Am I the only one - Who can sleep through an alarm clock?

luvmykids wrote: Another comment in a thread got me curious....I have always, always, always slept through alarm clocks. I can wake up if one of the kids turns over in their bed too loudly, but have always had trouble in the mornings as far back as high school. I seriously almost got fired from a job because I honest to goodness sleep through alarms so I was always late and even now, if it's something very important, I have to have someone call me to wake me up.

eta: I doubt it's related to being over tired or anything, it happens wether I go to bed at 9pm or 3am.

HuskerMom replied: My alarm clock is so loud and annoying there's no way I'd be able to sleep through it, but somehow miraculously Keith sleeps right through it

luvmykids replied:
I've tried the obnoxious ones, radio at full blast on noisy static, a programmable one of someone screaming Maybe I just have a funky sleep cycle and that is when I'm in the deep stage

My mom spent the night a few weeks ago and came and shook me yelling "HOW CAN YOU SLEEP THROUGH THAT I CAN HEAR IT ALL THE WAY UPSTAIRS WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU"

mckayleesmom replied: Im with you...sometimes I hear it...but half the time dh comes in and kisses me goodbye and Its only then that I realize that he is already up and on his way to work and I didn't hear the alarm........But If Mckaylee or Russell stir or get up in the night....I hear them right away....Mckaylee gets up so quiet and she is dazed and stands in the hallway and its pitch dark and I can just sense she is there.....One night I asked her what was the matter and dh said "who are you talking to". When I told him Mckaylee was in the hallway he said "how the heck did you know that?"......Its like Mothers intuition.

mckayleesmom replied: Hold on..I will call her and ask

CantWait replied: It's not very often that I sleep through an alarm clock, but if I do, you know I was dead to the world.

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Dh can sleep through the alarm, and when he doesn't sleep through it it takes him FOREVER to wake up and shut the stupid thing off! It drives me nuts, because I wake up the second it starts beeping. I usually end up reaching over and snoozing it for him, and then shaking him awake.

I have been known to shut an alarm off in my sleep when I'm really super tired, but I've never been able to just sleep through it beeping at me. I used to have a cd player alarm clock and I'd always wake up to the sound of the cd spinning before it started playing.

salmndr007 replied: I had the same problem...actually, it got me in trouble while I was in the Navy...I woke up late 8 times within 3 months and went to Mast for being UA. So, the smart guy I am went out and bought an alarm clock for the hearing impaired...it has a little disc that you put under your pillow and when the alarm clock goes off, it vibrates VIOLENTLY, 2 rows of LED lights start flashing and lighting up the whole room and the pitch on the alarm changes from high to low. Every time it goes off I think the house is coming down. Darn thing works though....haven't been late since I started using it about 2 years ago.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: I'm the exact same way. My kids make one little peep and my ears perk up and I'm wide awake. Even if a paper rustles in my room I'm wide awake b/c I think it's one of the kids coming in our room.

BUT, there hasn't been one morning since I quit my job 6.5 years ago that I've heard the alarm clock. Not unless I set it myself and program myself to hear it. Like if DH is out of town. Normally I just tell him to set it for a certain time and make sure I'm up b/c I never hear it.

Calimama replied: My DH is the same way..

I hear the alarm clock, wake him up, he gets up to push snooze, comes back to bed, and repeats it all 5 times.

C&K*s Mommie replied: I do not, but the sound of either my alarm (which is softer) or Chris' (loud and aggravating) will seep into my dreams and it is not until our dog starts howling at it do I usually wake up. Sometimes I may be in a light sleep anyhow, and will immediately wake up.

MomToJade&Jordan replied: I usually don't sleep through them because I always manage to wake up a couple of minutes before they go off. I had the alarm set for 7:30 this morning and my eyes opened at 7:27. If I do manage to sleep until it goes off I wake up the minute I hear it. I have to laugh because I had a friend in college who could sleep right through the alarm. I stayed at her house one time and the way it was situated I was on the other side of the house. She would have that thing on full blast. Well it woke me up and she still slept through it.

Nina J replied: Oh god no. I hate the noise the alarm clock makes. It's so irritating, I have to turn it off as soon as possible. It wakes me up straight away, I could be in REM sleep and still wake up straight away going "Gaah!"..

luvmykids replied:
I'm going to have to try that!

I wake up pretty early on my own, but I live in fear of having to get up earlier than usual because I just can't

Brias3 replied: I've always been like this too. For as long as I can remember, I've had to set a few alarms each night. Bruce and I each have a separate alarm clock next to our side of the bed- I sleep through both. I have to set the double alarm feature on mine for two about fifteen minutes apart, plus I also set an alarm or two on my cell phone (which I keep on the nightstand at bedtime) for good measure.

Doesn't matter how much sleep I get- I've just always been this way.

redchief replied: I've watched in amazement and envy as Lisa slept through my annoying alarm, numerous times.

michmom replied: I have the same problem. In fact, dh usually wakes me up by calling me on his cell phone on the way to work.

McKenna replied: I still slep through them occaisionally, but put it like this, when I was at university, this was about 6 years ago now, I had 4 alarm clocks;

One mini travel alarm clock,
One battery powered themed alarm clock,
One plugged in seriously load alarm clock,
and one traditional wind up with bells on top alarm clock.

These were all about 10cm away from my head, and I would sleep through all of them going off simultaneously.



Yet a creaky floorboard or really soft noises would wake me up thinking someone had broken into the house....

Old Mom Hubbard replied: I must have developed some internal alarm clock, because rain or shine, regardless of how late I often go to bed, I just wake up ready for the day around 4 am! I have always been this way too, unless sick with cold or flu which is extremely rare.

Lucky some say? Well, NOT always as if I had gone to bed too late, the afternoon rolls around and I am ready for a nap

McKenna, ALL of those alarms and you sleep right through? THAT is hilarious!
I can see the creaky floors, doors and whatnot waking many people though, as the alarm is an "expected" sound whereas the "creaky sounds" likely in our subconscious that "intruder alert" due to the movies and television special effects of some of the programs so if heard in our "sleep" then we wake up.

McKenna replied: Yep could sleep through every single one, was hell getting into work on time, was living with parents and had my mom come in once saying are you going to work today, the alarms had woke her up in another room, while i slept soundly lol.