My problem, I know is not an isolated case. I like to wake up between 5:00am - 5:30am to train before work and before my family wakes up. When my alarm sounds, my wife is awake and is understandably upset when she can not fall back asleep. I have seen a vibrating ring alarm clock on line, but I think it is a prototype as I am unable to buy it.
Does anybody else have this problem, and what are your solutions? On a side note, the vibrating cell phone in the pillow does not work nor does getting a new wife:)
Dunno how long you have been getting up that time, but I regulalry wake up ahead of my alarm…sometime within minute to half an hour… So if your body clock hasn’t switched over yet, perhaps this will help…
If its been a while (i.e. you getting up at 5:30) and still no switch you may be going to sleep too late i.e. not enough sleep… hence needing an alarm… worth a thought… your body wants the rest but you are interupring it with the alarm… further raminifcations here over time… other than an angry wife…
Other option is to sleep in a guest room if you have one a few nights a week for the really early starts (4am) so you don’t wake her…
last tip, try drinking a decent amount of water before you go to sleep, one you top up after the day and leave yourself better hydrated when you wake, but you also wake needing a pee which seems to help the natural waking situation… not gallons here cos you’ll be up all night…
Re silent alarms… i’d look on line for a watch that vibrates or similar… (careful what you find off your search criteria!!)
I had an interview for one of the major TV networks in sales a few years back (seems like ages ago) and part of the final interview was for me to sell them something… whatever I wanted. In college, as part of a final project, I had worked on a business plan for a “silent” alarm clock so I figured I’d pitch them the idea. They seemed pretty intrigued. I hadn’t thought about this for years, but interesting to see that perhaps I wasn’t the only one in need of one.
I have this little thing called a “FitBit One” (for my company’s heath-initiative thing) that has a silent alarm. You can wear it on your wrist in a strap they give you. You set it to vibrate when you want it to wake you up and it does.
It’s not cheap - like $100. It’s meant to do other stuff that lets companies encourage their workers to be healthy. It counts steps and you compete against other employees for rewards.
I set my phone for vibrate and use the alarm without a ringer. Never wakes up my wife.
I would NOT sleep with the phone under your pillow, though, unless you turn off the phone’s reception. It may not be a good idea to have the radiation (albeit at very low levels) next to your head for 5-8 hours a night, day after day.
Vibrating alarm clock. Battery powered and slips into your pillow case. Google search “shake awake alarm clock.” I like the Reizen model. Been using this type of alarm clock for 15 or so years and my late-sleeper wife never gets rousted by its noise.
Note that it can be really easy to set the wrong time - screwed myself the morning of an A race a few years ago where I mistakenly set the time, not the alarm, back an hour.
I would NOT sleep with the phone under your pillow, though, unless you turn off the phone’s reception. It may not be a good idea to have the radiation (albeit at very low levels) next to your head for 5-8 hours a night, day after day.
I seriously doubt the power output of the phone is at all going to affect you in any way. No study has ever shown a causal link between cell phones and any adverse condition.
A buddy at work has one of the fitness tracking wristbands. The one he has tracks sleep and will act as an alarm (can vibrate). I think its the Jawbone Up.
Apparently you can set a range of time to wake you up, say between 5-6 and it will pick a time when you are not in a deep sleep to wake up better/easier. (Im sure you can set an exact time too).
It can upload all the data to an app on your phone and it looks pretty cool. Tells you how long you slept, how many times you woke up, how much deep vs light sleep. For the data people, looks like it would be fun to track to see how much quality sleep you are actually getting.
Seems like it would fit your mail goal of waking up silently.
Havent used myself so not speaking form experience. About 100 on amazon.
While it’s not the cheapest solution it is a way to justify a new toy, the Garmin Fenix 2 has a vibrating alarm function and in watch mode the battery life is a week+.
I use the “radio” mode. Its’ not as disruptive to my wife, but I’m well trained to get up when hearing it. If I sleep through it, then I probably needed the sleep more than the training.
5:30AM? If I “slept in” that late every morning, I wouldn’t need an alarm. I’d be getting 7-7.5 hours of sleep and would just wake up.
I use my Fitbit Flex to wake me up. It vibrates fairly strong and the wife’s never woken up. It has however scared the crap out of the dog that was sleeping next to me.
My problem, I know is not an isolated case. I like to wake up between 5:00am - 5:30am to train before work and before my family wakes up. When my alarm sounds, my wife is awake and is understandably upset when she can not fall back asleep. I have seen a vibrating ring alarm clock on line, but I think it is a prototype as I am unable to buy it.
Does anybody else have this problem, and what are your solutions? On a side note, the vibrating cell phone in the pillow does not work nor does getting a new wife:)
It has a vibrating option for alarms which works well for me. OCCASIONALLY I’ll sleep through it, but I guess that just means I’m really tired. If it’s important to definitely wake up, I’ll set my normal alarm for 5-10 minutes after the vibrating alarm is supposed to go up. It never wakes my wife up, but she always stirs when I get out of bed. Can’t do much about that (she typically can fall back asleep in that case though).
I did notice that it’s $55 and not sold by Amazon now. I paid $34 through Amazon in Jan '13 (coincidentally right when IM training ramped up for me) which was a lot better. Maybe search around to see if it’s cheaper somewhere else.