Alarmed
It's always surprising when I wake up two hours after I originally intended to and find my mobile phone(battery powered, loud, vibrating alarm clock) on the ground or sometimes even across the room. I'm pretty confident that it's not alive and trying to escape. Lets face it it's a phone and it'd be easier to just call for help then seek it out. I think sometimes I just don't hear it over my dreams and the vibrate vibrates it right off and across the floor until it realizes I'm still sleeping and quiets down.
My secondary alarm clock is actually a program on my mac (a brilliant lifesaving one)[http://www.robbiehanson.com/alarmclock/index.html] it wakes my macbook from sleep and gradually increases in volume and I can hit snooze on the apple remote without having to get up. What's eeri about this one is sometimes I wake up two hours after originally intended to find it deactivated. The only way that's possible is if I got out of bed, walked across the room and consciously deactivated it, yet I never remember doing this.
My current strategies for dealing with this are as follows:
- hiding my mobile so I actually have to hunt for it, the longer I'm looking for it the less chance of me getting back into bed after I find and smash it.
- placing catastrophic items in the path between me and whatever alarm clock's I'm using so I trip and fall. The impact is supposed to jar me awake but sometimes I fall only to wake up a few hours later with a mild concussion and headache. Other times I slip and fall back into bed only to wake up a few hours later wondering why my system didn't work.
