{"id":17779,"date":"2025-02-17T12:38:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/how-i-learned-to-love-my-alarm-clock\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T12:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:38:54","slug":"how-i-learned-to-love-my-alarm-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/17\/how-i-learned-to-love-my-alarm-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"How I learned to love my alarm clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week: mornings made better, affordable jewellery and the ultimate wild swimming kit list<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve always disliked getting up in winter. As a kid, I\u2019d hurkle-durkle while blearily watching my school uniform warming on the radiator. These days, I set smartphone alarms for several consecutive minutes, just to make sure I\u2019m roused. It\u2019s too dark, and I\u2019m too groggy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d heard of sunrise alarm clocks<\/a> before the Filter <\/em>asked me to review them, but little did I suspect they could resolve my waking woes. Essentially, they\u2019re a combination of alarm clock and light-therapy device that glows with increasing brightness as your wake-up time approaches. The light interacts with our circadian rhythms, much as the sun does when it rises, so we wake up biologically prepared for the day.<\/p>\n

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\nI\u2019ve always disliked getting up in winter. As a kid, I\u2019d hurkle-durkle while blearily watching my school uniform warming on the radiator. These days, I set smartphone alarms for several consecutive minutes, just to make sure I\u2019m roused. It\u2019s too dark, and I\u2019m too groggy.
\nI\u2019d heard of sunrise alarm clocks before the Filter asked me to review them, but little did I suspect they could resolve my waking woes. Essentially, they\u2019re a combination of alarm clock and light-therapy device that glows with increasing brightness as your wake-up time approaches. The light interacts with our circadian rhythms, much as the sun does when it rises, so we wake up biologically prepared for the day.
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