I use a vibrating alarm clock. I've used one for many years.
My wife is an interpreter for deaf people so we sometimes get catalogs of products for hearing impaired people. A lot of these products include flashing light alarms and bed shaker alarms.
I never went for those, but because my shift work over the years caused me to have to sleep at irregular times and wake up early in the morning while my wife was sleeping, I decided that a vibrating alarm would be good enough for me. My hope was that I would not disturb her very much.
And it worked out. She's been able to sleep and tune it out. I've been able to wake up and get moving without making a lot of noise. Win-win.
I've used different vibrating alarm clocks over the years. For a long time I enjoyed the traveling Tim or something like that. It was a rectangle clock with a face that swung open and closed, and underneath that door there were buttons to set the time and set the alarm and set the alarm mode from really loud beeping to beeping and vibrating to vibrating only or to nothing. I think it also had a really bright light on it, so if a hearing impaired person wanted to set it on the nightstand or shelf near them, hopefully the light would wake them up.
Right now I'm using a "sonic boom" vibrating alarm clock. I keep it set to vibration even though I'm not working right now because that's what I'm used to and it's what my body is waiting for. When i do use a audible alarm clock it irritates me; I don't like the sound, I don't like the jarring beeping and buzzing. If I wake up to music I just keep sleeping usually. So this thing has helped me a lot! I have to say that it also helped me not sleep in because early on in my career I had trouble being late to things and especially to work because this irritated me so much the vibrating alarm clock was a win for me.
It's funny because a woman that we know that is deaf and in her 70s didn't know how to make a an alarm clock that she had work for her. So we gave her a "sonic boom" alarm clock like mine. Hopefully it will help her.
You can check it out at
https://a.co/d/i1yn0Us
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