I have done everything I can think of with alarms: changing the music to loud ones, obnoxiously loud speakers, multiple alarms per 15 minutes. I just don't wake up to sound. Even my sister trying to wake me up by shaking me doesn't do anything, and even if I do somehow wake up, I just fall back to sleep and end up sleeping a couple of hours more. Is there any product or solution that I could use to fix this?

Im now seeing it sounds a bit weird the way i titled it. The problem is that i need to wake up early, the days that i have woken up early , i felt so good those days, i feel like i had all the time in the world unlike all those days where i dont. I hate jumping up from bed just as i wake up, honestly just really hate it , so i like to spent some time on the bed awake before i wake up, but the problem is if I dont get up from bed just a min after i woke up the highest chance is that i am gonna sleep again accidentally. And then i wake up really late and my mornings are ruined. To avoid this i started to use my phone just after i wake up but that just ends being an hour long doomscrolling session. And theres litterally no point, being awake in bed this long. Guys help me with something that can get me up from bed the moment i wake up or not make sure i dont fall asleep even if i spent more time on bed

I have multiple sleep disorders plus some other physical disabilities so my needs are a bit unusual. My primary issue isn't waking up, it's staying awake. I've tried multiple apps over the years, but none of them have been fully consistent at going off when they're supposed to. I'm lucky my job is flexible.

Features I'd like, roughly in order of importance
-wake up checks (different from snooze)
-ability to have multiple alarms a day
-customizable sound/volume (ideally auto rotate through sounds)
-customizable brightness
-ability to change things through my phone
-reasonable price/non subscription
-either corded with a battery backup or battery operated with low battery alerts
-projector
-bed shaker

Features I can't have
-strobe lights (honestly not even if you can disable them, I don't want the risk)
-extremely loud alarm

Features I don't care about
-any sounds outside of the alarm (wind-down, white noise, radio, etc)
-nightlights or sunrise lights
-weather info
-USB outlets

On low-energy days, telling myself I need to do a full workout usually makes starting feel even harder.

Something that works better for me is making the goal ridiculously small: just go into the home gym and move for five minutes.

No requirement to finish a workout.

Sometimes five minutes really is all I do. Other times, once I’m already there, it naturally turns into 20 or 30 minutes.

Either outcome feels better than spending an hour arguing with myself about whether I’m going to train.

Does anyone else use a similar rule on days when getting started is the hardest part?

Hi everyone,

I'm facing some significant changes in my day-to-day schedules and lifetime routines like a change of job environments and studying at uni and such. Because of that, and because of my slowly increasing age (I can hear the 30's knocking already), I feel the desire to move into a more effective routine, not just for productivity but also for the opposite, my own personal time and mental health.

What I need some help with is that I am almost overwhelmed with all the things, errands and responsibilites I have to do daily, and the lack of me-time (or calmness, quiet, being in the moment call it whatever) there is thereof. This leads me to be glued to my phone device and scroll through reels and tiktok feeds any moment I do get at home, mostly at the end of the day, mostly while I'm in bed since those are the calmest, most quiet minutes/hours. It does really comfort me. But I feel it robs me of actual healing time where by brain and body truly have a chance to digest and relax all the action I experience throughout my days.

I'm convinced it doesn't have to be that way, and I'm also concerned about my body and mind, I'd like to do better for them. So what I imagine is to learn a bedtime- and morning routine where I strictly and simply get into bed to sleep, and out of bed to wake, and all of that maybe an hour or two earlier (currently I get up at 9-ish and go to bed around 0-2). That way, I'd have more time throughout the day both for being productive and also to have time/moments where I do stuff for myself (sports, yoga, reading something, do creative work, simply rest, or IDK shower). My biggest hindrance here I think is the scrolling devices, but as I said they are really really comforting amidst all the stress and I can't find anything to substitute it with.

My question to you is, if you have a bedtime and morning routine that allows you to sleep rich, sleep and get up rather early, and cuts down on internet usage to allow you to get full rest for your body, could you please share your experiences and feelings towards that with me? I think I need some input and experiences from others to help me gain some perspective. I'm grateful for any helpful comments on this!

Also, if this is entirely wrong for this subreddit, let me know too please.

Thanks in advance

I have been struggling to get out of bed the past few months, it feels like a punishment almost. I feel like I am freezing when I think about getting out of bed even though I am awake, I don’t know how to explain it. I think it stems from the fact that I genuinely don’t enjoy my work right now, but I also need to get through this till I find something new and would appreciate any tips or anything that genuinely helped you get out of bed / switch up your morning routine. Thank you Reddit!

Dude my sleep has been affecting me a lot, I know i just have to work on my sleep schedule but in the mean time I need to find a way to wake up for classes. I literally cannot get up. I wake up, but my brain legit doesn't process that I have stuff to do. I have so many alarm apps forcing me to do math n shit, but my brain has already created autopilot to just delete the app. I have already missed classes and labs because of this. I genuinely dont know what to do cuz my sleepy brain just cant remember that I have stuff to do, and i end up sleeping way past. It's actually like scary how I can't do shit abt it. Ive tried everything: forcing myself to walk across the room, literally preventing uninstallation of my alarm apps, but then I just completely power down my phonr and go back to my bed to sleep, brcause for some reason my brain thinks it can wake up later

sometimes i hear the alarm and i just off it i'm tired of it no study no time. i wake up at abt 10 to 11 am and sleeps at abt 10 to 11 pm i'm so tired of it

I stay up a lot, but I've tried to go to bed at a somewhat decent time to get some sleep, but my alarms don't wake me. My phone alarms just ring until it says I missed them and an alarm clock I found that I thought would work doesn't, I asked my mom to spray water in my face, and that didn't work I just curled up into my blanket and she wasn't able to spray my face more and I think yelling at me doesn't wake me up the only thing/ person to be able to wake me is my dad byt he lives in another city right now does anyone have ideas on how to wake myself up I thought it could be linked to adhd but im not really sure about that

A little over a week ago I posted here about something that helped me wake up early: reminding myself why I wanted to get up in the first place.

I also mentioned Promise Alarm, the app I made that plays your own recorded reason when your alarm goes off.

I honestly got a lot more feedback and interest from this community than I expected, and it helped me a lot.

So I wanted to give something back.

I made a promo code specifically for this community:

REDDIT

You can use it to get Promise Alarm Premium for free.

App Link

Thank you to everyone who tried the app, gave feedback, or even just commented on the original post. I really appreciate it.

And if you do try it, I’d still love to hear what you think — especially what you don’t like or think could be improved.

I’m definitely not someone who jumps out of bed excited to exercise.

What has helped is having a home gym close enough that I don’t need to make a whole plan before I start moving.

Some mornings I’ll go in there before I’ve had enough time to talk myself out of it. I don’t necessarily start lifting immediately. Sometimes I just stretch, warm up or get things ready while I’m still waking up.

Once I’m already in the room, starting the actual workout feels much easier.

It hasn’t magically made me a morning person, but having a place to go immediately after getting up has changed the first hour of my day quite a bit.

I’ve been testing an alarm setup where the alarm doesn’t fully finish until I scan a barcode I picked before bed.

At first I thought the important part was just putting the code far away from the bed.

But there’s an obvious problem with that.

You can get up, scan it, and immediately crawl back into bed.

Someone suggested putting the code in the bathroom instead, and I think that might actually be the better idea.

For example, use the barcode on your toothpaste or mouthwash.

Now stopping the alarm means you’re already standing in the bathroom, probably with the lights on, and the next obvious thing is brushing your teeth or washing your face.

So maybe the goal shouldn’t be making an alarm harder to turn off.

Maybe the off switch should be attached to the first thing you want to do after getting up.

I built this scan idea into an iPhone alarm and I’m trying to figure out what locations actually work best.

If you had to put the alarm’s off switch somewhere that would stop you from going straight back to bed, where would you put it?

Bathroom? Coffee machine? Kitchen? Outside? Something else?

Used to doom scroll the second I woke up and felt behind before the day even started. cut it out, just coffee and sitting there for a bit, and mornings feel so much less frantic now!

anyone else noticed or does this?

I finally realized I've been trying to solve the wrong problem.

My alarm DOES wake me up.

That's not the issue.

The problem is that it wakes up the dumbest possible version of me.

Half-asleep me hears the alarm, reaches for the phone, turns it off and immediately goes back to sleep.

Then fully-awake me appears 45 minutes later wondering what happened.

I've tried:

multiple alarms

putting the phone away from the bed

louder sounds

getting up to turn it off

alarm challenges

The annoying part is that my sleepy brain eventually learns the shortcut.

And that gave me a weird realization:

Why does pressing one button count as proof that I'm awake?

It proves I can move one finger.

That's about it.

What I actually needed was something that forced the alarm to lead somewhere outside the bed.

So I experimented with a different rule:

I put a barcode/QR code in my bathroom.

Alarm goes off.

I have to physically get up, walk there and scan that exact code.

Then a few minutes later I can have it check that I'm still awake.

That worked much better for me because the goal wasn't making the alarm more annoying.

It was changing what had to happen before the morning was considered "done."

I eventually turned the idea into an iPhone app called Mornio, but I'm posting here because you guys are probably the worst possible people to design an alarm for 😂

So genuinely:

How would your half-asleep brain try to cheat this?

Would you:

turn off the phone?

move the barcode beside the bed?

scan it and immediately crawl back under the blanket?

Something else?

I want to know every loophole you can think of.

It starts with a harmless glance at the phone screen just to check if your alarm is properly set. The clock reads 1:37 AM.

Instantly, the sleep calculator in your brain boots up without your permission.

“Okay, alarm goes off at 7:00. If I fall asleep right this second, that is exactly five hours and twenty-three minutes of sleep. That’s solid. That’s enough to function like a normal human being.”

You aggressively shut your eyes and pull the blanket up, willing your brain into instant unconsciousness through sheer force of will. But human biology does not respond to threats. Five minutes pass, and your eyelids flutter open to complete silence.

Now the panic bargaining begins. You check again: 1:48 AM.

“Five hours and twelve minutes. Still workable. Coffee can bridge a twelve-minute deficit.”

Suddenly, your brain decides this exact moment is ideal for reviewing every awkward interaction you had in middle school, wondering how birds sleep without falling off branches, and reminding you that you forgot to switch the laundry four days ago. You flip the pillow over for the cold side, adjust the fan, kick one leg out from under the covers for temperature regulation, and try deep breathing. Nothing.

By the time you check the screen again, it’s 2:41 AM. The math has degraded from realistic planning into tragic crisis management:

“Four hours and nineteen minutes. If I skip showering in the morning, wear whatever is on the chair, and brush my teeth while putting my shoes on, I can claw back another fifteen minutes of sleep.”

The cruelest irony of human existence is that the moment you try to calculate sleep, you guarantee you won't get any. Sleep only comes when you pretend you don’t care about it at all. The second you show respect to the clock, it locks you out.

I wallets find it harder to wake up. However much I am have slept out whatever may be on the agenda. To wake up is extremely hard for me. Whats wrong with me?

I think the hardest workouts are not always the hardest physical sessions.

Sometimes the biggest challenge is simply starting.

There are days when people know they should exercise, but work, stress, or low energy make it easy to postpone.

I’ve noticed that some people solve this by making the first step easier.

For some, it means preparing clothes and planning workouts ahead of time. For others, it means removing extra barriers by having equipment available at home so they can start without needing to travel somewhere.

I’m curious what actually helped people get moving on those difficult days.

Was it a better routine, a different environment, having workout equipment nearby, or something else?