I'm not waking up when my alarm clock goes off. Help me get alarmed by my alarm again.

Get a more annoying alarm and/or don't leave it somewhere where you can turn it off without getting out of bed.

Get the loudest alarm clock you can find, and put it either in the kitchen next to the coffee pot, or the bathroom near the shower.

I've trained myself to wake up at whatever time I want WITHOUT an alarm, and I think anyone can do this. Really- when I was in high school (15 years ago) I used to always sleep through my alarm and wake up too late. Even when the alarm was blaring right next to my ear. I decided to try something different and to try not using an alarm at all. It works! Before I go to sleep I "set my own alarm" by just telling myself what time I need to wake up and I can do it to the minute. Have been doing this for years and very occasionally I oversleep, but it works much better than an alarm! (and I am not a morning person). I haven't used an alarm clock since high school; I just don't need it at all. So, if I can do this, I assume most people can. Maybe you can try.

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Get a cat. :)

I don't know where you live or how long this problem has been going on, but recently I've been having more and more trouble getting up in the morning mostly due to the sun rising later and later. Can you find a way to set a light on a timer so it turns on at the same time your alarm goes off. As mentioned above, a new alarm positioned far enough away that you have to get up to turn it off will help too.

Put a glass of water, and a breakfast snack (I use a yogurt) next to the bed. When your android goes off, drink the water/eat the yogurt, and go back to sleep - that's right! You're allowed to go back to sleep, you've just got to scull some water/take a few bites of food. Have an alarm clock, across the room, for when you really have to get up. Put your clothes, and maybe a heater next to it. By the time it goes off, the water and food should be working it's magic on your blood sugar (and bladder). When it's winter, and really chronic, I use a powerswitch timer on a lamp next to my bed, so that I've got light shining on me for 20 minutes before I have to wake up. (Finally, use an alarm on your computer, lock the computer (ie password to unlock), then have a dream where the alarm is a bomb you have to defuse, and sleepwalk to the computer, where you sit at the keyboard but you can't remember the password and now the bomb is going to go off and OH MY GOD you're ALL GONNA DIE! Then wake up in a panic at the sound of an alarm for the next few months. That might be a little less than practical - just saying, it worked).

Empathically seconding the http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/04/how-to-get-up-right-away-when-your-alarm-goes-off/ method. One evening, you simply set the alarm to five minutes after the present time, lie down in bed without falling asleep, then get up when the alarm rings and walk to the kitchen as if you were going to make coffee. Repeat this ten times in succession. It will only take an hour and you only need to to it once. I can otherwise happily sleep through an alarm clock pressed to my ear and have resorted many times to a power timer coupled to the vacuum cleaner. The morning after practice, I found myself up and awake at the intended time from the measly alarm of an iPhone.

Since you want to manage your sleep better you need to concentrate on when you go to bed as well as when you wake up. Therefore consider getting an alarm which will tell you go to bed as well. Ideally you should probably try to tune your overall length of sleep to ahttp://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/90-minutes-sleep-cycle.html - that way you are more likely to feel alert when your morning alarm goes off.