• @[email protected]
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    112 days ago

    My bodies interal clock is spot on 99.9999% of the time. The one time it’s wrong and im late for my own funeral

  • @[email protected]
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    112 days ago

    I used to need a bunch of them, then I got old and started going to bed at 9 almost every night and now I wake up within five minutes of 7 o clock EVERY day.

    Probably would have been that way all along if not for all the drugs and alcohol I guess

    • @[email protected]
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      My wife will sometimes say she’s setting a “mental alarm” when she’d like to get up at a certain time but it’s not actually critical to be awake then and she tends to wake up right around then. There are plenty of times she wakes up one minute before her real alarm, too.

      • Zagorath
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        714 days ago

        Does she sleep a consistent schedule & get enough sleep, or is she able to do this despite waking up after 5 hours of sleep at a time that’s 4 hours earlier when working than on weekends?

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        See, I can do this, and often do. I wake up at 0730 naturally and it’s a great feeling when I wake up a couple of mins before the alarm. But I do set an alarm - because I’d never, ever bank on it.

        Sod’s Law I’d sleep in when I need to catch a flight.

      • @[email protected]
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        113 days ago

        I kinda have to figure out when i want to wake up before i go to bed, and then it’s enough. I have never used an alarm in 20 years. I just know when i wanna be up and i wake up before it. Sue me.

      • Spykee
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        Your wife’s probably a witch bro. Tomorrow she’ll say she regularly gets a good night’s sleep. Witches man, I’m telling you.

      • @[email protected]
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        The worst part is when its a weekend and your alarm isn’t going off at 6am but your body wakes up at 5:50 with a paniced feeling amyway

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          I really hate that I can’t get a lie in on the weekend. Kids wake up and my brain wakes up. I’ll have to start going to bed earlier…which I hate. I want to stay up and play video games and wake up late. But I guess I’m becoming an old man and need to embrace the old man life.

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          The worst part is when its a weekend and your alarm isn’t going off at 6am but your body wakes up at 5:50 with a paniced feeling amyway

          I hate it when I wake up with a panicked feeling of amyway. I broke up with Amy like 6 years ago now and she still haunts my dreams.

      • @[email protected]
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        1414 days ago

        Just drink a ton of vodka. You’ll never have to worry about waking up before your alarm goes off.

  • @[email protected]
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    414 days ago

    I used to always wake up like 1-5 minutes before my alarm. Since moving that has changed though and my internal clock is lacking nowadays.

  • Miles O'Brien
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    I don’t need an alarm.

    I wake up every few hours regardless.

    And I’m always awake about 20 minutes before my alarm, no matter that time I set it to.

    Existence is pain

    • RQG
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      Set your alarm to 20 minutes after you want to wake up. Come on, that was easy.

      • Miles O'Brien
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        214 days ago

        I’ve legitimately tried that, even tried no alarm at all.

        The no alarm is a bad idea just because every so often I just sleep right on through, if I’ve had a particularly harsh day.

        I think my brain just goes “you sneaky fuck, I know you REALLY want to get up at 7 so we are getting up at 630ishjust to be sure.”

    • @[email protected]
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      213 days ago

      Yeah! And drink a bottle of whiskey if you have to wake up late and can’t be bothered to cancel the multiple alarms in your off day.

  • dream_weasel
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    714 days ago

    Having kids removed the need for alarms. The whole house is awake between 630 and 7 every day.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 days ago

      Hint: it wakes up so punctually because it can hear the mice scratching in the walls, who are reacting to your boiler starting to heat the pipes at 7am sharp.

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    I usually wake up around 5-10 mins prior to my alarm if I slept the right amount (around 6 hours). In the rare occassion I get woken up by my alarm I feel the rest of the day like shit (very tired, annoyed at evrything, very sensitive to light, need 10 coffees to survive).

    • socsa
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      214 days ago

      Same. If I am in a good sleep routine, I consistently wake up about 10 minutes before the alarm goes off, especially in the spring and summer. In winter I am somewhat more likely to immediately fall back asleep because I don’t hear the birds chirping.

  • @[email protected]
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    213 days ago

    The trick is to figure out how long you sleep naturally and go to sleep that amount of time before you need to wake up. Doesn’t work for insomniacs unfortunately.