wake up!!!

[juldea]

Ideas:

1) Sleeping in the bathtub. Have some kind of mattress-type thing with rubber sheets. In the morning, instead of hitting the alarm clock, hit the faucet and the shower switch. The water would be cold for a short time, maybe 5-10 seconds, to super-wake me up, and then it'd be warm and I could shower without having to move much. I could prop my "bed" up against the side of the shower to drip-dry during the day.

2) Keep a cup of water next to the bed to pour on myself in the mornings. Con: I probably wouldn't do it. ;)

3) Keep a cup of water next to the bed for goldbug to pour on me in the mornings. Pro: she would probably do it more often than if she had to go to the kitchen to get the water

4) Disable my snooze button. Con: I don't know how.

Vote (1 is a bad idea, 5 is a wonderful idea):
[Poll #18714]

Comments

[reify.livejournal.com]

Medical technology has had a solution to this problem for many decades now. They're called smelling salts, and they're cheap. Keep a bowl of them by your bed, when the alarm goes off, pop one, and it'll knock your ass straight into full consciousness.

Along the lines of lo5an's suggestion, there are also gradual alarm clocks that are supposed to work well. They start off with very soft white noise and over the course of 10 to 20 minutes crescendo into some normal-volume alarm-like sound.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

I have a gradual alarm... it always would wake rachel, and sometimes now wakes goldbug, before it penetrates my senses.

Where can I get smelling salts? By popping one, do you mean breaking something open, or eating it? I just know them as something in a bottle you wave in front of someone's face when they've fainted.

[withlyn.livejournal.com]

Your alarm doesn't seem very gradual to me... Maybe it gets louder over time, but it certainly seems to start much louder than mine.

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[juldea.livejournal.com]

Yes, it doesn't start very quiet. But it definitely gets louder!

[reify.livejournal.com]

Smelling salts are generally poppers. A small glass ampule containing liquid, surrounded by a paper wrapper and a little string netting. You squeeze it to break the glass, and the liquid leaks into the paper, is exposed to the air, and volatilizes.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Well I tried Walgreen's last night, and they said they didn't have any and that I probably can't find them retail. I'll be trying the internet now, but do you have any idea where to find them?