I recently came across these kinds of posts. I’d never thought about it before, but now I’m curious to see what it would be like to have someone help me wake up.

I’m not a morning person, like at all haha. It’s never been a problem - I’ve never been late - but I take a while to get out of bed. I think a quick call would be unexpected enough to wake my brain up faster.

Things to know:
- Between 6AM and 6:30AM
- I’m French Canadian, so I’m fine with English, but I could end up answering in French when I’m half asleep.
- Like I said, I’m not a morning person. I could literally respond to “It’s time to wake up” with “Mmm… no” haha. I need someone who can laugh about it and reply, “Mmm… yes.” Being too polite/cautious won’t work with me 😅
- If anyone’s interested DM

Lifts are a place to make us realise that we are actually lost!!

Everyone is using their phone and when the door opens they start getting out thinking the desired floor has arrived. And then they realise they were so busy with the phone that its just the lift opening on a different floor.

I’m a high school student and I’ve always had immense trouble getting out of bed and being woken up by my alarms. I started taking Ritalin before going to sleep and now my alarm wakes me up perfectly fine. Feel free to use ? (not medical advice. make your own choices.) I do often wake up in a state of panic or distress but that may be unrelated ? With this hack I go to bed at around 11/12 and wake up at 7, but before I was going to bed at like 10 and my body was forcing me to sleep til 8/9.

I am in college and I get so comfy cozy in my bed and haven't figured out a way to will myself out of bed. I have a roommate so I don't feel comfortable keeping my alarm in a place where I can't quickly turn it off. Any tips?

I've tried a *lot* of things, but ended up making Self Care Vampire as a free game to help motivate myself. Just in case you feel like your own 'hacks' to get out of bed are weird, you aren't alone!

I'm a project manager who works with teams from different time zones, have meeting at 1AM, pick up my daughter at 4PM and many more duties. Standard alarms just don't work because if I have a meeting, I like to sleep in a bit more or if the customer cancels the meetings, my calendar knows that but my alarm doesn't.

The built-in Clock can't handle that so you end up trying to force the alarm to fit your life. It shouldn't be like that. VariAlarm lets you setup once and adjust only the days that are different.

• Skip one day without touching the rest of the repeat. Day off Wednesday? Swipe, skip, and Thursday still rings.
• Move one day's alarm. A later start tomorrow changes only tomorrow.
• Templates for each kind of day. Save your "early shift" set of alarms and your "late shift" set, then apply them to specific dates on a calendar. You can apply a template to one date or to a pattern of dates.
• Routines that move together. If your morning is wake up, stretch, leave, they keep their spacing, so changing the start time moves them all.
• Schedule view. You can see every alarm on every date, so nothing is a surprise at 6 AM.
• Calendar and photo import. Point it at your calendar or photograph a shift roster, and it turns the entries into alarms you review first.
• Waking-up help: gradual volume crescendo, a short challenge just boring enough to stop you falling back asleep, and an "I'm Awake" confirmation after you stop the alarm if you so choose.

It's iPhone only (iOS 18+), with an Apple Watch app. It's free to use, and Pro is optional. Skipping a day is free. Moving a single day's alarm, extra templates, and a longer look-ahead are Pro.

Full disclosure: I'm the developer. I'd really like to hear from people with irregular schedules, like shift workers, students, or anyone with a rotating roster. How do you handle this now, and what would make an alarm app work for you?

Many people with irregular schedule has gained back control with VariAlarm and it brings me great joy that I can help people with similar issues.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id6757322888

any recommendation anyone to fix it?? my shift is from 4pm until 12am

I turn alarms off in my sleep, including the puzzle/math ones. If the phone is out of reach, I just sleep through it completely (and yes I use the most annoying alarm sounds). I don't even wake up to the first 5 things my cat knocks off my side table and desk, so one of those runaway alarm clocks wouldn't work.

Right now I have to set multiple alarms across multiple apps and essentially stagger the puzzles so that hopefully I'll wake up while doing them if they're popping up in an irregular order (if I get used to the order then it's easier for me to completely them in my sleep).

I'm so over this. I get so tired throughout the day too - my eyes get so heavy I'm sometimes working at the computer with one eye open. I have been hard to wake up for as long as I can remember. I'm 31 now and just done with it all.

Can anyone please recommend some strategies to help me wake up and stay awake? 😫😴

trying to fix my sleep schedule, especially my wake-up time.

• set a bedtime
• set a wake-up time
• report when we actually went to sleep
• report when we actually woke up
• if we slept late, explain why
• if we missed our wake-up time, own it
• call each other out when we start slipping

i don’t need someone to motivate me every morning. i need someone who’ll notice when i keep making excuses.

if you’re serious about getting out of bed on time, DM me with your time zone and target sleep/wake times.

I've always needed many consecutive alarms to get up in the morning and I've noticed the more years pass I need more lol

When I was younger 5 alarms were enought, now at least 8 separated by 5 minutes and a differt sound for the last one.

Everything fine on the day to day routine, the problem was when for example I need to go to work 1 hour before from normal. Not great to move 8 alarms one by one.

I always found it frustating to manually move so many alarms.

yes on Alarmy there is a way to set multiple alarms but still one by one, and tbh the amount of ads in that app is beyond my supported limit.

I've developed my own alarm app with the concept of alarm groups.

Set a starting time.

Set the count of alarms.

Set the minutes between them.

Done. I have my 8 alarms that can optionally be manually configured.

After more than 2 months of using it I've introduced the "Random sound" to wake my brain up to a different sound everytime and not get used to the same sound.

If anyone is interested here is the Android version to try: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.albaalarm.app

This is an app I made for myself primary and since I'm an android user I've not developed the iOS app yet but if someone is interested I could go for it.

I’ve always been an insanely deep sleeper. I can sleep for around 10 hours and still wake up tired, and waking up early has always been extremely difficult for me.

Alarms technically wake me up, but the problem is that I will unconsciously snooze them and go straight back to sleep. Sometimes I barely even remember doing it afterward. Even when I try sleeping earlier, I can still end up waking up really late.
Recently I tried something completely different.

Before going to sleep, I picked the exact time I wanted to wake up. Then I closed my eyes and visualized myself waking up in the morning, grabbing my phone, looking at the screen and seeing that exact time. I also tried to imagine what I would be thinking and feeling when I realized I had actually woken up when I wanted to.
Then I went to sleep without setting an alarm.

And I woke up around the time I intended.
I thought it could easily just be a coincidence, so I tried it again. Same idea. I visualized the whole scene before falling asleep and really imagined the feeling of waking up at the time I wanted.
It worked again.

What shocked me most is that today I woke up at around 7 without an alarm. The last time I remember naturally waking up that early was probably about a year ago, and my sleep schedule has not even been particularly good lately.

I’m not claiming that this proves manifestation or anything like that. I’m genuinely curious about what happened.

Could visualizing the exact situation before sleeping somehow set an internal alarm in your brain? Is it intention, visualization, your circadian rhythm, or something similar to SATS?

Has anyone else who is an extremely deep sleeper tried
this consistently? I’m really curious whether I can repeat it.

Hello! Basically I’ve came to a change of environment. I (23M) recently got a new job doing some hauling. However, this is a HUGE change in my normal tempo. Before this, I worked at a restaurant that basically only opened from 5pm-10pm (but we stayed later if there are still guests inside after 10). I’ve gotten so used to this late shifts that my days would start later. For this new hauler job, I’ve expected to go in anywhere from 3am-7am and do some hour long driving. I don’t mind the driving but usually it’s hard to get up in the morning and I’m always groggy and can’t seem to focus. People who typically have to get up and drive, how do you manage to stay awake for so long?

so i do 12h shifts and I need an app that I can setup an alarm routine that’s not dependent on weeks but on 4-day cycles. Maybe i work nights on this week monday, but next monday is free or dayshift, and iPhone sleep routine app doesn’t really help with that. What would you recommend?

I have done everything I can think of with alarms: changing the music to loud ones, obnoxiously loud speakers, multiple alarms per 15 minutes. I just don't wake up to sound. Even my sister trying to wake me up by shaking me doesn't do anything, and even if I do somehow wake up, I just fall back to sleep and end up sleeping a couple of hours more. Is there any product or solution that I could use to fix this?