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[xatalantax]

mrzero and I both have to set our alarms to some kind of uneven-seeming number. Like it can't ever be 7:00, it has to be 7:03. We both came to this conclusion separately, earlier in life. Anyone else do this, or are we just weird?

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[gloomylex.livejournal.com]

That's something that always intrigued me... Why do people always set the alarms or schedule arrangements in intervals of 5 minutes... But I have to admit I cant imagine myself waking up at 7:37 or saying "be there at 9:23, sharp!".

[xenoglaux]

The extremely creepy thing about that is that one of the settings for the alarm is 7:37. Though I lik 7:43 better since you don't get a double number.

[evilmagnus]

But 743 is also the IATA abbreviation for a 747-300! Hahaha a little aircraft humor...

...I'll shut up now.

I used to set my alarm for 7:37, knowing that I'd therefore wake up 7 mins before the alarm went off. Yes, the thought of setting an alarm would make me wake up on time.

I'm much lazier now.

[alonewiththemoon]

I do that too. It's like I'm not really getting up at 7, or alternately I'm not really sleeping later than 7.

[n-o-m-i-c.livejournal.com]

I used to do that all the time.

Somehow the practice fell out of favor.

[synaesthesia.livejournal.com]

Yes. It can't be on one of the 5's but it still has to be an odd number. So really, when I complain about having to wake up at 5:30am I'm really waking up at 5:31.

I also adjust volume on my receiver or TV to odd numbers.

[k8tey.livejournal.com]

me too.

[captain-grim.livejournal.com]

it's not THAT weird. i mean, if you figure that you need to get out of the house at 7:43 to get to work exactly on time, and you can backtrack to 7:03 to the exact time of when you MUST get up, why wake yourself up at 6:45 or 7? I say, suck up those precious minutes off the teat of sleep!

[aidenraine.livejournal.com]

Oh I do that too. Just... because. I don't know.

[hysterikal.livejournal.com]

I've done that for years. It feels somehow more non-commital when I'm not precisely at an o'clock or whatever.

Though I started doing it when my old alarm's snooze was 7 minute increments - and I'd always snooze 3 times - so I'd set my alarm for 6:39 so I'd be sure to be up for 7. :)

[dionysia.livejournal.com]

I do it too, but like hysterikal, it's more to do with how many times I can hit snooze.

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[gukacayuga.livejournal.com]

I always set to the multiples of five, which I think is pretty common, but I once worked with an old woman who had never owned an alarm clock. When she went to bed, she would write the time she wanted to wake up on her pillow with her finger, and it never failed her. (I've always been in awe of that, because it pretty much would take someone writing the time for me to get up on my forehead with a jackhammer for that idea to work.)