wake up when my alarm clock rings

I am definitely not a morning person. I have to set my alarm clock an hour before I actually want to wake up and I usually sleep in longer than that. I am always late for work and school. I’ve tried putting the alarm across the room but I just walk up and hit snooze and lay down again. Does anyone have any other advice or can speculate on why I have this problem?

No I refuse to give my snooze alarm up. I love it too much.

I did much better about waking up on time. let’s see how I do back at work next week.

If you are really serious about this one, I recommend one particular alarm clock. You might be able to find it on eBay. It’s been discontinued.

this crazy thing

So loud. I had one for about 6 or 7 years. There is no volume control on it at all. It starts off with this jarring man’s voice counting down from 3. That instantly wakes you up. It often woke me up before he even said 3… just the sound before it. It then has 3 or 4 different noises that you can choose from as the alarm sound. The worst one was a bugle playing. There is NO way you can sleep through this. And you won’t want to hit snooze because it is the scariest noise in the world to wake up to :]

Oh and when it goes off, it flashes lights everywhere. I’m pretty sure it’d even wake a deaf person up!

Edit: There is a volume setting but I swear it does not work on the actual alarm sounds, just the radio.

it’s weird but I get up a few minutes before the alarm goes off. unless I am super tired. but I have work to go to now. I should modify my goal and say that I want to wake up at the alarm and WANT to really get up to stsart my wonderful day!.. will take some doing but isn’t that the reason why most people don’t get up because they have nothing really to look forward to? Remember the times when you would stay up all night because something really exciting was happening the next day? Everyone needs every day to start like that.

I have found a descent alarm clock that is harder to ignore! It’s really obnoxious has a switch so you can switch between loud and soft alarm. But, the best thing I like about this alarm is it’s snooze feature is kinda hard to find with the lights off.

Summer is making it easy to do this – as long as I don’t stay up too late. Trying to do this on the weekends too, but that’s a little more difficult.

I find this interesting. I havent been setting my alarm, just letting the light through the curtains and sound of birdsong wake me naturally, and have been waking up at 6.30am, quite refreshed and awake. For some reason, can’t remember why, I did set the alarm last night, so was up later – 7.15 – and felt much more tired. My fear is of oversleeping, but maybe if I trust the instinct to wake early every morning, and trust that by doing this every morning it will become an ingrained habit, just maybe after a few weeks I will find it really does happen naturally. For ever. The rest of my life. Wooee, that would be so good! To live life rather than sleep it! To not press any snooze buttons but get up immediately, open the curtains and greet the new day.

Summer is really helping out with this one. Its so bright in the morning that I’m waking up without my alarm clock at all.

I am managing to do this. That first moment of waking, I want to automatically reach out and press the snooze button, through sheer ingrained habit, but immediately after this instinctive thought I am managing to remember this, and am just swinging my legs around, and sitting up. Not only is there no feeling of disappointment that I’m not letting myself sleep a bit longer or feeling of frustration, but in fact when sat up, and still having only been awake for about a minute, without even thinking about it there is a cheerful, excited feeling for the day ahead, a happy feeling to be sat up and ready to go, rather than wasting life moments sleeping a resentful, ‘I dont want to get up but I have to soon’ sleep. I go through to the sitting-room, open the curtains and have a glass of water, and feel great to be starting a brand new day.

It’s working. It’s a great thing to do. I think it just might be partly why I feel good throughout the day, much more contented, energetic, glad to be alive and so excited about what I am working on in my life. The future I’ve talked about is now – continuing my Uni study and making plans for my business is a point I’ve worked hard to reach. So much just from getting up as soon as I wake up? Well, it is unarguably a better way to start the day, rather than resentfully and reluctantly, and it is just simply that the positive, enthusiastic mood stays around, thankfully.

And I’m confident that it will become a habit, within a short time. That it will feel instinctive and will be automataic for me to just sit up as soon as I wake.

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