Question

Consider the diving reflex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex

The brain and essential organs gets stimulated when water hits the face.

Now consider a typical college student, setting alarms to wake up on time, yet he falls back asleep, so he sets another alarm, but he sleeps through the 2nd, 3rd etc...

Introducing the mhchen-Phone:
An iphone-knockoff with a tiny waterspray that ejects when your morning alarm goes off.

Answer 1

You could also make the water spray apparatus separate, then plug it into the charging port for your phone. This will connect to the water spray app which has it's own alarms

Answer 2

Ive thought about stuff using water as a means of waking you up.

Answer 3

Kind of like those phone fans if you know what I'm talking about

Answer 4

I think youd be best to have something suspended above you, that an easily attach to the ceiling
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Answer 5

it could link to an alarm app on your pone by means of blue tooth

Answer 6

^ true

Answer 7

So going off Gdeinward's idea:

Answer 8

I see where this set up is going but a few drawbacks
-risk of mold
-what if you wake up suddenly and your head goes *smash* into the nozzle
-hmm maybe a better or more efficient apparatus I suppose?

Answer 9

Oh dear

Answer 10

Wait is that a SCISSOR XD

Answer 11

An amusing application, yet @Justjm has pointed out several pointed concerns. I'd add another, which is to encourage the externalized locus of control that modern culture perpetuates is not ideal.

To define it simply, an external locus of control is when people outsource the causal factors for the events surrounding them. In this example, I cannot wake myself up, I am tired, I need my phone (plus even a water gun) to do it.

It's a well known fact that keeping to schedule allows you to be most efficient with your time. This of course, entails both work, leisure, and sleep. When you structure that, your circadian rhythm is the alarm clock. I can usually wake up at the same time each morning if I choose (your brain gets a sense for it, plus environmental cues such as sunlight and temperature).

When your schedule gets defunct, that's when an alarm clock becomes useful, since your circadian rhythm will respond to a later bedtime with a later awakening. You may argue that an alarm clock or a water gun is simply another environmental factor, yet the source of the latter two are of you, interacting with yourself indirectly. The sun and the temperature are factors imposed without your choice - a nature locus of control since your birth.

Answer 12

Also you can just wake up and splash water in your face like everyone else noobs.

Answer 13

XD

Answer 14

i never wanna wake up but the way i get myself up is weird cause i just roll out of bed in-tile i hit the floor :3

Answer 15

Good use of psych @Shadow This idea would contribute to human dependency on materialistic items and lead people to having an external locus of control to blame.