I stopped using an alarm. I grew up before smartphones, so the alarm was a clock radio. I would hit the snooze button for about two hours, almost every day. I'

I stopped using an alarm. I grew up before smartphones, so the alarm was a clock radio. I would hit the snooze button for about two hours, almost every day. I'd set my alarm early because I wanted some time before having to be anywhere, but then I'd hit the snooze button repeatedly until I had to get up. This made a vicious cycle where I set the alarm early because I knew I'd hit snooze repeatedly. I tried moving my alarm clock to the foot of my bed. It worked for a couple days, then I could hit snooze there without waking up. Then I moved it across the room, and learned to walk across the room and hit snooze without waking up. I got as far as physically removing the snooze button from the clock, taping over the hole, and putting the clock on a high shelf where I had to stand on a chair and a desk to reach it. In about a week I could climb that desk, reset the alarm for nine minutes later, and go back to bed without waking up. That led me to just not setting an alarm. I figured I would probably wake up later than the time I was setting my alarm for, but earlier than when I needed to be up. It worked; I was not late for anything that first week or so. As I got used to having no alarm, it made me pay way more attention to my bedtime routine. I went to bed earlier, because I knew I needed sleep in order to wake up. Instead of being jolted out of deep sleep, I woke up naturally during lighter sleep cycles when it's easier to get up. That was 30 years ago now. With smartphones I set an alarm in order to be up in time to get my kid ready for school, but it rarely goes off; I now have a habit of getting up when I wake up before the alarm. I set alarms when I'm trying to make a 6am flight, but I have also chosen to not set an alarm for important events like exams and conferences and such.