Fuzzy Alarm Clock Logic

Anyone else notice that morning logic, particularly the logic your brain spits out in the first 5 minutes after waking up is total crap? And yet, it seems perfectly good at the time.

I am the type of person who is awoken by alarm clocks just enough to find sneaky ways to get around them.  Its a fine line.  If an alarm clock is loud and buzzing and generally incredibly obnoxious I will turn that thing off so fast my sleep cycle is hardly interrupted at all.

On the other hand, if the alarm clock is sort of gentle, doesn't jar me too badly, then I will blissfully hit the snooze button, and then again...again...again.. you get the point.  An alarm clock without a snooze button is scary.  After all, you have total and utter failure, or you get up.  There is no in between.  So I guess you would need to work out the percentage of times when failure occurred, consider the consequences of failure, and determine whether you have an acceptable model.  I think for most people the acceptable percentage of total failure is pretty low.

Obviously when I say total failure, I don't mean the alarm clock, I'm talking failure to get out of bed and get to required duties approximately at accepted time.  I think the fraction of alarm clock failures due to actual alarm clock failure is very low.   There is also human error in things like plugging in, charging, setting, etc. but those do not relate to the morning, those relate to whether your brain is functional at night.  Mine generally does quite well at night, and if yours doesn't, and also doesn't in the morning, well, I think you have bigger problems than your alarm clock.

There are 4 sets of circumstances which have actually worked to get me out of bed in the morning in the past, say, 10 years.