So was everybody oversleeping before alarm clocks were invented?

[Mike Nasty]

The Sparrows, Roosters and no one stayed up till 2am.

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]

How did people wake up before the invention of the alarm clock?

Explore with us the history of the ALARM CLOCK: a simple object we could not live without!

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The Knocker-Up​

Although the first alarms were built, most people don’t possess them yet; for this reason, at the beginning of the last century, there was a well-remunerated profession: the knocker-up! These people were moving from house to house and to wake people up, knocking on their doors or on the windows of their bedrooms.

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

Ppl used to also drink a lot of water if they needed to wake up early

What if they wet the bed

 

[Buckeye Fever]

I don't even use alarm clocks.

I get up late ONE TIME the entire year, my wife be like "why don't you use an alarm clock???!!!!"

 

[HarlemHottie]

Knocker-up - Wikipedia

By the 1940s and 1950s, this profession had died out, although it still continued in some pockets of industrial England until the early 1970s.[4]...

Some knocker-ups would not leave a client's window until they were sure that the client had been awakened, while others simply tapped several times and then moved on.[7]

... In Ferryhill, County Durham, miners' houses had slate boards set into their outside walls onto which the miners would write their shift details in chalk so that the colliery-employed knocker-up could wake them at the correct time. These boards were known as "knocky-up boards" or "wake-up slates".[10]

yes ppl used to have "2 sleeps" they would sleep a couple hours wake up have a snack, maybe do more chores then go back to sleep.

I DO THIS!! Oh snap, this is a thing!?

 

[⠀X ⠀]

They went to bed on time. When you don’t stay up late, you have no problem getting up early.

I always set an alarm, but I never really need it

 

[Caca-faat]

I DO THIS!! Oh snap, this is a thing!?

Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You - SlumberWise - Sleep tight, every night

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

Real nikkas don’t use alarm clocks. I thought this was common knowledge. Alarm clocks were invented for women and children

WOMEN GENERALLY WAKE UP BEFORE MEN HISTORICALLY.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

 

[SteelCitySoldier]

Church bells and town cryers.

a dude running past your window at dawn screaming "hear ye, hear ye!!" at the top of his lungs was quite effective alarm.

Sort of like them weak ass lawnmowers on your day off

 

[Morethan1]

 

[Morethan1]

After a few weeks of having the same routine, your body will naturally wake up around the same time every morning.

I wake up at 6 every morning even on the weekends. My routine has woken me up at 6 for over a decade.

I'm not sure why tho, because I don't have shyt to do at 6 so I just start working.

 

[skylove4]

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[skylove4]

Can’t remember but I read somewhere people used to sleep as soon the sun goes down, wake up after some hours, have sex at the late late then back sleep and wake up in time refreshed for a new day.

Body and mind all relaxed of course

Did You Know Humans Used to Sleep in Two Phases? Here’s Why We’ve Moved on From the Practice | SleepScore

Electricity came, and humans had to adjust their sleep patterns accordingly.  But before that time, some parts of the world slept in two phases within a 24-hour span. It was common practice in some populationsREAD MORE

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Humans used to practice biphasic sleep until electricity came through like snoop

 

[Wink Beaufield]

Indian alarm clock.

Chug a whole lot of water before bed with the urge to take a leak walking you up early in the morning.