3. TIL that having your alarm go off more than once in the morning doesn't "slowly ...

TIL that having your alarm go off more than once in the morning doesn't "slowly wake you up", but actually makes it harder by causing you to restart the deep sleep cycle over and over again each time you hit snooze

My current set up is a wake up light that blasts simulated daylight directly into my face from fifteen inches away. It is accompanied by a soft alarm and 15mins later my phone alarm goes off, which is situated so that I have to get up to turn it off. About once a month or so I still manage to sleep through both of them.

I was in the military and during boot I slept through being yelled at; I slept through having my bunk being carried outside and left in the yard while other went for breakfast. At least I woke up rested, because the rest of that day did not go well for me.

I am a heavy sleeper. I always have been. The schedule of this morning-happy world does a great disservice to me personally. Not being on time in the mornings and not being on my game in the mornings has put practically every job I have held at risk, I have caused distress in personal relationships by not being where I am supposed to be and all of this heaps up to anxiety which makes sleep scheduling more difficult than it should be. But I have dealt with it and it's a continuous process of getting incrementally better at dealing with it.

I am a grown ass man. 99% of the time I will wake up. I will feel like shit but I will be where I have to be. What kills me is that 1% of the time that invariably comes. People are so condescending, they know just the trick. They tell me to "take responsibility". Tell me how easy it is to train my sleep cycle, what to eat, go to bed earlier or later, exercise more or less - if I'm doing it too late in the evening... whatever. I have spent 32 years trying to wake up properly; I appreciate your input but I have tried everything. I'm still working on it. Just please don't talk to me like I'm late for sixth grade.

I don't "snooze". I know for a fact that sometimes I hit the snooze button. But I have no recollection of this, it doesn't register as "I'll just sleep for a little bit longer". It's like the alarm never went off, I'm sleep-walking. I have been witnessed physically getting up to turn off alarms but have no idea I have done so. But more often than not; I won't snooze, I will simply sleep through hell and high water because my fucking douchebag body gets up when it wants to.

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