<p>So, I'm gonna be a freshman this fall. However, I have a bit of a problem getting up. Pretty much all throughout my life, when I've used my alarm clock, it takes about 30 minutes of it ringing pretty loud right next to me for me even to notice it. I guess I'm a pretty heavy sleeper, so it takes that long for me to notice the alarm clock. I do get up when I realize it's ringing, and I never use the snooze. Since I've always had my own room, I haven't had any problems with anyone. However, I'm about to have a roommate, and I don't want to annoy the crap out of him in the mornings. I'm only gonna have two 8:30 classes a week, but still how should I resolve this problem or try to somehow become better at getting up?</p>
<p>When I first used alarms it wouldn’t ever wake me up…now it is basically the only thing that CAN, something about the noise just makes me wide eyed now. Even if I hear a similar noise when I am already awake I get more alert…just instinct now. I don’t know how to duplicate it with someone else unfortunately…go to bed early is really the only thing I can think of for now. What sort of noise does your alarm make?</p>
<p>my roommate my 2nd yr sadly did not care if he could sleep his alarm and i couldnt. needless to say we were only roommates one semester.</p>
<p>i mean, it really takes time. a good suggestion is to get a good night sleep. i now that sounds corny and you are going to be awake a lot of nights, long into the night during college. but even now just start getting on a constant sleep schedule or somewhat constant sleep schedule. i have my body trained to where a lot of times i can wake up right before my alarm when i am on a somewhat normal schedule. it may seem stupid, but once you start waking up around the same time, it will be easier to wake up. and if you had enough sleep, your body will already be rested enough and will be easier to wake up.</p>
<p>radio. The stations get different every now and then. I also have a hard time trying to go to bed early lol</p>
<p>Get the alarm that shakes your pillow.
Start using it now to see if it is effective.</p>
<p>Music has never made me wake up…try a loud buzzing or beeping, and I never used the one that shakes your pillow…but I had a friend that shot a propeller into the air and whouldnt shut off till you put it back on the clock.</p>
<p>@TheVet those are some good ideas! i think i do tend to get up around the same time if i keep a constant schedule, and yes, enough sleep may seem key.</p>
<p>@Batllo alarm that shakes my pillow? where can i get that and what is it’s name?</p>
<p>I will have to try out your guys’ ideas. Thanks!</p>
<p>Please please please find something that wakes you up the first time. I had a roommate this summer after coming out of a year as an RA, and being an RA has made me a pretty light sleeper. My roommate would snooze her alarm at least 5-10 times per morning, and she would set her alarm for at least an hour earlier than anyone else in the house. I never slept through to my own alarm. -.- I know no one does it to be a jerk (at least no one I’ve heard of), but it can be very frustrating/annoying for a roommate.</p>
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<p>Definitely gets something that shakes the bed. I always felt really guilty about sleeping through part of my alarm, and I know it irritated my roommate to wake up to a Gregorian Monk Chant really early in the morning.</p>
<p>You could get headphones and put them over your ears while you sleep and set your alarm to that.</p>
<p>I also recommend a bed shaker. Those usually work for hard sleepers.</p>
<p>Me on the other hand. I usually wake up 5 or so minutes before my alarm even if I don’t want to and I’m like super, super tired. And like if I want to get up early to watch something (like the Tour de France) and it starts at 6:30… I miraculously get up at 6:30 without even setting an alarm. It’s so weird.</p>
<p>My boyfriend has the sonic bomb alarm and only uses the bed shaker it came with, wakes him up well.s</p>
<p>My roommate and I both had a tendency to hit the snooze three or four times, but we just used our cell phone alarms and within a week we didn’t really hear each other’s alarms anymore. I would hear hers sometimes but subconciously I guess know it wasn’t mine and fall right back asleep.</p>
<p>I also needed to use the alarm for my morning classes, but didn’t want to annoy my roommate who didn’t have class til noon and would often sleep in. So I slept with my earphones in and set an alarm on my iPod. The earphones got irritating after a while, so I bought headbands with earphones in them, and that worked out pretty well.</p>
<p>Use the alarm in ur cell phone. Set it to gradually get louder. Set it to vibrate as well. Put it in ur pocket. Boom. You’re good</p>
<p>I’ve had a roommate for two years now, and I have had varying experiences with their reactions to alarms. One roommate was fine with my alarm except when it would go off multiple times in the morning, so I had to learn to take off the extra alarms once I was awake. It also helped that we had similar schedules. My other roommate, on the other hand, would act majorly annoyed when my alarm went off. Then, she would send me a text message in the middle of class about how annoyed she was with my alarm. She would also grunt and throw her pillow over her head. The thing about alarms is this: THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE LOUD. Otherwise, what’s the point? Everyone’s got to get up at some point, and NO ONE should compromise being prompt to class because he or she is afraid to set an alarm. Just remember to turn it off once it’s done its job; that’s what I’ve learned.</p>
<p>So your roommate has no choice but to hear your alarm go off? </p>
<p>and you just turn the alarm off by hitting the snooze button right? haha</p>
<p>Just wear earphones with you to bed and connect them to the alarm.</p>
<p>Both my roommate and I could sleep through a tornado my freshman year, his parents were cool and bought us the Sonic Boom Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker (supposedly 130 decibels but I think it is about 2/3 that.) They really are awesome. You honestly can not drink enough to sleep through it because they put out 130 decibels, your dorm mates will be banging on your door for you to wake up and turn it off!</p>
<p>If you can not find one, you can go to your local truck stop and get a Screamin Meanie. Truckers have been using them for years and believe me they live up to their ad: “Will wake you, your neighbors, and the dead.” It has three volume levels: 70 decibels (Vacuum) 90 decibels (Lawnmower with engine) 120 decibels (Chainsaw with engine at full throttle)</p>
<p>Thanks for your ideas guys! However, for me, the only thing wrong with the earphone idea is that i move a lot in my sleep, so the earphones would probably get annoying and even fall out, but i will try it. And i am liking this bedshaker idea more and more. If the earphones thing doesnt work, ill probably end up with the bedshaker lol</p>