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On alarms

I’ve always had trouble waking up with a normal alarm (or indeed multiple alarms), so after some experimentation I’ve come up with something that seems fairly perfect – a twenty-minute track of pink noise laced with binaural beats which is padded on either side with music.

Using headphones, I’m much more sensitive to changes in aural environment – I’ll usually wake up as soon as the pink noise stops, even without any other kind of alarm.

If you want to play around with this, you can download some of the ‘alarms’ I use here.

7 Comments

  1. Best of Luck.

    Please keep updating.

    Regards,
    Obi

    Posted on 26-Jul-09 at 09:56 | Permalink
  2. Thank you. :) Will do. I’m planning to investigate the effects of things like alcohol on this pattern over the next week or so, will post the results here.

    Sharif

    Posted on 26-Jul-09 at 12:52 | Permalink
  3. Charlotte

    I’ve found that alarms don’t wake me up in a dark room. This is on any sleep schedule, polyphasic or monophasic. I’ll turn the alarm off without waking up. However, if I sleep in a room with some light, even soft light, I will almost always wake up to the alarm. Thanks for sharing your ‘alarms’ and good luck.

    Posted on 20-Sep-09 at 08:13 | Permalink
  4. Best of Luck.

    Please keep updating.

    Regards,
    Obi

    Posted on 24-Apr-10 at 00:03 | Permalink
  5. Thank you. :) Will do. I’m planning to investigate the effects of things like alcohol on this pattern over the next week or so, will post the results here.

    Sharif

    Posted on 25-Apr-10 at 12:30 | Permalink
  6. Thank you. :) Will do. I’m planning to investigate the effects of things like alcohol on this pattern over the next week or so, will post the results here.

    Sharif

    Posted on 25-Apr-10 at 21:03 | Permalink
  7. Thank you. :) Will do. I’m planning to investigate the effects of things like alcohol on this pattern over the next week or so, will post the results here.

    Sharif

    Posted on 25-Apr-10 at 22:20 | Permalink

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