Is it really that bad to extend that super-quality a little by hitting the snooze button for like an hour?
It probably is. So I'm always looking for ways to mess with my future waking self. Sometimes I'll make the alarm clock fast by strange numbers ( 5 or 10 minutes is too easy, needs to be 9 or 23!)
So I got the idea of putting a lamp on a timer to assist in the getting the fuck up procedure.
I got this little baby:
Its easier to set and doesn't make a whirring sound like the mechanical timer I used before it. It even has a random feature so the lamp goes off sometime between 6:00 and 6:30 for maximum fuckery.
This morning I was in that awesome dream twilight. In the dream I was chilling in a misty forest and I looked up at the sky and the dream froze, cracked, and then fell into little pieces.
It as the fucking lamp going off at 6:01.
That was a horrible way to start the day ( and I was in a rotten mood most of the day) so I'm only going to give the random feature one more chance.
Also, I've been thinking a lot, and I think the best way to get up is to get up exactly when the alarm goes off. Every morning.
I will try that eventually
My internal clock is at odds with my working hours and I cannot adjust my working hours more than I already have so I hit the snooze a few times too. I even have to get up to do it but it doesn't deter me at all.
It's so dark in the morning 6:30am when the alarm goes off that I just don't want to get up.
yeah, I always wish I could just get up when my alarm goes off. but I simply can't. I snooze for an hour. Yes, an hour. though it's getting to the point that i'm becoming immune to my alarm clock. I also learned that after snoozing for an hour, it simply stops going off. Very dangerous. so I had to set the backup alarm.
You'd think that if you have to be up at 5:30, just set the alarm for 5:30, and get up then. instead mine goes off at 4:30, and I snooze. I'd probably do better to just sleep soundly for that last hour... But there is just something about the alarm going off and being able to think "nope, not quite yet". And I have gotten really good at falling deeply back to sleep in those 9 minute intervals. :)
I get up as soon as the alarm goes off... the suffering is shorter for me that way.
I use two alarm clocks - both set for different times (ahead) and one of them I actually have to get out of bed to turn off. I still manage to hit the snooze button at least 2 or 3 times each a.m. Then I go wake up my daughter by flicking on her light - rude - but it usually works.
I get up at just about 9:00am exactly everyday regardless of the clock. Its freaky. I think it is because I take my medicine at 9:00am evey morning so now I am just in the freakish habit.