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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?

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[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 232 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I can't imagine that you can get out of bed without waking your wife if your smartwatch vibrating wakes her up.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Depends where the arm is I think. When it vibrates under the pillow you're using, it can sound very loud

[–] AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 8 months ago

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?

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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"?

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[–] teft@lemmy.world 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (11 children)

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.

[–] terraborra@lemmy.nz 91 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Sounds like you need to change the time you do the workout.

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Try a different watch or adjust the haptics to make it vibrate less? Casio sells an inexpensive alarm watch that vibrates if you can't dial the watch back.

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[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 57 points 8 months ago (3 children)

in a strange twist, the chess world already solved this one. Vibrating buttplug

[–] Stache_@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] vortexsurfer@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

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.

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 48 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Drink several glasses of water before going to bed so you wake up to pee.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That could work, I'd need to figure out how long it takes to get to pee time from drinking.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Practice, practice, practice!

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[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 43 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] thorbot@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide, I cry when angels deserve to die

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[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What if you put the smart watch on your ankle? The covers might muffle the noise but you still feel it vibrate.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was really hoping someone had like a really low volume pillow alarm or something, but instead, you guys are just really creative. I wouldn't have thought to do this.

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[–] TheBlackKnight@lemmy.world 37 points 8 months ago

Drink a lot of water before bed, your bladder will wake you up

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 36 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Have her boyfriend give you a shake when its time to get up.

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[–] un_aristocrate@jlai.lu 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 23 points 8 months ago

How does improving one's skill in chess correlate to waking up early?

[–] NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

I had to put on my glasses to read the post title...

Legitimate answer though, once upon a time before I realized such relationships are not really feasible for me to maintain, I just kept a separate stowable bed in the office for work nights when I had to get up earlier without waking the gf. Days she got up earlier, she couldn't wake me if she tried, but I would sometimes steal the blanket and wake her early still so we got multiple separate blankets. Usually three in case one of us did a double blanket steal.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

What if you got a battery and put it on a timer and hooked the electrodes to your toes? That way you get moderately zapped, and she doesn't wake up. After a week or so, I would bet you have so much anxiety that your internal clock will wake you, even without the zap. The body is amazing.

[–] alphacyberranger@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ngl, had to read the title twice.

[–] makuus@pawb.social 8 points 8 months ago

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?

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Get an enlarged prostate. You won't sleep for more than 3 hours straight promise.

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Does your wife wear a sleep mask/would she be willing to wear one? You could then get one of those sunrise alarm clocks that lights up the room before making noise.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 21 points 8 months ago

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?

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

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?

[–] Dolphinfreetuna@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Some smart watches allow you to adjust the intensity of the vibration. (My Samsung Watch6 does.) See if your will let you experiment with that.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Drink enough water at the right time to pee at the right time

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[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I had a first gen Xiaomi smart band thingy for this very reason that I put on my leg. Worked well enough unless I was exhausted or drunk but then nothing would anyway.

[–] meowshale@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I had a smartwatch that had a very annoyingly buzzy vibration, so I empathize with this problem. If nothing else works I do believe that some expensive smartwatches (like apple watch) have a more quiet "tappy" vibration. You could test in store to see how loud the sound is before buying it

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 12 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Get some kind of gas you can puff out at your wife to make her fall back asleep.

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Heating pad on a timer? Silent, but probably uncomfortable enough to make you aware of the time when it's on.

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 10 points 8 months ago (7 children)

There are actually watches/bands that will give a minor shock as an alarm. Sounds crazy but unless it jump to the wife (hope it wouldn't be that strong...) it shouldn't wake anyone. Novel idea if nothing else.

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[–] walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Put the watch around your balls.

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[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

A mattress with per-side heat controls. Unplug it, set your side to super hot, then use a timer socket to make it turn on when you want to wake up.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Smart bulbs, have it turn on automatically at the time a gentle alarm goes off

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Deaf people have a vibrating pad under their bedsheet.

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