Abstract: Within an easily hand gripped alarm clock, preferably of a soft sperical exterior shape, a shakeable switching means. A first standard alarm is silenced by laterally shaking the clock, and a second moaning sound is emitted after the lateral shaking. A grimacing face imprinted on the round clock face enhances the cathartic effect. The laterally shakeable switch is an enclosed container of mercury with an alarm contact in the central lower bowl and an elevated surrounding trough sloping into the bowl through a channel containing electrical contacts for the second moan sound. The mercury makes and breaks the contacts. An alternative laterally shakeable switch provides an electrically conductive sphere within an enclosed container having a bottom indentation with alarm contacts and an upwardly sloping surrounding spiral trough with parallel track contacts for the moan sound in the bottom of the trough. The sphere connects either sound producing contact pair.