u/Realistic-Choice-437

I need some help figuring out a new wake-up system because I am an insanely heavy sleeper, and I always have been.

I’ve tried basically every normal recommendation:

- Shaking/vibrating watches. I eventually just got used to the vibration and started sleeping through it.

- “Sun” Lamps. I sleep under two open skylights, the light doesn’t wake me up.

- Shaker alarms that go under your pillow or mattress. Somehow these barely wake me up, and they usually end up vibrating against my wall or furniture and waking up my roommates instead.

- Extremely loud alarm clocks. Same problem. I can sleep through them.

- My current method is setting my phone to play obnoxious, annoying songs at full volume. This eventually gets me up, but I have to set the alarms ridiculously early because I’ll apparently turn them off in my sleep with absolutely no memory of doing it.

The biggest problem now isn’t even waking myself up. It’s waking up my roommates.

My bedroom is on the third floor of our apartment, but there’s no actual door to my room. It’s basically just a staircase that leads directly up into the room, so any alarm I use travels down the stairwell like a damn megaphone.

This morning my alarm apparently went off for about 40 minutes, and I genuinely did not hear a second of it. Meanwhile, it woke up and really pissed off one of my roommates, which I completely understand.

So I’m looking for ideas for an alarm or wake-up system that is:

1. Powerful enough for an extremely heavy sleeper
2. Difficult to shut off while half asleep
3. Ideally not dependent on blasting sound throughout the apartment

Has anyone dealt with this level of heavy sleeping before? I’m especially interested in things like bed-based alarms, lights, vibration systems, smart-home setups, or combinations of multiple things.

At this point I’m willing to get pretty creative because “just set a louder alarm” clearly isn’t working. 😭

Hi all. Yesterday, I was cooking bacon downstairs in the kitchen for my roommate and I and she went upstairs to take a shower. I didn’t realize it at first, but the bacon started to get really smoky.

The fire alarm started going off and my phone was in the living room on the couch. I was running around for about 45 seconds turning the fans on, trying to get the alarm to turn off, because I knew it was just the smoke from the bacon.

The alarm turned off after 45 seconds and I went back to cooking. A few minutes later, I checked my phone and saw I had a missed call from my roommate from 8 minutes before.

She had gotten out of the shower and called me when the fire alarms went off and I didn’t answer. I texted her back right when I saw I had the missed call saying sorry, the bacon was smoking but all good.

Next thing you know, I am getting the cold shoulder and silent treatment, even into today. I finally asked what was wrong and she said that it really irritated her when the fire alarms went off and it took me 8 minutes to say something.

She said that if she were in my shoes, she would’ve gotten them off and texted her right away to tell her everything was okay. She said she was worried that I had passed out while cooking or that I accidentally started a fire and left her inside without getting her.

I understand the worry of something being wrong when the fire alarm goes off, no questions asked. I could’ve texted her as soon as I got them off, but I just went back to cooking.

If anything, I just assumed she couldn’t even hear them from upstairs because she had the fan on in the bathroom while taking the shower which was very loud.

I sincerely apologized, but idk what to do at this point because she is still giving me a lot of attitude and acting like I wronged her.

What bugs me about this is how mad she is. I think, from my perspective, the silent treatment and cold shoulder she is giving me in person and over text is extremely unwarranted for a mistake like this.

Plus, if she was actually concerned that I passed out while cooking, why did I not get another call or text? Why didn’t you actually leave the bathroom and yell downstairs?

I don’t know, maybe I am overreacting, but I just feel like she is getting way too mad at this. AITA?

*Update* I was led to it by a fellow rebel! Thank you! It was fan-made.

I SWEAR to god - I have a distinct memory of seeing a clip of the 50th Hunger Games of someone (Silka) throwing an axe at a character (Haymitch) and it going off a cliff and then bouncing back. (This was definitely the finale act of the 50th Hunger Games)

For some reason, I picture this being played on a TV at some point in the Trilogy movie series.

Am I making that up?

Was it fan-made?

I can't find the clip online ANYWHERE and no one else remembers it!

If it was fan-made, why can't I find it??

I swear I am losing it!!! Does anyone have this memory or know what I am talking about?