I need around 7 hours of sleep. As long as I go to sleep 7 hours before I need to wake up then I am good.
The funny thing is that I will take a little nap in the afternoon when I am working from home, so I would set my alarm for 30 min. I set my calendar to DNS (do not schedule).
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Not since retired. Before that at 7 AM. Interestingly, this summer we flipped the time we usually get up from 8 AM. Itās been at 6 AM with sunrise now. The summer has been so incredibly hot (10-15 degrees above normal most days) that weāve had to start our walk early. I suspect this fall we will start getting up later.
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Only during the work week. I naturally wake up between 4-6AM, but I donāt want to chance oversleeping and being late to work.
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I used to be a night person until I broke my shoulder 4 years ago, and had a tough time sleeping comfortably for almost a year. It reset my body clock so that I now get up between 4 and 5 am; sleeping in would be until 6. So no alarms for me!
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I donāt use an alarm (retired now but even when I was working). I am usually up by 6. If I am traveling and have to be up by 5 or earlier I will set an alarm but I will usually wake up before it goes off.
Iām stunned by how many people can trust their body clock to get them up even for work! Risky behavior!! 
Me too! When H taught, heās always set an alarm. He was almost always awake before then, but he wanted it as a fail safe. He would never ever risk being late, and preferred to be the first one there
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I only set an alarm on the days that I have something to do in the morning. Other days I wake up when I wake up (which can vary from 7 to 10 am).
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I am still working and set an alarm daily M-F, but almost always wake up before it goes off, or my dogs wake me up before the alarm goes off. But I set it ājust in case.ā
Years ago I had a different set of dogs and one was so regular on waking me up that I stopped setting an alarm. I would take him out, then start a computer process remotely for the university I worked at, then hop in the shower. Well, one day old faithful overslept, and so my morning was rushed and chaotic. After I got to work, I received a call from the business office that receipts were not printing. Iām sure I confused them when I replied it was because my dog overslept!
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Itās been more than 10 years since I last set an alarm clock, perhaps more than 15. I donāt get as many hours sleep as Iād like. I may have trouble both falling asleep and staying asleep. I certainly donāt want to prematurely reduce the sleep I do get, by using an alarm clock.
I work from home, with flexible hours, so there are no work demands that I need to wake up at a particular time. However, I also didnāt use an alarm clock pre-COVID, when I went in to the office.
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I am mostly retired, but occasionally have things scheduled early and I set the alarm for them. I used to be able to sleep in, but Iām usually awake at 5 am when I go to the bathroom and then put on my sleep mask. Then I wake up again at 7:30 or 8 am even if I went to bed late (which I do far too often.) I am not a morning person and need to work on sleeping better. I do better on a full 8 hours, but almost never get them in.
I set a lot of alarms for various things, but rarely for waking up. I hate waking up to an alarm. I WFH part time for myself, so donāt need an alarm for that. I have alarms set for my volunteering I do at 10am but Iām awake way before that. Have 2 cats who think breakfast time is 4am. I try to hold them off until 7ish. H will get up with the dog around 6:30 so I usually hear him too. If he feeds the cats I might be able to sleep in until 8 or 8:30 which I heavenly. Weāre all night owls so if I go to bed at my usual time of midnight or 1am, 8am is about the right wake up time for me. I despise getting up when itās dark outside. Winter is not my friend. Ideally I would get up after daybreak every day but those dang cats have other ideas. Good thing theyāre cute.
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Being retired, I usually donāt need to be up at a particular time. I donāt set an alarm because Iāve read research that not getting enough sleep can possibly be a dementia cause. May or may not be true, but since I am a poor sleeper often, I donāt want to take away time I might be getting some good sleep in. If I wake up naturally and figure out Iāve gotten a bit less than seven hours actual sleep, Iāll tend to try go back to sleep for another hour or so. I try for seven hours of sleep at least, eight ideally.
like @Sweetgum , I also hate getting up in the dark. One of the major perks of retirement is usually not having to do so.
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My H sets an alarm for work but Iām always up before it. The only time I would set my own alarm is when traveling. I have an irrational fear of sleeping through my pick up time for the airport. Without an alarm, Iād be up every hour checking the clock.
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My natural tendency is to be a night owl. I donāt want to be and never will be a super early riser, but I need to get into the habit of setting both a bedtime and an alarm. Otherwise, I stay up later and later and sleep later and later.
My biggest problem, however, is getting started on my day - regardless of what time I wake up. Generally, I have nowhere in particular I need to be by any certain time. I am very good at piddling and not getting going on my exercising which just kicks the can down the road for whatever else needs to get done. Because all my time is free, I donāt have to be efficient.
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Almost never. I wake at about 6:30 daily. If I have to get up abnormally early, say at 4:00am, I will set an alarm but may not may not need it. The cats will come get me if I oversleep.
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Only if I have to be somewhere early or have a work meeting. My job is flexible. People arrive anywhere from 7 am to 10 am. I usually get to the office between 8 and 8:30 but no big deal if I am later.
I have a lot of trouble with early waking so usually I am up by 6 or so. Thus, if I happen to sleep in or fall back to sleep after waking at 4 or 5 am I will take advanage of it!
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Yes ā I set an alarm on my phone. Itās set for 7:51. This optimizes sleep time while allowing adequate time to hustle and make it to work for the 8:30 bell.
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I set an alarm every day but am always awake before it goes off. Iām a good sleeper but fear I would be restless without that backup security. I consistently sleep almost exactly 7 hours every night and rarely wake during the night
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