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?
I can’t imagine that you can get out of bed without waking your wife if your smartwatch vibrating wakes her up.
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”?
Well, I’m sure you’re right.
Depends where the arm is I think. When it vibrates under the pillow you’re using, it can sound very loud
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?
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.
I don’t think you trust in my self-righteous suicide, I cry when angels deserve to die
Something clicked in my mind when I read the phrase self-righteous suicide and SOAD just popped into my head
Probably to be polite, and give his family more valuable sleep time while he does responsible things.
Gotta get to work and do that important maintenance so the Systems don’t go Down.
WHAT? Do they own the World? How do you own disorder?
Somewhere between the sacred silence and peace.
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
Plus you can make a side hustle by cheating at chess
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.
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.
Have her boyfriend give you a shake when its time to get up.
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Ngl, had to read the title twice.
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?
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How does improving one’s skill in chess correlate to waking up early?
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.
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.
Yes, but presumably OP can find an alarm that isn’t as obtrusive as the average one.
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.
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.
If a smart watch vibrating on your wrist, assuming it wasn’t also alarming with audio, then how are you going to avoid waking her by just getting out of bed?
Did your smartwatch actually buzz/vibrate? Hate to shill, but try an Apple Watch. It doesn’t really buzz, but the haptics feel like a tap on the wrist.
That being said, if a discrete buzz wakes her, how are you supposed to get up without waking her?
Drink enough water at the right time to pee at the right time
This works for me but there are people who wake up during the middle of the night to pee. So this method probably won’t work for them.
OMG three or four times some nights! I need to stop drinking liquids at a certain hour but I love water
I don’t know if this will work for you. Every night I close my eyes and picture a clock with the time I want to wake. Then I tell myself the time I want to wake up.
I’m… weirdly similar. I tend to wake naturally about 5 minutes before my alarm every day, even if it’s not a normal wake time. Doesn’t apply if I didn’t set an alarm, obviously.
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I think for me it’s an anxiety thing, and a generally good sense of time. If I have to be up at a certain time, I sleep more restlessly, and I tend to be good at estimating the time when I just barely wake up. So I wake up several times through the night, and just stay up when it’s near time for the alarm.
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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?
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.
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.
Sounds like you need to change the time you do the workout.
Why because my two options are don’t get up early or sleep separately?
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.
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.
“Mind your own business on a public forum where I chose to disclose information!” How rich.
It’s based on absolutely no information that I provided, just your apparent want for feeling superior.
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.
Split king? So, two mattresses and one duvet, is it?
It’s essentially 2 twin xl mattress side by side. You can use one duvet, but we blanket fight, so we use 2 separate.
Literally or figuratively?
Could you or her be occupying another room for a few weeks/months or is it worth a fight
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.
To each their own, I’d say for a few weeks no biggie. Obviously cuddle/rest together
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.
I was just at Microcenter and saw these headbands you can wear while you sleep that have Bluetooth. They double a blinder for sleeping.
My thought is maybe this could work where the Bluetooth will begin playing music to wake you up but the sound only is audible to you.
You could test this with her before sleeping by adjusting the volume to the point where she says she can’t hear it but you still can.
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
sleeping peacefully
BLUETOOTH DISCONNECTED
BLUETOOTH CONNECTED
angry groggy noises
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.
The baby is in our room, and the others have their own, but the house is old and creaky, so I tread carefully.
And why is a different room definitely not an option?
prob bc houses have finite space
Because this is an ongoing situation, and I don’t want to sleep without my partner.
Get some kind of gas you can puff out at your wife to make her fall back asleep.
Create a mat that you lay on with parallel copper lines, attach it to a tazer circuit and an audrino. Replace alarm speaker with audrino.
Just keep a taser by the bed so when she wakes up you can paralyze her so she won’t accidentally go to work.
in a strange twist, the chess world already solved this one. Vibrating buttplug
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
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.
There was, and then some guy put it to the test á la mythbuster style. I’ll leave the conclusion for you to enjoy
With some sort of link I assume? Or no.
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.)
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
It waa the first thing I thought of as well so there are at least 3 of us.
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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.
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.
