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Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)

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Re: Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)

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Post by mannykannot »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #14

Nope. I slept in a common room with 3 brothers. If my alarm went off (half an hour before they needed to get up) I got a whopping. So I would wake up moments before the alarm, scramble from bed to my desk and slap the snooze button sometimes just as the buzzer started to sound. This guy is over-thinking it. And underestimating the human brain.

The author is not necessarily wrong about his case, and this could be investigated experimentally - have someone else set the alarm to a time he does not know.

Re: Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)

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Post by chasd00 »

madaxe_again wrote: post #32
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #14

Nope. I slept in a common room with 3 brothers. If my alarm went off (half an hour before they needed to get up) I got a whopping. So I would wake up moments before the alarm, scramble from bed to my desk and slap the snooze button sometimes just as the buzzer started to sound. This guy is over-thinking it. And underestimating the human brain.

Yup. I grew up in dorms at boarding school. The art was to wake up five minutes before the bell, so you could be first in line for the showers and get hot water, and then to breakfast before they ran out of the good choice. You couldn’t have an audible alarm, as you’d wake others and then you’d have competition. So, you just trained yourself to wake on time, at 0657 or whatever time shortly before 0700 you thought wi…

i wake up before my alarm goes off in order to not wake my wife. if my alarm goes off and wakes her before her alarm then a "whopping" is an understatement of what follows hah.

Oddly, i wake up almost always 2 minutes before my alarm. self preservation is a hell of an instinct.

Re: Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)

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Post by jFriedensreich »

I can't believe no one here seems to know who joe armstrong is / was and that he passed away, isn't this hackernews? This is a post from 2015. Joe was a wonderful person and this post shows a random funny/quirky thought he had. Writing things like "...by all means, keep doubting yourself and over-analyzing your own body..." is pretty inappropriate

Re: Why did I wake up before my alarm clock went off? (2015)

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

veeralpatel979 wrote: post #61
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #14

Nope. I slept in a common room with 3 brothers. If my alarm went off (half an hour before they needed to get up) I got a whopping. So I would wake up moments before the alarm, scramble from bed to my desk and slap the snooze button sometimes just as the buzzer started to sound. This guy is over-thinking it. And underestimating the human brain.

Strange to say but I actually don't mind being woken up due to someone else's alarm. It lets me experience the pleasure of knowing I get to go back to sleep :)

Mine sounded like a foghorn...
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