Lady Butterfly she/herIt is awful
we are allI have been waking up to peaceful sounds and songs since early aughts and never looked back. Just reading this brings shivers - being jarred awake with those noises is juuuust not for me.
brap
Skullgridwell, I don’t just immediately wake up to sound, it’s sort of gradual.
I can tell how long it’s been going on by where it’s at but not waking is not an issue.
I can tell how long it’s been going on by where it’s at but not waking is not an issue.
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Epherathat’s a really good idea. a gentle wake alarm, followed by a “FUCKING WAKE UP” alarm; that way you can try to wake peacefully and if that fails get jolted awake.
fat lot of that does me now that I’ve had a child, but I wondered how that could have worked.
I’m a huge fan of lights that simulate the sunrise. They make me wake up fully and comfortably. The absolute perfect way to start my day. Unfortunately it works equally well on my wife who goes to bed and wakes up several hours after I do and hates that thing. Eventually I’m likely to win on this fight, but until I’m too deaf for alarms or she and I have to wake up at the same time, I suck it up and accept that I love her more than a comfortable start to my day.
Peaceful sounds unfortunately don’t wake me
estrange_alienwait - yours makes a noise?
CarbonIceDragonIdk what the iPhone one in particular sounds like, but after growing to hate alarm sounds (and sleeping through a few less obnoxious ones) I ended up moving to a system that turns the lights on automatically at a certain time (at a lower brightness). That seems a bit less unpleasant even if getting woken up is never fun
cally [he/they]I have no idea how I manage to wake up 1 to 20 minutes before my alarm sometimes.
What do you mean I woke up at 05:59? Have I been counting without knowing it??
Yes. You have a circadian rhythm. It’s a clock in your body and it’s pretty accurate. It’s why you get hungry around the same time every day.
The experience of regularly waking up right before an unpleasant sound would occur is from operant conditioning.
I used to live by a railroad track in the city. So all night at specific times, freight trains ran through , blasting their horns. After a month I would wake up about 5-10 min multiple times a night, right before the trains. So I could cover my head and ears.
The decibels was nearly 80 in my apartment. Which was close to as if a lawnmower was running in my room. Insanely loud.
So the aversion/punishment part of the conditioning worked well to train me to wake up and cover my head with a pillow.
As do I! Although as a siren enthusiast I’m completely desensitized to the sound and have slept through it before lmao. I own a functional 3D printed 1/3 scale model of the siren I use for my alarm, maybe I should use that instead? xD
Yeah, you can. I don’t understand this post.
Default Doe always annoys me. You don’t have to stay with the default and have the Brand tell you how to live.
Reminds me of this funny video exaggerating the difference between default Android and iPhone alarms:
Android vs iPhone alarms
It probably wasn’t intentional, but back when I had an actual physical alarm clock it made this electronic-buzz-static sort of sound just before the actual alarm started beeping. I got pretty good at hitting the snooze before the alarm went off
Mine does a whirring noise from starting up the CD player so that seems to work (the CD is peaceful lullaby music, the alarm is the CD cranked up to 13)
Isn’t it amazing that a human can be conditioned to respond behaviorally to a stimulus that requires precision tracking of time and also this occurs while sleeping. ?
I mean think about it.
You wake up 5 min before the alarm goes off. To snooze it.
Your brain kept track of the time the whole time you were sleeping. And was able to wake you up at the right moment with a specific thought “turn off the alarm”.
Honestly, conditioning theory is fascinating.
People at work have heard my alarm tone and think its hilarious that as a middle aged man my alarm tone is so flowery and gentle until I explained that being awoken suddenly by a harsh abrasive noise puts me in a very combative and abrasive mood for the next several hours and I come to work 45 minutes after it goes off…
Back in the alarm days of college I used Pink Floyd - Time because the couple seconds of ticking before everything went off would send me into conniptions to prevent the calamity.
