neurohack » alarms http://neurohack.tesser.org record of a polyphaser Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 On alarms http://neurohack.tesser.org/2009/07/on-alarms/ http://neurohack.tesser.org/2009/07/on-alarms/#comments Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:09:10 +0000 Sharif Olorin http://www.neurohack.tesser.org/?p=24 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.

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