Comments on: Clocky: hitting that snooze alarm

By: Lorelai

Lorelai — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:29:48 +0000

I got a clocky for christmas, because my sister thougth it was fun. All that happened is that I was awake but started the day pissed off every day. the thing would wheel under the bed, get stuck and sit there until I got the broom to get it out, meanwhile my husband who get’s up way later than me, was wide awake too and just as pissed off.

now i got myself one of those fancy sleep cycle alarm clocks which works like a charm. i get up much easier and don’t wake anybody else.
it’s this one I have: http://www.axbo.com/axbo/CMS/CMS.aspx?ClientID=wff1b458fa-9a3b-4f16-9b39-b1d708c62e06&SiteID=0&GroupID=8&Language=E

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:36:55 +0000

I can sleep through almost any alarm. I once slept through a tornado, dreaming that there was a war going on. A similar thing happened during an ice storm when limbs were falling on my roof.

I have dreamed that I got up, got dressed, and went to work.

The only thing that is guaranteed to get me up at a specific time is another human with a glass of ice water and an evil bent to his/her personality.

Unless… it’s a baby crying. My daughter, knowing my sleep habits, was just amazed that I got up with her every time my newborn granddaughter cried.

By: MissJean

MissJean — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:01:07 +0000

I turn my kitchen timer on to 7-8 hours. That way, if I sleep through my alarm clock, I wake up for the timer because I’m afraid of something BURNING (it’s a cooking thing).

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:51:57 +0000

When I was in college and living in a single, I placed the clock radio all the way across the room and had it go off with both the buzzer and the radio at the same time. It didn’t matter. Either I would get up and hit the snooze alarm and then walk back to bed, or I would lie there drifting in and out of sleep as the subsequent alarms went off. People who lived way down the hall would be able to hear my alarm when they walked into the hallway on their way to the bathroom.

Now that I have two dogs, I find that they usually keep me from oversleeping, as one of them usually wanders over to greet me every time the alarm goes off and he hears me moving in my bed. He’s not completely reliable in the winter months, but unfortunately, he’s all too reliable after the sun comes up on weekend mornings when I’m trying to sleep in.

Nevertheless, I do not think I would care for the clocky at all. It would put me in a very bad mood, I suspect.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:39:57 +0000

Cats are not reliable; some days Ingrid decides she wishes to be fed before the alarm is set to go off and other days she’s happy to start the day by snoozing away.

I bought a clock with a loud and unpleasant buzz and put it across the bedroom so I have to get up to turn it off and by that time I can usually convince myself to stay on my feet.

By: Oh, bother

Oh, bother — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:28:35 +0000

My worst clock radio experiences: 1) Waking to “The Ride of the Valkyries.” Whether you’re a fan of Wagner or of Warner Bros. cartoons, that one will get you. 2) Waking to hear a news item that my bank had just failed (this was in the ’80’s when such things were less common).

Both Snooze and Sleep are inventions of the devil.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:42:28 +0000

When I was in HS in the late 50s-early 60s I had a wind-up “Baby Ben” whose alarm was so loud and jarring that I placed it across the room on my desk so I would have to get out of bed to shut it off. Got so I would automatically wake up just seconds PRIOR to the alarm setting, Iand would–in one single fell swoop–throw the covers off, leap out of bed, traverse the room in a single stride and punch the off button rather than endure the sound. Worked great on cold winter mornings! Once you were up, you were up.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:15:56 +0000

I am not surprised your liking radios when in sleep mode, given your NY origins of mucho noise 24/7. My roommate my freshman year in college was from West End Ave. in Manhattan, and he once drove me batty turning on the radio to go to sleep, waking me up. Though to his credit, when he found out about my reaction, he pretty much stopped that behavior.

I was raised in the county, and am accustomed to waking up without an alarm. I use alarms when I HAVE to get up. Immediately.

By: rickl

rickl — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:02:44 +0000

Clocky sure looks intriguing. I’m not sure whether it would fascinate or terrify my cats, but the potential for much merriment and amusement is definitely there.

Cats are not 100% effective as wakeup devices, in my experience. Kira usually manages to get me out of bed, but sometimes she falls down on the job. Cats like to snooze too, after all, even more than humans do.

By: br549

br549 — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:05:02 +0000

I was a night owl as a young man. Now i like to be up before the sun. Where did I go wrong?