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I don't want my alarm clock to annoy me. I just want it to wake up. I'd like an alarm with a gentler, pulsing sound that only gets louder or more annoying if yo
by cpeterso 10y ago
I don't want my alarm clock to annoy me. I just want it to wake up. I'd like an alarm with a gentler, pulsing sound that only gets louder or more annoying if you don't get up soon.
I found an Android alarm app that tried to wake you when you're in a shallow sleep phase. IIRC, the app would quietly ring 45, 30, and 15 minutes before the wake time you set, so if you happened to be in a shallower sleep phase then you would wake more naturally. I stopped using it, though, because the phone UI was too annoying to use as an alarm clock.
- Kluny 10y agoI was thinking the same thing. I don't want to wake up angry. When someone figures out a way to wake me up that feels like being gently kissed by a loved one, prodded by a dog, or the smell of frying bacon and fresh coffee, then they'll really have something.
- crooked-v 10y agoYou can get coffee makers (including, I'm sure, K-cup variants) with timers. The "bacon alarm clock" is also a real thing, being basically a timer-driven toaster oven with precooked bacon in it, but that'd be a bit more worrying to run automatically than just a coffee maker.
- codyb 10y agoYea, I just stopped using alarms unless I'm going to get less than six hours of sleep. Sometimes with six hours I'll set one for six and a half hours from when I'll be sleeping just in case but the vast majority of times I wake up before my alarm anyways. I guess I'm lucky in that I fall asleep quickly the vast majority of the time but when my girlfriends cacophony of noises alarm goes off it is an instantly irritating way to start my day. Just awful.
- jquast 10y agoI found the fitbit watch vibration alarm to be very gentle.