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One audio alarm which is pretty quiet. One light alarm which is a lifesaver in the winter. The light alarm is always on, sometimes I turn off the audio alarm to stay in bed longer but I usually try to get up at the same time every day. Light alarm starts getting brighter at 6, audio alarm goes off at 6.20.
Do you have the hatch system?
Mine is from Lumie
Just one but I have been thinking of switching to just a vibrating alarm wristband instead so I can wakeup without waking my gf as she's a light sleeper. Anyone have experience with these type of wristband alarms (as in no sound, just buzz)? Is it bad for cortisol or anything to be woken up that way?
Three:
Phone Alarm (tone)
Alexa Alarm (song plays)
Light Alarm (100W Light slowly brightens from 5%-100% over 30 minutes)
The light alarm goes off first, and the other two follow during the second half of it's brightening cycle. Science seems to suggest that waking up with light is good for you, and my body seems to agree with it. Of course, I normally wake up before sunrise during the week pretty much all year long. This might not really apply if you sleep in past daylight.
Also: There's no need for one of those fancy daylight alarm things. A dimmable smartbulb with an Alexa routine works just fine. I think the one I use was $8 (it's color changing) and those lights are something like $70.
Difference with the light alarms is the colour shifts, mine at low light is a red colour then shifts through orange and yellow and brightest is white light
I didn't know that. I've got my lights set to clone incandescent lights.
I wonder if I can do that with a single bulb. If not I have multiple color changing bulbs. I imagine setting one to ramp with a strong red tint followed by one with a strong blue tint ramping starting 10 minutes later would give the same effect. (I might even have blue ramp over a shorter time so they both hit 100% at the same time) What's your thought about that as a solution? I think that the two lights I'm thinking of are even different wattages so the red would be a 75W and the blue 130W.
One and I wake up before it anyhow. Don’t get old, kids.
You have a schedule that starts at the same time everyday? My schedule varies so alarms vary.
Speaking from experience, it starts to happen. When I was in my 20s working all day, staying out until (at least) 4am, waking up in some random bed in Brooklyn, then repeating it all again on Saturday* was no issue, and I'd still be able to make it to work by 8am on Monday. These days even sleeping in until 9am seems late. Don't get old, kids.
*Ok, sometimes it was the UWS, or the West Village, etc. Once I even let a ballet dancer convince me to go to the Bronx at 4am--That was a scary neighborhood.
Nope - I just naturally wake up between 5am and 6am every day anymore. The annoying part is when I fall asleep is irrelevant to that. If I'm out on a Friday, I'm still up early on a Saturday. Maybe I'll sleep in until 7 at the most.
Old man shit.
Depends. If I know that I will get 8h of sleep maybe just 1. If I’ve worked all night and need to take a 1-2h nap, I need to set at least 6 different alarms
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