I have terrible insomnia like it sometimes takes me close to four or five hours just to fall asleep so you can imagine how terrible it was for my freshman year roommate to have alarms that started going off at 5 am until 9 am and even after she finally woke up she usually just skipped her class
Sleeping. Medication. Doesn’t. Make. Me. Magically. Hear. While. I’m. Asleep. I. Sleep. Fine. It’s. Waking. Up. That’s. The. Problem. I. Am. Being. An. Adult. By. Knowing. I. Will. Sleep. Through. Alarms. And. Setting. Multiple. So. I. Wake. Up. On. My. Own. In. Time. For. School. And. Work.
Don’t disagree with that. But respectfully, if my options are uncontrollably sleep until 3pm in the afternoon and miss every class, or be annoying for 30 minutes in the morning……….I’m choosing the latter. Trust me if living alone was an option we would take it. I also at least disclose it on the housing application and when I first meet my roommate
I mean this as a genuine question and am trying to understand where you are coming from. Why does having multiple do anything that having one wouldn't? Clearly something is causing you to wake up, so why not have one really loud one at a far enough distance that you can't turn it off in bed? Once again, I myself have never had this issue so I am just trying to better understand it
For me it’s bc 1- it will more than likely wake up everyone else well before me and they’ll get up to turn it off themselves 2- I frequently sleep through alarms until they turn themselves off (I did that this morning actually, 7:30 alarm, didn’t wake up until 9:13 and the alarm was silent) 3- I have been known to get up and turn off alarms in my sleep and go back to bed without ever remembering
So a system that actually completely disrupts the sleep pattern to get me completely out of sleep is vital. For me that looks like one big loud alarm from my HomePod to get me “awake” enough to hear my phone alarms (move from REM sleep phase or any phase to light sleep), which currently takes about 3 for me to hear and wake up completely. So about 30 minutes total. This obv doesn’t go for the people who set 20 alarms so they can enjoy the going back to sleep part, which is rude and bad for you