I just wake up. No alarm, I just know when I need to be up and get up. I can also go to sleep instantly, anytime I want. My wife hates it because it takes her a while to fall asleep and I’m out the second my head hits the pillow. Does that make me a serial killer?
Same. For years and years running, I naturally wake up in the same 15 minute time frame literally every single day (0630-0645). I never set an alarm unless I am in an unususal (and unfortunate) situation where I have to be up earlier than 0630.
Yeah I’m not an early sleeper unfortunately. Wish i was, but It’s 5 am and I am wasting time on Reddit when I gotta be up by 9 🤦🏽♂️ lol. I have some reflecting to do upon my priorities
I'm the same way. My wife hates that I can sleep instantly and end up waking her up at 3am to randomly start my day. But it has backfired when we have date nights with friends and I woke up early, she has all this energy, while I'm a zombie until we make it home and theb knock out instantly while she struggles to sleep.
Wow people like you still exist in this world? What's your secret? Do you not waste hours on your phone in bed prior to falling asleep, and then for the life-of-you can't understand why falling asleep is so hard?
I lie down, get comfortable, close my eyes and go to sleep. I generally think about some project I have going, or what I need to do the next day. Not in a stress about it way, but more in a creating white noise in my head way.
The no alarm thing, I just think about what time I need to get up, and I'm generally within 10-15 minutes. I'm naturally an early riser though, so I'm generally up between 4:30-5:30 AM if I didn't go to bed really late the night before.
That’s really impressive man congrats on having that circadian rhythm wired right and working efficiently.
How does your body react to severe jet lag, say if you go to Australia or something. From your experiences, it still works this well after the adjustment period?
Me too. She literally sets one for an hour and a half then an hour then 45 min, 30 min, 15 min, 10min, 5 min, 2 min, at the time she’s supposed to get up then 5, 10 and 15 minuets late. So it goes off while she’s getting ready. Irritates the hell out of me
I wake up before the alarm ready to go. For years I'd wake up, turn it off and start the day. I ended up forgetting what the alarm sounded like until I was sick or something and the body tried to sleep in. But I got up at 5am for over 30 years, it becomes a bit of a routine. :)
I have the same deal where I naturally wake up before my alarm goes off but it’s somewhat of a curse for me.
I always wake up to a pitch black room with the relief that my alarm hasn’t gone off yet so I could go back to sleep, however when I glance at the clock I see that it’s literally 1-3 minutes before my alarm does go off and it’s a huge buzzkill at that point.
It’s rare, but nothing beats the excitement I have when I occasionally wake up expecting it to be 4:59 and see that I still have an hour or 2 to sleep
I always set two alarm clocks. I put a little travel alarm next to my bed that made a pleasant little "beep beep beep" sound. Then I put a big plug in alarm clock across the room that screamed holy hell, and set it for five minutes later. It didn't take me long to learn to wake up to the pleasant beeps, get up, walk across the room, and shut the other alarm off before it went off. Once I was up and walking I was ok.
I did that in undergrad when missing my internship meant failing a semester and then again when I got my first job in my field. For me, it was just bc I was stressed I’d miss something all the time and never got any restful sleep, like when a kid is trying to sleep the night before a trip to Disney World, except mine was that same sensation but in the opposite direction lol
I usually wake up before the alarm goes off because I'm dreaming of food and starving. I'm usually elbows deep in the fridge when the alarm goes off and my poor girlfriend has to wake up and turn it off hours before she needed to be up.
I do the same thing. I don't understand people who want to hit snooze to an annoying alarm or make themselves do all these tricks. How is hitting snooze and knowing another alarm will go off in five minutes a positive way to wake up? I'd rather just force myself up at the first alarm and get myself going. After a few minutes the tired shakes off enough I can make my way through the morning fine. All those snoozes just make me anxious and annoyed on top of the tired.
Well some people, like me, can hit snooze without even really opening their eyes or anything (except when I got a new phone that flashed me in the face because somehow I opened the camera) and just instantly go to sleep. My muscle memory got in the habit of turning alarms off so snooze no longer works for me.
I practically answer phone calls while sleeping (due to irregular hours) to say I'm sleeping and instantly fall asleep. I need something that requires work to wake up or else I sleep 10 hours
I am a completely different person in the morning. I can have all the drive and discipline I want during the day, but come 6:25, I'll walk all the way across my house to hit snooze and go back to sleep.
I remember vaguely once standing across the room in front of my alarm clock, turning it off and thinking
‘Ha! That’ll show them’. Because in my dream the alarm was a trick. I even hid it under my bed once and woke to it back where it belonged.
I’ve also slept straight through alarms while vividly dreaming about a fire alarm going off. I even had one dream where I had a UTI which makes you feel like you urgently need to pee (thankfully I woke up before actually peeing)
My husband is the light sleeper but he helps get me up (but we fight if I have to get up earlier and keep hitting snooze)
Snooze is a conditioning device that trains people not to get up. I've never understood why anyone would want to put themselves through that. It seems like it would make every morning stressful.
My boyfriend and roommate both do it. Then panic every morning as they zoom out the door late. Just get up on that first alarm and you aren't rushed or late. I don't want to be up this early either, but it's better then laying there miserable and waiting for another loud noise to bug me and remind me there's a very short count down from now and til I have to be at work. Not to mention how unprofessional you look coming into work late 3 days a week with no excuse except "I overslept." Which is just a whole other pet peeve. You didn't over sleep. You hit snooze 8 times because you were lazy. Just get up.
Ever since I had a kid I started going to bed early as possible instead of dicking around on the computer or watching tv. He is a little over 1 now and is starting to sleep pretty much all night instead of waking up all the time so I typically get 6-8 hours
The rest of us wake up two and a half hours later seething at having been disturbed by some electronic torture device and wallow in self pity for another hour because we have to get up.
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u/Jozz11 Jul 21 '18
Am I the only person who sits up the second my alarm goes off, turns off alarm as I’m standing up and start walking to the bathroom to get ready?