I have a difficult time waking up some mornings. I used my default phone alarm for a long time but it eventually became ineffective. I got to the point where every once in a while I could walk across the room, open a drawer, and turn it off without even waking up.
I downloaded an app called Alarmy that makes you kind of jump through hoops and do some kind of activity to turn it off which forces you to actually wake up. Like I have to go into the other room and take a picture of something. But the app is not great for battery life and is also just so so annoying with notifications (which i can’t just turn off because then the alarm doesn’t go off) so I’m looking to replace it.
Any suggestions for free alarm apps or other alternatives?
The same thing happened when I used default alarm, and sometimes I would hear it as background noise in my dream. What I did was change my alarm to me inhaling and screaming. It honestly scares me into waking up. idk if it’ll work for you but you could try.
I’ve been through plenty of alarm clocks. If I need to be up early, I’ll set my alarm an hour earlier to give myself time to wake up. The louder and more annoying the better. I’ve been customizing my phone’s factory alarm app with the sound of a rooster for a few years. If you must conform to a sleep schedule that’s difficult, consistency makes it a little easier. Same bedtime every single day. Less adult beverages. Exercise. Blah blah blah. The real solution, is making the change to working later in the day. I switched to working nights for a few years and it was glorious. Imagine naturally waking up at the same time every single day without an alarm at all. It’s controversial, difficult to achieve, and people will judge you for it. It’s totally worth it though and I highly recommend it.
I have devised a rube goldberg system that begins with a cup of water. That cup of water sits upon a seesaw scale. As the water evaporates, the weight on the other side tilts down the scale, setting a ball off its rest and down a chute. At the bottom of the chute is a system of dominoes. The dominoes run off in fractal spirals across the rest of the house. The second domino in the line actually falls onto the hairtrigger fan. The rest of the dominoes are just decorative.
The fan blows a paper airplane across the room, it hits my dog in the but, perturbing but unharming him. He kicks and farts, activating the dancing singing cactus toy. As the toy gyrates, the string tied to it feeds around a one way cog, tightening the string with each wiggle. The string, looped in a noose around my big toe, will quickly tighten, threatening cell death if I do not get out of bed within a few minutes.
Buy multiple cheap super loud alarm clocks. (Look up super loud) The kind with bells on the top. Put one beside your bed, one in your bathroom, one in your kitchen. As many as you can. Set them all to go off at the same time. They are very annoying.
One idea: try creating a habit where you do something that’s stimulating (like drinking a glass of water that you put out the night before) to help you wake up.
