My wife has told me that she's loosing sleep due to anxiety about me shutting off alarms and not getting up on time. It's true, I'm extremely groggy for the first few alarms and my only mission is shutting them off so I can lay down again. The only thing that really gets me out of bed is hearing her be awake and asking me to get up.

I've tried Alarmy before and that worked at one point in my life, but we have a 3 year old now and I hate the idea of my loud alarm waking her up too early because I'm struggling with math. Similarly when my wife is out of town I set my smart lights to turn on with my alarm and that helps a lot, but she hates being woken up with light that way.

I want to find a solution that doesn't inconvenience everyone in my family, but I also recognize that doing nothing will continue to inconvenience everyone in my family. Any advice is appreciated!

And now…. My half asleep brain decides it’s best to turn off my phone to stop the alarm instead of doing the challenges. I think I’ve exhausted all possible solutions

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So yesterday I had a lot of schoolwork and ended up falling asleep 3 hours before my alarm. Right after I close my eyes it seems, I open them and it's 11 AM, 4 hours after my alarm went off. My parents tell me that I didn't react to the alarm (it was on max volume and right next to my head, with the phone speaker pointing at my ear), and they tried to wake me up but couldn't as It seemed like I was constantly slipping in and out of consciousness and not really there, so they gave up. They tried an hour later, same thing happened, so eventually they stopped trying.

Now I couldn't and still can't remember a single foggy moment of all this, like my memory was erased. Is this normal after sleeping for 3 hours? And is there a way to ensure that I wake up if I ever sleep this little again, short of having a bucket of cold water dunked on my face?

Hi all. Is anyone aware of a digital alarm clock without a snooze button? Surely, it must exist, right?

Thanks 🙏

Title. My friend had to call me to make sure I was awake. It’s not an issue of being muted, either, in the report section after closing my alarm, it congratulated me for waking up after one alarm, and showed the alarm went off over 1 hour past when it was supposed to. I’ve allowed it to break through sleep focus before and it’s always rang in some form, though it only vibrates if I accidentally closed the app. What happened?!

Hello all. I’ve been dealing with horrible sleep and having extreme difficulty waking up in the morning ever since I did 2 years on a night shift back in 2012-2013. I’ve had countless days in late to work, and I’ve been lucky enough to have bosses that I can explain my issue to and jobs where if I’m a bit late it’s not the end of the world. I also have some ADHD, and so do some family members of mine, and sleep disruptions are common with that.

But I moved into a new condo, and I had a few new symptoms pop up, including increased anxiety and extreme difficulty focusing. I used ChatGPT to help me research for a couple months really, and came to the conclusion that it’s very likely my symptoms were related to allergies. So I went to an allergist and had an allergy test done. Turns out I’m super allergic to all kinds of stuff, including basically all grass, certain weeds and trees, the most common forms of mold, and dust mites.

The outdoor stuff I kind of figured. Mowing the lawn would put me the F out. Dust mites was incredibly interesting to me though. My condo is clean, but has a carpeted basement and does seem to be quite dusty. We can vacuum our hardwood floors once a week and pull up maybe about 2-3” of dust/hair/etc mixture in the vacuum.

The allergist recommended I immediately begin using Flonase for the dust mite allergy. I figured it couldn’t hurt so hopped right on it. Within about a week, I started noticing I could breathe through my nose way better. After two weeks it was eye opening how poorly I had been breathing through my nose, especially at night. I started feeling like I was waking up easier and getting a little more restful sleep. My anxiety went away. The lack of focus diminished. I would say my sleep improved by 50-60%. Not perfect, but way way better than it had been for a while. After that, I ended up throwing away all of my clothes furniture and getting cheap faux leather couches to replace them, and buying some treatments for carpets and upholstery that neutralize dust mite allergens. My symptoms continue to improve.

This really put me in a good place mentally, I feel like actually resolving some of my issues bolstered me to continue to look for solutions. So I got to talking to ChatGPT again about my ADHD and sleep disturbances from that, and found out that ADHD brains can very easily lose their normal circadian rhythms, and are extremely likely to develop Delayed Sleep Onset Syndrome. Trouble falling asleep, needing to wake up later, not feeling refreshed. It was me to a T.

I had always avoided melatonin. I had taken it in the past, 30 minutes before bed as prescribed on the bottle, and still didn’t feel like it had an effect, and the possibility of it being habit forming was a bit of a red flag for me. Well ChatGPT let me know that ADHD brains can react differently to melatonin. So what it recommended was that I actually take a low dose about 2-3 hours before bed.

And holy crap was that different. I took 600 mcg (0.6mg) at 8 o’clock and by 10 I hit the bed so tired, I had that like burning feeling when I closed my eyes. I was probably asleep within 30 seconds. I had some really vivid dreams, and in the morning, I wouldn’t say I necessarily felt refreshed on the very first night but I definitely felt less tired.

After a couple days of this though, it definitely feels like my sleep debt has started to fade, and I’m waking up significantly easier. Sometimes even waking up an hour or two before my alarm, and feeling refreshed enough to just get up and get moving. But certainly no longer worried about missing an alarm. I am ecstatic about this as I’ve been dealing with it for more than a decade now, and I finally feel like I might’ve fixed it for good.

Taking such a low dose of melatonin, I was super surprised at how effective it was, it just needed to be taken way earlier than I thought. This is just my theory, but it almost feels like it’s “triggering” my circadian rhythm. Like once the melatonin hits me, it sets off my brain to do its thing normally instead of being delayed as I’ve always struggled with. Couple that with being able to breathe properly and less anxiety from solving the allergy issue, and I honestly think my sleep is 90% better than it was, and waking up has gotten seriously easier. People in my life have also told me it seems like I have more energy and more vitality.

With all of that I have several recommendations. Get tested for allergies, you might be surprised at how much those are effecting you if you have them. Try low dose melatonin 2-3 hours before bed. And use AI/ChatGPT to help navigate the possible issues and solutions. It has been a seriously effective tool for managing my health and symptoms.

TL;DR: I used chatGPT to figure out I had allergies as well as delayed onset sleep disorder from ADHD, and with its advice was able to improve my sleep significantly using allergy meds (Flonase), treating my home for dust mites, and taking low dose melatonin 2-3 hours before bed. I feel that I no longer have issues waking up.

Every morning my alarm goes off, and every morning I turn it off and go back to bed.

I’ve tried basically every trick I could find. Putting my phone across the room. Putting notes on my phone telling me to get up. Calculating sleep cycles. Setting one alarm or a hundred. None of it is effective anymore. As soon as the alarm is off, I’ll just zombie walk back to bed and pass out again without fail.

At this point the only thing capable of getting me to wake up is extremely urgent, important events. Like if I have an early flight or appointment or something where the consequences of me falling back asleep are devastating. But if the consequences are just kind of annoying, such as missing a morning of productivity or not being able to study a bit before my classes, my stupid ass will jump back into bed and regret it later.

Does anyone know any other strategies to be more disciplined with my alarms? It feels like I’ve ruined my ability to wake up to them properly because of how often I’ll just fall back asleep. I’d really like to be able to wake up normally again.

Has anyone ever tried sniffing menthol crystals for a quick alertness kick to wake up? I was looking for a safer alternative to smelling salts (as they could not be the safest for long-term use). What do you guys think?

I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max. Ever since I got this phone my Alarmy alarms are now restricted to the “backup” alarm and the infinite notifications.

I did what the app suggests for sleep and focus mode but that didn’t work. I even tried to set up an automation that opens the app an hour before the alarm but I don’t think it ran.

Am I supposed to open the app before I go to bed and keep it open the whole time while I’m falling asleep? That sounds absurd! What if I forget or fall asleep before doing that? Is there a better solution?

Hello Everyone,

Very sorry for the long post.

Over the last few days I've read a bunch of posts on here about people who seemingly have similar issues to me.

Here's my experience. I've struggled with waking up on time since High School, even late middle school. My parents told me it's my job to get up in the morning and I'd be late constantly because I couldn't wake up to my alarms. It got especially bad in my Senior year where for an entire semester I'd wake up late and walk to school 5 miles away missing the first 2 hours.

Out of school I struggled with the same things, all of my jobs I've held, I struggle to wake up on time. I'm on my 3rd year at this job ONLY because my boss is a family friend and knows that I struggle with this and is lenient on my tardiness. But it's getting bad again.

Over the last month I've started waking up at 10, 11, 12 when I'm supposed to be at work at 8am. And I feel completely and utterly helpless.

Here's what I've done:
- I've seen doctors, sleep specialists and did a full sleep study (Day and Night) and they told me nothing is wrong with my sleep.
- I did a whole CBT course on sleep which did help fix me trying to stay up until 2am every night.
- I go to bed at a similar time each night usually between 10pm & 11pm, which needing to wake up at 7am gets me between 7 & 8 hours of sleep.
- I've used several different alarm clocks, placed all around my room. (I have a roommate now so I don't have anything absurdly loud.)
- I've used Alarmly to do math to shut my alarms off.
- I have a studio light that gets really bright, hooked to a smart plug to turn on at 7am
- I've taken Melatonin, Sleep Aids, Anti-depressants, Anti-Anxiety, medications to try and help me sleep so I can wake up on time.
- I've changed pillows, mattresses, blankets

It feels like I've gone through an exhaustive list of things to try short of something to throw me on the floor. The problem with all of this is my inability to wake up is not consistent. Taking the last 2.5 years at my current job, there's been multi week stretches where I wake up on time or at least not 4 hours late. Sometimes I wake up at 5am and then go back to sleep because that's too early. There's also been times where I've woken up at 4:30pm just sleeping through the whole day. And there's also times like on weekends where I need to be at events that I wake up just fine and it makes it feel like the entirety of my sleep issues is made up.

I genuinely can't keep doing this. It's destroying me. I can't keep walking into work with my head hung having to walk past my co-workers who give me nasty looks because I haven't been fired yet. I'm at a complete and utter loss. Anything helps.

The past month I’ve either: A) Woken up before my alarm, fallen asleep because I have time, and completely missed my alarm and woken up late, B) Slept entirely through my alarm and woken up late, or C) Wake up to my alarm, and the moment I turn it off start drifting until I check the time and panic run out the door because I’m now late.

These issues happen in C A B order in terms of how often they happen. C is half the time, A is most of the remaining time, and B is at least once a week.

The moment I touch my bed at any point of the day I’m gone, no chance I’m making it anywhere on time.

I go to college so I have class every morning at 10:30 and 8:30 on alternating days, and I work 2 jobs that require me to close till 9 or 10 every night. This leaves me with no time to myself other than after these jobs, some of which require a 30 minute drive home. I usually end up falling asleep at around 12 or 1, because that time is the ONLY time I have to myself.

I work closing shift on both Sunday and Saturday as well, and getting up before work is harder then too, even though my shift starts at like 2.

Today I completely slept through 3 alarms and missed one of my midterms.

Help :(

I started experimenting with the idea of an AI accountability buddy to stay on track with my gym goals, but now it's become integrated into my daily routine. It texts me throughout the day, starting in the morning, to motivate me to get going and stay on top of my goals. I use it both to keep me on track of the larger goals I have, but also as a brain dump so I don't forget to do the little things that come up. If you want to give it a go, feel free to try it out here. Lmk what you think or if you've tried using AI in a similar way.

I think the #1 thing that upsets me about being a heavy sleeper is the feeling of helplessness when you wake up late. I was 3 hours late to work today after sleeping through 8 phone alarms and my backup alarm not going off and there was nothing I could do about it. I even went to bed an hour earlier than usual and somehow still slept through.

I've struggled with this periodically throughout my life and sometimes I'll miss important things in the mornings due to it and try to schedule things late in the day to compensate for the chance of it happening on the weekends. It really feels like a dice roll whenever I go to bed whether I'll be knocked out for 12 hours or not.

Does anyone else feel like this when it happens?

Hello!
I've been struggling with the problem of scrolling too much on X, YouTube, and TikTok when I actually want to go to bed early or get out of bed in the morning. While there are many app blockers out there, most of them completely prohibit scrolling or treat it as pure evil.

I disagree with that stance; I don't want to ban scrolling altogether because I enjoy knowing what's happening in the world and having a bit of entertainment. I want to create a positive environment where I can celebrate the time spent not scrolling without feeling guilty about the times I do.

With that in mind, I developed an app that allows you to stop scrolling only when you want to, using gamification to encourage positive feelings about taking breaks! It's free to use.

Key Features:

• Schedule app blocking (recommended during work hours or before bed).
• Breathe deeply with a character when launching the app to help you stop using it.
• The more you block the app, the more your character grows!
• You will be able to customize your character as you level up (still in development).

Feedback: The project has just begun, and I want to improve based on everyone's opinions, so please share your feedback!

1. What else do you need to solve your scrolling issues?
2. What kind of future excites you after your character grows?

Actually, it has been three months since the pre-release, and I've made progress in improving my own scrolling problems. I want everyone to try it out as well.

Here’s the link to the app:
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6478385605

Thank you for reading until the end!

I've been thinking about buying one of those since I moved to a place with a very late sunrise; before moving I would get direct sunlight in my face and that woke me up well and early, without an alarm. I've been eyeing the Philips one specifically.

But do these actually light up a room? I still get sunlight in the morning, but I need something that will be actually bright.

Hi I could use some help getting up.

So I normally need to get up at 2am for work and generally once im actually awake I'm good to go, I roll out bed and get going.

But that's not the case as I can't seem to wake up from deep sleep, I snooze the alarm without even realizing it and don get up till about 2:30am once my wife smacks me for being annoyed with the alarms. She also tells me I'm mean to her when she tries to get me up, it's as if I'm a different person when I'm asleep but I never remember saying anything or even getting smacked.

I generally go to sleep at around 9pm and to me it's enough sleep as through out the day I've got energy and I'm perfectly fine. I do take a nap mid day.

I also have a pavlok watch to zap me out but even that seems to not work anymore since most the time I take it off in my sleep, I notice it off when I get up.

My pavlok is set at 1:55 am, then my first alarm at 2am then 3 more 10 min apart of each other.

To me it seems as if I'm in this deep trance I can't snap out of when it's time to get up, I do not hear alarm, nor my wife or the shock. Anything I can do to really get up? And I know I should be getting 8h like a normal person, I try to go to sleep early but then I just can't fall asleep. Also with my day routine it's just not possible to get 8h as I'm the one that makes dinner, cleans and takes care of the doggo.

Hello, I am developing an alarm app called 'SuperAlarm'.
I developed the app because I am also a heavy sleeper and found that there's no app that looks good to me. So I launched SuperAlarm a few months ago and have improved it so that I think it now fulfills my own needs.

However, I want to know how other people would feel.
I really want to solve the problems people face when trying to get out of bed.
Any feature suggestions for a new alarm app?

The following are my app's features:

• Fun and powerful missions (including take a picture of toothbrush)
• App removal prevention while an alarm is ringing (to prevent skipping missions)
• Wake up check to ensure you are awake

Until a year ago, I woke up, and immediately started getting ready, on time 99.5% the time, regardless of what time I went to bed. It was like.. a superpower.

Ever since I moved in with my boyfriend a year ago, I wake up / get out of bed late 99.5% of the time. I wake up late and then I play on my phone until I’m VERY late.

How do I go back to waking up on time?? What factors, besides sleeping in the same bed as my boyfriend (we did that before I moved in, just not every night) could be causing this?

Hey everyone, I’m looking for a device that will help stop me from crawling back into bed after I wake up. Any recommendations?

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I've had the Alarmy app forever, and it's been great! I have it set to mute during missions, until the 3rd time it rings, and that has always been the case.

All of a sudden, it's only muting during the first ring, and then after that the sound will continue during the mission. I checked the setting, it still says 3 time limit. This morning when I turned off an alarm I checked as well, it said it only rang once before I turned it off on the second one, during which it did not mute.

was there a recent update that might be causing this glitch?

How to practice good digital hygiene in today's world.

In today's world, where we are constantly connected through our devices, it's easy to feel like they control us rather than the other way around. Let’s change that.

This article focuses primarily on mobile devices.

What is the meaning of online hygiene?

Quality of your feeds, how much time you spend online, who you follow (therefore information you consume), whether your desktop is filled with projects named “afesfesgsdf final 2”, how much effort you take to make important accounts secure. Basically - all habits related to using the devices.

Just like we take care of our physical spaces to feel healthy and comfortable, online hygiene is about keeping digital environment clean and balanced.

Good digital hygiene practices

Few simple tips you can implement in your daily life.

Grayscale mode.

Grayscale mode might seem like a strange setting, but it offers some benefits. The main one is - your phone is just less visually appealing. Your brain likes colors. Black and white icons = less tempting icons. I set this setting to turn on automatically after 20:00/8 p.m. But if you spend too much time on your phone, it won't be a bad idea to leave it on all day. Of course, it won't cure phone addiction, but it's a simple and easy-to-implement way to help yourself.

Screen time widget

Ever wondered where all the hours of the day seem to vanish? Screen time widget can help you solve that mystery. This is like a window into your digital habits, revealing exactly how much time you spend on different apps.

Great tool for taking control of your digital life back. Remember though, just putting it on your home screen won’t do anything. You have to take action.

Get an alarm clock

Scheduled a productive day the day before. The morning - you hit snooze a few times. Eventually, you wake up, grab your phone, check notifications and start scrolling. Not the best start to a day.

The solution is stupidly simple - buy a dedicated alarm clock. The idea is to keep your phone out of your bedroom. It could be the sleep game-changer you never knew you needed.

Leave your phone somewhere

Consider a digital detox during the day. If your phone isn't essential, let your loved ones know you'll be unreachable and suggest alternative ways to contact you in case of urgency, like work email or a designated messaging app on another device. The key is to create a physical barrier. Instead of silencing it nearby, stash your phone somewhere that requires a dedicated effort to retrieve, like your car or a downstairs drawer.

Clear your feed

Go through the accounts you follow and unfollow all of them that you know are bad for you. No more to say here, just do it.

Passwords safety

If you created an account giving a junk e-mail address just to get a promo code, no need to do that. But, any account you care about should have:

• Strong Password: That means a new one, 14+ characters (including numbers, upper and lowercase letters, and symbols).
• 2-step verification if available
• Make sure you have a backup way to access your account if you forget your password.

Passwords manager

Forgotten passwords, password resets, the constant struggle to remember that complex code you created for a random online store – it's enough to drive anyone crazy.

TLDR: Smelling salts on the night stand first thing in the morning to really get the day ripping??

Jujimufu smelling salts are considered to be the strongest in the world. A quick rip of those first thing and you’re sure to be set to lick the days ass.

Thoughts? Anyone tried it? Long term health considerations? Let’s hear it

I woke up at like 4pm today and I wanna get my sleep schedule on track before I start college so I was debating on staying up the whole day since it's 5am but I just wanna know if it'd be okay for my body.

Hi, I was wondering if any has struggled with this and overcame it somehow?

Naturally my body wants 8.5-10 hours of sleep a night. When it's summer I get up at 2pm and don't sleep until around 4am-6am or later. In the school term I wake up at 7am and sleep around 11pm. When I wake up at 7 I have no energy until around 8pm. I want to be a morning person because I love the sun. Is it possible to make the switch? I am consistent with my schedule during the school year but it doesn't help with respects to my lack of energy.

In a perfect world I would start my day at 6am and go to bed at 10pm, but this feels impossible. All advice is welcome!

If you are anything like me, you may find yourself watching yet another business idea video or reading yet another productivity book, looking for that one perfect hidden trick that will change your life and make everything fall into place.

That's not the way to go.

Let’s start with getting understanding of what it even means. If you already know or got it after the intro, go to the next section.

If you feel like you never have enough and your YouTube watch later playlist is 1000+ videos long, you might want to read that.

As the name says - it’s looking for something that will finally “click” and satisfy you. Being constantly distracted by something new, exciting, or seemingly better. It's the trap of flitting from one opportunity to another, never truly focusing on or completing anything.

How to overcome shiny object syndrome?

The biggest struggle here is acknowledging that you won’t see results for a while and still doing what you have to do anyway. We want something that will bring immediate results, but unfortunately, most things worth doing in life take time to gain momentum.

If you started a new YouTube channel, a new online business, weightlifting, a new newsletter. All the while, keep in mind that it will take some time before you see results and that's the default, it's just part of the process, and you have to go through it to see the real gold.

That’s not an opinion, but a fact. If you don’t have that already engraved in your mind, you need a mindset shift. Giving things up can be very tempting, but once you've done something and seen real results, it's easier to do another, similar thing.

Perception of time

Chasing shiny object has to do with the perception of time.

If you are guilty of this - you focus on the present you. We want to be you in the future.

Take a pen and paper and write down all the cool things you have ahead of you, waiting if you focus on just one long-term thing. Visualize in detail, think about what it will look like when you finally achieve it. Place the piece of paper in a prominent place.

Think of it like this: When you're hungry, a of chocolate is incredibly tempting. But, if you take a moment to remember your fitness goals, how many calories you ate today, the fact that eating that will ruin it, that immediate craving loses its power. Or does it? If not, you need to put future self as a new default.

Time will pass anyway, it's up to you how you use it.

How to be more focused and in tune with your brain.

I packed this article with everything I know about focus - its maintenance and improvement. As always - no unnecessary talk, just pure useful value.

First things first

Obviously, you can’t stay focused for long if you don’t get good sleep regularly (caffeine is not a substitute for sleeping well). Sleep deprivation is detrimental not only to concentration but to the entire body. There is no way around it.

It’s also optimal (but optional) to get:

• Sunlight early in the morning (10 minutes, double if it is cloudy).
• Cold shower or immersion (30 sec to 3 minutes, if shower, avoid cold water on head).
• Caffeine (early in the morning).
• L-Tyrosine supplements (early in the morning, 500 mg - 1 gr,). More about supplements later.
• Exercise: anything will give you everything.
• Reduce smartphone usage = max 2h/day.
• Be well hydrated.
• Meditate (3-17min. Choose an “anchor” to focus on. If you lose focus, imagine cutting a ribbon as the end of distracting thought).
• White noise or
• 40Hz Binaural beats before work. Here’s a warmup for you (there's a link in the original post)

Find your focus indicator

The idea is to give your brain a visual representation of entering “work mode”. What I do is put the figurine on my desk and tap it 2 times on its head every time I am about to work. This is a kind of signal that the focus block just started.

My sessions are 90 min each. If I really need to take a break (toilet or anything unpredictable) I tap once and turn the figurine around. I also stop the timer. As you can see - the idea here is to enter “deep work mode” whenever the figurine is looking at me. I treat it as my personal discipline guardian. The thing is that no one will know if you are cheating. That's why you also need willpower. But we will talk more about this in the rest of the article.

It would be best to have a separate computer in a separate room. An office, just for work. But that's a comfort that many can't afford. In that case, a separate browser just for work is not a bad idea either. Something on the desk as a “guardian” and a separate browser (template or whatever you work on) to give work a different feeling is a good combo.

It won’t work instantly, but as you keep doing it, your brain will connect the dots. This Pavlov’s dog-like idea may seem

Hello guys! I know this question have been asked before, but I'd like to check of anyone found a solution for it yet.

In a nutshell, I use the alarmy app on Android and sleepy me recently found a workaround to skip the alarm-turn off the phone. Has anyone found any way to bypass this problem? I tried using chatgpt but I'm not there yet. Yes I know it's important to focus on purpose and get enough sleep also, and I'm working on that.