rather pissed off with myself this morning, i had planned to go into dublin with the pops and get some shopping down. I went to bed relatively early (for me) and set my alarm for 6:15. I set another one for 6:30 incase i hit snooze.
Now i know wat im like so i threw my phone across the room so i would HAVE to get up to switch it off.
I woke up 5mins ago with absolutely no recollection of hearing or switching the alarm off

. The phone was lying next to me so i musta reached over and got it.
I must be turning this damn thing off in my sleep, driving me mad. This happen to anyone else?

Stephen · 15-08-2006 10:53AM

No.

weh weh weh

robinph · 15-08-2006 10:58AM

I have often slept though my alarms but I've now got mine switched to turn on the radio instead and that seems to work better for me as the sound of some awful tune being played by the dj is usually enough to wake me up now.

mp3guy · 15-08-2006 10:58AM

You might've woken and switched it off but forgot you did, I did that once or twice, especially if its within arms reach. Best thing to do is put it at the end of your bed, so when it goes off you're required to sit up to turn it off, but not get up. Normally you just stay there sitting up for a few minutes in a sleepy daze before you get up.

15-08-2006 11:02AM

Only all the time
I’m sick of being late for work
I have an inner body clock that always wakes me 5 min's before I’ve to leave no matter what shift I’m in for that always leave's me scrambling around trying to get ready in a mad hurry and perpetually has me running 10 min's late in life altogether

DamienH · 15-08-2006 11:06AM

always happens to me.. i tend to sleep on mine to muffle the sounds

Agamemnon · 15-08-2006 11:09AM

This always happens me. I put my phone at the other side of the room as well as an alarm clock, but I get out of bed, turn off the alarm clock, get back into bed with the phone and go back to sleep. I even hit the snooze button on the phone several times in my sleep. When I finally wake up, the phone is in bed next to me like a tiny, plastic, unwanted lover. I'd have been sacked long ago if I wasn't on flexitime.

connundrum · 15-08-2006 11:16AM

Put your phone at the other end of the room - you will have to physically get up outa the bed to switch it off.. which should have you a bit more awake than you would be while doing the normal thing of switching the phone off while in bed.

dr.bollocko · 15-08-2006 11:17AM

Subconsciously switching the alarm off my hole.
If that isnt the studentiest student excuse I ever heard.
Maybe your body clock is subconsciously synched to Spongebob.

oh, unless u are one of those sleep-alcoholics. Then you could have re-programmed the alarm in your sleep whilst mixing a margherita. But other than that, what you need is someone to walk into your room at 6:15, Clip you round the ear and then tip a bucket of cold jellyfish over you.

Actually I am off right now to patent an automated version of that very idea.

Endurance Man · 15-08-2006 11:18AM

mp3guy wrote:

You might've woken and switched it off but forgot you did, I did that once or twice, especially if its within arms reach. Best thing to do is put it at the end of your bed, so when it goes off you're required to sit up to turn it off, but not get up. Normally you just stay there sitting up for a few minutes in a sleepy daze before you get up.

Ye, i had thrown it across the room, i could have reached it from the bad but i would have been practically falling out of it. Its an odd one, i think i might change the beeping tone. My brain has probably become immune this one

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Thomas_S_Hunterson · 15-08-2006 11:21AM

Sometimes I wake up thinking i've already turned off the alarm and dozed off again, only to be getting dressed and look at the clock and realise it's only about 4AM

robinph · 15-08-2006 11:22AM

Endurance Man wrote:

Its an odd one, i think i might change the beeping tone. My brain has probably become immune this one .

I guess thats why the radio now usually seems to work for me as its never quite the same sound trying to wake you up each morning.

Smellyirishman · 15-08-2006 11:24AM

I often incorporate my alarm into my dreams.
I used to use my radio to wake me up, but I would get up, switch it off, lie back down.
The odd time, I wake up late and have no recollection of switching off the alarm. (and yes, it was set)

Endurance Man · 15-08-2006 11:28AM

robinph wrote:

I guess thats why the radio now usually seems to work for me as its never quite the same sound trying to wake you up each morning.

Ye, might have to invest in one of those clock radio's, i rely on my cellphone. I gotta try find the answer, its screwed my day over more than once, cant count the number of times iv missed a golf game.

dr.bollocko · 15-08-2006 11:30AM

Yeah you wouldnt want to miss your golf game.</sarcasm>
(I opened the tags in 1987)
Now that they are closed I am not sure what to do.

sioda · 15-08-2006 11:30AM

Used to sleep through my own alarm the whole time then got a vibrating pillow thingy greatest thing ever you can even set how much it vibes. Eventually with the radio my mind blocked Gerry Ryan why cant it do that when i'm awake at work

Agamemnon · 15-08-2006 11:36AM

A vibrating pillow! Where did you get it?

Ph3n0m · 15-08-2006 11:51AM

I remembering setting my alarm, hitting snooze and I woke up hours later to find my phone off and in my boxers (which I was sleeping in at the time).....dont know why, dont even want to reason why

dr.bollocko · 15-08-2006 11:54AM

Its the vibration mate. Often confuses the sleeping mind.

/V\etalfish · 15-08-2006 12:00PM

Just get one of them old wind up alarm clocks !
I used to do the same , sleep through alarms and turn them off in me sleep.

But since i got the other alarm and keep it at the other side of the room it wakes me every morning, although in fairness it'd probly wake the dead its that loud and annoying !

dr.bollocko · 15-08-2006 12:03PM

There is an alarm clock offer with jars of Coffee, Nescafe I think.
They were talking about this morning on Today fm, or 2fm, or one of em, and apparently the noise is so loud it would sandblast the wrinkles off an OAP's scrote.

Tar.Aldarion · 15-08-2006 12:10PM

Wanted to leave for college at 7:30 this morning, but my friend kept turing of the alarms, I just let them sleep for a few hours, twiddled my thumbs and now I'm in here...

Hagar · 15-08-2006 12:13PM

/V\etalfish wrote:

Just get one of them old wind up alarm clocks !
I used to do the same , sleep through alarms and turn them off in me sleep.

But since i got the other alarm and keep it at the other side of the room it wakes me every morning, although in fairness it'd probly wake the dead its that loud and annoying !

Dead on, but you have to put it in a big aluminium saucepan for maximum effect.

/V\etalfish · 15-08-2006 12:29PM

Hagar wrote:

Dead on, but you have to put it in a big aluminium saucepan for maximum effect.

True !
but i'm not that bad just yet thankfully

Sleepy · 15-08-2006 07:00PM

sioda wrote:

Used to sleep through my own alarm the whole time then got a vibrating pillow thingy greatest thing ever you can even set how much it vibes.

are you sure they're meant to be used as an alarm clock? If you bought it in Miss Fantasia's I'm guessing the answer is no! :cool:

iFight · 15-08-2006 07:25PM

I always have to set a few alarms too, I put the clocks out of reach so i have get up to turn it off, and i put my phone off in a drawer, can still be heard casue its on superloud.

eiretamicha · 15-08-2006 07:35PM

This used to happen to me all the time. I'd set my mobile alarm to the most annoying beep I could find and every single friggin morning, I'd jump awake when the alarm went off, turn the alarm off, and go back to sleep. Argh. It was so frustrating!

Then, for my wedding, someone was kind enough to buy me a CD player alarm clock. This thing is absolutely fantastic! I set my alarm to half an hour early and stick in a very soothing CD--usually celtic music or those mood tunes (like rain or the ocean). Then when the alarm goes off...I kinda drift in and out of sleep for half an hour and I wake up very naturally...not the jump awake that I used to when I used my mobile. I definitely recommend this to anyone with alarm problems.

Endurance Man · 15-08-2006 08:42PM

eiretamicha wrote:

This used to happen to me all the time. I'd set my mobile alarm to the most annoying beep I could find and every single friggin morning, I'd jump awake when the alarm went off, turn the alarm off, and go back to sleep. Argh. It was so frustrating!

Then, for my wedding, someone was kind enough to buy me a CD player alarm clock. This thing is absolutely fantastic! I set my alarm to half an hour early and stick in a very soothing CD--usually celtic music or those mood tunes (like rain or the ocean). Then when the alarm goes off...I kinda drift in and out of sleep for half an hour and I wake up very naturally...not the jump awake that I used to when I used my mobile. I definitely recommend this to anyone with alarm problems.

Ye, but did you remember getting up and actually turning it off? Iv racked my memory all day and i really cant remember doing it, annoying me.

Dooom · 15-08-2006 08:54PM

I've had to set up a system to make sure I wake up - radio goes off first, usually on high to max volume (sometimes wakes me up). Next is the buzzer, which sounds exactly like a firealarm (sometimes wakes me up too). And finally my phone alarm goes off. They're all set to go off about 10/15 minutes after eachother and the combination of the lot normally wakes me up.
Recently I've started waking up before the radio goes off though.

But the oddest thing is that I'm a really light sleeper. A door closing downstairs can wake me up, but the first two alarms rarely do, it's normally the first few quiet beeps of my phone that wake me up.

Mimikyu · 15-08-2006 09:03PM

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Ruu_Old · 15-08-2006 09:05PM

Phone beside the bed gets turned off but I have to get up and plod over to the computer to turn off the other one otherwise its get louder each time.

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