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i have a job and i usually work mornnings. And that means i have to wake up around 530am. I have a really loud alarm clock but im a hard sleeper and i dont hear it.
It usually has been going off for around 15 - 30 mintues before i actually hear it.
Dont tell me i need to go to bed earlier. i go to bed around 10 pm. And i cant put the alarm right next to my bed because ill end up turning it off.
Anything that will help me get up with the alarm?
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Hi.
Have you blasted the alarm loud enough?? If not turn it up all the way. If that doesnt work, try to find a louder alarm clock. If THAT doesnt work then put it in a pot and when it goes off the vibration would make even more noise and with a pot you would have to get up (if your arm isnt long enough) reach in and press the off button. By then you will already be up and you could start getting ready.
Hope that it helps!!
-Yoliv
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I had that problem all through high school and I first few years of college. I finally got it under control now that I work early every morning.
Here's what you can do.
Set your alarm 15-30 minutes earler. I had to set my alarm an hour early sometimes just to assure that I would wake up. Don't put the alarm next to your bed, put it so you have to get up and walk across the room to turn it off. This might make it so it's easier for you to get up.
I would try not to use the snooze button. Try to get up as soon as your turn your alarm off the first time. It will make you less tired in the morning. If you try to get that extra ten or fifteen minutes of sleep, then you'll never want to get up, and you'll be more likely to not be woken up by the alarm the second or third time around
Try getting a new kind of alarm clock. You might be desensitized to the one you've been using. Perhaps if you get a more annoying one, instead of simply a louder one, then it might make you wake up easier.
It also might help if you wake up earlier on your days off. Getting in the habit of waking up early, even if it's not 5:30, but perhaps 8 or 9, will help you wake up at 5:30 on the days that you have to. If you wake up at 5:30 five days a week, but then sleep till noon on the weekends, then you'll be in the habit of sleeping till noon on monday through thursday, and then the cycle will start all over again.
But, if you get used to waking up early-ish every day, then it might get easier with time.
the downfall of this is that it will be harder to sleep in on the days that you really want to sleep in, but, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
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haha ahh i'm the same way. you could just set it for 15-30 minutes earlier.
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It's horrible having to get up early, and so hard.
You could try putting the alarm clock in a saucepan. This intensifies the sound rather a lot, but it might wake up everyone else too.
If you put it out of arms reach you will have to get up to switch it off. Then, as you are up, you may as well stay up and and get ready for work.
Sorry I can't think of anything else, but you do have my sympathies.
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you just need to set it earlier. thats what i have to do.
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Gee... that sounds all too familiar! I am the same way!
And I fully agree with you that going to bed earlier doesn't help, so you won't hear that from this chick. And yes, setting it next to the bed is never a good plan because the snooze button and the "off" switch are the enemy.
What I do is set my alarm to go off sooner than I need to get up. In your case, you would want to set it 15-30 minutes earlier. That gives you the time you need to hear it going off and have it actually wake you up.
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Try buying a bell alarm...the ones with the bells on top that ding as the alarm. They are super loud and you can't hit the snooze button. I hope that helps.
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