- 📳 Discovering Haptic Feedback Alarms
- 🚨Disabling Snooze
- 👍🏻 My Results - Did It Work?
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For years I have struggled with hitting the snooze button. I will set my alarm for 5:55 am, and then continually snooze it until around 6:30 am when I can finally convince myself to get out of bed. Apparently, this is called “sleep inertia” and 1/3 of people have this problem.
I’ve never really been able to tackle this, and I didn’t take it seriously for a very long time. I often got enough sleep (around 7-8 hours) but still struggled to wake up when that first alarm went off.
On top of that, my wife hates that I continually hit snooze, as it keeps waking her repeatedly, which ruins her sleep.
📳 Discovering Haptic Feedback Alarms
I recently purchased an Apple Watch (after first trying the Whoop 4.0 for 30 days and then a Fitbit). That’s a story for a different time, but after trying these three devices, I landed on the Apple watch.
At first, I was extremely interested in the sleep-tracking abilities of these devices but then realized that I could use these devices as alarms.
When I was trial running the Fitbit, I started using the alarm feature since I wore the watch to bed to track my sleep. I was extremely surprised that I could get woken up by the haptic feedback.
Because of the haptic feedback alarm, I didn’t keep waking Madelyn up when hitting snooze in the morning (we also had a newborn, so this became equally important).
But this was only half the battle.
🚨Disabling Snooze
After using a Fitbit for a couple of weeks, I decided to return it and get an Apple Watch for several reasons that I will not go into here.
When I purchased my Apple Watch (series 7), I decided to attempt disabling snooze. (Remember, I’m still wearing this device to sleep, and then charging it in the morning.) I knew that hitting snooze was still a problem, and I wondered if eliminating this option would help.
My thought process was that if I eliminate the ability to hit snooze, I would HAVE to focus on waking up on the first try. I could also (in theory) let the alarm go for as long as possible to make sure that I woke up.
One thing that I did during this testing phase was at least set up a backup alarm in case disabling snooze didn’t work.
It’s also important to me that there is no ringer; it’s JUST the haptic feedback on my wrist.
These are the settings I’m using (this is in the clock app) →
👍🏻 My Results - Did It Work?
I have been waking up to my Apple Watch now for 3 weeks, and I think this has really been making a difference.
To my surprise, this has seemed to work. This is the first time in my life I have been able to wake up early and constantly. I have successfully been waking up EARLIER in the morning at 5 am. I am no longer waking up with an odd schedule, where some mornings I would wake up at 6:15, and some mornings I’d wake up at 6:40 (messing up my sleep consistency).
This has helped give me the ability to wake up earlier, get ready first thing in the morning and write these articles or go to the gym to play basketball.
Of course, it’s now more important than ever that I’m getting to bed at a time that makes sense (around 10 pm), so that I’m rested enough to wake up consistently like this. I have done some things as well to work on my deep sleep (an article for another time).
This has helped give me the ability to wake up earlier, get ready first thing in the morning and write these articles or go to the gym to play basketball.
That’s it! I hope you found this helpful. If you have questions about how to get better sleep or wake up in the morning, send me an email at info@malachicorliss.com.
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Malachi Corliss