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Post by paulsee on May 26, 2014 13:43:55 GMT
I just had an interesting event with my alarm clock. This got me thinking of a set of Alarm clock myths and inquiries that may be of interest. (Not sure if the MB team has tested some already, but hopefully it should be fun to try.
1. After years of habitually waking up with an alarm clock, is your body set to wake up at the same time without one. With or without your knowledge that the alarm was set the day before. (The MB team can try a few weeks setting their alarm clocks and at a random time, it is turned off to see what happens)
2. Is the snooze button responsible for a more non-energetic day? (The Mb team can try the alarm clock for a week and snooze button in another week and compare)
3. Is a loud alarm clock capable of increasing your blood pressure from the normal waking blood pressure. After a while, will our body adjust? (Probably best to try with some volunteers with good heart clearances.)
4. Are lights a better way to wake up people than sound? (They can try normal sound vs light as a wake up comparison)
5. Are animal predatory sounds (e.g. lion roar) or annoying sounds like (chalkboard scratching) better at waking up people ?
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Post by the light works on May 26, 2014 13:56:17 GMT
some of this is conditioned responses. when I had a rock solid routine, I would routinely wake up just in time to hear my clock radio come on. (many times, waking up, looking at the clock, and seeing it turn over to the time the alarm was set for.)
as for #5: my wife used to habitually sleep through an alarm tone that was loud enough to be annoying from the other end of the house - yet would wake up and start yelling if I took 5 seconds too long to turn off my radio, set just barely loud enough for me to hear from my side of the bed.
for my own submission, "nothing cures insomnia better than the sound of an alarm clock" - no idea how you could test this and get reliable results in a reasonable time, though.
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Post by OziRiS on May 27, 2014 18:01:42 GMT
A smart man once told me a general rule about alarm clocks.
If your alarm clock is what wakes you, you haven't had enough sleep.
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Post by GTCGreg on May 27, 2014 18:30:52 GMT
I seldom set an alarm. I always wake up at 5:45 every morning without it. On mornings I absolutely have to be up, I set the alarm just to make sure. On those mornings that I set the alarm, I wake up around 4:30 and just lay there waiting for the alarm to go off.
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Post by silverdragon on May 29, 2014 8:33:11 GMT
I am awake at 06:30 every morning. This is due to my last full time job where for many years I was up at that time, to start work at 7. My Body clock has never recovered. I can get back to sleep, but, when I first awake and concentrate on the clock, it always reads within 3 mins either side 06:30
If I was to start a new shift pattern and stay up late to adjust to an alarm at say 08:30, I would eventually adjust?...
Of course, with my current job and an understanding handler, he may phone me in the middle of the night. or at any time, ... "Are you awake?.. I have an urgent job, can you do it?..." If the answer is yes, he will phone back after quarter of an hour to give me details, (Which he has also emailed addresses and phone numbers to be printed out) thats enough time for me to get the necessary caffeine into my system to be awake and useful...
[From an old relevant conversation.....]You want someone sooner than that?... call someone else. I would rather be fully awake and alert than a danger on the roads.... you get the idea now?....
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Post by silverdragon on May 29, 2014 8:36:40 GMT
The catching a plane early morning myth....
If the time of the flight is Oh low Hundered, where the Oh stands for oh my god its EARLY... If its an important trip, or Holiday somewhere good... And your normal bed time is about 10pm to 11 pm.... You can NOT get to sleep the night before, and catch a few hours before a (for instance 4am) early alarm.
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Post by the light works on May 29, 2014 15:09:42 GMT
With my firefighting; I am conditioned to "crash start" to the point if I am on shift at the station, the pretone announcement will wake me up and I will already be out of bed stuffing my feet in my boots (assuming I don't need to be putting on bunker gear which is no longer stored next to the bunk) before the alert tones go off. yet for work, you'd darned well better give me 2 hours warm-up time if you expect good performance out of me.
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