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Do you use the Snooze feature on your alarm clock? I've got into a habit where I set my alarm half an hour earlier so that I can press Snooze twice before having to get up (my alarm clock snoozes for 10 minutes). It's much nicer to get up that way, although I find myself getting neurotic about when it will next alarm. Also the ten minute gap actually feels like two minutes when I'm comfy in my nice warm bed all wrapped up.

I admit to doing the same. Although my snooze is only for 5 mins each time, and stops after 30 mins. So I set another alarm as a "last chance to get up" which goes off at 6:40.

I never actually manage to get back to sleep during the snooze periods. But I don't think I could ever get up after just a single alarm.

Futhermore, I'm often awake before the alarm first goes off at 6:00, but the minute I hear that sound I feel sleepy again!

I don't have an alarm clock. I rely on my body clock.
Think it may need servicing though, as i tend to be late or early. Never on time. Usually late though.
I don't wear a watch and every clock in my house tells a different time.

I've got a big LED clock which is radio controlled from the transmitter in Rugby. It's accurate to within 5000th's of a second. Which is nice.

I'm usually always on time for work or appointments. The only thing that ever causes me to be late is either traffic on the roads or late trains/buses.

usually when I wake up, I think to myself (in a daze) "mmph, I'll get up when my alarm clock stops ringing." Maybe I shouldn't set it for 5 30. At least I'm always up before 7 though.

I foolishly don't use the snooze button, which led to me once lying in and arriving at work an hour late. It's part neurotic, part dreariness.

Goodness me, all you early birds.

I'd hate to have to rise before nine.

And I'd hate to have to get out of bed before ten.

You'll all be able to do that when you get your pensions.

If you press snooze twice and it's ten minutes at a time, surely it's only 20 minutes before you get up not half an hour? I do the same though, press snooze twice for 10 minutes each time, but then i still stay in bed for a while after that too.

nodnirG kraM wrote:

Nick Harvey wrote:Goodness me, all you early birds.

I'd hate to have to rise before nine.

And I'd hate to have to get out of bed before ten.

You'll all be able to do that when you get your pensions.

I thought the elderly were meant to get up at 5.

but nick can't use his bus pass till after 9.30

Jamez wrote:I've got a big LED clock which is radio controlled from the transmitter in Rugby. It's accurate to within 5000th's of a second. Which is nice.

I'm usually always on time for work or appointments. The only thing that ever causes me to be late is either traffic on the roads or late trains/buses.

Radio controlled clocks are always useful especially when it comes to changing between GMT and BST. The radio signal however, now comes from Carlisle not Rugby.

My alarm clock has a strange 8min snooze function for some reason. Though I normally have the radio come on for 10mins and then the alarm... much nicer "gradual" wake up!

Mine is the strangest of all - it's a NINE minute gap. I set my alarm a full TWO hours before I need to get up.