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- theantidote, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Windows users can use iSnooze: http://ita.progoth.com/
Plays an iTunes playlist for you at a certain time. I'm gonna use it. I'll have my alarm clock set for 6:36 (I dunno why but I've always set it for then) and my computer set for 6:00. - bdevel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wow! Everyone is trying this... Tomorrow maybe the most productive day the world has ever seen!
- BryanJK, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1source?
- arestme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I just need a caffeine IV drip on a timer. :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@TokenUser
Then thank you for taking more time out of your Real Life™ to teach me that having one means throwing 60 hours a week at being a better wage slave. Maybe one day, if I wish hard enough, I can be a lonely programmer too! - dimplemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried the experiment last night. First alarm was the radio playing classical music at a low volume (6:30 am). The second alarm was set with the standard buzzer at 7:15 am.
I woke up about 6:45 am and I felt refreshed (and relieved that I didn't have to wake up to the buzzer!).
I'm gonna try it again for tomorrow morning but at an earlier time...stay tuned. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You don't need to buy a new alarm clock for this.
Just set up a scheduled task to launch your CD player / mp3 player.
On Windows, it goes like---
1. control panel
2. scheduled tasks
3. repeating even for 7am (or whatever)
4. launch: c:program fileswinampwinamp.exe /play
The /play switch might come before the filename, I don't remember, RTFM.
On Mac OS X, google "cron wrapper". - 3rdparty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+02 potentially interesting sleep-cycle products;
http://waterflavored.blogspot.com/2005/04/conclusive-sleeptracker-watch-review.html
http://axonlabs.com/pr_sleepsmart.html - Schmitty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This actually works pretty good, and if you get into a pattern with it, you can discard the alarm clock altogether! I have one, but I can count on one hand how many times I've turned the alarm feature on. Go to bed 10-11 or so, read for a bit, fall asleep, 7 1/2 hours later I'm up and running. Every person is different, so the alarm clock idea is good to start with. But if you can, you feel much better during the day if you wake up naturally.
- veenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You gotta remember to turn it on too ;)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've tried this for two days and even though I still hate waking up in the morning I feel great all day! This is my method:
4:00am: a really low volume Jazz station
4:30am loud buzzer
snooze till 5am but Im no longer in a deep sleep and Im only getting about 6 hours of sleep. Before this method I was tired and yawning all day.
Dude, this really works. All you skeptics, give it a try! It can't hurt. Besides, you have to have to wake up anyway right?
~mario - muffins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I did it last night :) Worked grrrrrrreat.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I gonna give it a try this night, i can only wake up if i tune my radio to a mid-station place, where u get all the noise, and let me tell you sometimes i wake up in a panic just because of the damn alarm clock! ZZZrrIzzRii= !_!
- rabugniph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I use the Snoozester.com to wake me up. I love the characters.
- altidude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm gonna give this a try...
- thunkamunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Interesting. I'd be down to try that if I can manage to find another alarm clock, I aint cashin out $50 for an alarm clock.
- meatypuffs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I usually set two annoying-beeper based alarms each morning, just to guarantee that i'll wake up, setting the earlier one to quiet music is definately worth a shot, I think I'll incorporate that tomorrow and see how it works. dugg.
- tooaru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Included this in my FW post of a kewl $20 shipped alarm clock I recently found.
http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/534271/
hope OP doesn't mind. didn't want to retype the whole two alarm clocks/better sleep concept. - Philbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I did something like this for a while. I have one $20 alarm clock that has a radio alarm and a buzzer alarm which can be set independantly. So since the buzzer is more annoying and sure to wake me up I'd set the radio alarm for 7:15 (for example) and then the buzzer for 7:30, so if the radio didn't wake me up the buzzer would. I have also seen a relatively cheap clock that had an alarm that started quiet, then got louder and louder until you woke up.
- squeeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is like my calling. I always used to go to sleep at 12:00am and wake up for school at 7:30 and rarely did I ever feel tired. This year I have a spare so I've been going to sleep at 12:00am and sleeping til 8:30, I always thought that was a genius idea, but I've been tired as ever and unmotivated to do anything. Tonight, I'm going to give this a shot, with my alarm clock and iSnooze. Hope it works. :D
- hitmark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like a computer alarm clock. Try this http://www.respectsoft.com/weather-clock.php
- Deicidus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've been doing this for two days--it's great!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ TokenUser
How often do you take time off from your Real Life™ to engage in baiting-for-sport on nerd blogs? - asplodzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.geocities.com/vinodtandon/cac/
College Alarm Clock - been using this for a while now doing the same thing... 'cept 45 minutes after this goes off, 3 other clocks around the room blast me, one of which is an X-10 controller that turns on all my lights too. :-) - sterbacblu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it's funny to read this cuz i just started doing this about two weeks ago...sometimes my regular alarm isn't reliable so i've been using my cellphone, which has a very gentle tone which progressively gets louder (playing some weird song)...so using that to get up and then setting the other at my 'emergency time' has been paying off real well...nice to see the method is working for other people
- TokenUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@nariposa - not everyone sleeps with their computer. Some of us have real lives.
- raindog469, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I guess I've been doing this for a long time.... set the clock radio for, say, 8am, at a low volume, and then set my cell phone to beep loudly at 8:10.
But yeah, too many articles on sleep. At least this one doesn't have "hack" in the title. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some people might call it lame but I think this is worth a shot. It can hurt to try especially when you finally get 8 hours sleep but you still feel like ***** in the morning.
~mario - bezrend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0sbasund: My BIOS settings means my computer turns on at 7am - the only problem being it does it on weekends too.
- Linuxrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just use my stereo. I have Motorhead wake me up. Which in my opinion makes me happy.
- grendel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0somehow
as of late sleep or the lack of seems to have infaltrated digg
one would think, we could have an end all post that just says "sleep is good" - Lebowski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I nEed SleEp....BaDly...I'll try this out a.s.a.p.
- veenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, it wasn't meant to be a lesson on sleep, I just wanted to give a very brief background on the sleep stages to get some insight as to what you're trying to accomplish. As for counting the number of stages of sleep, REM is different than NREM, so many consider it to be the "5th" stage (and so does the wikipedia page). I didn't call REM sleep the 5th NREM stage, just the 5th stage of sleep. I also never said anything about how the sleep cycle changes during the night, but the fact remains that you go through different sleep phases and you go through the "light" stages, which I'm proposing (as do the commerical products) is when you should try and wake up.
- cressida81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So can i expect to see a bunch of results posted here in the morning? its going to be interesting to see what everyone's results are.
- blhack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0computers don't take that much to run...
please tell me you are joking? Computers are practically the most energy inefficent thing you own. - HarrySlone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Good article, but he is off in a few things. According to the psychology courses that I have taken, there are 4 stages of sleep, not 5. In REM sleep the alpha waves are most like those in stage 1. Also you do most of your deep sleep early in the night,(For most people the first 4 hours). This is when your body does most of it rejuvenation .After that you your mostly in the lighter stage of sleep, and spend longer periods in REM sleep. This is why most dreaming occurs in the morning hours of you sleep.
source 'Psychology' 7th edition, David G. Myers - Nessguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Couldn't hurt. At the moment I just have 2 alarms set to buzz and I always hit snooze on the first one. I'm gonna try this.
- skewh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This seems crazy enough to work . . . I think I will have to try this system.
- Squill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0One thing that I find helps me out is that my cell phone can play any ringer I want to use as the alarm. So I use the most pleasant ringer I can find. Set that as my first alarm and if that doesnt wake me up have my nuclear cicket alarm clock go off 15 minutes later.
- siouxmoux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are some dumb enough to pluck down $500 dollars! to buy that way over priced Alarm Clock from Bose.
- lnknpk04, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Worked pretty well this morning. Needed up between 630 and 700 so i set the soft radio to go off at 600 and the buzzer at 700, I woke up at 620 feelin good. also, I got my self-setting, dual alarm digital clock at walmart for 7 bucks.
- SilentSpyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Finally a use for my dual alarm clock!
- wiregen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried this tonight after reading this article since I can never wake up on time for class.
It actually worked.
Set the alarm to 6:00am playing some mellow music, woke up around 6:30 feeling great! - I hope this is my answer to sleep problem! - jdgtrplyr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'll have to be one of the many who will most likely try this method. I've got so bad that when my alarm goes off, my immediate reaction is to get out of bed and get the thing off; seems to happen every time now.
I've realized that if I get less sleep, I feel better during the day. Strange. - mdweezer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here is another great OSX alarm clock that I use:
http://www.embraceware.com/awaken.html
Cheaper than a real alarm clock and has a lot of functionality - ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Interesting. I'd be down to try that if I can manage to find another alarm clock, I aint cashin out $50 for an alarm clock."
I got mine for $5 at walmart. - peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I just wake up. No alarm clock needed.
- dombi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yep... I am trying this tonight as well. I really need to be waiking up in a better mood. :-)
- laserone, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0But what I don't get is that I dream really quickly after falling asleep, not five hours into it. If I sleep on the couch for two hours, I have very intense, long, drawn-out dreams. This and most articles say you don't hit REM until hour five or so.
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