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During winter I have a tendancy towards the blues. It's not full-blown SAD, I just get a bit down when every day starts by waking up in darkness with an alarm blaring.
So... I bought myself a sunrise light (link) which comes on gradually over the course of half an hour before sounding its nasty
alarm. I usually set the volume of the alarm to zero anyway, as I'm already awake by then and don't require an irritating bleep in my earhole.
I can't help thinking how much nicer it would be if instead of a bleepy alarm, the simulated sunrise finished with the sound of a tent zip opening - that's probably my favourite sound to hear first thing in the morning.
Maybe it could also play birdsong and the sound of distant cattle lowing.
Sunrise Systems Alarm
http://www.amazon.c...100US/dp/B000GG327G
[wagster, Sep 27 2009]
Sunrise Nature Sounds Alarm Clock
http://www.hktdc.co.../Sunrise_Clock.html
"Soothing Nature Sound Machine: 10 Sounds: Birds, Brooks, Nightingale, Waves in Beach, Brooks & birds, Rain, Hear Beating, Digital Alarm, Bell Alarm Sound, Telephone ring!" I take it "hear beating" is more of an urban inner-city themed soundscape? [jutta, Sep 27 2009]
Sunrise Nature Sounds Alarm Clock (II)
http://www.amazon.c...Clock/dp/B001KW8BK8
Read the reviews before ordering - it's a piece of crap. [jutta, Sep 27 2009]
Natural light alarm clocks
http://www.gadgetsh...un-alarm-clock.html
[RayfordSteele, Sep 28 2009]
[link]
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I'm sorry, but the sound of a zipper and a cow has all sorts of wrong connotations. |
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hehe. The idea is just missing the smell of bacon and a portable gas stove. [+] Surprisingly, I've never woken up in a field untented. |
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This could have testimonials on the validity of the SAD
theory, by a scientist who is outstanding in his
field. |
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Most cities have a public park; all you need is a tent, and a cow sound alarm clock. |
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I've got one of those sunrise alarms and MINE plays
sounds!! You can choose Birds (quite good) Rain (sounds
like a chip-pot boiling) and another one, that I've
forgotten! (jutta beat me to the links, but I'm in full flight
now, so I'll continue. |
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You could of course extend your tent effects notion to
include the sound of tearing fabric as a meandering cow
interacts with the canvas - OR if you just knew you HAD to
get up - an angry farmer's voice bellowing: "Who the
bloody hell do you think you are? - just you wait till I load
up this shot-gun with rock-salt" Anyway - it's a nice
thought + |
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Oh, is this the way they say the future's meant to feel? |
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The future's not what it could be any more. |
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The 90's would have been a much different era had we all
been 'Sorted for Nature Sound Alarm Clocks'!
Perhaps if
everyone was woken up to that, they wouldn't feel like taking
mind altering substances! |
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In August 1981, whilst on a 7-day hike, I woke up in a tent, pressed up against the door flaps (there was a slight slope to the ground where I had pitched the tent the night before), so I finally struggled about until I had the zip open. |
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There was a noise outside the tent I couldn't identify, until I got it open... and for a good number of seconds after that. |
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See, I was lying head downwards, on my back, looking up at where the sky should be, and nothing I could see made sense. |
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Eventually I figured out I was looking straight up the length of a cow's tail, at its arse. Very confusing. I slipped back into the tent before it decided to relieve itself. |
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Now I'm hoping that story would be a setting on the WUIaF clock. |
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I like to hear my tent zip open in the morning when I fall asleep with my jeans on. |
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Uh... why not just get a clock (or indeed, a cellphone) that let's
you play recorded sounds as alarm tones? Then you can record
any sound you like. Kinda what they're intended for. Mine plays
CDs, including burned CDs, and let's me set it to play the CD as
the alarm tone. Record the sound, or download it from
somewhere, burn it to a blank disc, and play it as your alarm
tone. The reason I'm griping about your idea is that not
everybody likes that particular sound. Everyone has their favorite
sound to wake up to. So it makes little sense to design a clock
who's sole unique feature is a pair of unique alarm tones. |
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"It was daylight when you woke up in your ditch. You looked up at your sky, then that made blue be your color. You had your knife there with you too. when you stood up there was goo all over your clothes. Your hands were sticky. You wiped them on your grass, so now your color was green. Oh Lord, why did everything always have to keep changing like this. You were already getting nervous again. Your head hurt and it rang when you stood up. Your head was almost empty. It always hurt when you woke up like this. You crawled out of your ditch onto your gravel road and began to walk, waiting for the rest of your mind to come back to you. You can see the car parked far down the road and you walked towards it. "If god is our father," you thought, then Satan must be our cousin." Why didn't anyone else understand these important things? You got to your car and tried all the doors. They were locked. It was a red car and it was new. There was an expensive leather camera case laying on the seat. Out across your field, you could see two tiny people walking by your woods. You began to walk towards them. Now red was your color and, of course, those little people were yours too." |
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Also, cell phones fucking suck. Why does everyone find them to be the solution to all of our problems? Oh wait, not everyone. |
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I didn't say cellphones are the solution to this. I said they are an
alternative solution. And they are, like it or not, a solution to a
great many problems. Modern smartphones really are becoming
do-it-all devices. I'll give ya a big far ferinstance. I have an
application on my phone that turns it into a full-featured alarm
clock, complete with a display that's bigger than the one on my
desktop clock. There's even a case for it that let's it stand up on
on it's long edge so it looks like a standard alarm clock from the
front. It has adjustable snooze length and can play any sound file
in my phone. Indeed, it's superior to any standard alarm clock
I've ever owned, in every way. |
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You talk about this like I was just thawed out yesterday. My point is that they fucking suck. |
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everything electronic sucks es |
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This would be far better if it was a bed that gently sneaks out into the nearest field, so you actually wake up in a field... unless it's raining. |
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There are alarm clocks that are designed to wake you up with 'natural light.' You might look into one of these. |
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Um, Wagster mentioned the light alarm in the body of the idea, unless you mean one that wakes you with just light and no alarm. |
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I'm tempted to say MFD redundant for the Nature Sounds clock,
which I've also seen before. But I won't... not this time. I'll let it
go with my comments and a fishbone... |
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This idea made me google the name of someone I went to school with, in the 1970s. AB was a fat, unpleasant, sluglike bully... nothing has changed, either, it seems. |
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He was also an agoraphobic, which was rather fortunate for us at the time. A group of us picked up him and his bed and took it out into the middle of a cricket oval at about 4am, one morning. Very slowly and carefully, so as not to wake him. |
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The fat prick woke up screaming. One of the most gratifying moments of my life. |
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I think it just made him fatter and meaner. I note he's now a director of an indigenous land management corporation, so he's likely still a bully. |
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As for his agoraphobia? Dunno, and don't care. I do, however, hope he has incurable tinea on his scrotum. |
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