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| racketboy - Jan 29, 2004 |
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Des-ROW | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| Place your alarm clock far away from the bed. | |||
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Scared0o0Rabbit | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| I just installed an alarm plugin for winamp last night. | |||
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Gallstaff | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| put your alarm clock in some sort of box with a lock on it. That way, you have to snap to it to get the key and unlock the box then hit snooze. Thats what I do. | |||
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racketboy | Jan 29, 2004 | ||
first of all, then I probably wouldn't hear it. Second, I like to be able to see what time it is (without buying a second clock) | ||||
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Nadius | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| Go to bed earlier. | |||
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racketboy | Jan 29, 2004 | ||
tried that -- doesn't help much unless I go to bed at like 7 or 8  All my body cares about is what time it gets up. 6:30 comes early | ||||
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muffinman943 | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| place like 4 alarm clocks around the room. | |||
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Mask of Destiny | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| Someone I know at college has this alarm clock for the hearing impaired. It's got a flashing light and this pad that vibrates or something. | |||
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Scared0o0Rabbit | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| I once introduced my alarm clock to the wall. They didn't get along though, and the wall won. Man I miss that clock. It set itself to the atomic clock. | |||
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Shitface | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| If you have an alarm clock with 2 alarms, as i use too, then set one for like 3am so you wake up and want to go back to sleep. Then you see that you can and you are happy. Then when 6:30 comes around its not so bad. | |||
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Gallstaff | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| Hey thats not a bad idea. My friend has an alarm clock designed for this exact thing which i just remembered. Its really loud and to turn it off you gotta hit the button like 5 times, then turn a knob on the back of it and flip 3 switches in that order. | |||
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dibz | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| This one is easy. Buy a beagle, mine gets me up early morning about that time going BARROOOOOW and wanting to pee. Kinda sucks tho, since in the morning its about -20F right now, -40F with windchill. brr. | |||
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ExCyber | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| This might sound odd, but the only thing that's ever worked for me is to count down from 10 (just in my head, not out loud) and "just get up" when I hit zero. For some reason it's a lot easier to get out of bed with the countdown, but maybe that's some kind of subtle behavioral conditioning from playing too many timer-based video games. <_< | |||
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mal | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| I find that it's my motivation that affects my waking the most. Monday was a public holiday here in Oz (Australia day) and I was out late that night - untill about 3AM. I had to get up at 7:45 to go to work . I knew before I went to bed that I really had to be up and ready to go. I woke 5 minutes before my alarm.  Then again I don't need (or at least don't get) much sleep, so that probably helps too.  | |||
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IceDigger | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| Yea, dogs help ALOT. | |||
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Dyne | Jan 29, 2004 | |
| man ive never in the past 5 years or so awoken to an alarm. i grew up FEARING the sound of them. its just so unnatural and bad for you to be woken up that way. i still set one but for some reason my body always knows to wake up at least 10 minutes before it goes off. its like its trained to not get scared anymore. but if i dont set the alarm i never get up. its really weird. | |||
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it290 | Jan 30, 2004 | |
| Hahah, this is great. I've had some serious 'waking up on time' problems in the past, and sometimes still do due to the lenient nature of my job. Anyway, here's what I used to do when I was single - I had an electronic timer device that had one of my automatic turntables plugged into it, which in turn was plugged into my hi-fi which I left turned up quite loud. I would use that in lieu of an alarm clock and put various records on there - usually the Superman movie theme, which crescendos nicely and is very good to wake up to, but occasionally other soundtracks such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers or Altered States when I was feeling weird. That way, the only way to turn it off was to actually get up and walk to the stereo. You can do the same thing with an mp3 player and a cron job or Windows scheduling. It's basically the same thing as the 'place the alarm clock away from the bed' thing, only there is no snooze and the sound is much more enjoyable. | |||
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Gallstaff | Jan 30, 2004 | ||
I use an alarm, but I have it set to the radio | ||||
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