Why are there people whose upon-waking selves cannot be trusted to act in accordance with their before-sleeping selves
I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it
Burn it down with CRISPR
I am never letting anyone talk me into waking them up again let them handle their own motivational structures I CANNOT
I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it
I’m confused because I thought this was the purpose of alarm clocks.
Like in the very recent past when everyone did not have portable alarm clocks in their pockets 24/7, I can understand asking someone to wake you up at a specific time. But that problem now seems completely solved.
I would also expect this, but here we are.
Alarm clocks don’t exactly work on me because I can turn them off before I’m fully awake. I even had one that made me solve a math problem and sleepy Mack would do it and fall right back asleep.
I have to put my phone across the room wrapped in a piece of paper that says WAKE THE FUCK UP and make sure I have like five alarms in a row set at times that will surprise my morning self but not spaced far enough apart that I can get back to sleep between them.
My mom used to have to bribe my siblings to wake me up on weekends or I would sleep nearly sixteen hours.
Yeah. You ask someone to wake you up because your before-sleeping self doesn’t trust your upon-waking self.
The job of the person you’re asking to wake you up is not to disturb you out of sleep. It’s to be annoying enough that you can’t just go back to sleep.
Personally, I’m not particularly difficult to wake up or in a particularly bad mood when I do, but I still prefer having people wake me up. This is because I only rarely need to wake up at a specific time, which means I’m not *accustomed* to alarm clocks, which means I don’t *trust* alarm clocks. Sapient alarms are smart enough to know if their first attempt has failed to wake me, and can then try various things until they succeed.
Would an alarm clock successfully wake me? Probably. But I’m not *confident* of it (because I don’t have a long track record of success), so the am-I-going-to-sleep-through-my-alarm anxiety means I don’t sleep nearly as well. (I’d also *probably* wake up on my own slightly before the alarm (regardless of what form of alarm), but again not confidently.)
(It occurs to me that you don’t actually need full-on sapience to be smart enough to know whether your first attempt has failed, and that we’ve probably reached a tech level where computers can do this (if you’re wearing a monitor bracelet, anyway). But I don’t own a monitor bracelet, and I don’t think I’d bother getting one just for this (the whole reason I’m *having* this problem is precisely because it’s not something that comes up much).)
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