How do you respond to your alarm clock in the morning?

Conrad

My wife actually shouts back at the thing as if it is an annoying person. I though that was interesting so...Just wondering how most guitarists respond the their alarm clocks.

Squonk

My wife is not an early morning person, so she doesn't hear it at all. I have to get up each day at about 05:15 to get my whole family up and running . It's a discipline I learned in the defence force. ☹

I have no problem with the alarm, I usually wake up just before it goes off. The problem is that I generally do this on Saturday and Sunday as well.

LMinnie

With my face buried in the pillow I blindly thrash about for the snooze button with my left hand usually bashing my fingers on the bedside table in the process,snooze the alarm and go back to sleep for another 5 mins.

Repeat this process 6 times until 7 am,roll out of bed and curse the abomination of a thing Monday to Friday...

Saturday morning wake up at exactly 7am and jump out of bed,I dont even need the frikkin thing!! :-\

I would like to find the guy that came up with the shrill neep neep neep neep sound and make sure that he has to listen to it for all eternity!! ?

mattayou

Squonk wrote The problem is that I generally do this on Saturday and Sunday as well.

Nice extra guitar playing time ?

Riaan

I set two alarm clocks: the first to go off, is my iPod in an alarm clock docking station. I have a specific "Wake Up" playlist. I then listen to music for half an hour, snoozing a bit until my cellphone alarm clock goes off, then it's time to get up.

That half an hour of snoozing to music can be fun. I often have bizarre music inspired dreams during this time. I've been on stage with Led Zeppelin before, I've tried to kill an opponent with a Samurai sword with Tubular Bells as the soundtrack... ???... he just managed to escape, I was moving in slow motion all the time. Next time...

Sometimes, after too many late nights and like this morning, I just sleep through it all until my wife wakes me up.

inflames

I only hate it when I had a big night out ?
Normally wake up before it can shout at me :-[

Manfred-Klose

My alarm clock on my cellphone, is a very dynamic rock piece that builds up in volume, by the time it reaches full volume, i am awake.

Conrad

Riaan wrote I set two alarm clocks: the first to go off, is my iPod in an alarm clock docking station. I have a specific "Wake Up" playlist. I then listen to music for half an hour, snoozing a bit until my cellphone alarm clock goes off, then it's time to get up.

That half an hour of snoozing to music can be fun. I often have bizarre music inspired dreams during this time. I've been on stage with Led Zeppelin before, I've tried to kill an opponent with a Samurai sword with Tubular Bells as the soundtrack... ???... he just managed to escape, I was moving in slow motion all the time. Next time...

Sometimes, after too many late nights and like this morning, I just sleep through it all until my wife wakes me up.

That sounds like a good alternative to the usual.

Bob-Dubery

This might be a bit on the boring side, but my response is to get out of bed.

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I don't have an alarm. I have annoying neighbours.

aubs1

Mondays to Fridays, 2 alarms. Second goes off 20 minutes after the first, and I have to get up, no choice or tantrums! Then the Battle begins getting Eli out of bed!

Squonk wrote ............ The problem is that I generally do this on Saturday and Sunday as well.

LOL.......hahahaha.......me too Squonk! The worst thing is everyone are still asleep and don't want to be disturbed! So I lay in bed with a cup of coffee, and look at the ceiling......!!!!

Riaan wrote .... I have a specific "Wake Up" playlist. I then listen to music for half an hour, snoozing a bit until my cellphone alarm clock goes off, then it's time to get up.
That half an hour of snoozing to music can be fun.

LOL again, how I wish I could do that, but I value my life! I would be D-E-D, and my iPod would be strewn in pieces all over the room!!! ? ?

FatBoy

I normally wake up about 1 minute before it goes off. I have learned not to hit snooze, because if I do, I'll probably only wake up again 3 hours later. My brain probably thinks, well if we dont listen to it the first time, why listen to it at all ?

NorioDS

Riaan wrote That half an hour of snoozing to music can be fun. I often have bizarre music inspired dreams during this time. I've been on stage with Led Zeppelin before, I've tried to kill an opponent with a Samurai sword with Tubular Bells as the soundtrack... ???... he just managed to escape, I was moving in slow motion all the time. Next time...

I used to do the same thing when I was living at home with my folks. I had my PC on the whole night and, in the morning, it would play MP3s for about half an hour and then my "real alarm" would go off, prompting me to get up.

One time, I went dashing and daring through the forest to find the Gummi Bears so that they could save the world ? Ja - strange dreams indeed! (But helluva fun!)

Conrad

One time, I went dashing and daring through the forest to find the Gummi Bears so that they could save the world ? Ja - strange dreams indeed! (But helluva fun!)

LAWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aubs1

And this what happens when you fall asleep again while brushing your teeth and your head falls forward and hits the tap mixer!

Well........now we're wide awake........yeah, that happened yesterday. (Check out the stiches when we cut our nose in two going through a window 11.12.'09)!!!!

Renesongs

I have to put my my alarm in a place where I can't reach it so I have to get out of bed to find it. I have to fight the urge to go back to bed and "rest my eye for a minute" because there have been many times that I have woken up an hour or so later with a dead alarm clock on my chest

Conrad

Ouch!!! I think we are all quiet because of the shock...

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Jeez, Aubs... Hectic. ?

giggsy

I haven't used an alarm clock in almost two years. My daughter is almost two years too and they don't come out with snooze buttons. I am lucky enough to work from home so if we do all manage to sleep in a bit late its no biggie.

Heath

i used to have one of those rubber ball alarm clocks that i would throw when it went off , i broke 2 .

but since having children i am pretty used to getting up at 6 by myself