How much time before you wake up do you set your alarm?

JP85 · 04-07-2013 11:09AM #1

*** Title doesnt really make sense, but what i was trying to say was how much time before you are scheduled to wake up do you set your alarm for**

I have no idea why i do it but i set my alarm nearly 45 minutes before im scheduled to get up but it makes me feel like im having some sort of lie in by hitting snooze.

I'd say most people do this firstly how long do you snooze for and why do we do it?

Does anybody actually set their alarm and actually get up straight away.

Also if you have to wake up every day of your life, why does it never get any easier? as in the more you practise something generally you get better at it but not waking up!

The Backwards Man · 04-07-2013 11:10AM

I set mine before I go to sleep. Saves getting up in the middle of the night to do it.

syklops · 04-07-2013 11:11AM

How much time before you wake up do you set your alarm?

Approximately 8 hours.

MidlandsM · 04-07-2013 11:12AM

this thread is alarming

JP85 · 04-07-2013 11:14AM

syklops wrote: »

Approximately 8 hours.

That was meant to say when you have to get up!!

Wacker The Attacker · 04-07-2013 11:14AM

just set the f**king alarm

kfallon · 04-07-2013 11:15AM

I just set the alarm for when I have to get up, tbh my body normally wakes me up about 10-15 mins before I have to get up anway

Balmed Out · 04-07-2013 11:15AM

You might want to rephrase your title. I normally get up before the alarm goes off and failing that will get up immediately when it does go off. Really pisses me off when people use the snooze button.
So feckin' inconsiderate, really irritating.

Richard Hillman · 04-07-2013 11:15AM

10 mins. Then it goes off 5 mins later and 5 again. Im usually up after the first one for a quick ****.

JP85 · 04-07-2013 11:16AM

Balmed Out wrote: »

You might want to rephrase your title. I normally get up before the alarm goes off and failing that will get up immediately when it does go off. Really pisses me off when people use the snooze button.
So feckin' inconsiderate, really irritating.

How do you change the title, doesnt seem to give you an option?

Artful_Badger · 04-07-2013 11:16AM

JP85 wrote: »

That was meant to say when you have to get up!!

Ho do you set the alarm before you have to get up ? You wouldn't be up !

FatherLen · 04-07-2013 11:17AM

I set 7 alarms to go off at differently spaced intervals over the space of an hour and a half on both my phone AND my clock.

Freddy Smelly · 04-07-2013 11:17AM

i get up when the alarm sounds... i dont hit snooze

LenaClaire · 04-07-2013 11:19AM

I usually wake up about 10-20 min before the alarm goes off. I really hate the sound of the alarm so I think my brain tries to preempt it :pac:

missingtime · 04-07-2013 11:26AM

I usually set it for around 7 and then crawl out of bed around half 8.

Fools myself into thinking that I have a lie in.

ruthiepie · 04-07-2013 11:40AM

I usually set mine a half hour before I'm meant to get up. Press snooze twice, once the third alarm goes off, I know its time to get up!!

I really wish I could just get up when the alarm goes off but I don't seem to be able to. Snooze is meant to be worse for you too isn't it? It's meant to be much better for you just to get up when the alarm goes off rather than press snooze. Oh if only my brain would think that way in the mornings!!

:D

General General · 04-07-2013 11:57AM

Exactly 24 hours early, I've yet to feel any benefit.

blue note · 04-07-2013 12:43PM

My radio goes off at 7:30 and I gradually wake up to get out of bed at 7:50 / 8. I also have my alarm going off every 10 minutes from 7:40, just in case I'm not waking up.

I heard of some great novel alarms though;

One which you set up with your credit card to make a donation (to a political party you don't like for example) every time you press the snooze button.
One which requires you to solve a puzzle to turn it off.
One which has several "off" switches which you have to dot around the room. Only one works each time, so you have to look around to get the alarm off.
And one shaped like a football which you turn off by throwing it. I like the sound of that one!

tmc86 · 04-07-2013 12:48PM

This is a good one too!
http://gizmodo.com/270283/carpet-alarm-clock

I set mine for 8 and get up. Snoozing makes me feel worse most of the time!

_Kaiser_ · 04-07-2013 12:52PM

Goes off at 6:45 and I'll usually get up when it does or 5-10 mins later (first snooze).

Showered, dressed, ready and out the door about 25 mins later. Parked up at the office by half 7. Home again just before 5

Makes a big change to the 1.5 hour commute (each way) I used to do!

kc90 · 04-07-2013 12:56PM

Balmed Out wrote: »

You might want to rephrase your title. I normally get up before the alarm goes off and failing that will get up immediately when it does go off. Really pisses me off when people use the snooze button.
So feckin' inconsiderate, really irritating.

No, it's not.

focusvsastrata · 04-07-2013 02:46PM

I normal wake up about 5 minutes before my alarm is meant to go off in the first place.

TPD · 04-07-2013 02:51PM

Phone goes off at 7:35, desk alarm goes off at 7:50. I'll generally snooze the phone a couple of times and get up when the desk alarm goes off.

Nemeses · 04-07-2013 02:55PM

Get up at 10 to be in work for half 10. Alarm starts at half 9.. several snoozes later and I'm up .. just.

JP85 · 04-07-2013 03:00PM

Judging by the sounds of it people most tend to get up after 10-15 mins after their alarm is set, ive to get the finger out, i like the idea of the novel alarms which makes it difficult to snooze!! I wonder if there are any apps that do this?

af_thefragile · 04-07-2013 03:04PM

I wake up 10mins before my alarm goes off and get out of the bed about an hour after the alarm goes off...

af_thefragile · 04-07-2013 03:04PM

JP85 wrote: »

Judging by the sounds of it people most tend to get up after 10-15 mins after their alarm is set, ive to get the finger out, i like the idea of the novel alarms which makes it difficult to snooze!! I wonder if there are any apps that do this?

This is what you need:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-alarm-clocks/

WellThen? · 04-07-2013 03:10PM

I used to have about seven or eight alarms spaced about three minutes apart to get me up. I would also be pressing snooze constantly which set an alarm off every minute or so. The sheer annoyance of the constant bell would eventually get me vertical . I live with someone now and apparently its very annoying so I have had to stop. Have not made it in to work on time since.

Aglomerado · 04-07-2013 03:12PM

About 35-40 minutes. Alarm goes off at 6, I get up around 6.40.

When we both lived at home about 15 years ago, my brother used to be infuriating with the snooze button. Especially on Sunday mornings, he would hit it every 9 minutes for about 2 hours, having it blaring through the house, I think it was to annoy me into getting up and going to Mass! (He would have gone the evening before). It never worked, and usually resulted in me barging into his room and ripping the plug out of the wall, before going back to bed.

I use my phone as an alarm, with a line from Withnail; "Wake up you bastard, before I burn this bastard bed down"

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JP85 · 04-07-2013 03:13PM

af_thefragile wrote: »

This is what you need:
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/creative-alarm-clocks/

My god, most of these are genius, i love the helicopter style one especially

jester77 · 04-07-2013 03:17PM

I get up when it goes off, I set it when I go to bed, about 6 hours before I get up... although I usually wake up just before it goes off.

Snooze must be the most useless function, don't get it at all. Why would anyone use it? If you are not going to get up when the alarm goes off, then set your alarm for a later time. This way you will get a longer uninterrupted sleep instead of having something buzzing every 9 minutes.

How much time before you wake up do you set your alarm?

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