The sun. We joke that the only time we set an alarm is when we're going on vacation.

I hate setting an alarm. I'm like you, I don't sleep well because I'm afraid I'll miss it!

My internal clock :-) I don't even own an alarm clock and can't remember the last time using one. And if I relied on the sun, I'd be in big trouble in winter.........daylight hours this far north are very short in winter and the sun (when and if it decides to appear) is pretty late in the morning to show up.

I wake up pretty unfailingly after 6 hours of sleep. If I have a full schedule planned, I get up then (won't even disclose the time but it is 0'dark thirty!!), otherwise I will doze for another hour or two.

Usually one of the cats comes in to wake me up, but if I know I have to get up early for a doctor appointment, I set an alarm clock.

internal clock..

if I need to get up in the middle of the night for a flight or something-I just say to myself "wake up at such and such time". Usually wake up 5-10 min before the time I set for myself

I never use alarm clock

(but I want to stay sleeping past some early morning time all these tricks won't work)) I'm an early riser..)

I use my Amazon Echo as an alarm clock. Sometimes, I'm already awake especially in the summer when the sun shines in, but often I'm not. I tend to be more of a night owl than an early bird.

If I have to work, my alarm on my phone. Otherwise, either the dogs, I have to go to the bathroom, or it's just time to get up.

5:30am, the radio, news, telling us about all the shootings in the world & how many died in the last 24 hours.....ugh....

internal clock works for me, except if I have to be someplace early, and want plenty of time to get ready

Wow relying on an internal alarm clock for a flight seems risky, April! Have you ever been late or missed something?

DH gets up around 2:00 am. Reads several newspapers and has a pot of coffee or two before he brings me coffee in bed at 6:00 am. Then he skidaddles until I've had coffee and a shower. LOL

Pain always wakes me up.

Sue

On days I work I use an alarm, but sometimes wake up multiple times before it goes off. No alarm on days off unless I have something I have to do that day.

Chi:) No, as far as I can remember.

(My nightmares though can contain being late somewhere. You know these bad dreams when you run after the train but it's gone? stuff like that. )

Alarm clock. In the summer while on the Vineyard, it's the sun.

Alexa, when wifi was out I used phone alarm. Weekends nothing!

My own brain. I woke up worrying at 2:30 this morning and got up at 3:30. It's been a long day.

I don’t use an alarm clock either and usually wake up at the same time every day. Sometimes if I have an important meeting or appointment, I’ll set the alarm in my phone as back up though.

Yaya, I just cracked up at your post!!!

My phone is my alarm. I set it 15 minutes earlier than when I have to get up, listen to see if DH is in the shower, if he is, I hit snooze. He always is... LOL

I could probably do without the alarm clock, because I always wake up at 6:45 am. But sure as the world I didn't set it, that'd be the day I over sleep and be late for work.

the bathroom calls me

We're retired but get up every morning at 6 AM to help get the grandkids off to school. We use a white noise app on the iPad, connected to an Anker speaker across the room. The alarm begins soft at 6 AM and increases levels until I touch STOP.

My husband routinely gets up by 5 if he is not working. If he is working, he is up at 3 or 4. On the days he doesn't work, he goes and has coffee at a little convenience store that has a few booths, with some of the local farmers and ranchers. I wake up when he does but I go back to sleep for an hour or so. I wake up on my own between 6:30 and 7. I don't set an alarm....I just wake up. I fall asleep very fast....unless I know I have to get up at a certain time....and then I can't fall asleep for anything. I am a very light sleeper and I wake up fast. When I wake up, I am wide awake. It doesn't take me any time to "get with the program".

I set the alarm clock with a battery backup incase of power outage.

Oh Yaya. Sometimes we just have to laugh. Being deaf isn't fun and it is NOISY!!!

I'm like Yayagirl. I use a bedside alarm clock that buzzes, flashes and has a bed shaker that goes under my mattress. I can almost sleep through it but my dog gets me up when it goes off. If I could teach the dog to tell time, I wouldn't need the alarm.

I'm a night person and sleep poorly anyway. If I have to be somewhere early I keep waking up so I try to avoid morning appointments as much as possible. Had too many years of forced morning schedule. Now I sleep when I want. The perks of old age. ;-)

My bladder!

Rusty

If you get in a consistent pattern of sleeping and waking you can wake naturally at the same time everyday. Then your brain will also want to sleep the same time everyday so you start yawning whatever you're doing and in front of friends. :p

I definitely use an alarm usually my phone. But recently I keep waking up around 2 or 3am and can't go back to sleep for a while. Like right this very moment lol. So I read, post, play solitaire or something to tire me. I have no normal schedule time for waking up, if I have nothing scheduled if I want to sleep till noon I will but it's not been that way for a while now. I used to be a night owl staying up till 2am or so then sleeping late but now I have a hard time staying awake past 9. I'm also plagued with restless legs which wrecks havoc on my sleep.

Retired now so rarely set an alarm. I keep a clock near my bed but angled away, so I don't see it when I open my eyes. We live less than a mile from the train yard. Almost every morning, the engines start pulling out around 6:30. If I haven't heard the trains and it's still dark, I know without looking at the clock that it must still be middle of the night, go back to sleep. But if I hear train whistles, I know it's 6:30 or later so if I'm feeling at all "wakey" might as well get up.

My (early riser) internal clock. I am up at 4 am every morning of my life. I work Monday through Friday 7 til 4, so I really don't need to be up at 4. I was never one to need a lot of sleep, but I think when my kids were young and at home, that was my me time, my quite time, now it is just a habit, even on weekends. I love it. It is still my quite time, sometimes I watch TV, sometimes I just sit quietly and do nothing and sometimes I do some house cleaning, sometimes I just hold cats. Whatever I want to do. I think it makes me a better person the rest of the day.