I dont know what community to post this in but here goes. I made my alarm clock in the morning birds chirping, because I like birds and thought it would be a good sound to wake up to. Wrong. The sound of birds chirping now gives me anxiety :deeper-sadness: because I hate waking up. This morning I awoke to the sounds of birds outside by window an hour before my alarm is set to go off. My other alarm sounds are really fucking weird and I dont like them. I hate it here.
Pro tip: never make your alarm anything you enjoy because you will end up hating it.
further protip: if you use your phone for an alarm, don’t use the default alarm sound because other people’s will go off in public and it will be distressing
:angery: I like birds, I thought it would get me in a good mood in the morning. I didn’t know then, I was so naïve.
Yeah but now you can be the guy who yells at birds
“Shut up I’m already awake”
Maybe something to think about is the difference between technology and how we apply technology.
Like, I would think waking up to an alarm that sounds like birds isn’t in itself anxiety inducing; it’s that you’ve associated the bird alarm with waking up in the [H E L L W O R L D] that’s giving you anxiety.
Or not WTF do I know I hate this shit too.
I kinda think that any noise that rips you from slumber, your brain is going to immediately start trying to figure out if that sound represents a threat to your life. Hellworld certainly doesn’t help matters, though.
Yeah, I find that noise-based alarms tend to fuck with my anxiety too
Which is why I bought a cheap sunrise alarm clock
It’s basically just a lamp with a soft light that turns on at the allotted time and gets brighter and brighter until you turn it off
It’s a lot less stressful than being jolted awake by noises
i second this. waking up to increasing light levels is way less shit than sound. i have a failsafe for a sound alarm on my phone which plays random music, which i’ve only ever needed like once in the last 7 months. that morning, i was like wiped out from staying up way too late to watch some bullshit movie. it went off and started with Gunship’s Tech Noir, which has this spoken word part with this guy saying (in scratchy radio transmission):
I’m recording this, because this could be the last thing I’ll ever say.
The city I once knew as home is teetering on the edge of radioactive oblivion:
a three-hundred thousand degree baptism by nuclear fire.
I’m not sorry, we had it coming.
A surge of white-hot atonement will be our wake-up call.
Hope for our future is now a stillborn dream. The bombs begin to fall and I’m rushing to meet my love.
Please, remember me. There is… no more.
which snapped me out of bed immediately and put me on full WTF alert until i recognized it and started laughing.
My bedroom doesn’t get any sunshine because whoever designed my house is in league with the dread lord Nocticulon
I dream of world where there are no alarm clocks. I am simply awoken by the sun coming through by farmhouse window. I go to work and feel worthy. Thats all I want.
:meow-hug:
