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by viraptor 5251 days ago
I have a huge problem with them. Usually I've got 5-6 alarms set one after another to wake me up properly. Even if I put the clock/phone far away, I'm quite capable of getting up, going there, turning it off (code or whatever protection is not enough to stop me), going back to bed and not remembering any of it. And no, I'm not sleepwalking really. I'm just not awake enough to do a mental switch between "there's this thing that's annoying me, I must stop it to continue sleeping" to "it's morning, this annoying thing is trying to wake me up".

On a typical day my alarm wakes up my girlfriend and she pokes me until I wake up. Actually, I just switched to an Android phone, so I'm going to try some of those movement detection apps... we'll see how good they are.

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One cool thing we can add to the app is all the features you just described about multiple alarms and snooze options or screen-lock codes or whatever. We can have a mode where it starts off kind of quiet and gets louder, or maybe you want a really nice song to start off with, but then you can have it play more and more annoying songs if you keep hitting snooze. We hope you wouldn't have to keep hitting snooze though, because the iDreamSaver is going to wake you up at the right time to begin with!