<p>Looking for an alarm clock that could wake a tired deep sleeper who can sleep through most alarm clocks… Thanks!</p>
<p>Try these…</p>
<p>Clocky: [ThinkGeek</a> :: Clocky Robotic Alarm](<a href=“http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/]ThinkGeek”>http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/91f2/)</p>
<p>Tocky: [ThinkGeek</a> :: Tocky Rolling Ball Alarm Clock](<a href=“http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/e582/]ThinkGeek”>http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/e582/)</p>
<p>Sonic Bomb: [ThinkGeek</a> :: Sonic Bomb Alarm Clock with Bed Shaker](<a href=“http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/]ThinkGeek”>http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/8f1a/)</p>
<p>Thanks for these suggestions. I’ve heard the rolling ones turn off when they hit an obstacle. Do you or others have eperience with the sonic boom alarm? I read reviews that say it is flimsy and the noise is not that loud but just an awful sound.</p>
<p>Other suggestions please?</p>
<p>From our experience, kids who had to be dragged out of bed learn to get up all by themselves on time once it clearly becomes their responsibility.</p>
<p>Second the recommendation for the sonic bomb with bed shaker. My very deep sleeper son swears by it. Maybe at it sometimes, but it wakes him up. It does not, however, prevent falling back asleep after his shower, but it’s still pretty good.</p>
<p>We have five alarm clocks that never worked for my deep-sleeping son. Two things wake him up now: (1) his iPhone alarm and (2) being away at college and not having his human alarm clocks to wake him up every morning. He claims to have overslept just once in two and a half years.</p>
<p>Od2 has a clocky. It definitely does not turn off when it hits an obstacle and it is certainly loud.</p>
<p>I fullheartedly recommend the sonic boom alarm clock (though if you buy it from Amazon you can get it for $25 instead of $40 on thinkgeek).</p>
<p>I’ve been using it for about two years now and have NEVER been able to sleep through it. I stopped using the loud part of the alarm since it’s so amazingly shrill it jarrs you out of sleep (though it does have a tone adjust knob, so you can try to find a tone that’s not as obnoxious). I only use it for the bed shaker, which wakes me up perfect every time. If you find it’s too easy to turn it off while in bed, they sell an extension cable for the shaker so you can place it 10’+ away from the bed, so you’re forced to get out in order to turn it off.</p>
<p>The alarm clocks I use at the moment to help wake me up are the following: First there’s a sunrise clock. It takes 30 minutes to get to full brightness, so it simulates a room gradually getting brighter from a sunrise (I’m at work before the sun’s up, so it helps me feel like I’m on a much more normal schedule). A clock radio that turns on ~30 seconds before my sonic boom goes off since I like waking up to the radio. The sonic boom goes off a few seconds before a large lamp that lights my entire bedroom turns on from a wall timer.</p>
<p>My fiance and I both have serious sleep problems. I suspect he has sleep apnea, and I don’t know what my problem is. We are seniors in college and waking up is damn near impossible for us, him especially. Last year his problem was so severe I was going to have to consider breaking up with him because it was clear he would never hold a job and would probably sleep through our wedding. With the sonic bomb, his problems are mostly solved. I got him the one with the bed shaker and he usually just uses the bed shaker with his cell phone alarm, which works 9 out of 10 times-- I did just call to wake him up because this morning it didn’t, but usually it does. He sleeps in a couple times a semester but usually manages. When he used the full sonic bomb alarm and bed shaker he always got up, but it is REALLY loud so he doesn’t always like to use it. But that alarm should work if he’d be willing to use something obnoxious. The bed shaker is pretty cool.</p>
<p>Personally, I make him turn it off when I am there because it startles me so bad I become faint and fall back asleep whilst trying to restore my heart rate to normal, even with just the bed shaker. The last time he forgot to turn it off I became so startled when it went off that I got sick. So I am still looking for alternative options. Obnoxious alarms don’t seem to work for me, I hear all my alarms but don’t wake up enough to have the cognition to realize it means I have to get up. I am hoping to see if a programmable coffee maker is useful. Gotta improvise at this point!</p>
<p>A problem for both of us that may be a problem for yours is that it’s not that we sleep through the alarms, but we hear them and turn them off without being awake enough to realize what we are doing. Fiance does this and doesn’t even remember it later. I regularly hide my alarm across the room so I have to get up and look for it and still have this problem-- and I have injured myself trying to haul myself out of bed when I am not really awake enough to walk to try and find the alarm. I am just an extremely deep sleeper and I CANNOT wake up at the drop of a hat. If yours is turning off the alarm and not remembering it later, I don’t know what will work, maybe an alarm you have to chase around the room would be more useful than something really loud that he is likely to jump to turn off before really letting it wake him.</p>
<p>I know it obviously causes a lot of problems but I would like just once to sleep that deeply. I wake up just before my alarm every single day and am incapable of sleeping in on days I don’t need to be up early. The range of sleep/waking up experiences is very interesting.</p>
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<p>My girlfriend actually hates the shaker on my alarm clock, but since we’ve got a queen sized bed we find putting it close to the edge on my side doesn’t give her the problems you describe. It’s worked well on a cheap foam mattress we had as well as the sleep number we’ve got now. Pretty much all she notices when the alarm goes off is the BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ sound.</p>
<p>My D (a college student) sets 3 alarms every night. One is a standard one that is plugged in next to her bed. But she hides the other two in different locations every night so she has to actually get up, find it, and turn it off. I think she sets them a few minutes apart.</p>
<p>My biggest concern when she went to college was whether she could get up on her own to make it to class. In HS I used to literally physically pull her out of her bed onto the floor to wake her up.</p>
<p>I believe the app for the iphone is called “Sleep Cycle.” You put in under the top corner of your fitted sheet and it vibrates to wake you up. The trick is that it’s been keeping track of your REM sleep by how much you move during the night, so it wakes you when you are in a light sleep, not a deep sleep. I was shocked how well it worked as I had expected to sleep right through it. It’s worth a try.</p>
<p>When I was a freshman in college, I remember having to set up a three-pronged system. Every night before an early class or important test I rigged up: 1) an old school, clangy bell style alarm clock, 2) an appliance timer connected to my desk lamp which I aimed at the pillow, to trigger simultaneously with… 3) a clock-radio alarm with cassette function that I had cued up to my Misfits tape at max volume. Glenn Danzig will get you up in the a.m.</p>
<p>Of course, my roommate did not appreciate this solution.</p>
<p>Sorry to clock in at this time, but does anyone have a good recommendation for an alarm clock with a large number display? Such an item is on my wife’s wish list…</p>
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<p>That would be almost worth getting an iphone for just for that if it really worked. I am DEAD to the world when my alarm goes off.</p>
<p>Ha Ha I can relate to some of these stories. I’m thinking sonic boom will be the graduation gift this year for S.</p>
<p>Funny thing, my daughter just uses her cell phone’s alarm to wake her up. It isn’t that loud, but she must be attuned to the sound! The Sleep Cycle sounds great, and I’ve read about it before. I’m waiting patiently for my Verizon iPhone!</p>
<p>My kiddos will wake to the cell phone more than many other things. S also uses the Roomba robotic vacuum that he sets for 10am to help wake him up. It runs for about an hour and he wants it to help him know it’s time to rise & shine. It does make some noise, but if you’re really tire, I guess you could sleep through it.</p>
<p>I have always had to drag my kids out of bed but once they were at college & on their own they’ve been fine (as far as I know), getting themselves to where they need to go–class, work, wherever, just fine without me. YIPPEE!</p>
<p>*From our experience, kids who had to be dragged out of bed learn to get up all by themselves on time once it clearly becomes their responsibility. *</p>
<p>True for many (including my older son)…However, we learned that didn’t work for my bro. After he got his first apartment, he slept thru his alarm and missed an important flight. He is an unbelievably sound sleeping.</p>
<p>And, once he was married with kids, his wife was annoyed that he always blissfully slept thru every screaming baby that woke up at night. LOL</p>