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I have deep-sleep problem. When I go sleep, i set up at least 3 alarm clocks on my notebook ("alarm-clock" applet on linux), and set volume to maximum. They are very loudly. But I never hear them, and I usually have an oversleep. I think i am not just one who has this problem. Guys, please, can you help me ? How just to wake up "on-the-time"?

Update: thanks you guys for your help. I just want to say another thing that helped me a lot. A few days ago I have found out great program name f.lux. It worked and works perfectly for me. It looks like i am not having that deep sleep anymore and i am not so tired.

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They have special alarm clocks for deaf people that vibrate the bed. Perhaps you will respond more to vibration than noise? – dm03514 Sep 19 '12 at 15:00
@dm03514 I will take a look at that. I am not deaf (might just in sleep) – Zaffy Sep 19 '12 at 16:18
About your update: It's prefectly okay to answer your own question: blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/… – smarinov Oct 3 '12 at 12:39
@smarinov i know but this questions is pretty old and i wanted to publish it to others on visible place without uping my own answer with accept. – Zaffy Oct 3 '12 at 13:08

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Before sleeping just drink 2-3 glasses of water. It will wake up you early. I do this when I want to go somewhere early in the morning.

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Best way - although it's worth experimenting with the dosage - if you are not careful you end up out of bed much earlier than you intended... – Joe Sep 19 '12 at 14:39
Worked perfectly. Thanks. – Zaffy Sep 20 '12 at 14:09
Dont drink too much... you'll end up needing to go a little sooner than morning ! – Garreh Sep 21 '12 at 0:27
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In my experience I have real trouble getting up in the morning when I've been working on the computer before I got to bed.

Since I noticed that, I try to shut down the computer at least 30 minutes before I go to sleep. An hour is even better. I just relax and order my thougfhts before I go to bed.

Also I started listening to a relaxation programm before going to sleep. Sleep is much better this way and I wake up refreshed and eager to start the day and often before the alarm goes off.

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Thanks you for this answer. Is very useful, but I'll accept Prashant_Aryan's answer for now. – Zaffy Sep 20 '12 at 14:08
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Light is one of the key influences on sleep patterns. You might try using a lamp timer set to a bright lamp to go off 10-15 minutes before you wake up time.

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Sunlight is the best :D – GusDeCooL Sep 19 '12 at 15:03
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Yep. Try opening up the blinds before going to bed. It shouldnt add too much light into the dark room, but it will bring in sunlight in the morning, which is a natural way of getting your body to wake up. – Garreh Sep 21 '12 at 0:28
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Get something like a sonic bomb shaking alarm clock or build yourself something like the pneumatic alarm clock.

You might consider doing a sleep study to see if it's a sleep disorder, too.

You don't provide your sleep habits; getting enough sleep helps. Programming yourself to wake up at a given time may also be possible, but I don't know if that is effective for everybody.

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I have enough of sleep, with that oversleeps 7 - 10+ hours. – Zaffy Sep 18 '12 at 23:35
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Work on your sleep cycle. Try to get up at the same time every day and go to bed at the same time. I used to have the multiple alarm clocks until I realized that I too was conditioned to ignore them. I actually found having no alarm clock at all works well.

When I want a wakeup alarm now I use newer cell phone alarms which have a lot of options for repeats and vibrates and rising level, etc.

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I used to use cell phone but it was too quiet – Zaffy Sep 19 '12 at 13:03
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Android app AlarmDroid only stops ringing after you have solved a mathematical task. Also take very high whistles as ringing sound, whistling wakes up most snoring people

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I wonder if it supports playing really awful MP3s. I think that listening to Justin Bieber until solving a mathematical problem would get you up in a hurry. – Garreh Sep 21 '12 at 0:28
@le_garry No, it would lead to spontaneous energetic disassembly of the offending phone. – Dave Newton Sep 21 '12 at 10:23
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Funny or not I know a similar case that was using some of those annoying iphone ringtones like some pelicans and extreme ringing that could woke up the whole neighborhood. Only worked for the neighbors i must say... Then he switched to the "alien ship" ringtone also from the iphone ringtones and he wakes up in no time... So i guess that gentle ringtone is helping out!

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If you have a smart phone take a look at apps like Sleep Cycle. They monitor your movement in bed and based on that infer your current sleep mode.

If you're in REM sleep and it's close to the wakeup time, it will vibrate and sound. In REM sleep you're much more likely to wake up.

In fact, I use a custom ringtone in which I wisper "Wout, wake up!" and it wakes me up immediately without waking my wife.

As a bonus you get a sleep log with pretty graphs, helping you to improve your sleep.

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