I used to hate hearing my annoying alarms, and then one day, I noticed in my Samsung phone that there were very pleasant soft songs that you can set to start off very quiet while slowing increasing volume. It changed everything! It is far from annoying.
My alarm audio is “Turbo Killer” by Carpenter Brut, so that’s a no for me.
That said, I was just talking to someone the other day about how damn annoying the “phone vibration buzz” sound is. I find that infinitely more annoying than any ringtone.
My wife a 70’s era red-letter alarm clock that can wake the dead. It does not bother me. Usually does not even wake me up.
But, ANY attempt of an audible alarm for me, no matter how soft and gentle, will scare the shit out of my wife. So, I wear a fitbit on me off wrist that vibrates to wake me up.
Back in the 90s and early 2000s I set my TV to turn on the Weather channel to wake me up in the morning. My favorite song on the “Local on the 8s” segment was Good Ole Days by Trammell Starks. I use that as my alarm sound so I get a nice little hit of nostalgia every morning.
If your alarm is the sound of a toddler waking up in the middle of the night screaming their head off, signaling that regardless of the hour, it is now Awake O’Clock, and all within earshot are now required to also suffer the Indignity of Wakefulness, then yes.
Pro tip that has changed my life – get a smart watch. Even if you don’t use for anything else, it’s worth its weight in gold to be gently awoken by a soft vibration on your wrist. Sound alarms have always startled me awake and I bet its taken years off my heart because of it, I got a smart watch for mother’s day last year and it is so damn pleasant.
For real, it’s like the universe decided to test our patience. One minute you’re all set, and the next, it’s like you’ve got a mountain of socks to fold. Why is folding socks the worst task on the planet?
Anything to do with babies and people below 14 years old is waaaaay worse than an alarm, even tho I kicked my fan out of place when I woke up today, but that’s a rare thing (I sleep on the floor and the fan is incredibly close to me and tilted down by shoes).
Alarm clocks might be used as cute props in films when the star of the movie wakes up. But IRL, I agree that it can be irritating because it jolts you out of sleep and sometimes even good dreams. Plus, it’s a sign that it’s time to stop resting and time to start working. It may be useful but it’s still annoying LOL.
The early riser alarm tone on my iPhone, with my watch pulsing to my heart beat is usually quite pleasant for me. It’s when I see everything on my Lock Screen that jolts me awake when I go to turn the alarm off
Sometimes I set up a second alarm one hour before my actual alarm, so that I can wake up, take a look at the clock, and get a wave of satisfaction knowing I can jump right back to bed. You’d wake up much more pleasantly this way.
There is probably some scientific grounding to this about resetting your sleep stage too. Highly recommend.
I raise you my wife’s alarm on those mornings where she has set it slightly early without warning. But it doesn’t wake her so she doesn’t shut the damned thing off.
This is my morning alarm tune, and it is fucking delightful.
My ring tone is this one and it’s very soothing. It honestly made picking up the phone much more relaxing for me, and that’s normally an anxiety-riddled exercise.
Some of you don’t have an overbearing, nasally-voiced superior at work who can talk for 25 minutes straight without saying anything of value – and it shows.
I learned a long time ago to not use songs you like for alarms. I used to wake up to Kashmir – Led Zeppelin every morning, i can still barely listen to it without a weird anxiety. It was even my ringtone at the same time so it really turned me off from taking phone calls vs just getting a ding for a text.
I am a paramedic and for me, it’s the sound of tones dropping, especially in the middle of the night when I’ve just gotten back in bed and comfortable.
Sometimes when I’m at home and in my own bed, I’ll bolt upright and start reaching down for my boots before it processes that I’m off duty.
I used to have an alarm clock at my desk which was set to go off when it was time for me to go do the mail. The woman behind me always said to me time to take your heart medicine (Because it always scared her I guess.)
Oh hell no. I only use sounds I like as alarms to wake up to. I’d listen to my alarm on repeat over some little kid let loose with a recorder. Any. Day.
My alarm is the sound of birds chirping. I have it followed 10 minutes later by my favorite song. It’s quite pleasant. Highly recommend. You should not start every single day with an obnoxious noise you hate.
The most annoying thing I hear is a dog that stays outside and never stops barking.
I typically wake up say 30 minutes before my alarm and shut it off as soon as it rings and then get up, it’s just a thing I do, and still this is facts. I’ve got some pretty stout books on my end table and one of them could probably handle smashing that fucking thing to pieces.
You know it’s bad when your alarm clock sounds like it’s auditioning for a horror movie. Seriously, who thought ‘screaming goat’ was a good wake-up call?
Many of us very likely just had a shared Vietnamesque flashback to the same cursed droning scream of the mass produced alarm clocks of the late 20th century
At one point I had my alarm set to bird sounds. I had to change it, because I started hating the sound of birds. Better to set it to the radio, the randomness makes it less likely you’ll associate it with disrupting your sleep.
Protip: Buy some smart light bulbs. Set them to fade on over 20 minutes starting 10 minutes before your alarm (they’ll be 50% brightness when your alarm goes off.) Most of the time, you’ll slowly wake up a few minutes before the alarm goes off and only rarely will get that jolt from the alarm.
If I were a marketing exec, I’d have all my commercials either start with the default iPhone ringtone or the default alarm noise. That annoying thing to hear now gets their attention
Every commercial that has these, I look at my phone then up at the tv
Recency bias, other people coughing. I just spent a week with a group of people that all got sick one after another. The sound of other people coughing was getting infuriating.
My alarm is the Kill Bill whistle – doesnt really annoy me much at all.
The most annoying sound is, specifically, the first 3 seconds of Ed Sheeran’s song A Team.
No hate on the song its lovely – the first bit just drives me insane. For years when I would connect my phone to my car the first song in my library would immediately start to play – and it was always A Team. I eventually dowloaded a song labeled like “__AAAA” to be first on my library which is just 10 minutes of silence.
I’m surprised my alarm doesn’t piss off my roommate considering I snooze it a few times each morning before rising (I account for this as part of my wakeup routine, don’t worry) and of all things, it’s the U.S. Gold Amiga Outrun intro that I use as an alarm sound (YouTube it if you don’t know what that sounds like, I promise you’ll understand straight away)
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I don’t know, a crying baby may take the cake.
I dunno.
Other people speakerphone conversations, or their terrible music is pretty high on the list.
Being woken up by something other than your alarm, before your alarm is set to go off, is far more annoying.
Nah. I wake up at 6:30 sharp every morning naturally
It’s probably my little brother whining or people shouting
Not me! I have a sleeping disorder!
JK I just wake up before my alarm goes off every day.
This would be as it should be, if it were true.
My wakeup alarm ain’t got shit on the sheer dread of my work phone ringtone when I’m on call
idk. the sound of my math teacher at 6 in the damn morning seems pretty high on the list
I used to hate hearing my annoying alarms, and then one day, I noticed in my Samsung phone that there were very pleasant soft songs that you can set to start off very quiet while slowing increasing volume. It changed everything! It is far from annoying.
Hey Harry, wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world?
Hearing people eating is the worst sound on earth.
For me, the most annoying sound is my wife’s wakeup alarm at 5am.
The average person doesn’t have to deal with my mother in law
My alarm audio is “Turbo Killer” by Carpenter Brut, so that’s a no for me.
That said, I was just talking to someone the other day about how damn annoying the “phone vibration buzz” sound is. I find that infinitely more annoying than any ringtone.
Remember this?
I use soft music or sounds and ramping alarm volume on my phone and haven’t been startled awake in years.
You ever heard a cat about to vomit, because…
Kid in the middle of the night when you finally got comfortable beats my alarm every time.
It’s actually quite pleasant. The soft wake up alarm on the iPhone, I like to wake up soft.
My wife a 70’s era red-letter alarm clock that can wake the dead. It does not bother me. Usually does not even wake me up.
But, ANY attempt of an audible alarm for me, no matter how soft and gentle, will scare the shit out of my wife. So, I wear a fitbit on me off wrist that vibrates to wake me up.
People chewing, especially with their mouths open will get me pretty close to murderous rage.
I can snooze my alarm for 5 minutes of silence
Screaming kids aren’t as accommodating, and are 3x as annoying
The teams call sound when I’m trying to actually get shit done at work
Back in the 90s and early 2000s I set my TV to turn on the Weather channel to wake me up in the morning. My favorite song on the “Local on the 8s” segment was Good Ole Days by Trammell Starks. I use that as my alarm sound so I get a nice little hit of nostalgia every morning.
https://youtu.be/XA6eIwIOY4s?si=1kkYkw9iw4T98xxP
To be fair, I make it annoying intentionally otherwise I’d sleep through it.
If your alarm is the sound of a toddler waking up in the middle of the night screaming their head off, signaling that regardless of the hour, it is now Awake O’Clock, and all within earshot are now required to also suffer the Indignity of Wakefulness, then yes.
Ugh.
Mines is the ring ring from squid games so more fear than annoyance
We’re approaching a demographic era when the “average person” is retired.
What’s a “wakeup alarm sound”?
Pro tip that has changed my life – get a smart watch. Even if you don’t use for anything else, it’s worth its weight in gold to be gently awoken by a soft vibration on your wrist. Sound alarms have always startled me awake and I bet its taken years off my heart because of it, I got a smart watch for mother’s day last year and it is so damn pleasant.
Put a light on a timer shining towards your face. Place it so you can’t reach it to shut it off
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For real, it’s like the universe decided to test our patience. One minute you’re all set, and the next, it’s like you’ve got a mountain of socks to fold. Why is folding socks the worst task on the planet?
I find it annoying enough that most of the time I wake up to turn my alarm off before it goes off.
If you want your alarm sound to seem soothing by comparison, get a parrot.
Anything to do with babies and people below 14 years old is waaaaay worse than an alarm, even tho I kicked my fan out of place when I woke up today, but that’s a rare thing (I sleep on the floor and the fan is incredibly close to me and tilted down by shoes).
I have it on good authority that the most annoying sound is, in fact:
ennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
I havent needed an alarm for 20 years and I don’t miss it at all. I just wake early naturally because I go to bed early.
Never make a song you like your alarm sound, you will grow to hate it
Obligatory: Gary Gulman – Alarm Clock
For me it’s the blue jay screaming and the woodpecker hammering away at a tree outside my window about 20 minutes before my alarm goes off.
Alarm clocks might be used as cute props in films when the star of the movie wakes up. But IRL, I agree that it can be irritating because it jolts you out of sleep and sometimes even good dreams. Plus, it’s a sign that it’s time to stop resting and time to start working. It may be useful but it’s still annoying LOL.
That apple classic alarm is the bane of my existence
I can think of 100 sounds more annoying. A nickleback song, a fork scratching a plate repeatedly, the ex wife, a crying baby that’s not my own…..
Over the last 15 years mine has been:
Bitter Sweet Symphony
Love Song
&
WTF!
Note: I have other songs set to remind me to leave the house, take lunch breaks, and to leave work.
I also have my alarms start at 0 volume, and increase to a still low volume over 1min.
I think is your partners wake up alarm, set an hour before yours.
The early riser alarm tone on my iPhone, with my watch pulsing to my heart beat is usually quite pleasant for me. It’s when I see everything on my Lock Screen that jolts me awake when I go to turn the alarm off
Loud car exhaust, especially the one drives past my house at 5:30pm every day.
Dogs that bark nonstop, left outside by their inconsiderate owners.
My neighbours kids rollerskating in the house for 5 hours solid.
Alarm clock not even close mate.
My alarm clock is my giant orange cat standing on my chest and screaming in my face.
Nope, my coworker whistling randomly is far worse.
If THAT is the most annoying thing for you to hear, you have a wonderful life.
Sometimes I set up a second alarm one hour before my actual alarm, so that I can wake up, take a look at the clock, and get a wave of satisfaction knowing I can jump right back to bed. You’d wake up much more pleasantly this way.
There is probably some scientific grounding to this about resetting your sleep stage too. Highly recommend.
I raise you my wife’s alarm on those mornings where she has set it slightly early without warning. But it doesn’t wake her so she doesn’t shut the damned thing off.
The dog barking because the kids come home late while I have to get up early annoys me way more than my alarm.
It’s the ultimate vibe killer—like the universe’s way of saying, “Nope, you’re not living in dreamland anymore.”
This is my morning alarm tune, and it is fucking delightful.
My ring tone is this one and it’s very soothing. It honestly made picking up the phone much more relaxing for me, and that’s normally an anxiety-riddled exercise.
Some of you don’t have an overbearing, nasally-voiced superior at work who can talk for 25 minutes straight without saying anything of value – and it shows.
I learned a long time ago to not use songs you like for alarms. I used to wake up to Kashmir – Led Zeppelin every morning, i can still barely listen to it without a weird anxiety. It was even my ringtone at the same time so it really turned me off from taking phone calls vs just getting a ding for a text.
I once made the mistake of setting one of my favorite songs as my wakeup alarm sound in the hopes of making my mornings less unbearable.
Unfortunately, all that happened is I now hate the song. =(
Got rid of mine years ago. Sunrise alarms are superior in every respect.
I chose some good music from games for my alarms and I love it
The seatbelt alert bell drives me crazy. I refuse to start the engine until everyone is buckled in.
A coworker in my office has a midday alarm that is the same as my wakeup alarm. It always raises my heart rate
I am a paramedic and for me, it’s the sound of tones dropping, especially in the middle of the night when I’ve just gotten back in bed and comfortable.
Sometimes when I’m at home and in my own bed, I’ll bolt upright and start reaching down for my boots before it processes that I’m off duty.
I used to have an alarm clock at my desk which was set to go off when it was time for me to go do the mail. The woman behind me always said to me time to take your heart medicine (Because it always scared her I guess.)
OP isn’t in corporate and doesn’t know the default Teams ring.
For me, it’s my roommate’s alarm tone. There isn’t anything annoying other than that
And that’s why I’ve got a multiple genre playlist with over 24 hours of music set to shuffle on my alarm.
Oh hell no. I only use sounds I like as alarms to wake up to. I’d listen to my alarm on repeat over some little kid let loose with a recorder. Any. Day.
Yup. You sleep good, dream good, but then that damn alarm goes off.
OR you don’t sleep good at all and you have shit to do in the morning and that alarm goes off.
I used to set songs as my alarm and would grow to absolutely despise the song. Switched back to annoying tones after that.
That’s why you change what it’s set to regularly.
it is 100% the noise of my kids yelling “MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!)
My alarm is the sound of birds chirping. I have it followed 10 minutes later by my favorite song. It’s quite pleasant. Highly recommend. You should not start every single day with an obnoxious noise you hate.
The most annoying thing I hear is a dog that stays outside and never stops barking.
If it isn’t the most annoying, it certainly should be top ten.
The dog whining because he’s in a cone of shame and can’t lick his arse 24 hrs a day is up there
Nope, my husband chewing is much more annoying.
How about waking up to a call from your boss asking you work questions on your week off
That’s how I spent my off day sadly
I’ve ruined many a song by using them as my alarm, the anxiety I get when I hear said songs is very real even years later lol
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Open mouth chewing sounds sends me through the roof.
Alarm? Annoying? I hit snooze like 30000 times and end up being the annoying thing
Nah, an annoying kid whose parents don’t pay attention to. TEACH YOUR DAMNED KIDS MANNERS!! If you don’t, the world will
I typically wake up say 30 minutes before my alarm and shut it off as soon as it rings and then get up, it’s just a thing I do, and still this is facts. I’ve got some pretty stout books on my end table and one of them could probably handle smashing that fucking thing to pieces.
You know it’s bad when your alarm clock sounds like it’s auditioning for a horror movie. Seriously, who thought ‘screaming goat’ was a good wake-up call?
For an average me, it’s “MAAAMAAAA” from my 5-year-old before my alarm goes off.
The funny thing about the alarm app is we hate it for doing what we asked it to do.
Nope. Random clapping, desk slapping, pencil tapping and whistling. I teach middle school. I’ll take my alarm clock over all that random crap any day.
Having Tinnitus is worse, and the sounds never stop.
Ever wake up to a tree hitting the house and knowing you need to do all the work? Now that is annoying!
It is. I keep changing mine but still after a while it becomes a hated sound.
I purposely make it the most annoying so I would be forced to be awake
Many of us very likely just had a shared Vietnamesque flashback to the same cursed droning scream of the mass produced alarm clocks of the late 20th century
Nah. Baby crying. One of the many reasons I don’t have or want kids. I can’t fucking stand it.
At one point I had my alarm set to bird sounds. I had to change it, because I started hating the sound of birds. Better to set it to the radio, the randomness makes it less likely you’ll associate it with disrupting your sleep.
The most annoying thing ever is hearing other people talk. Just leave me alone pls
A lot of people use loud or obnoxious sounds as alarm sound, ofcourse they wont like it when theyre agressively woken up.
I recommend the opposite, something slow and quiet, i myself use a Guitar riff
But it wont solve if you simply hate waking up.
Idk, scratching a black board makes me wanna rip my ears off
That’s why I made my alarm jazz music.
I’ll never hate it
Not mine it’s the Steve Austin walk in music so I hear that glass break and I know it’s go time
Protip: Buy some smart light bulbs. Set them to fade on over 20 minutes starting 10 minutes before your alarm (they’ll be 50% brightness when your alarm goes off.) Most of the time, you’ll slowly wake up a few minutes before the alarm goes off and only rarely will get that jolt from the alarm.
That was true when I still lived in a small, quiet village.
Now I live in a noisy city with noisy neighbors, and also in a better mental state so I don’t hate waking up anymore so the alarm is alright.
Entitled adults and spoiled kids whining is my #1 and I couldn’t be more average.
If I were a marketing exec, I’d have all my commercials either start with the default iPhone ringtone or the default alarm noise. That annoying thing to hear now gets their attention
Every commercial that has these, I look at my phone then up at the tv
Recency bias, other people coughing. I just spent a week with a group of people that all got sick one after another. The sound of other people coughing was getting infuriating.
My alarm is my own voice for this exact reason.
I’d say the Teams ring tone is the worst, and the outlook notification sound is a close second
My alarm is the Kill Bill whistle – doesnt really annoy me much at all.
The most annoying sound is, specifically, the first 3 seconds of Ed Sheeran’s song A Team.
No hate on the song its lovely – the first bit just drives me insane. For years when I would connect my phone to my car the first song in my library would immediately start to play – and it was always A Team. I eventually dowloaded a song labeled like “__AAAA” to be first on my library which is just 10 minutes of silence.
I mean that is the point of an alarm is it not? To be so annoying you can’t sleep
I used to hate it. Now I have some very soft classical solo piano version of Moonlight Sonata and it wakes me up so gently that I love it.
I’m surprised my alarm doesn’t piss off my roommate considering I snooze it a few times each morning before rising (I account for this as part of my wakeup routine, don’t worry) and of all things, it’s the U.S. Gold Amiga Outrun intro that I use as an alarm sound (YouTube it if you don’t know what that sounds like, I promise you’ll understand straight away)
For me its those pictures that change when you walk by them, they have a wack texture and if you scratch them the sound they make is hell
The other day, my alarm woke me from a dream where I was going to bed. It was a terrible way to wake up.
The noise of pets vomiting beats any alarm ever.
Life tip never set a song you love as your wake up alarm unless you want to hate it and make every time you hear it trigger mini depression
Or when the alarm sounds goes on and they are gone…
You know it’s a bad day when your alarm clock sounds like it’s auditioning for a horror movie!