What plays for your alarm?

I'm still experimenting with different alarms, trying to find one that works well. I think I'm about to come to the conclusion that the sound doesn't make a difference, because I am always just as slow to get out of bed no matter what alarm. Is there a certain alarm that helps you get out of bed?

... I wake up to an alarm blaring in my ear. Sounds sort of like *BLAT* *BLAT* *BLAT*. Soothing.

I used to use a Pokemon alarm clock (which is now 12 years old) that played the last verse of the original theme song. "Gotta catch em all. POKEMON!!!"

Eventually it got so annoying I began anticipating when it would go off, checking the time constantly 30 minutes before the song actually started.

But early this year I bought a new alarm that beeps progressively faster and hence gets more annoying if you don't turn it off. Like Jombo I leave it far away so it forces me to walk up to it and turn it off. By then I open the curtains to blind me and head to the shower.

The trick is to buy an alarm that you will despise.

I set my blackberry alarm's volume to 10. That's about it, i don't know why i would have to take any more precaution in my alarms considering i'm not a deep sleeper or anything.

I wake up from shit trying to shoot out. No jokes, because I have no alarms or anything this seems to work fine.

I use Chacarron Macarron for my Alarm clock :).

I used to have Dragonforce-though the fire and the flames, max volume.... Everyone woke up, but me ;c;
So I have literally 8-9 alarms separated by 5 minutes each one, with something like a annoying bonk sound, now I can wake up with the 5 or 6th alarm lol

I woke up by the constant sounds of dogs howling and barking 11:32. P.m

I don't use alarms. I let my body decide when I should get up naturally.

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I don't use alarms. I let my body decide when I should get up naturally.

Must be nice not having to work in the morning.

I have an alarm on my phone that starts out quiet and gradually gets louder, it's a lot better than starting your day with a sudden, loud alarm scaring the shit out of you.

I wake up to a really loud, annoying, somewhat ordinary alarm. It has become my least favorite sound in the world.

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Must be nice not having to work in the morning.

I have an alarm on my phone that starts out quiet and gradually gets louder, it's a lot better than starting your day with a sudden, loud alarm scaring the shit out of you.

me too, i put this option by the same motive as you. and in my phone i use the music "psychosocial", slipknot. call me crazy, but for me, waking up hearing a rock genre music is the best thing.

I used to use a Piano alarm clock though... It played the sound of what seemed to be a child smashing the keys of a piano it was quite soothing considering when you're half asleep that shit could be Beethoven for all I knew. But now I just wake up on my own, if I'm late for a lecture that's my own fault. I am considering getting a Navi alarm clock though, that shit shines.

my mom is my alarm...she wakes me up...i go wash my limbs with cold water...go back to the bedroom...change my clothes...have breakfast...then going to school !

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I don't use alarms. I let my body decide when I should get up naturally.

this is what wakes me up on weekends.
Unfortunately I have class during the week, so the regular annoying alarm placed across the room is my way to go.