Sleeping through my alarm

[Lucid-Balloon]

I use a Ipod touch alarm with the most annoying sound i can find for it. When i set the Ipod touch to wake me up at around 5AM for my WILD attempt it does not wake me up. I put it on my computer desk (which is far away from my bed so i have to get up) and it still does not wake me up. Sometimes it did manage to wake me up and most of the time it dosen't and i am starting to get really annoyed with it. Does anyone have any advice?

[dark_grimmjow]

Are you sure that the alarm is going off? I use my ipod touch as an alarm too, and i used to have the problem with my alarm not working. I would set the alarm, go to bed, sleep past when i was supposed to be awake, wake up and think that i slept through my alarm. Well on several occasions after not waking up on time, i would wake up before my alarm was supposed to go off. Then i would sit and wait for it to go off, but it never did. I had special alarms set for different times with all of them set to repeat on a certain day. I googled my broken alarm problem, and it seems if I had repeat set to anything other than never the alarm would not go off. I had used my ipod touch alarm for a long time and never had a problem, but one day it just stopped working, so i had to change the repeat setting to fix it. Ever since i've left the repeat setting set to never; i haven't had anymore problems. After looking around on google, i found that i was one of many with the same problem. Sorry for being so long, but i would make sure that it is working properly. If it is working properly, i would say to find a way to leave it close to your head, so that you will have a better chance of waking up. I have a pouch hanging on my bed post close to my head. I put my itouch in the pouch and it is close enough to wake me up every time.