Not hitting the snooze button?

[brianmanahan]

i hit snooze for 45 minutes. i have been doing this for the last 20 years. there's no way to avoid it, i just can't get up early enough.

my default sleep time is 1 AM and default wake time is 9 AM, but this won't be feasible until i retire...

 

[SparkyJJO]

I'm not a morning person either. I still think a 2nd shift job would fit me the best as far as my awake/sleep cycle tends to go. 8-5 job feels like it clashes with that. But most jobs are 8-5 so it is what it is. I manage, but on weekends I'm not awake until past 9 at the earliest

 

[Ruptga]

I'm not a morning person either. I still think a 2nd shift job would fit me the best as far as my awake/sleep cycle tends to go. 8-5 job feels like it clashes with that. But most jobs are 8-5 so it is what it is. I manage, but on weekends I'm not awake until past 9 at the earliest

I've worked 3:30-midnight before, and it's not much better. It didn't mess with my sleep at all, but it was basically impossible to do anything or see anybody. I think 11am-7pm would be near ideal for me, that or 10-6.

 

[Captante]

Is this where we are supposed ot say pics or ban?

Pics of OP hitting the snooze-button?

 

[ITDAD]

Does anyone have any tips on how to NOT hit the snooze button in the morning? I've developed a really bad habit of it.



I started putting my phone out in my office area, but lately i'll just get up and grab the phone then walk back into bed and go back to sleep.

Set your phone alarm to something loud and then put it out of arms reach...on a dresser or something, so you have to get up to go get it....is what I would have said if I hadn't read your second paragraph.

How about this...be a grown up (for just long enough) and don't get back in bed.

Or, when you get up to get your phone, pull all the blankets off the bed?

 

[Leros]

I use an app that makes me do math problems to disable or snooze. I set it to make me do 3 math problems to disable or 10 math problems to snooze. By the time I've done 10 math problems, I'm awake enough to not want to snooze anymore.

Note: math problems may not work for somebody in college who is still sharp at math. In college, my math alarm app taught me to do integrals while half asleep. Now that I'm out of college, adding two digits numbers is complex enough to require my brain to wake up.

 

[steadly2004]

I used to have an alarm that was so loud it scared the crap out a me, unable to relax back to snooze. This cured me for a while. I'm back to snoozing now, as the wife didn't like to be scared awake, but it really worked. So loud and ear piercing it scared me unable to snooze, and keep it near your head to be extra loud. This along with going to bed earlier helped.

 

[KeithTalent]

Never understood the snooze; I've never used it once. I set my alarm, I get up. End of story.

KT

 

[brianmanahan]

Never understood the snooze; I've never used it once. I set my alarm, I get up. End of story.

KT

how????

i still feel so freaking tired when i wake up, and the times if have got out of bed right away i usually just fell back onto my bed and slept some more.

 

[KeithTalent]

how????

i still feel so freaking tired when i wake up, and the times if have got out of bed right away i usually just fell back onto my bed and slept some more.

I always feel tired too, but I set the alarm for a reason...

KT

 

[Engineer]

Me too. She's nice.

:whiste:

j/k


You know that's pertinent info you left out.

No you're not. She really is nice.

I still have a regular alarm clock and have to get up, walk around the bed and hit the button. Usually, I sit in the chair and check e-mail (with my eyes half closed) and other stuff to try to keep me awake. I often lay back down and it's a miracle that I don't oversleep more than I do. Wife gets up about the time I leave so her clock would keep me from being too late.

 

[brianmanahan]

I always feel tired too, but I set the alarm for a reason...

KT

i guess im just not convinced that the reason is good enough to get up :biggrin: