Never Wake Up Tired Again

March 20, 2007

I hate waking up in the morning. Usually my alarm clock goes off, I’m absolutely exhausted, I slam it off and try to sleep for 5 more minutes. But, I sleep for 45 more minutes and I’m late to wherever I need to be (usually work). Yet on some days I’ll wake up earlier than normal and feel completely fresh, awake and ready to roll. What gives?

As you probably know, your body goes through sleeping cycles called Rapid Eye Movement (REM). Alright, stop singing “What’s The Frequency Kenneth”… I’m trying to be serious here and you’re going to thank me later! A chart of someone’s sleeping cycles might look like this:

So I was reading Entrepreneur Magazine and came across a gentlemen who invented a product JUST for my problem. It’s a watch you wear to bed called the SleepTracker and it logs a history of your body’s vital signs and sleeping patterns. Based on this information, it knows when your body is in it’s deepest sleep and when you are sleeping lightest.

It’s not hard to figure out the rest. You set your alarm clock for a window of time you need to be awake. Say 7 to 7:30am. Then, based on your previous sleeping patterns, your sleeping history for that night and your body’s current stage of sleep - the SleepTracker will wake you up between 7 and 7:30 when you are estimated to be in your lightest sleeping.

Voila! You’re practically awake and when the watch alarm goes off you feel refreshed and ready to start the day. Now if you don’t think that’s an amazing invention I suggest you give up something comparable… like electricity, cell phones or toilets!

It costs $150 and it’s not exactly going to attract the hunnies, but you know what they say - never underestimate a good night’s sleep. I think I’m going to make the plunge and buy this bad boy in the next couple months.

Until then I’ll continue employing the poor man’s fool proof alarm clock:

  1. Set alarm
  2. Place small cup of water within arms reach of bed
  3. Go to sleep
  4. Alarm goes off
  5. Dump water on head

Sweet Dreams!

Comments

2 Responses to “Never Wake Up Tired Again”

  1. thistransition on March 31st, 2007 6:30 pm

    hahahha your humor comes off a lot differently over the internet =D

  2. Andrew on October 8th, 2008 12:27 am

    This sleep watch cost a lot I think it would be cheaper to be woken up from a nice wife wanting to wisper sweet nothing in my ear that is better

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