Will do- I’ll put something up here in a couple of weeks once the “newness” is over, and I see how my metabolism deals with the change.

I have two main problems with regular alarms. Either they jolt me awake, with adrenalin pumping followed by a crash a few minutes later, or my sub-conscious tunes them out. I have a well developed reflex: my alarm clock is one of those that gradually increases the radio volume if you don’t respond quickly, and I turn it off before it actually wakes me up. It has reached the point where I have to set the second alarm (it is a dual alarm clock) to buzzer mode, and have both go off in sequence. Then I still wake up feeling like I would rather kill something and pull its still warm corpse over me as I fall back to sleep for another couple of hours.

Setting aside the alarm problems, I know I get more depressed during the winter than during the rest of the year. Waking in the dark, coming home in the dark: after a few weeks, the world seems dark and dreary, and even the sunny days don’t reset that mood.

All I know at this point is that the sunrise simulation woke me up without an alarm today, and that I didn’t feel groggy: today is only one day, though. The novelty is certainly at work, and it will take several successful wake-ups in a row to convince me of anything.