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For most of the last fifteen to twenty years I've been unable to hear an alarm clock. As a result, I've (unconsciously) learned to simply wake up when I need to. More accurately, I usually don't wake up at exactly the time that I need, to but a bit before. Occasionally, when I'm at home, if my alarm goes off because I went back to sleep, my husband will wake me up and then I get up and start my day.
But now I'm living at our new house during the work week - it's close to work, and the shorter commute buys me almost an hour a day, and in addition it means that the house isn't standing empty.
But it also means that my husband isn't there to wake me up, because he (and most of our stuff) are still at the old house. So I brought a travel alarm that I've had for years - at least ten years, maybe more like fifteen or twenty. It's got an attachment that looks like a little flying saucer that you put under the mattress and it vibrates and wakes you up.
Or so the theory goes. Despite having taken it on every business trip since I bought it - and there were lots and lots of them, I used to travel for business a lot - I have never known whether it will wake me up because on the road, as at home, I wake up before it goes off and turn it off.
And this week I found out: oh, yes indeed, it does wake me up. On Monday night I slept poorly and was tired when I went to bed on Tuesday. Wednesday morning I was awakened by the bed shaker (and guess what: it's not for nothing that these are called "alarms". I nearly hit the ceiling). Again today, I slept until the alarm went off - though I think I'm getting used to it, today I didn't feel as though I'd need to be peeled off the ceiling and nor did I get the cardiac exercise that I got yesterday. I just woke up.
So it was kind of cool to find out that when I need to, I can use this clock and it will wake me up. Flip side is that when my husband and I are in the same house again during the week when I use an alarm, I may not wake up ahead of the alarm and turn it off. I hope he isn't too annoyed to be awakened when I get up...
But now I'm living at our new house during the work week - it's close to work, and the shorter commute buys me almost an hour a day, and in addition it means that the house isn't standing empty.
But it also means that my husband isn't there to wake me up, because he (and most of our stuff) are still at the old house. So I brought a travel alarm that I've had for years - at least ten years, maybe more like fifteen or twenty. It's got an attachment that looks like a little flying saucer that you put under the mattress and it vibrates and wakes you up.
Or so the theory goes. Despite having taken it on every business trip since I bought it - and there were lots and lots of them, I used to travel for business a lot - I have never known whether it will wake me up because on the road, as at home, I wake up before it goes off and turn it off.
And this week I found out: oh, yes indeed, it does wake me up. On Monday night I slept poorly and was tired when I went to bed on Tuesday. Wednesday morning I was awakened by the bed shaker (and guess what: it's not for nothing that these are called "alarms". I nearly hit the ceiling). Again today, I slept until the alarm went off - though I think I'm getting used to it, today I didn't feel as though I'd need to be peeled off the ceiling and nor did I get the cardiac exercise that I got yesterday. I just woke up.
So it was kind of cool to find out that when I need to, I can use this clock and it will wake me up. Flip side is that when my husband and I are in the same house again during the week when I use an alarm, I may not wake up ahead of the alarm and turn it off. I hope he isn't too annoyed to be awakened when I get up...
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