Are you a victim or the victor? My wife wakes and sleeps and wakes and sleeps and wakes and sleeps and wakes and sleeps and wakes and sleeps through about 30 minutes of Snooze Buttons each and every morning. She resists my argument that 30 more minutes of uninterrupted sleep would be more beneficial FOR BOTH OF US but she just doesn't seem to see it that way. She says something to the effect that the "defiant" sleeping of delaying the waking process is the most satisfaying kind of sleep there is. I don't agree. Any other thoughts out there? Any strategies for me? Any sympathizers for her point of view?
I also hit the snooze button a few times before getting out of bed. Essentially, its a wake up period rather than an attempt to get extra sleep. It allows me to ease into consciousness rather than just snap right into it. But I can also sympathize with your position. I would suggest that you compromise by asking your wife to start her alarm/snooze thing 15 minutes rather than 30 minutes before you both get up.
This describes my wife almost exactly. The only difference my wife will do it for 45 minutes. IT DRIVES ME BATTY! I work shift work, so a lot of times I've only been asleep for 2 or 3 hours when this happens. I sympathize with ya giddy. I'll set my alarm for the last possible minute, then get straight out of bed when it goes off.
My wife is also a snoozer. I recently got her one of the new cd alarm clocks that have three different alarm types: nature sound, radio, and cd/buzzer. I put in a Tom Jones cd as the third alarm. Now she snoozes just three times instead of five. I always wake up at the first alarm, too.
You need to set that alarm 30 minutes earlier and put that Tom Jones in the first slot.... you know what I mean?! We have young kids, forget that for us. My wife did get a new alarm which is great under these circumstances. It starts off very softly and has a crescendo of soft beeping. Usually she hammers it before it gets too loud.
I'm a snoozer that agrees with your wife giddyup...however I don't want to. I love waking up early, but just can't ever seem to do it. My defiant sleep is only being defiant to myself...I hate it.
I'm a snoozer, too... it's gotten to the point where I give myself an extra half hour or so of snooze time, because I know I won't get up the first time that alarm goes off.
At least she wakes up to turn the alarm off. I sometimes am so tired I'll sleep with my alarm going off up to 2 hours or more. I'd love to be able to get up within a few seconds of it going off. Maybe if I'd go to bed at 8 or 9 it wouldn't be a problem getting up at 4:45 a.m. B
My wife and i have a similar prob, I need to get up around 6 every morning, but My wife controls the snooxe. as soon as that thing goes off she is turning it off, often I dont even hear it, so at 6:15 I finally wake up and wonder why the alarm didnt go off and she is mad at me for not getting up makeing her have to deal with the alarm clock. We both believe that its just bad sleep if you are waking up every 10 minutes, It would be better to just have your alarm go off 30 minutes later, but then your wife would probably just hit snooze for another 30 minutes
I think I have the record for the longest snoozing. one saturday morning, I was supposed to get up and play football with the guys at 8:00 am. I snoozed till lunch time around 12:30.. HAHA! Four and half hours of 9 minute sleep interuptions. it was bliss. (im an idiot, i know )
AARRRRRGH!!!!! My roomate does that EVERY MORNING!!! Pisses me off SOOOO bad! He's in ROTC, so he's supposed to get up and go training every morning at like 5:30! But of course that was only the first few weeks. I usually go to bed before he does, so who knows when he actually goes to sleep. All I know is that every morning at 5, the stupid, stupid evil alarm starts going off. And of course he just hits snooze. There are mornings when I get up before he does. And I don't have class till 9. UGH!!! Death to snooze alarms!
I'm a snoozer, but I make no pretenses about trying to get more sleep. I am not a morning person. I also had a roommate that was in the ROTC. He would sleep in his ROTC workout clothes and had his alarm clock across the room so he'd have to get up to turn it off. This one time I had gone out and come back in at around 4:30. My roommate was suppose to go somewhere early with another ROTC student who I ran into on the way to my room. I sat down in my bed and the ROTC guy pulled a chair out and sat down in the middle of the room. We talked for a little bit giving my roommate a minute or two of extra sleep time. My roommate's alarm went off. He got out of bed walked around the other ROTC guy, hit the snooze and went back to bed. His eyes were closed. We called his name a couple of times, but he didn't respond. He was out. He remembered nothing of this incident when he woke up. After that he saw no reason to put the alarm clock so far away, but left it as loud as it was.
I am a duo-snoozer. My mini stereo first wakes me up @ 5:50am , hit snooze Five minutes later my cell phone alarm wakes me again, snooze. Alternating every two minutes for the next 30 minutes, its snooze-a-looza! This works great for me, but I somehow still manage to get to work late every once in a while!
I wake up when want to wake up - cold turkey. My wife is very odd. SHe is not a snoozer, but: She sets the alarm about 1 1/2 hours before she wants to wake up. It goes off, she turns it off, goes back to sleep, and then wakes up when she originally wanted to wake up. Some kind of odd ritual...
Im definately not a snoozer. I use every possible minute to get extra sleep. I believe the longer you sleep, the better rested you are. I set my alarm clock across the room where i have to get up to turn it off. Unfortuately, if I turn it off and lay back in bed, im screwed. Hot showers are my waking up period. I'll sit in there for 15 minutes enjoying the warmth. At lunch times, I'll go home and take a 15-30 minute nap w/out setting an alarm clock. I do this once or twice a week, and so far I've only been late once.
Hey, check this out; re-arrange the letters of "snooze alarms" and you get "Alas! No More Zs". How appropriate!
Does she re-set the clock for when she really wants to wake up or does she just wake up on her own the second time around? I've actually set my clock 2 hours ahead of when I want to wake up and just set an hour later each time until I need to get up... Then I get to the point where I turn off the alarm in my sleep and wake up in the afternoon on accident...
I always had to use an alarm, but I haven't used an alarm in over 12 years. It's a strane thing, but the biological clock does work for me. My body just knows what time to get up each mourning. It's kinda nice. If I know I have to get up two hours early my body will do that too. I think you would be surprised at how your body will work if you just let it. Throw your alarms away.
I cannot wake up to the first alarm . . . at all. I've been known to sleep through 2 HOURSof snooze. AND ONE OF MY ALARMS IS ACROSS THE ROOM . . . I also have another one that goes off at an alternating 10 minute time interval right next to my bed . . . I can go through HOURS of this. It got especially bad my freshman year of college, as I was able to wake up, walk across the room, TURN OFF THE ALARM, then go back to sleep and have absolutely no rememberance of the event at all. I'd end up missing all my classes that day!
