Natural Light Alarm Clock

Sunlight Alarm Clock

The body is programmed to wake up gradually to the feel of the sun, not the loud noise of an alarm clock. Fortunately, a sunlight alarm clock allows you have that natural wake up call even in the winter or during gloomy weather.

Before human beings ever invented alarm clocks, they had to wake up to the sunlight of the dawn. There was no point in getting up before the sun was up, because there weren't many sources of artificial light, and those that existed were precious resources. The human body still considers sunlight it's true wake-up call.

The body is tied to the sun throughout the entire day. In the morning, when your closed eyes get their first little bit of sunlight, they signal your brain to start producing Serotonin, which in turn signals to the rest of the body that it time to start the process of waking up. Unlike what most of us are used to, the natural wake up process occurs gradually over time. At the end, the body is not merely awake, it actually feels well rested and alert.

Over the course of the day, the body is exposed to all the sunlight of the daytime, and after a certain amount of exposure, it begins to grow tired again. This process is accelerated at sunset, when the light levels naturally begin to decrease over time. This process is somewhat disrupted in the modern world by the abundance of artificial lights used in everyday life once the sun has set and even before that.

There are some obvious problems with this for anyone living in the modern world. The biggest is that many people are expected to get up before the sun is up, particularly in winter. Most people wake themselves artificially with the use of a sound alarm clock. These will wake you up, but you will also still be tired due to the unnaturally abrupt awakening time. The body has not had time to adjust to the idea of getting up and has not produced the Serotonin that will leave you fresh and alert.

This can be solved with the use of a sunlight alarm clock, which simulates an artificial dawn every morning leading up to whatever time you set to wake up. This will stimulate Serotonin in the same way natural sunlight would. You can generally choose whether you want the late to start at 15, 30, 60, or 120 minutes before you're due to wake-up, and most sunlight alarm clocks have other intervals as well.

They also generally have normal alarm clock capabilities, allowing you to wake up gently to the sound of a waterfall or brook. Many also have a radio alarm or even an MP3 player alarm. In combination with the sunlight alarm this allows you to get the benefits of a good amount of sunlight in preparing the body to wake up, as well as the normal sound alarm benefit of choosing an exact wake-up time.