maleficent

They wouldn't have invented a snooze alarm, if they hadn't intended for it to be used... Jeesh - that'd be a waste of perfectly good technology wouldn't it?

With the snooze, i don't go back to sleep, but it gives me 12 minutes to stretch, to plan my day, to just not get out of bed -- especially nice on those cold winter mornings when I've forgotten to close the window.... (and if you aren't alone in that bed -- well - it gives you time for that too... (they could call the sex button)

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*Nikki*

When the alarm goes off the first time and wakes me up I am usually sound asleep. I cannot go from being sound asleep to standing in a matter of seconds. I need those nine minutes that the snooze provides to acclimate myself to being awake.

Mizizing

The wall clock in my bedroom is 12 minutes fast, but not because it gives me a head start. Because I'm too lazy to change it in the morning, and don't care at night.

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Frowning Budah

I like to set my watches to the second, but for some reason I set the bedroom clock ahead 30 minutes. Yes I know that it doesn't make sense, but I can sometimes fool myself in to thinking it is later so I should get up and get going. It just sounds later when you say it.

cartmen34

NO!!!

I do not do this with any of my clocks for the exact reason you mention... I'll know that I actually have 15 minutes to spare, I'll screw around some....and wind up being late anyway. It has never worked for me, or anybody I know who does this, as they all wind up doing the same thing I do.

I'm just a big time waster.... that's why I'm here instead of doing work or schoolwork!!

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spectre

I don't run it fast. I just leave it on the other side of the room so I have to get out of bed to turn it off.

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Nafter

I have a bit of a veriation of the second sleep thing, i set my alarm for 3 snooze hits before i get up, so i half wake up, see the time, hit the snooze, then fall half a sleep, untill the next and so on, the sleep inbetween is incrediably relaxing for some reason, and im usually pretty prepped to get up by the last alarm.

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Glava

My alarm clock is set on normal time, and has always been like this, even when I had to wake up at 6:15 for three years. Deceiving myself won't help me.

water_boy1999

Every clock and watch I use is 20 minutes ahead of "real time". All but my wrist watch. Like destrox, I also wake up about 1 minute before the alarm goes off. I have yet to figure out how I do it, but it has happened for years.

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Paradise Lost

I think like everybody else here, we all set it ahead, but when we wake up, we
remember we set it ahead, then fall back asleep and dream about Shania Twain (or whomever.)

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Cicero

I have an obsession on keeping the exact time. Before discovering www.time.gov I used to call the local time and weather and set every timepiece in the house to the time I’d get over the phone. What I have done in the past was a bit unique. If I had to be up at 6am, instead of agonizing over every last minute, I would have my girlfriend set the alarm clock to a time between 5:50 and 6:05. Something about the randomness that lead me to stressing out less about exactly what time I was to get up. Strange.

matteo101

I wake up 45 minutes early and hit the snooze about seven times. I can get to sleep ilike five seconds after i hit snooze. Every seven minutes I look at the clock and each and every time i trick my brain again. It is an amazing feeling knowing you have seven more minutes to sleep.

la petite moi

nwlinkvxd used to set it 20 minutes forward. Yep.

tooth

I used to do all the tricks that others have mentioned. Setting the clocks fast, set the alarm early so you can hit snooze a jillion times, two or more alarm clocks. Whatever.

Setting the clocks ahead is pretty silly, since you know you did it anyway. Doesn't take long before you're just using up that extra time.

Setting the alarm for a much earlier time than you need just so you can hit snooze? All that you are doing is robbing yourself of those extra minutes of sound sleep. Regardless of how fast you can doze back off. You have still interrupted your sleep cycle, and it will not give you anymore quality rest. Ever fall asleep for 5-10 minutes in the middle of the day? Makes you feel worse when you wake up, than if you hadn't slept at all.

What it came down to was just conditioning myself to get my ass out of bed when the alarm goes off. If you need a few minutes to stretch and collect you rthoughts to wake up, go ahead and hit snooze. But, DON'T LAY BACK DOWN. Sit on the edge of the bed or just stand up and stretch.

Destrox

I am truely amazed at the number of people responding that do this, I just cannot see the point behind doing it.....

Just set the alarm earlier, not the whole clock!

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:::OshnSoul:::

yup, i do- and the bathroom one too, those are the only ones I look at in the morning, so it really makes me believe that it's later than it really is. Isn't it funny how you can easily forget that you played a trick on yourself?

MSD

Half of my clocks set themselves to atomic time, it's not going to do much good to set them to the wrong time.

maleficent

It's really stupid, but the worst part is I'm so used to my clocks being set fast, that when I'm in a hotel, I have to have the clock set fast, otherwise it bothers me, and it never fails that housekeeping resets it back. (one hotel had this stupid clock that got it's time magically some how and was always correct, I couldn't set it ahead unless I went to a different time zone... that made me crazier(

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HockeyGuy

I have two clocks in my room and one of them is 20 mins fast. DO i realize that it is 20 mins fast... yes? BUT if in a rush i look at that clock and it makes me hurry, if even jsut for that moment.
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ForgottenKnight

I need a new alarm...
Currently I'm using one alarm clock and my cell phone's alarm. I set them for different times approximately the time I want to wake up. Both have different snooze time amounts, and both are away from the bed to where I have to get out of bed to get to them. The problem is that the phone turns to snooze automatically after it's done playing it's 30 second to 1 minute alarm chime, and the alarm clock will automatically turn itself off altogether if I don't get up to turn it off in one minute. That means that when they go off, I end up telling myself that they're turn off on their own meaning I don't have to get out of bed. Thus, I have determined I need to buy one that won't turn off on it's own.

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waltert

I do the same things, and also always set my times in weird incriments. i'll set it 17 minutes fast and have it set to go off at 6:43am. my watch is 7 minutes fast, and the clock in my car is 15 minutes faster than my watch

EDIT: I also have my cell phone set to go off in 10 minute intervals, starting 2 minutes after my alarm clock goes off

shortynickel

i hate alarm clocks actually...if i hit the snooze once i usually end up turning it off the next time it goes off then i am late

ARTelevision

OK, here goes:
The alarm clock is set 20 minutes ahead of actual time. I don't go back to sleep, I wake up when it rings. The bathroom clock is set 15 minutes ahead. The kitchen clock is set 10 minutes ahead. My wristwatch is set 5 minutes ahead. My cell phone clock is correct, as are the rest of the clocks in the place, including the computer clocks.

This seems to work for us.
...go figure.

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sailor

Oh man, you read my mind. I don't set an alarm for it, but that feeling is orgasmic. Im really tempted to try setting an alarm just to be able to experience it more.

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heyal256

Hmm... My alarm clock is 5-10 mins fast... I think that it runs just a bit faster then "normal" time, but i'm too lazy to figure out the correct time so i leave it at the wrong (fast) time.... Then again the main clocks that I use in my house are always off (vcr clocks). If I really want an "accurate" time, I usually go by my cell phone tho

When I do know how fast my alarm clock is, I do the math to get the correct time, and if needed I will use the extra time to prepare myself to get out of bed.

MrFlux

I have a question for people: instead of setting your clock fast, why don't you just set the alarm to go off at the correct time? Then you can have an accurate clock, and still have the same amount of sleep. You CAN change the time the alarm goes off without changing the time on the clock itself, right?

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Howdee

I tried the setting the clock fast bit.... didn't work. I ended up moving the clock farther away from the bed. After getting completely out of bed for the third time, it becomes very easy just to head for the head instead of the bed.

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Gortexfogg

I've had my alarm clock set an hour ahead for several years now. When a time change comes I just leave it be, so my clock tells correct time half of the year and is an hour ahead the other.

itch vaccine

Haha, I only set my alarm clock earlier

When it beeps I try to keep myself semi-awake with snooze. Then cherish the last 10 minutes of sleep .. muah. Wake up feeling a tad bit fresher.

You can't just jump out of bed with 3 hours of sleep straight away. haha..

kalisto_911

I just moved into the dorms and have set up a different system than I have been using before with good results.

My cell phone has 3 separate alarms on it (why? who knows) but I set one for 1 hours before I need to wake up, 1 for .5 hour, and one for when I need to get up. PLUS I recently recieved one of those Bose Wave radios that I set for an hour before I need to get up but not to some blasting talk radio station, I just set it to the Jazz station at a decent volume so I'm half sleeping, half waking/listening to it for the last hour. I usually am fully operational by the time I need to get up, if not a half an hour before hand.

And I fall asleep about .5 seconds after I kill an alarm usually =)

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CinnamonGirl

Willpower? At 6 AM?

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Mr. Spacemonkey

I set my clock in my bedroom 10 minutes fast on accident once, and I just said screw it and left it there. Now, if the power ever goes off or anything, I always set it 10 minutes fast for some weird reason and the funny thing is that there's really no purpose for me doing it all. I'm just strange like that.

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maleficent

You actually expect me to use logic at 3:30 or 4:00 i the morning? Whateever method works - you use...

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joellp

I've been setting my clock to be fast since I first started using an alarm. Drives my wife crazy now but feels perfectly natural to me.

Chingal0

I also utilize the dual-alarm tactic as much as possible. Altho I mix the random time tactic with the dual-alarm and it really makes for glorious experiences when I wake up at 3:32 and don't have to be awake for another 4 hours or whatever.. Good idea.

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alpha

Back in highschool I used to set up two alarms in my cellphone, because I knew that I can't get out of bed right away. So when my first alarm went off, I could just turn it off and go back to sleep for about 15 minutes. Then the 2nd one went off and I'd really wake up. But this time it's easier to get up because you knew it was coming. Or something... I don't know if that makes any sense but it worked.

Blackthorn

I do that. Then I still hit the snooze button. Then I sleep through the alarm. Then I get really p-o'd because I'm stuck in rush hour traffic that I could have avoided had I gotten my lazy ass out of bed. Then I get even more annoyed because I get stuck parking 69 miles from my office.

What's even worse that this you ask? Well....the days when I wake up before the fucker goes off in the first place Uuuuugh....I am so not a morning person.

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Redgirl

Oh yeah, I always have my alarm clock set fast, and usually I change it randomly so I don't remember just how fast it is. Plus I set my alarm a little early too, so I can snooze a couple of times. I'm still late, but I would probably be later if I didn't do it this way.

I have a natural alarm clock though, so I don't know why I bother to set one at all. My dogs wake me up every morning at 6:30 to be fed. But I do love the feeling on the weekend of crawling back into bed after feeding them and going right back to sleep. I feed them outside, and in the winter after I bundle up and go out to feed them, I can still crawl back into bed and go right to sleep. It's a gift, what can I say?

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