Alarm Clocks-Hate or Detest?

[Howard Roark]

I detest alarm clocks / watch alarms / smartphone alarms for waking me up. Have been using them since in public school. Will use them until I retire. No more after that! To wake up without an alarm clock will be my biggest thrill! I figure at least 50 years of waking up to alarms.

I wake up well before 5:30. Have been waking up at 4:15 to work out early. But I'm going to work out after a good restful sleep when I had enough sleep - when I retire! My preference is to wake up when the sun comes up and not much later. Want the sunrise in my windows to wake me!

On the other hand, my life has been regimented in many ways and I should be okay with retirement income close to my current income as a salaried guy. That does not even factor in social security (money I paid into).

[cloven]

Originally Posted by Scooby Snacks

I always wake up before my alarm clock or as soon as it rings, I'm up.

^This describes my current situation, but that's because I (now) do get enough sleep most mornings.
I have to leap out of bed to reach it & switch it off, which is the point-
it forces me to physically get up, because of its location (nearer the foot of my bed, not up by my head).

Originally Posted by Scooby Snacks

I have never used the snooze button, even if I went to bed way past normal bedtime.

Back when I was in school, and had to be up in the early morning, I used the snooze button a lot (eventually bashed the poor little plastic hinge off it)
& resented the alarm clock because of how exhausted I was (having had too little sleep).
Thank goodness those years are long gone, now I sleep until afternoon most days (I go to bed btw. 4 & 6 a.m.).

Originally Posted by Scooby Snacks

So what are your alarm clock habits? If you ignore it, how do you think you make yourself not hear the sound? Do you also hate your alarm clock?

Never had a clock radio, just use alarm function-cannot ignore the sound of it.
Loathe the sound of any kind of alarm, be it a clock or something else (even the phone ringing sets me on edge)-but that's an auditory stimuli issue.
However, I recognize that's the purpose of these noise-makers: to be unpleasant, so as to get our attention & demand that one deal with the loud object.

Don't "hate" it as a device, it is there to ensure I wake up in time/on time, just in case.
I may wake up a few mins. before the time it's set for yet still fall back to sleep, thinking it'll be only a few mins.
Without the alarm clock that could turn out to be a few hours, so I think of it as a circadian safety net/backup measure.

[Psychonaft]

Originally Posted by Luzette

I have a very difficult time when I have to wake up at a certain time and this is morning times. I never recover all day long and worry when I know I "must" be up at a certain time the next day. It's such a severe situation it really effects my health if I can't set my own hours.

It's a pleasure to meet such as me. However it can be not normal, to be so sleepy. It can be some kind of chronic fatigue syndrome or such stuff.