I dont know what community to post this in but here goes. I made my alarm clock in the morning birds chirping, because I like birds and thought it would be a good sound to wake up to. Wrong. The sound of birds chirping now gives me anxiety :deeper-sadness: because I hate waking up. This morning I awoke to the sounds of birds outside by window an hour before my alarm is set to go off. My other alarm sounds are really fucking weird and I dont like them. I hate it here.
Pro tip: never make your alarm anything you enjoy because you will end up hating it.
Learned this the hard way in high school when I got songs on my phone
Now my alarm goes beep beep beep and that's a good sound to hate
further protip: if you use your phone for an alarm, don't use the default alarm sound because other people's will go off in public and it will be distressing
:angery: I like birds, I thought it would get me in a good mood in the morning. I didn’t know then, I was so naïve.
Yeah but now you can be the guy who yells at birds
"Shut up I'm already awake"
You prevent negative conditioning by setting the same alarm for things that don't cause suffering in addition to waking up.
I've started referring to mobile Outlook notifications from my work e-mail as self-harm. Because opening them always is.
Maybe something to think about is the difference between technology and how we apply technology.
Like, I would think waking up to an alarm that sounds like birds isn't in itself anxiety inducing; it's that you've associated the bird alarm with waking up in the [H E L L W O R L D] that's giving you anxiety.
Or not WTF do I know I hate this shit too.
I kinda think that any noise that rips you from slumber, your brain is going to immediately start trying to figure out if that sound represents a threat to your life. Hellworld certainly doesn't help matters, though.
But I cannot hate HELLWORLD as it is too big, so I focus in on the alarm which is a smaller object to comprehend. I just want to hike for gods sake. I know its not tech just the way capitalists abuse tech.
Yeah, I find that noise-based alarms tend to fuck with my anxiety too
Which is why I bought a cheap sunrise alarm clock
It's basically just a lamp with a soft light that turns on at the allotted time and gets brighter and brighter until you turn it off
It's a lot less stressful than being jolted awake by noises
i second this. waking up to increasing light levels is way less shit than sound. i have a failsafe for a sound alarm on my phone which plays random music, which i've only ever needed like once in the last 7 months. that morning, i was like wiped out from staying up way too late to watch some bullshit movie. it went off and started with Gunship's Tech Noir, which has this spoken word part with this guy saying (in scratchy radio transmission):
I'm recording this, because this could be the last thing I'll ever say.
The city I once knew as home is teetering on the edge of radioactive oblivion:
a three-hundred thousand degree baptism by nuclear fire.
I'm not sorry, we had it coming.A surge of white-hot atonement will be our wake-up call.
Hope for our future is now a stillborn dream. The bombs begin to fall and I'm rushing to meet my love.Please, remember me. There is... no more.
which snapped me out of bed immediately and put me on full WTF alert until i recognized it and started laughing.
My bedroom doesn't get any sunshine because whoever designed my house is in league with the dread lord Nocticulon
I hate how that guy has such a hold over the construction industry
Yeah it doesn't work that well for me either, the sun often comes up around 6am which really interferes with my sleep
Do you a link to where I could look at one of those. Sounds pretty neat.
I dream of world where there are no alarm clocks. I am simply awoken by the sun coming through by farmhouse window. I go to work and feel worthy. Thats all I want.
:meow-hug: Thanks comrade. I was kinda nervous this was a shitty first post so its good to know someone cares.
You can break the conditioning by using the same alarm for positive and neutral things, such as when to start your next set of reps when you're working out.
that sucks. you might have to go with one of the weird sounds, unless you get a new alarm clock
The ones I can remember are: Really fucking loud trumpets, Australian man shouting about dingoes. I will check when I can because I’m pretty sure they are worse
The sound of an aussie yelling about dingoes triggering your fight or flight response could save your life one day, might not be a bad option
I have this shitty bird chime too, but the funny thing is that birds on my roof respond to it.
That sounds kinda sweet, weird how many people have bird chimes.
I used to do this with songs. I listen to music in the morning anyway, so I figured why not have music as my alarm. My love of madvillainy took years to recover
That's so sad. I don't need alarms as much any more but I found talk radio to be the easiest to wake up to.
I should make a post about local talk radio cause I hate that shit too, but I cant stop listening to it.
Oh yeah. Setting music you like as an alarm is a real bad idea. Used to do the same. Just conditions you to associate that song with unpleasantness.
Fartman, I understand. I put a song I liked as my alarm tone once and it ruined the song.
The End of the Line - Hot Water Music
I sort of like it again, but I haven't listened to it and years lol
Well yes, but I also hate my alarm. Idk why I made this post. I hate waking up in HELLWORLD and figured someone would relate.
Oh yeah I agree I used to be woken up by people driving their car at 6am and I really came to hate those drivers
That might be louder also my landlord probably would take issue with me building homemade explosives
If your other alarm sounds are weird and you'll hate hearing them elsewhere you might want to use those!
That way you'll only get anxious hearing whatever obnoxious sound your alarm clock makes and not birdies
Used to have one of those old timey ones that actually had a little hammer that struck the bells. I still hate that sound to this day.
