I need to get up without waking the wife and kids, I got a smartwatch to vibrate and it woke her. The alarm is always going to wake the house.
Is there anything else?
You could try some bone conducting head phones. I’ve been wearing the Shokz brand OpenRun headband all day at work for about 5 months now and it’s comfy. I use them in bed sometimes but don’t fall asleep in them. They have some new wrap around ear ones that might be comfier to sleep in.
Edit: A full charge will last all day and they recharge quickly.
I’ve used the Shokz bone conducting headphones and love them. Not sure if OP can find a model that they can sleep in, but the principle is sound. I got mine because I wanted to be able to listen to music without waking up the baby.
I had to put on my glasses to read the post title…
Legitimate answer though, once upon a time before I realized such relationships are not really feasible for me to maintain, I just kept a separate stowable bed in the office for work nights when I had to get up earlier without waking the gf. Days she got up earlier, she couldn’t wake me if she tried, but I would sometimes steal the blanket and wake her early still so we got multiple separate blankets. Usually three in case one of us did a double blanket steal.
There are these lamps that mimic natural sunrise. If you put one on your side of the bed and sleep towards it, might work. I used one a decade ago and it worked ok. Keep the watch alarm as back up though
Get an enlarged prostate. You won’t sleep for more than 3 hours straight promise.
Why’s that so? Do u like get extra horny or something
imminent need to pee
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But i just went D:
Set alarm quiet-ish on your phone, put it under your pillow then hope the volume is loud enough to wake you, but the muffled sound doesn’t wake them up?
My phone has an escalating volume option for alarms. I usually hear it before it’s loud enough for anyone else to hear.
If the watch vibrating is too much, I fail to see how this has any chance.
If a smart watch vibrating on your wrist, assuming it wasn’t also alarming with audio, then how are you going to avoid waking her by just getting out of bed?
Kindly ask her to get used to your alarm sound, and not wake up then.
This may seem harsh, but actually it isn’t. Every house has it’s own specific sounds, and it is quite normal to get used to them and not wake up. If you hear other sounds that are unusual, then you wake up. It is a natural thing.
I had a roommate in college that had trouble waking up even with an alarm, and had a much earlier class schedule than me. Never got used to it, just got sleep deprivation. Maybe it’s “natural” for you and my ex roommate to sleep through alarms, but as they are designed to not let you sleep through them, many people cannot.
Yes, but presumably OP can find an alarm that isn’t as obtrusive as the average one.
You could grab a brush and put a little make-up. Perhaps hide the scars to fade away the shake-up. But then why’d you leave the keys upon the table? Ah, here you go create another fable.
Why do you want a discreet way to wake up? You wanted to.
Probably to be polite, and give his family more valuable sleep time while he does responsible things.
Gotta get to work and do that important maintenance so the Systems don’t go Down.
WHAT? Do they own the World? How do you own disorder?
Somewhere between the sacred silence and peace.
I don’t think you trust in my self-righteous suicide, I cry when angels deserve to die
Something clicked in my mind when I read the phrase self-righteous suicide and SOAD just popped into my head
I got a sunrise alarm clock recently and I’ve really been enjoying it. Whether it will work for your situation or not depends on how sensitive you each are to light in the mornings.
I have no idea if this is a good product or not but look up shock clock alarm watch. It uses an electric shock to wake the wearer up.
Get a cat and feed it first thing every day when you get up. Soon you’ll have claws in your arm to wake you. Might it meow and wake the wife and kids? Perhaps, but wives and kids love cats so they won’t mind.
This works very well. Our girls get fed at 8 am, so they collectively wake up and start losing their shit, crying for food and rubbing all over us, around 6 to 6:30 am.
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How does improving one’s skill in chess correlate to waking up early?
I had a smartwatch that had a very annoyingly buzzy vibration, so I empathize with this problem. If nothing else works I do believe that some expensive smartwatches (like apple watch) have a more quiet “tappy” vibration. You could test in store to see how loud the sound is before buying it
My Fitbit Inspire 3 (cheapest fitbit, comes with 6 months Fitbit premium so you can see how your sleep is and address any issues) has alarm vibration options and it is (usually) enough to wake me. Never wakes the wife. If you sleep with her on your arm or something, then this probably won’t work. They also have light alarms (goes from dark yellow to bright white over a 30 minute period) and she could wear a sleep mask.
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No if that is your approach carry on .
Smart bulbs, have it turn on automatically at the time a gentle alarm goes off
Kasa bulbs have a fade feature that lets you gradually fade up to x% over a given amount of time.
I really like using that feature to wake me up gradually as my alarm approaches.
This could work so well! Ideally I’d put it in my bedside light!
Wouldn’t the light also wake the wife up
I’d use my bedside light and hopefully get up before it wakes her
If you always go to bed at the same time you should wake up at the same time. Do you have an irregular schedule?
I haven’t needed an alarm in many years, but when my sleep cycle was poor I always needed it.
I have kids, babies, so yes.
