Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.
- Sharon Gold
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The Clocky Alarm Clock is an alarm clock designed to flee the scene when it wakes you up so that you have to go search for it to turn it off:
See here. Found on GearCrave:
Birds have a variety of alarm calls that warn other members of the flock about impending danger.
Yay!
But how do you find an alarm clock with a pleasant, soothing tone? Do they let you test them in the big-box store? You'd have to throw out a long series of strident alarms.
Or do you buy an expensive cd-playing clock radio, and a Muzak version of John Tesh hits? (No, wait, that would be painful, and trigger severe depressive episodes, which would nix that whole "getting out of bed" thing. Counterproductive.)
Now I'll stress out for days, trying to think of some just-right wake-up tunes.