Waking up to your phone alarm could be putting you at risk

Medical Xpress / University of Virginia ^ | Dec. 19, 2023 | Alice Berry / Yeonsu Kim et al

[ConservativeMind]

It appears best to find a way to get to sleep early enough that the sun serves as your natural alarm. If continuing to use a clock, set it for a relaxing melody. Also, seek to get seven hours of sleep.

These changes could stop the excess blood pressure surge of up to 74% people can experience from not naturally waking up.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Keyhopper]

Simple solution, retire then everyday is Saturday.

[John Milner]

I tell everyone that the best part of being retired is not hearing that alarm going off and realizing I HAVE to get up and go to work.

I still wake up about the same time, but it’s more gradual and I lie there as long as I feel like it until I’m ready to get up. (Except when I feel that urge to head to the loo.)

[Nervous Tick]

I essentially always awaken naturally, and early in the AM (<6AM). And whenever I awaken, once I realize I won’t be going back to sleep, I get up instead of toss and turn. Even at 3 or 4 AM. Works for me. Apparently that’s healthy too.

Mrs. Tick sets an alarm — and when it sounds she usually shuts it off or hits “snooze” several times. Wonder what the effects of that behavior are.

[rlmorel]

Well. I have carried a pager for about 45 years now, and when that thing goes off at 3:00 AM, even still, I levitate about a foot off the mattress, spinning in mid-air, and my heart hammers like a drum.

An alarm clock with any kind of alarm does the same thing. I used to have a “Baby Ben” wind-up alarm clock, and that was just awful. All of that was like having a bucket of ice water thrown on me while someone clangs together ash can lids like cymbals. Just the worst way to wake up.

For many years now, I wake to classical music. But if the pager goes off...well, that is Katy Bar The Door.

[TomGuy]

Kim studied 32 participants over two days.

Settled science.

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[Zuriel]

** If continuing to use a clock, set it for a relaxing melody.**

I like alarms that start barely audible, then gradually get louder. As a kid on the farm, I awoke to my dad yelling up the stairs, “Get up, we got work to do!!”

[Deaf Smith]

>>that the sun serves as your natural alarm

There are many us who have for years left the house before the Sun rose and got home after dark.

[Jemian]

I have long been warning the Hubs that I may kill him when his alarm goes off. Drives me nuts!

[Political Junkie Too]

Waking up to your phone alarm

Then it's a good thing I wake up to an old-fashioned plug-in alarm clock/radio.

-PJ

[PROCON]

I’ve been retired for 10 years and still set my alarm for 5:30 AM because my Army time 50 years ago conditioned me to it; I’m definitely a morning person.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Simple solution, retire”

That solution has worked wonders for me! I had such worries and anxiety when working and I physically suffered. That is almost all gone after six years of retirement.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Kim studied 32 participants over two days.

Sounds like a real comprehensive "study".

[MinorityRepublican]

That solution has worked wonders for me! I had such worries and anxiety when working and I physically suffered. That is almost all gone after six years of retirement.

Work is stressful.

[EinNYC]

I like alarms that start barely audible, then gradually get louder.

My clock alarm works like that, gradually getting louder. But the best kind of alarm is one that PURRS. It doesn't stop. It doesn't give up until nutrients for it are distributed.

[Valpal1]

There are light alarms that slowly increase the light intensity mimicking the rising sun.

I haven’t used an alarm clock in 30 years cause I have dogs that insist on peeing 30 minutes after sunrise or when the neighbor starts his diesel whichever comes first.

[Dr. Sivana]

The second night, they were instructed to set an alarm to awaken them after only five hours of sleep.

That's NOT the same thing as using an alarm to go off after 8 hours as many people do.

I don't use an alarm usually, but I don't see a problem wit it. I also don't hear about people getting strokes with the morning alarm.

[Valpal1]

There are light alarms that slowly increase the light intensity mimicking the rising sun.

I haven’t used an alarm clock in 30 years cause I have dogs that insist on peeing 30 minutes after sunrise or when the neighbor starts his diesel whichever comes first.

[Jeff Chandler]

get to sleep early enough that the sun serves as your natural alarm

Yeah, but then there's morning sex, and up goes the blood pressure.