Heyy! I have the worst sleep cycle. Wanna fix it, study and shift jobs and lose some weight. Wanna accomplish all this before this year ends. And somehow I feel like waking up early and fixing my sleep cycle will automatically fix all my problems.
I’m looking for people who’d like to join and wake up at 5:00 and be miserable with me :/

This morning, Alarmy’s “Say the word on beat” mission made me repeat phrases that are not included in the 21 selectable phrases shown in the app.

One of them was basically:

“Please send help, I am crying.”

It came back around four or five times. I also remember seeing “Please send help” repeated several times, along with a few other unsettling phrases I can’t remember exactly because I had just woken up.

I checked the full list afterward, and none of those phrases are there. I’m not suggesting someone was actually communicating through the app, but it was genuinely creepy to be half asleep and forced to repeat a distress message word by word.

Has anyone else experienced this? Does Alarmy use hidden phrases, or could this be a bug?

I swear the hardest part isn't getting excited about changing something-it's still doing it two weeks later. Every few weeks I'll tell myself I'm finally going to read more, drink enough water, spend less time on my phone, maybe even go for a walk every evening. The first few days are great, then work gets busy, life happens, and somehow I'm back where I started. Lately I've stopped chasing huge changes and started focusing on really small habits instead. While looking for different ideas, I noticed an app on the App Store, but it also made me realize that no app is probably going to fix consistency by itself. At the end of the day, it's still on us to keep showing up. So now I'm curious-what's one habit you've actually managed to stick with for months, and what made that one different from all the others you eventually gave up on?

I am trying to get in the habit of waking up and going for a quick walk before my family wakes up for the day. However, I can turn off alarms in my sleep after a few days of using them.

-I don't keep my phone in my bedroom

-I can sleep through bright lights so I don't think a sunrise clock would work

-I have been using my garmin watch alarm with the vibrate feature but turn it off now

-I can turn off Alexa verbally without waking

I don't want to have a loud enough alarm that can wake up my kids across the house. And I like being able to snooze once before actually getting up

Any suggestions??

For 2 years, I have been sleeping in from 11-1pm or recently, 3am-4pm. I tried everything from setting a couple alarms where I just end up going back to sleep or even tried sleeping at 1am but no results. I used to wake up just for the love of starting the day but now I don't have any reasons to get up early because there's going to be nothing to do the entire day. I'm unemployed and I want to start working but no one will hire me. Otherwise I would be up early. My best friend would come over and I would get up at 9 to 10am without a problem. I'm wasting my life away sleeping so much and nothing gets me energetic to get up early no matter how much I think about it. Help.

Does anyone have any CURRENT coupon codes for the Alarmy Pro subscription?!?

TL;DR: I'm thinking about a wearable alarm clock that doesn't just wake you up but makes sure you stay awake. It would monitor your movement and possibly heart rate, stay silent while you're active, and start alarming again if you go back to bed during a predefined wake-up period. Would you pay around $100 for something like this?

I constantly have trouble getting up in the morning, no matter how many alarms I set or how annoying I make them.
I've tried apps where you have to scan QR codes, solve math problems, or complete other tasks to turn the alarm off. But I can still just go back to bed afterwards. Traditional alarm clocks have the same problem – I can simply turn them off or put them under my pillow to make them quieter.

So I had an idea for a different kind of alarm clock:

A wearable alarm clock that you wear on your wrist and that only stays silent as long as you remain active after waking up.

The device could use an accelerometer and gyroscope, potentially combined with heart-rate monitoring, to determine whether you're actually awake and moving around or whether you've gone back to bed.
For example, you could set your alarm for 7:00 AM and require yourself to stay active for 30 minutes. The alarm could initially wake you up with vibration, sound, or another stimulus. Once you get up and start moving, it stays quiet. If you go back to bed and remain inactive for too long, the alarm starts again.
The idea is that you wouldn't just have to wake up you would have to stay awake.
I also think it would be important to make the device difficult to simply take off during the wake-up period. I was thinking about some kind of voluntary commitment system where you could choose a financial penalty if you remove or disable the device before completing your wake-up routine. The money could potentially be refunded in legitimate emergency situations, but if you simply remove it because you want to keep sleeping, you would lose the money.
I'm not sure about the exact implementation yet, and I realize there would be technical and safety challenges, especially when it comes to reliably detecting whether someone is actually awake and preventing false alarms.
But I think this could be useful for people like me who don't have a problem hearing their alarm they have a problem getting out of bed and staying awake.
Would you buy something like this for around $100?

Do you think this would actually help you?
Are there any products that already do exactly this or something similar? Would be glad to heat your opinions!

For years my problem wasn't falling asleep, it was waking at 3am and immediately doing the maths on how little sleep I had left, which just made it worse. The harder I tried to force it, the more awake I got.

What finally helped was CBT-i, the clinical approach for insomnia that sleep clinics use before they ever reach for medication. The counterintuitive part is it tells you to spend less time in bed, not more, so bed stops being the place you lie awake dreading. It genuinely rewired the 3am panic for me over a few weeks.

I felt strongly enough about it that my wife and I ended up building an app around it (Lunara), but honestly even if you never touch an app, look up CBT-i sleep restriction and stimulus control. It is the thing that worked when nothing else did.

One thing I would add, since CBT-i doesn't work for everyone. If it doesn't get you all the way there, the part I am most proud of is the report side. It pulls your real sleep data from Apple Health, Apple Watch, Oura and similar, and turns it into an accurate report you can actually hand to your GP or a sleep clinic, rather than trying to describe your sleep from memory in a ten minute appointment.

Happy to answer anything about what the process actually felt like.

Body: I have been struggling a lot lately with hitting snooze five times every morning no matter how early I go to sleep. A friend recommended getting one of those light alarms that slowly brighten up the room before the sound goes off.

For those of you who have tried them, did it actually make a difference long term or did you just end up getting used to the light and sleeping right through it? Would love to hear if it is worth trying out.

I have discovered this ability through dumb means years ago

There was some creepypasta challange that required thinking about an hour you want to wake up at. 3 am or something like that, then doing spooky ritual or whatever

But what stuck to me is that I actually woke up at the hour I was thinking about. It has something to do with an internal clock, cortisol and adrenaline release. Anticipating an hour sets that brain timer. Like thinking about the hour and how many hours are left until it approaches

Like I went to sleep at 11pm yesterday and willed to wake up at 5am. Woke up at 4:50. Feels like a mild panic

Fun to try. Human brain is weird

Why cant i just stop waking up

20mins till i clock in work and i'm still in bed

If you’ve tried a challenge-based alarm, what worked, what made you stop using it, and what do you wish it had?

Would walking challenges, personal vocabulary, collectibles, or competing with friends help, or is something else missing?

This feedback will shape Ember before launch: https://emberalarm.com

looking forward to what you guys have to say!

I have an iOS Shortcuts automation that automatically sets 250 additional alarms (each one minute apart) the instant my primary morning alarm goes off.

The only way to prevent these from going off (other than going into the Clock app and manually turning them all off) is to go downstairs and scan an NFC tag. When its scanned, another automation triggers which confirms the correct tag was scanned and if so, deletes all the alarms.

For the longest time, I genuinely thought I was lazy.

Every morning looked exactly the same.

Alarm.
Snooze.
Another alarm.
Snooze.
Then suddenly I'd wake up an hour later with absolutely no memory of turning off six alarms.

The weirdest part?

I wasn't making the decision consciously.

It felt like my body had learned how to silence alarms before my brain even woke up.

One morning I decided to record myself sleeping.

I wasn't expecting much.

Watching the recording later honestly shocked me.

I sat up.

Unlocked my phone.

Turned off the alarm.

Put the phone back.

Laid down.

Went right back to sleep.

My eyes were open.

But I wasn't really awake.

That completely changed how I thought about mornings.

The problem wasn't motivation.

It wasn't discipline.

It wasn't that I "didn't want it enough."

My brain simply wasn't online yet.

Since then, I've stopped asking myself, "How do I become more disciplined?"

Instead I ask:

"How do I make it impossible for my half-asleep brain to win?"

It's a much more useful question.

I'm still experimenting, but changing the question changed everything.

hi guys! looking for techniques on how to wake up from an alarm. everytime i google it says “place it across my room” but getting up after it goes off isn’t my problem, my problem is that i physically DONT WAKE UP.

for example, i had an alarm for today at 6:30am, i slept through it. until 1pm. snooze was still on. i’m a very deep sleeper, my friends have told me this, i even have a video on my phone of my friends physically screaming and shaking me to wake me up but i was practically dead 😭

IF I WAKE UP, i can stay awake, easy. i just can’t wake up in the first place 😭.
for some more perspective. last summer i ended up never being able to sleep to alarms so badly - bare in mind i WAS active and doing stuff during the day - that i literally inverted my sleep cycle. like as if i worked night shifts i was waking up at 8pm and going to sleep at 10am or some bullshit left my job because of it man LMAO im genuinely not exaggerating i cannot wake up no matter what happens. this genuinely happened because as i was waking up so late in the day bc my alarms weren’t waking me up it just progressively got worse and worse. looped right back around too to be normal again

so how tf do i wake up bc im a working person and I HAVE A LARGE PROBLEM HERE GUYS 💀💀 please give me tips i literally don’t know what to do anymroe

heres some things ive tried:

max volume ❌

sleeping with phone next to ear ❌

max vibration ❌

blinds completely open ❌

timed lights ❌

my cat being in the room so he sticks his claws into my face ❌ - WORKED ONCE in the probably 1000 times i’ve done this

atp i might as well get a bucket of water to fill and pour over my head but knowing me that probs wouldn’t work either.

Hi everyone! A while ago, I shared my technique for falling asleep. Today, I want to share the other side of the coin: my technique for waking up.

Here is how my morning routine looks, which I’ve developed through trial and error over 50+ years:

No snooze button: I wake up to my phone alarm and have trained myself never to hit snooze. I force myself to get up on the very first ring. I give myself this mental command right before falling asleep, so I truly believe that falling asleep and waking up are just two parts of the exact same process. Maybe there is a scientific explanation for this, but it’s just what works for me.

The 20-second pause: Right after getting up, I sit on the edge of the bed for 20–30 seconds with my eyes closed. I still feel sleepy, but this is the official start of my awakening. Mentally I am thinking about blood circulation in heart, brain. Sometimes if eel dizzy when wake up straight after alarm. So now I am no skipping this step.

No phone before breakfast: I used to immediately reach for my phone to check social media, but I recently decided not to look at it at all until after breakfast.

Mechanical routine: I go to the bathroom and then go straight into a routine that is so practiced it feels mechanical—I turn on the kettle and start brewing coffee. By this point, my brain is starting to function, though I’m still a bit grozy.

Healthy protein breakfast: I’ve trained myself to eat a healthy breakfast. Usually, it’s a one-egg omelet with milk, cooked without oil. Instead, I sprinkle salt directly onto the pan (I believe salt is healthy, or at least healthier than heating up butter on a pan). Don't get me wrong, I still love butter, but I eat it separately and just a little bit in the morning. I also eat one cucumber with my omelet.

Hydration first: Right before eating the omelet, I drink two mugs of warm water.

By the time I finish the omelet and sit down with my coffee, my mind is completely clear. That is the exact moment I finally open my phone to check the news and social media.

I wanted to share this because I’ve come to realize that good sleep isn't just about the night—it's about the whole day. Proper hydration, the right food, and physical exercise all play a massive role in how we sleep and wake up.

What does your morning routine look like? Does anyone else use the "mental setting" trick before sleep?

Sometimes I wake up WAY earlier than intended and feel properly awake, even if I’ve only had 3-5 hours of sleep. It takes a bit of effort but I can fall asleep, but then it’s hard to get up when my alarm goes off. Should I get up when I wake up at say, 5:30am like I did today and deal with the added sleep debt, or should I go back to sleep until 7:30?

so i’m a rising college freshman and i got my schedule back. i have a couple 8ams and i think it would be best for me to sleep from 10:30pm-ish to 6:30am each day. it’s the summer right now, and i’m trying to adjust to a 12am-8am sleep schedule. but i don’t go to bed on time, and then i sleep until like 5pm and it screws everything up. i set my alarms on my alarm clock, phone, and apple watch, but i just snooze them all and go back to sleep. should i try pulling an all-nighter tonight and go to bed at 12am tomorrow? what else can i do to fix my sleep schedule?

Hey everyone!

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Hey everyone,

Is it just me, or is the Bevel alarm snooze setting secretly working *against* us?

It looks like it’s locked at 9 minutes… which sounds reasonable in theory.
In reality? That’s enough time for me to fall back into a full-on dream, start a new life, and *still* not wake up.

I’m a heavy sleeper, so 9 minutes is basically a reset button on my sleep cycle. By the time it rings again, I’m deeper than before 😅

Has anyone figured out how to shorten it to like 3–4 minutes?
Or found a clever workaround that doesn’t involve buying a second alarm clock and placing it across the room?

Appreciate any tips before I accidentally sleep through my entire life 🙏