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| Sonicandfails Posts: 840/917 |
Heres my annoying alarm clock, and a little bit of me 
http://www.sendspace.com/file/byal5l |
| Cynthia Posts: 5586/5814 |
Oh I can get back to bed easily if I should have to get out of it for a moment and then head back.  But if I'm up for 5-10 minutes... it's over. |
| Danielle Posts: 6628/6737 |
I used to have a similar problem. I'd either turn it off in my sleep without ever fully waking up to realize it, or I'd turn it off and just roll back over. I decided to follow the advice of this thread and move it across the room, and it works fantastically. <3 Once I get up, there's no way I'm going back to sleep, I'm running for the nice warm shower.
THANKS GUYS |
| Simon Belmont Posts: 1428/1773 |
I've got an alarm clock that starts fairly low, then just keeps getting louder and louder as time goes on, I hate it. I had it set up so 20 minutes after I got around to turning it off it would start again, I was never late to school 
I hate it though, haven't plugged it in since I moved in this house. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4714/5072 |
Originally posted by Juggling Joker The trick is actually doing it.  |
| Cynthia Posts: 5582/5814 |
...the THX sound would blow your eardrums out, and I guess that would wake you up...
I sometimes turn on the light to my room, I really can't sleep too long with it on. I might lie around in bed but not for that long. |
| Juggling Joker Posts: 223/225 |
I usually go to bed at a reasonable hour. Seems to work well. |
| Sukasa Posts: 2000/2068 |
I have to get up every morning and walk halfway across my room to turn my alarm off.... and I usually still go back to sleep. Case in point: Multiple alarms are good if you're like me. |
| niteice Posts: 38/45 |
I'm considering running a cable from my computer to speakers positioned around my pillow. Playing something very loud. Such as the THX sound. |
| Dr. Sophie Posts: 23/32 |
I'm going with the opinion of others: loud, annoying and as far away from the bed as possible.
I used to (ab)use my computer as an alarm clock (using a mIRC timer  ), but I'm not leaving my computer powered on during night anymore, so I switched to a "real" alarm clock.
It's currently standing on my desk, which is on the other side of the room, so I have to stand up and go to it to turn it off. While I do that, I fall over numerous things that are in the way, like my shoes or my chair (or a cat, sometimes). It's not great, but it helps me a bit waking up.
Here is the sound it makes, and it is pretty loud. I can't stand it.  (I suggest turning the volume down if you're using headphones or something. I warned you, just in case.) |
| ICheatAtGolf Posts: 56/98 |
i have a clock i would like to suggest. its a ceiling projector alarm clock. this can be a good or a bad thing. here are the reasons this clock will wake you up for sure:
-its extremely loud -it projects the time on the ceiling, making you feel guilty if you hit the snooze button -the clock must be turned away from your bed, if it is at the foot of your bed, to project the time on the ceiling. this is preferred so you have to actually move to shut it off/hit snooze -because the clock is facing backwards (but the time is still projected correctly on the ceiling) it will take you longer to shut the damned thing off. but this is good, since there is a Lock mode like on iPod that stops you from accidentally changing the time settings. made specifically for people that are hard to wake. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4696/5072 |
Yes, I've been known to turn off the alarm, fall asleep again, then wake up two hours later and ask who the hell turned off my clock. Or someone would wake me up, I'd fall asleep, wake up later and ask why they didn't wake me up. My memory takes a few minutes to start up in the morning.
I like loud alarms because they pretty much scare me awake to the point I'm not going back to sleep soon, but I tend to panic and start mashing all the buttons, pulling the plug, throwing it across the room etc because I can't remember how to shut it up.  |
| Cynthia Posts: 5571/5814 |
Does the clock get you up? Yes? Good.
I know it might scare the piss out of you but at least it does its job. Some people just sleep right through quiet alarm clocks or have a knack for hitting the Sleep button in their sleep. |
| Vyper Posts: 557/575 |
Do you have a stove with a timer on it? That thing is really loud! |
| Sonicandfails Posts: 827/917 |
You should get an alarm that doesn't go EN EN EN EN EN EN EN EN EN EN I suppose. </lawl> My alarm is loud and fucking obnoxious. It goes,
BEE-BEE-BEE-BEEP! BEE-BEE-BEE-BEEP! BEE-BEE-BEE-BEEP! Later tomorrow I will record its dream killing, jump out of bed and let dresser corner meet eye, "hurry up wheres the fucking Buzzer + Off buttons!?", and "SHIT THAT WAS THE RADIO + ON BUTTON" sexiness. If you don't understand that last part, basically it has a Radio and Buzzer button. If you hit the Radio button, the Radio alarm sets, and the Buzzer button sets the Buzzer alarm. But, to turn them off when they go off, you hold in the currently alarming button and hit the off button on the other fucking side of the clock. This done in the dark causes many problems, as you will constantly hit Radio + On, Buzzer + On, and Radio + Off. I never use Radio, so of course I have a 1/4th chance in the dark of hitting the wrong thing. And heres the best part of my clock alarm! When you first hold down the Buzzer button and start pressing the plus and minus buttons to change the time it goes off, if turns the buzzer on the minute you hold in the buzzer button. So if you go by the time it currently is while setting the time, the alarm fucking goes off. Not good for late night alarm setting. Theres a way around, you have to hold in the Buzzer button, hit Off, then start setting the time. I swear, this clock was designed by douchebags. |
| Cynthia Posts: 5557/5814 |
Usually I wake up well before I need to go anywhere (i.e. work) but I also have a pretty loud alarm clock above my bed. It does the job, trust me. |
| HyperHacker Posts: 4684/5072 |
My alarm clocks don't really do the job; they wake me up but I generally just go back to bed afterward. I have one next to the bed that has a rather annoying little beeping sound, then it plays the radio 5 minutes later. 5 minutes after that my DS on the other side of the room goes off. I leave the lid open just enough that it goes into sleep mode, that way the speakers aren't muffled so it's louder. If all that doesn't do it, after another 5 minutes, the clock atop my TV goes BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP at a ridiculous volume, sure to wake up just about anyone (except maybe Xk). The real problem, as I mentioned, is not going back to sleep afterward.
If I really need to get up I set a batch file to run at whatever time; it starts Winamp and plays whatever cool/loud song I choose at the time, on repeat, slowly turning the volume up. (Kirby music works good for this. ) After 5 minutes it plays Bananaphone, then just gives up and stops. This has the added bonus that to turn it off I have to actually get up, turn the monitor on, grab the mouse, open the Task Manager, and terminate the script and the second Winamp instance it launches (even though Winamp is set to allow only one instance  ) because for some reason they're invisible when run this way. It also has the internal speaker going so I can't just shut the stereo off. |
| emcee Posts: 788/867 |
Kind of like another I say that someone made, it shoots out a ping-pong ball, and won't shut off until he retrieves it and puts it back in. Apparently, he outsmarted himself by buying a pack of ping-pong balls to set next to his bed. |
| Tarale Posts: 2566/2713 |
Originally posted by Shadic I like the idea of Clocky, but I've never seen anywhere that actually SELLS it. That site doesn't appear to either. It just appears to have been a concept idea.... I would have hoped after about a year or so it would be available by now  |
| Xkeeper Posts: 5133/5653 |
My alarm doesn't wake me up, regardless of when I go to sleep or what time I'm trying to wake up It's loud enough to let everyone else know it's going off, but all they do is usually come back here and shut it off after it's been blaring for 15 minutes or so. Ironically, they don't wake me up either...
I've managed to sleep through an entire half hour of it, too |
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