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[Angst]

Sparky Clock (CNN)

Has anyone seen this? Apparently it works like this:

When the alarm goes off you can press snooze as with any regular alarm clock. But after you press snooze and goes back to sleep the clock rolls of your bedside table and hides in your room. And it remembers it's hiding places so you'll have to search to find it when the alarm goes off the next time...

Great?

 

[mrklaw]

the geek in me says great. But why not just put the alarm clock somewhere that you have to get up to switch it off in the first place?

 

[Angst]

I do that. But the thing is if I keep the clock in the same position for a long time I will end up running up, turning off the clock and back to bed without really waking up at all...

This way I'd have to search for it as well and then I'd probably wake up for real. But the missus would probably go insane with me searching through the room at 6 AM. And besides, my two dogs would probably freak out when the clock starts rolling across the floor. :lol

 

[Hitokage]

I can get out my bed, turn my alarm clock off, go back to bed, and cover myself back up without fully waking up. It sucks.

 

[Tabris]

I use a 2 alarm system.

First, I have my normal alarm clock, that goes off at 7:25am. Then I have my cellphone alarm clock that goes off at 7:30am.

So that way it covers me if I sleep past or turn off my first alarm clock without waking.

The 2 alarm system has never failed me except in cases of power outage, because then it's just a 1 alarm system (cellphone) and then I have the chance of resisting that.

The only serious flaw in the 2 alarm system is if you wake up on the 1st alarm and forget to turn the 2nd alarm off before you get into the shower. Cause then you have your 2nd alarm going off while your in the shower and that's no good.

 

[BuddyC]

i want it, now. need a new alarm clock anyways, this one has stopped alarming. either it has developed a love for me so deep that it does not wish to disturb my slumber, or the hatred has evolved to the point where it aspires to witness my failures.

either way, it needs to be replaced.

 

[Ghost]

Move over atom bomb, you have been replaced as the most evil invention ever concieved.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

I'd rather have a padded alarm clock that doesn't break when I launch it across my room each morning.

 

[BuddyC]

I'd rather have a padded alarm clock that doesn't break when I launch it across my room each morning.

they have those too.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

they have those too.

Sign me up

 

[BuddyC]

Sign me up

someone else should know where to find them. think a regular alarm clock surrounded by foam.

 

[Joe]

i hate you freaks who can wake up at the crack of an alarm. i have to set my alarm an hour earlier than the time i want to get up because i either A) hit snooze 5 times or B) dont hear it for an hour.

 

[Tabris]

i hate you freaks who can wake up at the crack of an alarm. i have to set my alarm an hour earlier than the time i want to get up because i either A) hit snooze 5 times or B) dont hear it for an hour.

2 alarm system man. You have a cellphone, you have an alarm clock, use them.

 

[Angst]

i hate you freaks who can wake up at the crack of an alarm. i have to set my alarm an hour earlier than the time i want to get up because i either A) hit snooze 5 times or B) dont hear it for an hour.

You're single I assume? I can sleep through an hour of alarm as well. Especially if I've had the same clock for a while and gotten used to it's sound. But my girlfriend kicks me pretty hard if the alarm goes on for too long.

 

[Hitokage]

Now that you mention it, if it's an actual person trying to wake me up like knocking/pounding on the door or something I wake up instantly... although I may succumb to sleep again after a while.

 

[Joe]

i actually used to have a 2 alarm setup going until one of my alarms broke a little while ago. they were set 15 minutes apart and they did nothing. i could have 3 alarms and it'd still take me an hour to wake up and get out of bed. im like a bear when i sleep.

 

[Fowler]

That's brilliant. I so need that.

Like Joe I can sleep through an hour of my alarm too. My alarm is REALLY loud and annoying, but it doesn't matter.

 

[RonaldoSan]

It would get me out of bed for sure, but only to find that fucker and kill it with a bat.

 

[Son of Godzilla]

You know what sucks? Having trained yourself to simply turning off the alarm clock instead of hitting snooze. Just this year, just these few past months, I've suddenly developed the ability to get up, walk 5 feet to a desk, turn off the clock, and get back to bed without ever waking up. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS POSSIBLE.

Edit: It might have sprung up with my habit of staying awake till 5 am and needing to be awake at 7.

 

[SpoonyBard]

I almost always wake up a few minutes before the alarm would ring. But I need to have the alarm set in order to do that. Or at least think so, even if I forget to actually set the alarm I wake up in time.

 

[goodcow]

I have an internal alarm which is amazingly accurate.

 

[Great King Bowser]

They should make an alarm clock that makes random noises.

Hearing the same alarm noise every day means I've conditioned myself not to really hear it nowadays. Also, if it's random you'll wake up a bit more alert thinking wtf!?

 

[RonaldoSan]

Speaking of, my father once told me that he could beat the alarm by a few minutes. I have only been able to do it a couple of times, but it's sure possible. Try to work the exact alarm time through your head before going to sleep.

 

[Rlan]

Set your DS Alarm

 

[Tabris]

i actually used to have a 2 alarm setup going until one of my alarms broke a little while ago. they were set 15 minutes apart and they did nothing. i could have 3 alarms and it'd still take me an hour to wake up and get out of bed. im like a bear when i sleep.

Sounds like you need the... 3 alarm system.

I know you're thinking "does such a thing exist?!", well it's true my friend. There is such a thing. You may need to go to that extreme.

 

[Matlock]

A traditional alarm + college alarm clock (timer proggie on the pc, can set off a winamp playlist at full volume at a specific time!), and it works damn fine.

 

[Litigation Manuel]

I almost always wake up a few minutes before the alarm would ring. But I need to have the alarm set in order to do that. Or at least think so, even if I forget to actually set the alarm I wake up in time.

I do the exact same thing. I wish I didn't though, I always wake up better when jolted out of sleep by an alarm, whereas if I wake up before it I'm still all groggy.

 

[Bboy AJ]

I always set my alarm just in case, but I never really need it. I wake up with an internal alarm clock, which I'm sure my lazy bum roommate loves.

 

[tedtropy]

It's funny, the things the human body is capable of when being awoken by an annoying alarm clock. I place my alarm clock on top of a five-foot cabinet on the opposite side of my bed. Normally, getting up from my bed and to this location would result in me complaining and making old man-type groaning noises as I fumbled for the button. Yet when it wakes me up at the buttcrack of dawn, my unconscious body is able to do this weird u-shaped spring thing, hit precisely the right button on top of said cabinet and then spring back like a rubber band while I push the blanket over my head. This event happens in, oh, about 1/4th a second and generally I'm not even aware of it.

I've also tried the trick where you adjust the clock to be way ahead of actual human time, but it seems to take me no time at all to adjust to Ted-time, look at a clock and go "oh you sneaky bastard, I know that time is actually 33.432 minutes ahead of schedule, but nice try". I may be utterly unambitious in the things that matter, but I'm a pro at justifying lateness.

 

[demon]

The past several years I've always avoided the snooze-button problem by placing my alarm clock as far from my bed as possible. Of course, I always hate myself for it in the morning, but it gets me up.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

A traditional alarm + college alarm clock (timer proggie on the pc, can set off a winamp playlist at full volume at a specific time!), and it works damn fine.

I use this too, but with a cool twist. I set my clock for a half hour before I get up, and the computer clock to the correct time needed to be up. The computer is in another room with a speaker in my room that can't be turned off without yanking the cord.

So the regular clock boots my brain up, and by the time my computer is doing its thing, I am fully awake.

Before I did the dual clock, I tried it only with my computer, and I was STILL able to sleep walk into the next room, turn off the speakers, and go back to bed without waking up. Freaking automatic reactions.

My sophomore year, I was also known to walk across the room and turn my alarm clock off when it was the phone that was ringing, fiddle with the clock in stupor, and then finally figure out it was the phone when my roommate looked at me and said, "ITS THE DAMN PHONE YOU IDIOT!"

Oh, and here is the link to the CAC:
http://www.geocities.com/vinodtandon/cac/

 

[Diablos]

Sounds like Clocky is a smartass, and the last thing I need to do when I get up in the morning is deal with a smartass.

 

[spliced]

Sometimes when I set my alarm I would shut it off in my sleep. I wasn't half awake or anything I would be completely asleep. Then I'd wake up 2-4 hours late and would wonder what happened than I checked my alarm and everything was set correctly so I had to have turned it off.

Another weird thing that would happen to me is I would sometimes wake up minutes before my alarm would go off which was bizzare. I felt like Kramer when he said he had an internal alarm because I would be waking up at random different times of the day because of my job. I know some people set there alarm everyday for the same time and there body gets used to that, but I was waking up at different times all the time so it made it strange how I'd get up just before the alarm went off.

I was never a big fan of the snooze button because I would sleep thru it to much.

 

[GaimeGuy]

My sophomore year, I was also known to walk across the room and turn my alarm clock off when it was the phone that was ringing, fiddle with the clock in stupor, and then finally figure out it was the phone when my roommate looked at me and said, "ITS THE DAMN PHONE YOU IDIOT!"

:lol