alarm clock ptsd

[warble]

I have a 1980's general electric alarm clock I bought at goodwill for 2.00$ it still works brilliantly, its the best alarm clock ive owned so far. nice bright blue LED's that don't look cheap, faux wood, heavy duty, not flimsy plastic and a radio with really good sound quality that gets stations from further away than my car they truly don't build things as well as they did 30 years ago anymore. theres just one problem, the alarm tone, it haunts me badly, but I never hear it anywhere else. to put it short its murder but if you want to take a listen start at 2:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z3vSo-1x_U
also you can only advance time forward on it, if you miss you have to cycle through 23 hours again

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[Office-Pirate]

i literally have a panic attack

I regret to inform you that I don't exactly 'trust' your intentions. A story of you caliber, while I would want to believe it, simply has no merit because of the extremely improbable odds of it occurring. In fact, I do not consider your story true and this find the circumstances of the said situation a poorly thought up sham. Seeing much ambiguity, and while it may appeal as funny to some, I can no consider it on my agenda as a veracious allegory, and thus place very high doubts. I find most stories like this very suspicious and realistically the probabilities of these things occurring are extremely low. I apologies, but I truly must confess I can't believe you.

[Insert Name Here²]

That's the weirdest alarm clock sound I've ever heard

[Perry]

That's the weirdest alarm clock sound I've ever heard

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"if i had that besides my bed right now i would get shot by my wife and she'd be scraping herself off the ceiling" what the forget does that sentence even mean? how would your wife scrape herself off the ceiling if she shot you? how would she even scrape herself off the ceiling period?

[Red Spy]

What the forget kind of sound is that

[Blocky943]

I regret to inform you that I don't exactly 'trust' your intentions. A story of you caliber, while I would want to believe it, simply has no merit because of the extremely improbable odds of it occurring. In fact, I do not consider your story true and this find the circumstances of the said situation a poorly thought up sham. Seeing much ambiguity, and while it may appeal as funny to some, I can no consider it on my agenda as a veracious allegory, and thus place very high doubts. I find most stories like this very suspicious and realistically the probabilities of these things occurring are extremely low. I apologies, but I truly must confess I can't believe you.

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[Nonnel]

I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN
ON MY IPOD I HAD AN ALARM EVERY MORNING AT 6AM
BIBIBIBEEP BIBIBIBEEP BIBIBIBEEP
EVERYTIME I HEAR IT I GET ANXIETY

EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPN6MZmx3HU

[Perry]

apparently they say that your brain begins to associate the alarm noise with the pain and anger we all feel when we have to wake up super early. every time you hear that sound your brain tells your body to feel like stuff

imagine if they had a machine and it would prick you in various places of your body. every time you feel pain it would play a kitten meow sound. after 5 years of this practice you would cringe at the sound of a cat meowing. its loving crazy

[Muzzles56]

i have 2 types of alarm. I usually set a few alarms 30 minutes before i need to get up, in 5-10 minute intervals. The sound for these ones is usually quite soft. Then I have an "actual alarm" which is when i actually do need to get up and plays this sound. Its this alarm that triggers the forget out of me when I hear it anywhere else

But yeah, having a reaction when you hear your alarm anywhere else is definitely a thing

[Steve5451²]

same. that old harsh alarm clock sound seriously freaks me out.

[Zloff]

i have an alarm on my phone as a fail-safe but even if i stay out until 2am on a weekday, which happens several times a month, i still wake up before my alarm at 6:30 am

it's been like that for as long as i can remember, so i've never grown to have a negative association with an alarm clock sound. but it is still unsettling to me since it's such a harsh noise

[Drydess]

my alarm sound pisses me the forget off

[The Resonte!]

its a harsh noise so its annoying by definition

maybe if alarms played the radio or something

[Conan]

my roomate got so pissed at the old default ios alarm sound (the beeps) that he made me set my alarm to this

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XPxMJtOvVY8

suffice it to say to get rudely woken up to this at max volume makes me jump

[warble]

its a harsh noise so its annoying by definition

maybe if alarms played the radio or something

the radio never wakes me up, its like sleeping with the tv on. sometimes when I try to wake up to the radio I just hear the radio in my dreams but don't wake up