r/GetOutOfBed

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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. 😭

I am in college and I get so comfy cozy in my bed and haven't figured out a way to will myself out of bed. I have a roommate so I don't feel comfortable keeping my alarm in a place where I can't quickly turn it off. Any tips?

I turn alarms off in my sleep, including the puzzle/math ones. If the phone is out of reach, I just sleep through it completely (and yes I use the most annoying alarm sounds). I don't even wake up to the first 5 things my cat knocks off my side table and desk, so one of those runaway alarm clocks wouldn't work.

Right now I have to set multiple alarms across multiple apps and essentially stagger the puzzles so that hopefully I'll wake up while doing them if they're popping up in an irregular order (if I get used to the order then it's easier for me to completely them in my sleep).

I'm so over this. I get so tired throughout the day too - my eyes get so heavy I'm sometimes working at the computer with one eye open. I have been hard to wake up for as long as I can remember. I'm 31 now and just done with it all.

Can anyone please recommend some strategies to help me wake up and stay awake? 😫😴