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?
Hatch alarm clock uses light to wake you up. There are cheaper knockoffs on Amazon.
Try gentle, natural sounds in your alarm. Bird songs, sound if rain, etc. Many alarm apps have an option to start very quiet and increase volume gradually, that may help
I had a first gen Xiaomi smart band thingy for this very reason that I put on my leg. Worked well enough unless I was exhausted or drunk but then nothing would anyway.
Smart bulbs, have it turn on automatically at the time a gentle alarm goes off
Wouldn’t the light also wake the wife up
I’d use my bedside light and hopefully get up before it wakes her
This could work so well! Ideally I’d put it in my bedside light!
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.
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.
Does your wife wear a sleep mask/would she be willing to wear one? You could then get one of those sunrise alarm clocks that lights up the room before making noise.
Or motorized blinds that can be set to a schedule. I’m very light sensitive and setting the blind schedule is all I need to wake up or sleep in.
If she woke up to a vibration from a watch, I bet she’d wake up hearing motorized blinds.
Some smart watches allow you to adjust the intensity of the vibration. (My Samsung Watch6 does.) See if your will let you experiment with that.
That could be beneficial. My fitbit was too strong
Drink several glasses of water before going to bed so you wake up to pee.
That could work, I’d need to figure out how long it takes to get to pee time from drinking.
Practice, practice, practice!
But not too much practice
Damn that is genius
Yep. That’s where I learned it from, too. The first 9 seasons of the Simpsons was the greatest thing to ever come from American Television.
What if you put the smart watch on your ankle? The covers might muffle the noise but you still feel it vibrate.
I was really hoping someone had like a really low volume pillow alarm or something, but instead, you guys are just really creative. I wouldn’t have thought to do this.
If your wife is such a light sleeper that a vibrating watch is waking her perhaps sleeping in a separate room when you need to wake up at a certain time would work?
Separate rooms is definitely not an option. It’s not so much super light sleeper just she is nursing and I’d like to get a workout in before everyone else wakes. If I wake the kids we’re all screwed if I wake her I ruin what peace she gets.
Sounds like you need to change the time you do the workout.
Why because my two options are don’t get up early or sleep separately?
Because it sounds like she’s sacrificing a lot to nurse a new baby, so maybe you could sacrifice a little bit for her so she can get at least a bit of sleep.
Maybe mind your own business and stop making presumptions about my family life you self righteous prick.
I want to wake an hour before everyone to do some exercising so I’m not eating into the family time. The time would otherwise be spent sleeping like everyone else.
I honestly can’t believe the audacity of your reply.
“Mind your own business on a public forum where I chose to disclose information!” How rich.
It’s based on absolutely no information that I provided, just your apparent want for feeling superior.
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Lol I know the 5g stuff is a stupid myth but sleeping with a Bluetooth device strapped to your cranium feels like it’s putting the research conclusions to the test
sleeping peacefully
BLUETOOTH DISCONNECTED
BLUETOOTH CONNECTED
angry groggy noises
Oh God I didn’t even think about a rogue connection:
10h train braking, pig fucking, garbage disposal sleep sounds ASMR vibe begins
Put the watch on your ankle? Probably idiotic, but that might be silent enough. And you’d have to do some work to make it stop, waking you up efficiently.
A split king bed did wonders for my wife and I. I never feel her move. Now, if it’s noise that wakes her up, a sound machine could help.
Split king? So, two mattresses and one duvet, is it?
It’s essentially 2 twin xl mattress side by side. You can use one duvet, but we blanket fight, so we use 2 separate.
Try a different watch or adjust the haptics to make it vibrate less? Casio sells an inexpensive alarm watch that vibrates if you can’t dial the watch back.
I don’t suppose there’s room for a bed in the babies’ room, so after the mid-night nursings she could sleep in there until they’re hungry again? Only if she wants to, of course. It can be more restful than trying to sleep with your ears on High for sounds of distress from the other room, which also makes you oversensitive to hubby’s alarm.
The baby is in our room, and the others have their own, but the house is old and creaky, so I tread carefully.
And why is a different room definitely not an option?
Because this is an ongoing situation, and I don’t want to sleep without my partner.
prob bc houses have finite space
Literally or figuratively?
Could you or her be occupying another room for a few weeks/months or is it worth a fight
What I’m trying to do is not worth sleeping alone, I just want to get a workout in before the day starts and waking anyone will just start the day earlier. But sleeping separately is worse than being out of shape.
To each their own, I’d say for a few weeks no biggie. Obviously cuddle/rest together
Having raised many kids, you have to take your extra time where you can actually find it. If your family is early to rise, work out before bed instead, after they go to sleep. I have done early morning workouts, late night workouts, lunch time workouts. It may be that you can’t have morning time alone right now.
You can try the watch again with very low volume or some quiet alarm sound with no vibrate and leave it under your pillow.
I can’t imagine that you can get out of bed without waking your wife if your smartwatch vibrating wakes her up.
Depends where the arm is I think. When it vibrates under the pillow you’re using, it can sound very loud
I assume that OP isn’t sleeping with the wrist wearing the watch underneath the pillow their wife has her head on.
Pulling your arm from under a pillow someone is using seems very likely to disturb them and wake them. You’re not doing that, OP, right?
Idk, my husband can sneak out of bed, but his phone vibrating in the bed wakes me. Even if it’s just a little zzt to indicate a text has come in. I guess it’s one of the noises I’m “listening for”?
Deaf people have a vibrating pad under their bedsheet.
Put the watch around your balls.
Or even better, just get a vibrating cock ring.
In the butt should also work. Just make sure it has a flired base.
Then it would definitely wake his wife up, but make up for it by making her orgasm. Win/win?
Haven’t used an alarm in many years. It is something you can train and get better at, just actively tell yourself when you want to wake up. Boom, magic.
