if you wake up without alarmclock - how?

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work sent us all off to a mandatory training.
half of it was about mental health and the instructor went on and on how bad it is to be woken by an alarm clock.

is it really?

I suppose that my work wouldn't like prople strolling in at 5am or 11 depending on individual rhythms...

My bladder is quite reliable 😂

I wake between 5 and six every day. Not by choice. It’s very annoying. I really wish I needed an alarm clock.

Didn’t anybody ask in the session?

The modern workplace makes me feel so old….

Because I have a child

I wake up naturally at about 7 anyway.

My father in law will just go to bed earlier, by how much earlier he needs to wake up, and that works for him! Blows my mind.

Phone…no need for an alarm clock, but I definitely need an alarm

A couple of tricks that worked in the past. I look at the time before bed and then tell myself what time I want to wake up in the morning. Sleep with the curtains open then natural day light would some how wake me up.

I asked - the instructor just said somethinv about going to bed before midnight (ha!) and never waking up during the night (haha!)

I use the alarm function on my phone and have it set to gentle music that starts really quietly. It's much less startling than a shrill alarm.

I went through a period in my 20s when I would often wake up at almost exactly the very same time each day. So much so I kept a note of the times by the side of my bed to keep track as it fascinated me. I got to the point where before checking the time, I would guess what it was before looking. Low and behold many times I was only a few minutes out!

I didn't always go to sleep at the same time, but my body clock woke me at a regular morning time before my alarm went off. I'm now in my 40s and this has vanished.

waking up with first light doesn't quite work when it's dark until into office hours...

I wake naturally by 7, it’s very rare my alarm wakes me at 7.45. Partly age i suspect (I only sleep 6 hours max), partly habit and partly that I rarely stay up beyond midnight even in weekends so my body has a rhythm

I think I can see what they mean. The noise is kinda intrusive. What about soothing music or quiet talking on the radio/podcast? I guess it might not wake you if you're still tired. Being woken by another person might be better? Just with a gentle voice?

Having enough sleep so you wake naturally I guess? Like I go to bed at a certain time and then wake up roughly the same time each day. With a window of about an hour. I sleep really badly though so wake a lot in the night.

I do usually wake around the same time each day, but I wouldn't rely on it for having to be out of the house for work or an appointment.

But I do recommend a sunrise alarm - Lumie and Phillips are among those who do them, and it's a much gentler way to wake.

Cats can be very helpful.

interesting to see how some people can do it.

I don’t set an alarm as my children are my alarm clock.

Dogs!

I use my smart watch to wake me.
dh works shifts and I don't want yo disrupt him when I drag myself out of bed get up.

I have two alarms set for 340am and 4am. I wake up at 330am every mon- fri.
Weekends I'm naturally awake my 5am.
My day is an absolute disaster if my alarm wakes me up.
Happens three or four times a year.

when dc were small I needed an alarm so I had half an hour to myself before the mad day started.

I wake up to the vibrating of my Apple Watch. So does DP then we don’t disturb each other if we have separate wake up times.

I would have said that using a watch o'r mobile is still using an alarm click, just not the old fashioned sort that gives you a heart attack because it goes from nothing to loud in an instant.

the instructor wdnt on about waking up 'naturally'.

I mention alarm clock, because that wakes people up. by sound/light/vibration...

I would infer the instructor lives alone with no children or pets, whose bladder isn't affected by age o'r medical issues - and has no understanding of how other people might live. I agree that walking naturally probably is best, but it just isn't always practical, and particularly if you have young children, the chances of going to bed before midnight and sleeping through until 7am or whenever without interruption are slim.