This has been driving me nuts.. without an alarm clock I will naturally sleep for 11-14 hours. How the hell were people ever on time for anything before the alarm clock? I looked up alarm clocks.. and the first retail alarm clock was not available until 1847!
2007-03-27 21:33:19 · 11 answers · asked by unit481 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
What about people in cities.. no roosters.
2007-03-27 21:43:20 · update #1
on one of the simpsons episode Lisa said a trivia about how they did and she said people would drink lots of water before going to bed and would wake up because they had to go badly to the toilet ....... in provinces way back before in the Philippines they'd wake up from a rooster's crow ....
2007-03-27 21:36:56 · answer #1 · answered by asphyxia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before alarm clocks, the majority of people farmed for a living. The rooster crowing and the sun rising got people out of bed. People who did not farm were able to wake up when they needed with sheer mental power. Our minds are incredibly powerful. We are highly intelligent and adaptable beings. I am able to wake up within five minutes of a time I select the night before. I think we all can. Utilize the power within!
2007-03-27 21:43:17 · answer #2 · answered by Cody de Boise 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Once upon a time ago, the alarm clock was called a rooster.
People either got used to waking up in response to a rooster's errr errrr erhhhh erh arrrrrhhhhh, or they would simply condition themselves to wake ups as the sun rose.
I can't do that myself, you can probably have a rooster in my room singing and a person flashing a light to my eyes. Really, unless I hear the radio station going off, Ill will probably stay asleep.
As for the very first comment above, I suggest that you don't drink water before going to bed, unless you want to wake up and feel the moist of your bed sheets spread all over. lol, little wonder why our forefathers often peed in bed.
2007-03-27 21:38:58 · answer #3 · answered by College Student 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Probably the hustle and bustle of the city would wake people up. And they had grandfather clocks, I assume.
But I know that I wouldn't get up in time without an alarm!
2007-03-27 21:53:59 · answer #4 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I relatively have not used an alarm clock to rouse for six years. I relatively have a doggie who wakes me up around 6:30 each and every morning. Works great. human beings over the years are knowledgeable via sounds and mild-weight to rouse-until you're completely out of it and sleep via it!
2016-10-20 02:58:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Force of habit, u can atune ur body to awaken at the same time without the use of alarm clocks. It`s called an enternal clock. My grandmother had that ability.
2007-03-27 22:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by flamingo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People before 1847 woke up more easily because the standard of living was much lower. The bedroom was not as comfortable as nowadays (bedbug?) and they needed to labor to earn a living. The urge of survival made them wake up. Once it became a habit, it was even easier to wake up because their body was already biologically timed and automated.
2007-03-29 15:40:15 · answer #7 · answered by Hai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before there were clocks nobody needed to get up early for work. Thus the creation of slarm clocks opened a whole new era of wage slave.
2007-03-27 21:58:26 · answer #8 · answered by Marcus R. 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunrise, rooster crow, I'm sure some people overslept. A lot of people can train their body to naturally wake up at the same time everyday.
2007-03-27 21:37:34 · answer #9 · answered by barbara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when one tends to live with the company of one's heart,then no alark clock is needed,explore this fact yrself,by entering within u.
2007-03-27 21:38:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋