Do you do this with your CLOCK?
 

For some reason the clock in my bedroom, the one that has my alarm, I always set like 15 minutes faster then all the other clocks in the house.

It is like it reassures me when I see it is "7:00 AM" that it is only really "6:45 AM" so therefore I actually have more time to sleep in and hit the snooze button. It is like I am messing with my own head.

I was just wondering if anyone else does this?

I've tried, but I always just wake up and say, "Meh, I have an extra 15 minutes on top of my normal snooze time, more sleep for me." and go back to sleep. So I find it's best to just set your alarm as late as you possibly can. I'm out of the house in 5-10 minutes after I wake up almost every day.

Once I got out of school, I killed my time manipulation tactics.

But I certainly did the 15 minutes push - sometimes even 30 minutes.

Another tactic, back when I had to get up at 6:00am for school was to use one of those dual-alarm clocks. I'd set one for 3:00am and the other for 6:00am. When I was woken at 3:00am, I'd have the distinct and glorious pleasure of realizing that I still had 3 hours more sleep available. Such a feeling is almost better than sex. I highly recommend it for anyone who cherishes sleep.

I once knew someone who set their clocks ahead quite a bit. The theory was it took her 30 minutes to get to work so she set her clock ahead that amount. So if she had to be to work at 8am, when her home clock said 8:00am she knew she had to leave home to make it to work in time. Too funny, but it did work, drove me bananas when I visited her, but that is another story.

22 minutes ahead. and I set the alarm for odd times, like 5:57 - so it forces me to do the math on what time it is really ( I could just lift my arm and look at my watch, but I don't often think that far ahead)

I don't do it. mainly cause it takes me at least five minutes to get back to sleep so I just see it as wasting 5 perfectly good minutes of being asleep. plus it does nothing to change the actual time that you have to wake up. I would just rather sleep until I have to get up then getting up just to have the feeling of realizing that I get to sleep a little bit more.

I do it. So that clock runs on "faux" time. So when my bedroom alarm clock says 4:40, it's really faux 4:40, which is really fun to say :D

I don't bother, cause I can do math too fast in my head, even when sleepy, I just get up when my 4 alarm clocks force me to...

I used to set mine 18 minutes ahead. I always had a harder time with subtracting the 8 minutes and then you throw another ten in on top of it.....well, by the time I was done trying to figure out whether or not I was oversleeping, I was usually wide awake with about 3 minutes to spare.

I got ALL my clocks 8 minutes ahead, just because I'm always late. Not sure why 8 minutes, but it works... I don't do the snooze thing, getting woke up once is enough

I set my alarm clock fast, and the reason is simple. Sure, I know it's not the actual time, but on the mornings when I'm really groggy, I don't remember that the alarm is about six minutes fast.

By the time I'm awake enough to realize I'm looking at an inaccurate time, it's too late. I've already successfully tricked myself into getting up on time.

Absolutely not. I need to know exactly what the time is so my life isn't distorted more than it is already.

Yes, I do exactly that. And I keep it well out of reach from the bed.

All of my clocks usually read different times, but almost all of them are ahead. Even knowing that they're ahead- I still set my alarm for earlier than I need to get up... and I never hit the snooze- so I always have extra time and nothing to do.

Yep, my alarm clock's 12 minutes fast. I also set it about 15 minutes earlier than I actually have to get up... It doesn't really work anymore, but it's nice to hit the snooze bar a few times.

I do this in when school starts, although, I don't think of it as fooling myself, I like to think of it as giving myself extra time :D

I do it... it's sad... *sigh*

Do it, for much the same reason as others, so I have to do the math and actually figure out what time it really is.

After years of living an 8-minute drive away from my high school and then living a 10-minute walk away from my classes as a first-year in college, I'm trained to leave no earlier or later than 10 minutes before class is supposed to start. My magic formula is to set the clock to whatever time will show me that I have 10 minutes before class when I really have however long it actually takes to get there. Unfortunately, my commute to work on alternate days is twice as long, so my clock is about 25 minutes fast of real time.

I never thought of doing that. When I visited Japan, I was in bed really early every night and I would wake up with the sunrise, orient myself for a minute, and then proceed to have the best 2-3 hours of sleep in my life before starting each day. My homestay family told me that "second sleep" is the most restful, but it never occurred to me to interrupt my sleeping time to have it if I was already going to get less than 8 hours. Maybe I'm not getting your meaning, especially since you didn't say what time you used to go to sleep.

I also remember reading something about delta sleep (the time when your body repairs itself) coming sometime in the 6th hour of your sleep. That's supposedly why your body aches and you feel bad when your sleep gets interrupted in the middle (before delta sleep) even though you get enough hours all together. I wonder how this could work in conjunction with "second sleep." I think I'll try it tonight!

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i haven't read any responses, but this is my take on clocks:

1. My bedroom clock is 2 hrs and 34 minutes fast. That way, i wake up early, have to think about what time it is, then hit snooze three times and i'm good to go. it's just confusing

2. my car clock is 17 minutes fast. that way, i can look at it, see 1:17 and know that i will arrive in pineville at 1:27 real time. it's where i used to work

3. My watch is 10 minutes fast and has no hands, that way, i have to think abuot what time it is and i can think i'm running late, so i'll be early. it is also 5 minutes less than the time between classes in college.

4. My bathroom clock randomly speeds up and slows down...i have no idea why, but it makes for an interesting morning....

lots of fun :)

I use two alarm clocks, one is set faster then the other.

As for all of you who set your clocks ahead only so you can hit snooz.. whats the point?????? I really dont get it.. just set it for when you want to wake up, and get that extra sleep w/out interuption.

I often (4/7 days of the week on avg) wake up 5-10 minutes before my alarms ever go off. Its weird, and I dont know how my body knows what time it is, but it does that. Often when I wake up on my own like that, I feel more awake those days.

I just get out of bed when my alarm goes off. Get some willpower!

Must... resist... willpower...

"fast" or "ahead" is all relative. All my clock and my watch are 8 minutes faster than the clocks at work, 5 minutes ahead of classes at one campus, and the same time as the clock at the second. It'd be too much work to be ahead for the third one, so I know that as long as I'm there by the time on my watch, I'm either on time or early for every place.

I have a small child. The requirements for an alarm clock have completely disappeared in my house. He is always hungry before I would normally get up :(

I never considered any mystical or otherwise significant aspect. Essentially, I discovered this tactic from two distinct experiences. The snooze concept, whereby you set your alarm a bit early (or fool with the correct time) so that you can enjoy a few minutes extra sleep, was always nice. But then one night I woke up and I thought the alarm had gone off and I was terribly disappointed that my sleep time had been so seemingly brief. I looked at the clock and it was still the middle of the night. So it dawned on me at that moment that I would be able to sleep for a few more hours! As my head hit the pillow it was one of the most pleasant experiences in my life.

So I duplicated it manually by means of a dual alarm system.

I was never awake, per se, during the brief interruption. It's only a semi-awareness, half-second of time to kill the first alarm. But I was able to achieve the same feeling as my head hit the pillow.

Ah ... man ... I love sleep. :)

i dont set the actual time ahead. but i usually set my alarm 15-20 minutes before i really need to get up so i can snooze it.

over summer i had a three snooze system going. i had to be at work at 8am. set my alarm for 7:18. snooze 3 times at 9 minutes apiece. 15 minutes to get to work.
got to work about 5-10 minutes late everday though. luckily my boss set the punch clock ahead 15 minutes just cuz we were all lazy asses.

Hehe -- yeah I do it too. But by 5 or so minutes though.

Curse the Snooze Button!!! I keep mine set right, but my clock has a dual alarm and is set across the room. I have one alarm set 15 minutes to a half hour apart. eventually I end up snozing both alarms. That usually gets me up though. I used to have one of those loud old fashon windup alarm clocks, but that stopped working when I threw it across the room. Damn, that thing was anoying.

yes. our bedroom clock is 12 or 13 minutes fast. the GF just asked me the other day why it was like that. i didn't have a good answer. i told her if she wanted to change it, go right ahead. but she didn't. she just left it. we have no reason now other than sloth. or indifference.

but like spindles, we have no need for an alarm. we have a 23 pound alarm who wakes us every day around 6 or 7.

we're always late anyway (always have been) but at least now we can blame it on the kid. ;)

Yeah, I always keep mine 20 minutes fast. My brain is programmed that way now and I cant change it.

8 minutes fast... but my alarm(s) are set on my computer which are accurate. That way I supposedly wake up when my alarm goes off, look at the clock next to my bed and say "oh I have less time than I thought"

I'm living a lie!!

The wife sets them ahead of time, but not even the apocalypse would awaken me. I can sleep through death metal blaring in my ear, so I can sleep through anything.

Mine is 28 minutes fast, its been that way for 18 years ha ha ha

I used to set my alarm clock ahead as well, but I found I still laid in bed for far too long after hitting the snooze button so much. And when I finally did drag my arse out of bed, I was really tired and dopey.

A couple of years ago, the power went out at night and turned off my alarm. When I woke up - pretty much the time I should have - I found that I jumped out of bed and actually felt refreshed! I spent the next month or so developing my internal alarm clock, and now I can get up when I want and feel fully refreshed (95% of the time, anyway). I would suggest that to anyone!

I read an article on this a while ago, and it suggested that if you let yourself wake up when you are supposed to (using your internal body clock) then your body adjusts itself so it is fully awake when it's time to be. Circulation, brain, heart... All slowly start waking so you are ready to go when it's time to be. If you use artificial means, it takes most people time to get fully awake because you are essentially starting right from scratch.

I keep all my clocks on time. If I set it ahead then I know it's ahead and I just ignore it until it is the real time I am supposed to get ready. However I don't usually have a problem getting up on time. It's all about the willpower. I like to get to work early so I can leave early...

My clock is always set to the correct time. It seems silly to me to set them ahead, but that's just me.

Intresting, that would then proove my previous statement of:

I tried that approach once but my aim got really really good at throwing whatever was closest to the bed and hitting the snooze alarm.

No clock in my house is correct. I don't even know which one is the closest. My alarm is about 10 minutes fast. At one point in life, I had my alarm 45 minutes fast. It's a false sense of security, but worked for mr. sleepy head.

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? :D

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)

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.

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.

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.

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!! :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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.

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.

nwlinkvxd used to set it 20 minutes forward. Yep.

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.

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!

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?

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

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(

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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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.:lol: Thus, I have determined I need to buy one that won't turn off on it's own.

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

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 :(

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.

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.

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.

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?

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. :lol:

Peace

Howdee

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.

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..

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 =)

Willpower? At 6 AM? :lol:

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. :D

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

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?