I 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.
how do/did you deal with the fear that you’d just sleep through the alarm?
Put Painkiller by Judas as the third song.
My brother used Sold Me by Seether while we were growing up. He hooked it up to a stereo and would try to get up and turn it off before the heavy guitars kick in and wake up the whole house. That’s only 8 seconds. It never really worked and of course I had to share the room with him