Alarm clocks
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85135)
Shingle Springs, California
February 28, 2011 11:00am CST
So is an alarm clock a great invention or a curse? You judge.
This morning I was dreaming that I was in an arcade. And everywhere I turned there were extra tickets that people left behind. So I went around collecting tickets, and then when I went to put money into a machine, it spit out money, like hundred and thousand dollar bills. (Do they even make those any more?)
So my brain was all excited about getting all this money, when the "good angel" half of my head realized, "hmm, maybe I ought to turn this in. What if they're watching me? Dilemma..."
And of course that is when the darn alarm clock went off, preventing me from beating the crap out of my "good angel" half and absconding with the money. Not to mention it woke me from a deep sleep.
If it hadn't, I guess I would have overslept and been late waking the kids up.
Conclusion: the alarm clock is a cursed good invention!
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to silence it, that might solve the issue, haha!~
@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Mar 11
The alarm clock has saved my miserable life so many times. I do hate the sound of it when it goes off but it is a good thing, has its purpose. My mom was my alarm clock when I was in school. Never nagging or with a shrill voice or anything. After working all night she would come in in time for me to get up for school. She would tell me it was time to wake up and then go in the kitchen and make me a egg and ham sandwich. She was a good mom. Best alarm clock I ever had.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 11
When my kids don't get up I threaten to sing.
@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Mar 11
Yes, I think my rendition of "There's a Bluebird on my Shoulder" should do the trick!
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
1 Mar 11
I like that dream! It reminds me of the time when I was going to be in a bike ride and it was scheduled to start and I had to wake up early. I was dreaming about the last time I had been on this ride (the Nenana Bike Classic, a 50 mile ride through hills) and I got to a part where someone had come over a hill and was calling me and I woke up and my dad was standing there to wake me up. I didn't have an alarm clock at that time, but I guess it was the same kind of dream. And yes, the alarm clock is a good invention if you have to be somewhere. Thanks for sharing!
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@daeckardt (6237)
• United States
1 Mar 11
I never cared much about how I placed, only that I finished. I remember a few years later I went on the century ride and I was the last one done. I was about three miles from the finish line when the person waiting for me told me I was done because they didn't want to wait any more. I was on a 3-speed bike then so that was a major accomplishment for me.
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@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
1 Mar 11
Freud would say you have more than an alarm clock dilemma. 
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 11
Oh I looked it up on a dream website. As for alarm clocks, I have three of them. One isn't always enough to wake me up!
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 11
Did they even have alarm clocks in Freud's day? 
@debrakcarey (19887)
• United States
1 Mar 11
wind up ones.
So, ever think about having this dream interpreted? Perhaps it isn't really the dream that should be interpreted but rather your latent hostility towards that poor clock. 
Seriously, I'd just throw the clock at the wall if I were you and turn over and go back to sleep. It won't hurt you or the kids to have ONE day off, will it?
Wait a minute, maybe I'm the one with latent hostility issues.
I better stop while I'm ahead, roll over and go back to sleep and start over tomorrow. 
Seriously, I'd just throw the clock at the wall if I were you and turn over and go back to sleep. It won't hurt you or the kids to have ONE day off, will it?
Wait a minute, maybe I'm the one with latent hostility issues.
I better stop while I'm ahead, roll over and go back to sleep and start over tomorrow. 1 person likes this
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
28 Feb 11
Well now, it blessedly wakes me up in time to get things in motion so that I can go to work so that I can feed my children so that I can be independent. Still, I will be quite happy the day I can throw the darn thing out and never look at it again!
@hofferp (4734)
• United States
28 Feb 11
Unfortunately, I don't think you'll ever be able to throw the darn thing out. You might be able to put it in a drawer, but there will come a time when someone will ask you to meet them early in the morning and you can't refuse... Dearra wants you to babysit the grandkids...
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
28 Feb 11
Oh gosh I would have loved to be in your dream. As I would have been skating all over the place collecting those tickets.
Me on the other hand was dreaming about my teeth totally grinding out of my mouth like dust, while all along saying to self, this is only a dream. So the alarm clock goes off and first thing I do is grab a hold of my mouth.
So I agree it was a wonderful curse alarm clock but one I appreciated at the moment as I was in pain during the dream.
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
28 Feb 11
LOL, I think I was a brunette in my dream. 
Yeah dawn I would have love to trade dreams. 
Yeah dawn I would have love to trade dreams. 1 person likes this
@anne25penn (3305)
• Philippines
1 Mar 11
Alarm clocks have been my bestfriend since I started working. Even before I started working in the Call Center industry, I was already working odd shifts as a manager of a fast food restaurant. So without this contraption, I would have been late or absent for work because I do sleep like a log. But there are days where I wish that I didn't set the alarm because I still want to sleep.
@asianjabba (158)
• United States
1 Mar 11
What alarm clock do you prefer? I have three on my bedside desk (do not ask why) and the one I actually rely on is the older digital one that's been there for years. I prefer that over the M&M alarm clock and the ihome because of one simple reason: reliability.
The M&M alarm clock fails from time to time, whether the hands on the clock is stuck together or the battery is running. That's bad if I had an emergency meeting to go to and lose out because of not being able to wake up.
The ihome is just too annoying and too complicated and just has too many setups. I don't need all the bells and whistles, just something that will make a sound at a certain time and that is it. I need a digital one because at four in the morning I don't want to use my brain to try to read where the hour and minute hand are. Old school digital is the way to go.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
3 Mar 11
I hate my alarm clock, but it's a necessary evil. And I have more than one because there's no way that one alarm clock is going to get me up on time in the morning. lol I need at least three alarms before I get myself out of bed.
I've had my alarm disturb some pretty awesome dreams before... but in all honesty... what do you do? You need to get up on time and get going with your life. At least there's the promise of dreams almost every night.
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@allyoftherain (7208)
• United States
3 Mar 11
Oh yeah... I know what you mean. I put mine across the room and I still wind up back in bed again... so sometimes I need another one.1 person likes this
@vandana7 (98830)
• India
28 Feb 11
Nope... that is fun!
Hey - I slogged for almost 12 hours each day for better part of my career to have this life! There were times when I worked round the clock two consecutive days... :) All that stress in retrospect was challenging yet fun, and something of an achievement to recall with pride now. :) Of course, I couldnt manage it all now but I do miss it. :)
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@much2say (53958)
• Los Angeles, California
28 Feb 11
Hee hee. I haven't used an alarm clock in years it seems . . . my kids have always been my alarm clock! I hate any reason that gets me out of a good dream . . . but, a dream is a dream and it would have to end at some point anyway, right? I hate alarm clocks - simply because these days I think of my parent in laws when it comes to alarm clocks - they can't set their clocks by themselves for some reason. Every other weekend they call up saying "how do you set the alarm again?". Argh. Alarm clocks AND in laws - great or a curse?!
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@figurativeme (1089)
• Philippines
28 Feb 11
Hi dawnald. Oh, this is good! My conscious self considers it good and sets the alarm regularly each night. But my dream state says its a curse as I dream on and does not hear the alarm or chooses to ignore the alert. And I end up running for time to go to work. So, do I curse the work instead?
Cheers.
So, do I curse the work instead?
Cheers.@figurativeme (1089)
• Philippines
1 Mar 11
Hahaha..... 
Have a nice day, dawnald.
Have a nice day, dawnald.1 person likes this
@hafiz34 (39)
• United States
9 Mar 11
Ha ha. it is sometime really cursed but it one of the most helpful think which make you return from unconscious to conscious state. it prevent oversleeping, it save time. it help us to join any schedules task timely.
So it is not cursed i think.
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@thaMARKER (2503)
• Philippines
1 Mar 11
i thank the person who invented that thing. you can bet on me if i wake up right in time without an alarm, because i really can't. hahahaha.. i'm used to waking up with an alarm clock. i'm used to doing something with an alarm clock even if im awake. hahaha.. i don't know, am very time conscious.
i hope they would invent something that would make a person sleep once they need to sleep at specific time cause that's my problem too.
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 11
OH, now the person who could invent such a thing would be the richest person in the world, and maybe also the most loved!
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
7 Mar 11
Yes, we do need them. But few of us actually love them.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
3 Mar 11
I have to admit that my alarm clock honestly doesn't really wake me up anymore. I think I need to get a new one that has a different tone to it or something. That said, what tends to happen for me these days is that when my alarm starts going off in the morning, the sound of the alarm somehow gets incorporated into my dream. There've been dreams of slapping the alarm clock down to dreams of a smoke detector going off.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
3 Mar 11
That happens to me sometimes too. I have 3 of the annoying little buggers.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
4 Mar 11
I think so too!
That the alarm clock is a cursed good invention. If it were a person, I wouldn't want to be an alarm clock. I would hate to get hit on the head every morning! And sometimes even more than once. There even have reports that they get thrown on the wall after a few buzz.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
4 Mar 11
yeah that could be one of those "you think your job is bad" kind of things...
@gloryacam (5540)
• Philippines
1 Mar 11
Curse all alarm clocks! Some days, you're awake before it rings. Other days, it's been ringing for an hour and you're still fast asleep. And, the worst thing, is that you have a different waking time with the one beside you, his/her alarm goes off, and you're the one who wakes up. Aaargh!!!!
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@sswallace21 (1824)
• United States
1 Mar 11
Your dream must of have been somewhat entertaining. What a bummer you don't know what happens. I hate those dreams. Leave you hanging. As for the alarm clock, I don't need one. Doesn't matter what time I need to be up I aways wake up in time. My internal clock is like magic.
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@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
1 Mar 11
Mine used to work better, but when I'm going on sleep deprivation it doesn't work too well...
