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That's a silly poll. Obviously I prefer just getting up when I awake, but this is useless for getting into work on time, so I use a bleepy alarm.

And I object to you using LJ to make digs at me - you are allowed to just talk to me, you know. :-p

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Actually, this was inspired by a conversation on #cakes (you didn't use an alarm at all this morning, did you?)

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Yeah, it was my fault: Mike turfed me out of bed this morning after the second (third?) alarm so he could set it again for later and get more sleep. Which is OK given he's jetlagged.

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I took "preferred" as being likely to exclude methods which didn't work and resulting in losing one's job, and so option 4 would only appeal to those who instinctively wake up nice and early.

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You didn't mention a CD or other music player.

I have a speaking alarm clock which repeatedly tells that me it's time to get up (and gets annoyed if I hit the snooze button and don't get up).

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I have a speaking alarm clock too. As well as a bleepy one which also flashes in pretty colours.

What I don't like getting woken up by is the lorry that bats up and down the road sufficiently fast to shake the house at 6am.

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I need the bleepy alarm with the snooze button. I'm perfectly capable of hitting the snooze button without waking up enough to realise it; if I didn't have a snooze function therefore I would just fail to get up as I might turn it off in my sleep. Radio doesn't work either because I'm good at drifting off to sleep to the radio. In fact, this is how I get to sleep most nights and as my radio isn't a cunning clock radio alarm thingy it's on all night and so is there when I wake up and I listen and doze.

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The other thing which annoys me is Kathy waking me up to ask if the alarm has gone off yet (or indeed anything else).

I prefer a radio, because I can't predict in advance what it's going to sound like and discount it, but I'm not that organised and so am actually using my mobile, which is a bleepy thing.

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My alarm clock goes off at 7am. I then proceed to doze.
My wristwatch goes off at 7:20am. I then get up - well, most of the time...

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If I could have a CD alarm clock which picked a different random track every day, that would be fantastic. I invariably seem to get the adverts when I use the radio, whatever time I set it at, so for the time being I'm settling for bleepage.

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My SliMP3 supports this feature, or at least it would if I put it in my bedroom and ran an ethernet cable to the study. The SliMP3 has now been superseded by the Squeezebox which has built-in wi-fi, so I wouldn't even have to run the cable if I bought one now.

Bit expensive for an alarm clock, though, admittedly.

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I have a traditional mechanical alarm clock. They're great.

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When I was in Churchill, and shared my room with my computer, I used to have a cron job set to start playing music quietly, and increase the volume to full over about two minutes. This is by far the most civilized way to be awoken that I've used. Alas, my Oblivious room doesn't really fit my computer in.

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I've found that if I use a bleepy alarm for training, I can reliably get to the point where I wake up about five minutes before the alarm bleeps, and then can dispense with the alarm and just wake up at the right time, assuming I don't screw up my sleep patterns by staying up beyond about 2am.

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I use a daylight simulator alarm clock, which starts to light up 40 mins before I want to be awake and is at full strength for the last 10 mins, plus a radio set to come on for those last 10 mins. Quite often I still treat myself to an extra 30 mins in bed, though, but I allow for that in my morning schedule.

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I have to have a few snooze cycles to get to sufficiently awake to get out of bed. I don't care what anyone else does as I can sleep through a multitude of things and besides get up before Tom does.

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*is DEEPLY glad not to have a partner to worry about* When I get one, I intend to retrain myself to be selectively deaf to whatever alarm they use. *knows too many friends with insane husbands/sane husbands with insane jobs who keep getting up at 5am; has no interest in EVER seeing 5am*

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Oh, and mine is a beepy one that gets increasingly annoying and fast an insistent the longer you ignore it for, and goes automatically on to snooze if you don't hit the snooze button. It does, however, give up after hapf an hour of snooze cycles - discovered by experience.

It works.

I haven't desensitised to it yet.

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You must have pulled an all-nighter by now, surely? :)

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I should point out this was referring to seeing 5am, not an absence of partners...

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Actually, with the exception of the May Ball, no...

I have only seen 5am a few times, and those few times are more than enough to persuade me I don't want to see it again unless I REALLY have to for my own benefit.

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Yet another benefit of two-bedroom enlightenment.

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I tend to wake up these days at about 6.30 (actually, I wake up at 4.30 when Cloud gets on the bed the first time, then 5.30 when he gets lonely again, and then again at 6.30 for no discernable reason) which is earlier than I need to get up. So I have an alarm set but I only use it if I manage to go back to sleep.

And Adrian gets up later than me, so his alarm is either set to the same time as mine or later. (And his only snoozes twice, which seems silly to me. Mine goes off every 9 minutes until you beat it into oblivion, which works much better).

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I use the alarm on my mains stereo to play whatever CD's in there (usually something that starts loud; things that start quietly sneak ino my dreams and really confuse me). The radio would probably also do but my radio reception's crap. I used to use a wind-up dingy alarm clock, but I got too lax about keepin it wound, and it's loud enough to wake me up with an adrenaline rush in all except the giantest rooms.

I was going to say 'nothing' for the second question. I don't *mind* most things (except when I get particularly confused by quiet CDs). However I have on occasion shared crash space with someone using a Psion as an alarm and they piss me off no end. Dunno why.

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