[PJ-Comix]

Thankfully, such early appointments for me are rare. I have another early appointment next week and then none until April.

[Jamestown1630]

They make clocks, with sound or light, that wake you slowly and gently, starting out very soft or dim, and gradually getting louder/brighter. No alarm.

[NWFree]

Not since I retired

[READINABLUESTATE]

I get alarm clock fatigue after too many burbons the night before.

[Red Badger]

It’s because the alarm clock awoke you during REM SLEEP..............

[reed13k]

The one thing I’m looking forward to when my wife finally allows me to retire is not setting my alarm clock.

I’m a night owl not a morning person - my biological ours for sleep are ~3am-10pm - the alarm clock just adds to the challenge.

[Macoozie]

Have never used an alarm clock to wake up.

I have used Baba O’Riley in the wee hours as a motivational arse-kicker to get moving.

Anybody that complains does not get breakfast.

[eyeamok]

I haven’t had an alarm clock since 1980, go to bed 9ish after drinking at least one bottle of wine and I wake up every morning starting at around 2AM and end up getting out of bed by 3:30AM. If I drink more I can sleep til 4AM, If I don’t drink I get up and out of bed at 2AM.

I only drink one cup of coffee every morning then water all day.

[ansel12]

I lived a life where the alarm clock never really became a part of it.

[The Louiswu]

You're probably getting a little to much sleep, not going to be truly tired and not getting good REM sleep during the night.

This modern age is hard on our brains, the electronics, the simulation, the overloud noise and input can mess up our sleep cycles.

Try turning off electronics and tv at least one hour before bed. Get some exercise before bed or something moderately physical so your body is actually tired and in need of rest. Me, I know my sleep has suffered these last few years, too much sitting watching hockey and football, not enough walking and biking.

A tall glass of water before bed helps and in my case, a nice quiet prayer to Jesus, thank Him for your day and offer him up all the crap that is troubling you, let him handle the worries for the night. That last part really helps me A LOT. Good luck.

[Responsibility2nd]

I’m retired. But when I do need to set the alarm, I usually wake up before it goes off.

Force of habit when I was a wage slave.

[willk]

Remember the Dick Van Dyke episode where Rob doesn’t want to get up and just wants to sleep a little more? Laura tricks him by advancing the time and he wakes up just a minute later and exclaims how much better he feels. Best sitcom ever made.

[OpusatFR]

Don’t worry. Once you retire, you will always get up at the same time you did when you worked, and this time you won’t need an alarm clock.

SO and I are retired for 16 years and have yet to sleep past 7:00am.

[webheart]

I can get to sleep by 10 pm and I get up at 6 am but if I didn’t have an alarm to wake me I would sleep until 9.

[Vermont Lt]

You probably know this. Your sleep, throughout the night, comes in cycles. Most of us wake up every 90 minutes or so. It might just be for a few seconds or so. Enough to turn the pillow or pull up the blankets.

Then, we cycle back into a deeper sleep.

If you can time your sleep start to coincide with your “wake” cycle, that is when you wake up feeling refreshed.

If you are alarm jars you awake in the deeper part of your cycle you will feel like you are underwater and trying to climb to the surface most of the day.

Of course, everyone’s cycles are different. A few nights of making note of the wake up times will give you a sense. Mine are almost 90 minutes on the dot. I used to have to adjust my bed time when I was getting up at 5:15 AM. I HATED getting up a 5:15 AM.

For those of us with bladders over 60 years old...we KNOW what the cycles are. LOL

[glaseatr]

I'll have to let you know in 14 months. My schedule for the last few decades has been in bed by 9pm, and alarm at 3am.

[Carriage Hill]

“... had an early appointment this morning made me tired for the rest of the day.”

Suggestion: don’t stay up until 2:30am, drinking vino and honking doobies. Get some serious sleep... Heh.

[frogjerk]

If you got enough sleep you would have woken up without the alarm clock.

[Tell It Right]

It's not just the quantity of sleep hours but also the quality of sleep hours.

Implementing 1st Corinthian 7:2-5 might help the situation. LOL

[NWFree]

I go to sleep when I feel like sleeping and I wake up when I feel like getting out of bed. I don’t really care what time it is other than just a reference. I usually know from the sunrise anyway

[Dr. Sivana]

My alarm clock says “meow”.