I hate all alarm clocks, especially those with red lights. I consider alarm clocks to be a necessary evil. At least those posted are more imaginative than most.

The retracting one sounds kind of funny, but the SnuzNLuz sounds like a terrible idea!

I seriously need something!
I've tried sooo many things. Next up I want one that does the gradual sun lamp thing. Anyone try those? Worth the crazy amount of money?

Right now I have my cell phone alarm, some crazy rooster alarm, and an alarm the rolls under my bed. I still sleep in :-(

The problem with any of these is that you don't have to hit snooze to quiet the darn thing. You turn off the alarm completely, like I do, then oversleep and are late for work. They need to make something where turning off the alarm requires some mental or physical effort (like solving a riddle for example...of course then I envision myself getting frustrated and smashing the thing against the wall).

These are AWESOME! I, too, grew up with parents fond of the water glass, but am finding it harder and harder to force myself out of bed in the mornings. I love the idea of the retracting one - I'll be checking that one out for sure!

this is just a matter of being lazy! these aren't making crazy noises or providing light anything for people who sleep through alarms. they're made for the people who are just too lazy get up! i'm the first to say i'll sleep in when the time is appropriate (like a weekend), but at least i can get out of bed in the morning and go to work... on time. why spend a ridiculous amount of money on an alarm clock when your cell phone has a free alarm and everyone knows it's not impossible to wake up - even if you don't want to.

xtinab: lazy is the wrong term. People can be highly productive, hard working individuals during the day, but have so much trouble falling asleep, that when they finally do fall asleep, getting up is really difficult. I have had problems falling asleep and staying asleep for most of my life. Other people, like one of my sisters, can easily drift off in a chair, on a plane, in bed, and can spring out of bed in the morning without ever hitting snooze. I'm envious because sleeping and waking have never gone that smoothly for me.

I love my Clocky.
He rolls off my nightstand and hides after I press snooze (different place every time), and his alarm really wakes you up.
Of course, the searching for him while half-asleep may not work for everyone so you can turn that function off.

Put the alarm clock far away from the bed. So that you have to get up to shut it off. Use an annoying alarm sound.

So the snuz nuz is set to GOP so that the user doesn't want to contribute to the GOP or they do? Either way shouldn't they use something non polarizing?

queenofthfall: here is a cheaper alternative that i use. i have my bedside lamp on a timer so that it comes on a little before my alarm clock. the light helps your body wake up more naturally. i've done it for few years now and it works.

I do that every year when the time changes, Meg. And without fail, every year, I find a way to sleep through the light.

I need a reverse murphy bed that catapults me upright in the mornings.

QueenOfTheFall, I used to have one of those gradual sun alarm clocks. It also had white noise. It was nice, and IMO worth the money, but it cracked during a move and I switched to a La Crosse alarm clock that syncs with the atomic clock and an outdoor weather sensor so I can see the outdoor temp from bed. The atomic clock thing is neat, but really only comes in handy twice a year when I don't have to update it for daylight savings.

I wonder how many people who have such trouble waking in the morning aren't getting enough sleep? I too find it difficult to wake up in the morning, but on nights when I've had less than 7 and a half hours it feels impossible.

My latest solution to accidental oversleeping is to use two alarms. I set my cell phone alarm for the time I want to get up, and place it on my dresser, across the room from the bed. I set my alarm clock on the nightstand for about 10 minutes before I want to get up. So I get the snooze effect with repeating it too many times. It works really well.

We have #5's brother, Clocky:

http://www.nandahome.com/products/clocky/index.php?color=aqua

It's demonic, even with the running-around-after-it feature turned off...

same thing, megchicago! i have a light in the corner on a digitial timer that turns on around when my alarm goes off, and while i don't find that it *makes* me get out of bed, i really think it helps me get going faster, and it's easy to change the timer for when i need to get up earlier. i think it's great! i tell everyone to set one up. :)

The way I am in the morning, I am going to need all of these going off at the same time to wake up.

The retracting light alarm is such a great idea! With gradual light and sound to wake you up. Brilliant!

My college roommate would set up four different alarm clocks at different times (5 to 10 minutes apart) around the corner of our dorm room. He would get up, turn off alarm clock; go to bed; get up, turn off another alarm clock and go to bed. Drove me bats!

I need all the help in the world to get me out of bed. I have clocky and my phone and I set both far from my bed. I still manage to get up in the morning to turn both off at different times and still crawl into bed and oversleep. It's hopeless!

@ david@justveggingout - I was/am just like your roommate in college. For all of those who say it's lazy, you should know that some of us have a very difficult time getting up at the time we need to get up, regardless of what time we went to bed, how long we slept, or how many alarms we set. I used and still sometimes do turn my alarms off in my sleep without even remembering that I did it. Even when the clock was across the room or in the adjacent bathroom. In college, I had an alarm clock that sounded like a continuous bullhorn that sat right above my head and I would sleep right through it for upwards of half an hour. I have yet to find an alarm clock that really gets me up save natural sunrise or 9AM.

I used to be absolutely terrible at waking up and getting out of bed. Setting up to 5(!) different alarms. When I did manage to get myself out of bed I was slow and usually cranky too. My boyfriend decided enough was enough and got me a gradual sun alarm clock. Let's just say we've gotten used to ME trying to get HIM out of bed in the mornings and much improved am tempers on my part :)

Just one tip: place the alarm next to a window facing east. It tricks your subconscious brain into thinking it's actually the sun coming up promising a beautiful day (that is, until you expectantly open the curtains) :)

My alarm clock is a cat that pokes my face with its paws/claws, while my cell alarm goes off and I intermittently press snooze. I require at least 30 minutes of this ritual in order to get up before 8 AM, no matter whether I got 4 or 10 hours of sleep. Some of us truly are not morning people.

Is the carpet alarm clock still for sale?

I know exactly what you are talking about. I personally have had this problem for almost a decade, and I sometimes wonder if it is not some form of sleep disorder. I see many people suggesting obvious answers, like get more sleep, but that isnt really helpful.

I personally have tried just about everything. I moved the alarms further from my bed so I couldnt rrach over and snooze them, didnt matter. My freshman year of college I had the top bunk of a bunk bed, and could literally climb down off it, in my sllep, turn off the alarm, and get back in bed without waking up. I tried adiding more alarms, different alarms, louder alarms. I tried hiding te alarms in random places. At one point i had, LITERALLY, 8 different alarms stashed in 8 different places in my apartment. It worked for a while, but after a couple weeks I could turn them all off in my sleep and not remember doing it. At all. I bought a clocky, one of those alarm clocks on wheels that rolls off your nighstand and runs around the room after you snooze it once or twice. Nope. I could catch the damn thing, in my sleep, and not even recall doing it.

I should point out that I can also have full conversations in my sleep with people who are awake and not wake up. 2 different college roomates and one exboyfriend all report the same thing. They just randomly realize I'm asleep because I suddenly stop talking or start sounding bizarre. I also sleep walk on occasion. And apparently the aforementioned exboyfriend got smacked in the head repeatedly while I shouted gibberesh at him for about a minute and a half one night, after which I simply laid back down and went back to sleeping normally without missing a beat.

Ive slept through hotel fire alarms, and the fire alarm in a friends dorm that not only rang about as loud as a tornado, but also had a strobe light that flashed at like 300 watts accompanying it.

I dont always have a problem though, sometimes I wake right up.

It doesnt matter of Ive been asleep 10 minutes or 12 hours.

The only surefire way I have found to combat the problem is to have an actual person shake me awake.

Im debating buying an alarm for deaf people that actually shakes my bed, but the ones I know of are really expensive.

If anyone else has any ideas besides sleep more, I know Id love to hear them. Cause Ive tried that. It doesnt matter.