I need to get up without waking the wife and kids, I got a smartwatch to vibrate and it woke her. The alarm is always going to wake the house.

Is there anything else?

    • Otter
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      199 months ago

      Depends where the arm is I think. When it vibrates under the pillow you’re using, it can sound very loud

      • @AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        229 months ago

        I assume that OP isn’t sleeping with the wrist wearing the watch underneath the pillow their wife has her head on.

        Pulling your arm from under a pillow someone is using seems very likely to disturb them and wake them. You’re not doing that, OP, right?

    • @ChexMax@lemmy.world
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      99 months ago

      Idk, my husband can sneak out of bed, but his phone vibrating in the bed wakes me. Even if it’s just a little zzt to indicate a text has come in. I guess it’s one of the noises I’m “listening for”?

  • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Vibrating butt plug with timer

    Realistically, your wife is your partner and some sacrifices need to be made. If she can’t sleep through a watch, she should consider earplugs or just deal. I’m sure you silence it and leave the room ASAP so, that’s just life of sharing a room with a spouse.

    Edit like literally millions of spouses have tolerated their other rising before them, it’s a normal part of the deal

    • @SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      My dad has had the single fucking loudest alarm clock for literally my entire life. It’s such a god awful racket. It had to be, because my dad has the worst snoring I’ve heard in my life. Man sounds like a chainsaw, and you can hear him clear across the house. My mom would sleep directly through it all. It’s wild.

    • shikitohno
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      19 months ago

      Damn, I was coming here to say this. All I can add is that maybe sleep on your stomach with one of these, otherwise it could wake her up vibrating the mattress, since she sounds like a light sleeper.

  • teft
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    689 months ago

    If your wife is such a light sleeper that a vibrating watch is waking her perhaps sleeping in a separate room when you need to wake up at a certain time would work?

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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      189 months ago

      Separate rooms is definitely not an option. It’s not so much super light sleeper just she is nursing and I’d like to get a workout in before everyone else wakes. If I wake the kids we’re all screwed if I wake her I ruin what peace she gets.

          • @iheartneopets@lemm.ee
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            219 months ago

            Because it sounds like she’s sacrificing a lot to nurse a new baby, so maybe you could sacrifice a little bit for her so she can get at least a bit of sleep.

            • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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              -19 months ago

              Maybe mind your own business and stop making presumptions about my family life you self righteous prick.

              I want to wake an hour before everyone to do some exercising so I’m not eating into the family time. The time would otherwise be spent sleeping like everyone else.

              I honestly can’t believe the audacity of your reply.

                • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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                  -19 months ago

                  It’s based on absolutely no information that I provided, just your apparent want for feeling superior.

      • @RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
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        289 months ago

        Put the watch on your ankle? Probably idiotic, but that might be silent enough. And you’d have to do some work to make it stop, waking you up efficiently.

      • FartsWithAnAccent
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        109 months ago

        Try a different watch or adjust the haptics to make it vibrate less? Casio sells an inexpensive alarm watch that vibrates if you can’t dial the watch back.

      • @Gerudo@lemm.ee
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        69 months ago

        A split king bed did wonders for my wife and I. I never feel her move. Now, if it’s noise that wakes her up, a sound machine could help.

        • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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          49 months ago

          Lol I know the 5g stuff is a stupid myth but sleeping with a Bluetooth device strapped to your cranium feels like it’s putting the research conclusions to the test

          • BombOmOm
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            79 months ago

            sleeping peacefully

            BLUETOOTH DISCONNECTED

            BLUETOOTH CONNECTED

            angry groggy noises

            • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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              49 months ago

              Oh God I didn’t even think about a rogue connection:

              10h train braking, pig fucking, garbage disposal sleep sounds ASMR vibe begins

      • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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        49 months ago

        I don’t suppose there’s room for a bed in the babies’ room, so after the mid-night nursings she could sleep in there until they’re hungry again? Only if she wants to, of course. It can be more restful than trying to sleep with your ears on High for sounds of distress from the other room, which also makes you oversensitive to hubby’s alarm.

        • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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          19 months ago

          The baby is in our room, and the others have their own, but the house is old and creaky, so I tread carefully.

      • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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        39 months ago

        Literally or figuratively?

        Could you or her be occupying another room for a few weeks/months or is it worth a fight

        • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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          19 months ago

          What I’m trying to do is not worth sleeping alone, I just want to get a workout in before the day starts and waking anyone will just start the day earlier. But sleeping separately is worse than being out of shape.

          • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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            29 months ago

            To each their own, I’d say for a few weeks no biggie. Obviously cuddle/rest together

          • @RBWells@lemmy.world
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            19 months ago

            Having raised many kids, you have to take your extra time where you can actually find it. If your family is early to rise, work out before bed instead, after they go to sleep. I have done early morning workouts, late night workouts, lunch time workouts. It may be that you can’t have morning time alone right now.

    • @Stache_@lemmy.ml
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      99 months ago

      Was there a scandal where a chess player had a vibrating buttplug controlled by another person giving him the answers? That’s….dedication I guess

      • @vortexsurfer@lemmy.world
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        149 months ago

        I believe it was more like: a guy was accused of cheating (against Magnus Carlsen), and anarchychess on reddit came up with the buttplug theory. Now everyone thinks it actually happened.

      • @possum@lemmy.world
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        49 months ago

        There was, and then some guy put it to the test á la mythbuster style. I’ll leave the conclusion for you to enjoy

          • FuglyDuck
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            19 months ago

            Considering that you can control Lovense toys (and others) from any where in the world, if they had no delay in the live feed, it would be simple to communicate moves, even to a complete novice.

            From there, all you’d need is somebody in the audience with a chess game open and set to the highest difficulty.

            That person “plays” as magnus and sends the moves the AI takes.

            The easiest way to prevent it is to prevent people in the live audience from having phones, and delaying the feed ~5 minutes for everyone else.

            which is normal, actually, since you want to cut the feed before a streaker… oh right this is chess.)

    • @edgemaster72@lemmy.world
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      69 months ago

      If Lemmy had awards I’d give you one because I really thought I was gonna be original by bringing that up but no, you beat me to it, well done

  • Melllvar
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    479 months ago

    Drink several glasses of water before going to bed so you wake up to pee.

  • @callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    449 months ago

    You could grab a brush and put a little make-up. Perhaps hide the scars to fade away the shake-up. But then why’d you leave the keys upon the table? Ah, here you go create another fable.

    Why do you want a discreet way to wake up? You wanted to.

  • Boozilla
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    429 months ago

    What if you put the smart watch on your ankle? The covers might muffle the noise but you still feel it vibrate.

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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      249 months ago

      I was really hoping someone had like a really low volume pillow alarm or something, but instead, you guys are just really creative. I wouldn’t have thought to do this.

      • wagoner
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        19 months ago

        Someone makes, or used to make, a pillow speaker that used bone conduction. It connects to a cell phone. Could try this and make your alarm only sound through this speaker and not your phone speaker. Or maybe try a basic flat pillow speaker. Good luck

  • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Get a cat and feed it first thing every day when you get up. Soon you’ll have claws in your arm to wake you. Might it meow and wake the wife and kids? Perhaps, but wives and kids love cats so they won’t mind.

    • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.world
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      179 months ago

      This works very well. Our girls get fed at 8 am, so they collectively wake up and start losing their shit, crying for food and rubbing all over us, around 6 to 6:30 am.

  • @NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    Kindly ask her to get used to your alarm sound, and not wake up then.

    This may seem harsh, but actually it isn’t. Every house has it’s own specific sounds, and it is quite normal to get used to them and not wake up. If you hear other sounds that are unusual, then you wake up. It is a natural thing.

    • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      89 months ago

      I had a roommate in college that had trouble waking up even with an alarm, and had a much earlier class schedule than me. Never got used to it, just got sleep deprivation. Maybe it’s “natural” for you and my ex roommate to sleep through alarms, but as they are designed to not let you sleep through them, many people cannot.

      • @wahming@monyet.cc
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        19 months ago

        Yes, but presumably OP can find an alarm that isn’t as obtrusive as the average one.

        • @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          19 months ago

          It’s still obviously going to disrupt the sleep of anyone else in the same room. Maybe if the alarm sounded through headphones it would not.

    • @Squizzy@lemmy.worldOP
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      19 months ago

      Yeah, we’ll get used to the house for sure, but I’ll have to be quiet for the time being. It’s not worth losing what could be an extra hour or two of everyone’s sleep. We generally make an effort to not shield them from noise during daytime naps and such, but sleep is too precious these days.

    • Mak'
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      89 months ago

      I originally read it as “…discreet way of walking myself…”Was thinking: “What kind of question is that? Just stand up and start walking somewhere. No need to be discreet about it…”

      Then thought maybe the family dog was looking for advice from Lemmy?

  • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    What if you got a battery and put it on a timer and hooked the electrodes to your toes? That way you get moderately zapped, and she doesn’t wake up. After a week or so, I would bet you have so much anxiety that your internal clock will wake you, even without the zap. The body is amazing.