Case 1, case 2

[sniffnoy]

Of course, having a working alarm clock means relearning how to use it. This has always been the hardest part of getting up for me. The alarm clock doesn't inspire quite the same note of panic that my mom's voice does. And unlike my mom, the alarm clock has a snooze feature. Could I perhaps simply learn not to use the snooze feature? No; that would be counterproductive. That would only increase the probability of the real problem ocurring, namely, me turning off the alarm and then going back to bed, waking up somewhere on the order of an hour later. I have, in the past, learned not to do this, but it's not something that's really stayed. To counter this, I have written up a sheet of paper telling me, basically, that I can either hit snooze and go back to bed, or turn the alarm off and get up, but that I must not mix the two. The problem is getting me to pay any attention to this. To that end, I have placed on top of the alarm clock itself, so that, while I doubt I will actually read the paper, hopefully I will remember what it says as I lift it off the alarm. It's still possible I will think only of the alarm and just remove the paper as something blocking my path, but... well, let's just hope not.

-Harry

Comments

[silentalias.livejournal.com]

A far less violent approach to waking up:

Repeat to yourself, as many times as you can while youre trying to fall asleep: "I will jump out of bed when the loud noice shatters my sleep." Your mind will then mull over this for as long as it remains in the drowsy stage of sleep, and will be the first thing you remember when you wake up [unless you wake immediately after, or during a dream, which would just be unfortunate].

Try it, tell me how it goes, so that when it comes time for me to do something similar, I might have a working strategy.

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

For a brief time I had an alarm clock with many features, but strangely enough, no snooze function at all. It made me feel like I was living on the edge of a knife, and I got rid of it.