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[Xvareon]

I wake up to my digital clock, its soft yet insistent beeping forcing me awake yet still feeling sleepy.  I simply reach over, flip the switch and go back to sleep.  Several minutes later, my emergency alarm clock goes off, I sit BOLT UPRIGHT in bed screaming some nonsensible gibberish, reach for the clock then find I was clever and set it on the bookshelf above my bed, several shelves high.  I have to get out of bed, grab the clock and switch it off -- and by that time my body is wide awake with no chance of falling asleep whatsoever.

Drastic, but effective.  Does anyone use one of these clocks?  Share your stories.

[ChairmanPoo]

A while back I had a serious "miss classes because of sleep" problem, so I started hiding several in various points of the room, set so that they started to ring one after another, and hidden enough so that I couldn't find them while zombified. I recall one distinct time that when I came around to realize what I was doing, I was crouching on the corner where I had put one of the alarms, smashing it repeatedly against the floor trying to make it stop

[Simmura McCrea]

One of my uncles had a similar problem, so his wife bought him an alarm clock that only stopped ringing if you threw it against the wall, so you had to go find it when it went off for the second time. He quickly trained his dog to fetch it in the mornings.

[Rose]

my brother tells me a story of a guy in his dorm that put one of them bell alarm clocks underneath a metal salad bowl, inside a steel almira.

he says it was effective for everybody other than the person it was supposed to wake.

[Miggy]

I have a bell alarm clock, and I've been using it for the past many years.

The sound it makes when ringing has engraved its way into my soul as the sound of horror. Every time before I wake up I have a 5 second long nightmare which features the ringing, before I get up and make it stop (situated across the room).

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I use one, but I sleep like a corpse so it's effectiveness is limited. I've also regained my sense of full consiciousness to find that I was doing things such as trying to sleep on top of it to make it stop ringing. I do strange and violent things when I'm only half awake.

[Aqizzar]

I had a bell alarm clock.  It was electronic obviously, but it did the classic ringing to wake me up.  And yeah, it was effective alright, but the problem is, sometimes when I wake up I'm not entirely living in the real world for a minute or so.  And the alarm was shut off by a sticky little switch.

So, one time when it woke me up, for a few critical seconds I had no idea what the clock actually was or how to turn it off.  I got to my feet shaking the clock in the my hands, before I pounded the face in until it stopped ringing.  Whoops.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I also have the "not entirely living in the real world" problem. Once, I woke up late. When I tried to figure out why my clock had failed me, I noticed the gash on my index finger. I had apparently gored it on the ridged alarm switch when I got up, and fell back asleep without noticing.

[Patchouli]

I have 2 electronic alarm clocks on each side of my bed that I have to get up and walk to turn off. But back when I had to wake up at 5AM every day, there'd be times where the alarm would go off, I'd jump off my bed in an adrenaline-fueled rage to shut off one, then leap into the bed and do a rolling maneuver onto and off the bed to get to the other one within mere seconds before rolling back onto the bed.

I'd oversleep, wake up at 7AM and try to remember what my clock did wrong, but it would all be a haze memory, and the clocks being off would seem to suggest that I forgot to set it. But then I'd look down at my hands and realize what I've done.

It gets bad enough that I'd wake up at 4:59 and proceed with my alarm frenzy without the accompaniment of the shrieking clocks.

[Ancre]

Heh I'm unlucky enough to wake up instantly when my alarm rings. So I just have a little thing that also works as a radio and I don't need more.

I wake up routinely at 4 am though, and I can slumber for 20 minutes before going up (working 10 hours a day and not being able to go to sleep early because of my family means every minute I can scratch on my 6hours night is great). But if my alarm clock is not on I can't sleep well and I routinely wake up in the middle of the night in fear of being late. That's weird.

[Bouchart]

I used to have an old bell alarm clock when I was a kid.  Its ticking kept me up at night, so it didn't last long.

[Mindmaker]

The alarm clock on my mobile phone is enough.
I check it more often than needed and it never failed me.

[Muz]

Haha, I had a bell alarm at one time. I used to smack it off the table or try to remove the batteries. After a few months it broke. Those things are effective.

[NewsMuffin]

I had an electric alarm clock, with the beeping.
Jesus that beeping is annoying. It'd even start to sound like musical notes if you listened to it for too long.
I hated waking up a minute before it went off.
I'm using past tense because the plug got loose, and never stayed in for more than a night, because my bed is on wheels.

[Neonivek]

When I was younger I had an immature bladder. For anyone who doesn't know what this does it means you wet the bed (Honestly I am not embarassed by this... I don't know why people are)

So one of the devices to train me not to wet the bed was what I call a "Pee Pee" alarm but more specifically it was a two prong device you break gap with a piece of toilet paper. When it gets wet it completes the circuit and creates a sharp beeping noise that could wake the dead (it was capable of waking up other people in my house)

I hated this thing SOO much I actually have a near physical aversion to alarm clocks

To the point where I never EVER was woken up by an alarm clock even if I set it. I either wake up before the alarm or develop insomnia because I dread and fear the clock going off.