Poll: Alarm Clocks - Do you use one?

Do you use a

  • Alarm Clock

    Votes: 151 28.5%

  • Mobile Phone

    Votes: 323 61.1%

  • None of the above because I wake up at the time I want with my supernatural powers

    Votes: 35 6.6%

  • Pancake

    Votes: 20 3.8%
  • Total voters
    529
I use my phone, with my alarm clock set as a back up for 10 minutes after my phone. I tend to have a bad habit of switching off my phone alarm and going back to sleep.

Plus I had problems with my old phone where it would switch off and restart, meaning that the alarm I had set would no longer be set. Not as much of a problem for me because I tend to wake up around the same time every morning, but my OH works at different times and has to get up at 4:15 three mornings a week - there's no way either of us would wake up at that time naturally so he ended up being late a few times.

My OH, as others have said, could sleep through a sonic boom, so if I ever go away (on school trips and suchlike) I have to make sure I wake up, and ring him again and again, because he would still be asleep with his phone and alarm clock blaring away.
 
I use my phone if I have to be up early for work. Otherwise I use a 5 year old who insists ons shouting for daddy at 7am every morning!
 
I use my mobile phone and an alarm clock...

My alarm clock alarms are set for
6.00am
6.15am

My mobile alarms are set at
5.55am
6.00am
6.05am
6.10am
6.15am
6.20am
6.25am
6.30am
6.35am
6.40am



I am terrible at getting up for work in the morning :o
 
We use the wifes mobile phone but i really need to invest in a proper alarm clock as twice now she has woke up and turned it off without trying to wake me. Luckly im a light sleeper and it woke me too lol
 
I set my alarm for 6AM, but I'm usually awake in the 15 minutes prior to it going off. I think even though I'm asleep I know roughly what the time is and I don't like the sound of my alarm so I wake up before it goes off.
 
I don't use an alarm clock at all. I tend to awake naturally at least two hours before any afternoon raid, dripping in rancid sweat and picking stale Cheetos from my unkempt neck beard. I then limber up by going through my pre-raid routine : finger extensions, knuckle cracks, Gatorade in the portable fridge, adult nappy fastened. If it's a wonderful bright day outside I'll close the curtain to the solitary basement window. The life of a raider is often intense and unpredictable.
 
I usually set phone and alarm clock if I actually have to be up, just on the off chance that one doesn't go off or something. But my phone has worked every time so far. I either leave it on charge overnight or it's fully charged when I go to bed, so battery shouldn't be an issue, but I suppose that's my main worry.

edit: Actually, thinking back, most of the time that I do need to get up I just leave the curtains open and I wake up whenever my room gets to a certain level of light, which was about 0630 last week. Turning an alarm off before it goes off is a good feeling :).
 
I'm terrible at getting up. I've tried one of those things that gets you up during light sleep but I didn't find it worked too well. I don't see how these light things will help as the sun faces my room in the morning so it get's quite bright. I just use my mobile with the same tone as my ringtone so my brain is tricked into thinking I'm getting a phone call and snaps me out of my sleep.
 
I had a radio-alarm thing and it was just perfect until one night the lights went down for hours and my alarm didn't even give a sound. I overslept my work and stopped using such devices. I only have an alarm on my phone. At least it works.
 
I bought a new alarm clock yesterday. It is a Lego Stormtrooper. :D Unfortunately I am now having to share it with my daughter...
 
[FnG]magnolia;21552836 said:
[Ferris Bueller]

"So that's how it is in that family."

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She has the alarm clock one evening, I have the alarm clock the next. She is six.
 
I've started using the smart alarm on my android phone - it uses a basic soundscape setting i.e. "morning", "forest", "rain", etc. and builds up an ambient sound over time starting quiet and minimalistic and getting louder and more complex over about 5 minutes or so. I find I'm waking up in a much better mood rather than suddenly being started from my sleep by a klaxon type alarm blaring out and usually wake up better tho not always.
 
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