What's the relationship between you and your alarm clock?

My alarm clock runs and hides. Really – it is a small robot. It jumps off the side table and runs under the bed – screaming its little head off. You can buy them on-line.

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we have a daily rendezvous that terminates after 2 snoozes.

I always get up right away, archaically, (smile) because if I fell back to sleep and had to wake up again, I’d want to do murder!!

I hate my alarm. I think I’ve said before that waking up is the worst part of my day. I typically hit snooze until the very last minute. Although, now that I have the iHome alarm clock with my iPod on it, I do enjoy waking up to music that I’ve picked out. I like to wake up to soothing music. Nothing worse than starting off my day to eee eee eee.

We no longer acknowledge each other. I don’t set it anymore. And it doesn’t wake me up when it is set.

It’s quite dysfunctional. Violent, sometimes. Sometimes it just doesn’t go off, probably to piss me off.

It buzzes, I get up.

I use my phone for an alarm clock. Always set it for a little extra early so I can snooze. Now that I think of it, I dont think I have ever gotten up exactly when it has gone off. Mornings are rough :\

I do the same thing you do. Set it way early and snooze snooze snooze! Haha I hate my annoying alarm clock so much!

We have a good relationship; I ask it to wake me up so that I have precisely one hour before I leave, and it does by singing classical music at me.
What sucks is the getting up, but the alarm clock can’t help any there.

Love-Hate

Music won’t wake me up. I set them to the loudest static I can find on the radio. And I put them on the other side of the room. That way I have to get out of bed to turn them off. Luckily, I barely ever have to get up by a certain time.

Usually I invite her over for one-night stands every now and again. She does not do a good job usually though, so I don’t see her much any more.

Such a shame, she had such sexy hour hand…

I try to get up at the same time with my alarm everyday, and it’s not too bad getting up. It goes off, I turn it off, then I lay in bed and listen to music for 15 minutes then I get up. Works perfectly.

My poor alarm clock has to be put on its side if the alarm is to go off, otherwise, the thing sinks into the body and won’t ring. Thus, in hearing it, the time always is 45 degrees off, and I am always alarmed at the strangeness of what the time appears to be—until I get it.

I’m a morning person, so we’re on good terms.

Love – hate

I lean more towards hate

I use my cell phone too. I set 2 alarms, one for 6 and one for 6:30. I always hit “dismiss” when the first one goes off and snooze then get up for real on the second. I don’t know why, but that’s how I like to do it. I think I like the warning before having to pop straight up.

I have such a good biological clock that I never need an alarm. I just look at the time before going to bed, decide what time I want to get up, and do it.

On the extremely rare occasions when I have to get up really early (or can’t miss something) or when I’m too tired the day before, I set an alarm on my mobile. The first vibration is enough to make me jump out of bed in a second.

I also wake up very easily if there’s even a small earhquake (felt a 2.7 last week), if it starts raining, or if some bird is flapping its wings outside the window.

When I am working nights, I hate my alarm clock…it wakes me a half hour before it is time to leave and I am confused if it is day or night or even what day it is…when I am not working and it wakes me in the morning to get the day going…I love it! I am much more of a morning person…

Strained. IT winds ME up.

I put it on the other side of the room so I have to get up to shut it off. Self motivation, but the weird thing is that 9 times out of 10, I always wake up about 15 mintues before it’s supposed to wake me up. I cannot stand that buzzing noise. So, either I’m smarter than it by waking up early or it’s smarter than me by making me get up earlier because I hate that noise.

I don’t use anything but an early bird toddler.

I set mine for the time I need to be up by and get up first time round. I used to hit the snooze button bt I always found that it made getting up even harder.

actually, it’s 90 degrees off—correcting the 45 above.

I broke at least 3 alarm clocks in 4 years, usually I just bash the thing and hope it works.

As long as it wakes me up when it is supposed to, I have no problem with it. If it doesn’t cooperate, I threaten to replace it with a newer, more modern variation. That usually helps it to see the light and then it is right back to its punctual and reliable self.

I very rarely have to set the alarm since I don’t work full time anymore. On the rare occasion when I DO have to set it, I get up when it goes off. Why delay the inevitable? My internal clock is pretty much set now to get up at 7:00.

I set my clock an hour ahead anyway just so that when it goes off i look at the clock and see the fake time. Then i get up get ready and then i realize that im actually early and that i actually have time to do that homework that i didnt do that day before.

Yeah, parents of young kids don’t need alarm clocks – they will always wake up too early.

Don’t use one unless I ahve to get up for an early flight. I am always awake at the time I need to be although not very happy about it…...

I had an alarm clock once.
It would start going off, I’d hit it and go back to sleep.
We would play that game for thirty minutes every morning.

One day, it didn’t want to play.. then the next day it wanted to play an hour early.
So I ripped it out of the wall, pulling the cord out of the clock and threw it down the hallway.
I went back to bed and we haven’t spoken since.

Now I just use my cell phone.
We have a very close bond. It doesn’t mind me throwing it across the room.

I use my cell phone as an alarm, too. The recharger no longer works very well because I accidently bent a prong when throwing the phone across the room. :-)

I’ve had a long-standing dysfunctional relationship with many, many alarm clocks. On a side note, I also have a love-hate relationship with mornings, I love them once I’ve woken up, hate them before that. Back in the day (lol), I only had a buzzer. It was on, or off. That didn’t work for me at all, and I killed it at the first opportunity. I’m sure the body still hasn’t been found. My new alarm was a wind up, tick-tock, alarm clock with a bell on top. The jangle of that thing was enough to set Ghandi’s nerves on edge. It worked to wake me up for my paper route, but sadly didn’t keep great time (probably because I would “forget” to wind it up), and it had to go.

Then I got my first digital clock from Radio Shack. That was also my first introduction to the snooze alarm, what an amazing invention. It took me months to figure out that I could actually “snooze” for about 2 hours, because I started out slowly, with like 10 minutes. Once I found out it was basically forever, I would set my alarm for about 4am, so I could hit the snooze for 3 hours and enjoy the fact that I didn’t have to get up (teenage logic). But then, that last 30 minutes or so would became hell, because all I could do was worry about that final snooze.

Years went by, and I flirted with many devices, some good, some awful, but one thing I don’t use anymore is any type of buzzer. I generally use the radio, music is best for me (I tried sports radio for a while, but the problem was, I would get interested, and that’s just NO GOOD for sleeping. Go figure, it actually woke me up, and that pissed me off). After trying my cell phone for a while, which was an interesting experiment, I’m currently using an iHome, and actually really like it. For one thing, it adds a whole new dimension on the “front end” of my sleep. To wake up, I can have it play pre-selected music off my iPod, or (my preference) a local radio station. I like the fact that the volume increases slowly when it comes on, giving you time to slap the snooze button before it gets too loud.

One last thing, sorry all for the long story, but I got on a roll…I, for some reason, now set my clock for 20 minutes ahead. On the surface, this is to make my iHome feel virtuous because it’s early to everything. I don’t want to burst it’s bubble and tell it that I just do that because the mental math involved to figure out the REAL time helps me wake up.

Off to bed for me.

Sexual.

I have Theo for an alarm clock… my real clock is there as a sickly smug reminder that it’s the middle of the night when he wakes me up coughing (at the moment) or to tell me how bloody early it is and very very occasionally reluctantly shows me 7:00… and tells me I’ve been blessed with a lie in today!! I sneer at it… maybe I should make friends with it… or make friends with lack of sleep