I have trouble falling asleep most Sundays regardless of my alarm, because of mounting anxiety and anticipation of the coming week. Unfortunately, what I did instead was land on one of the only calming tunes I had saved on my phone instead: " Perfect" by Ed Sheeran. If I had to do it all over, I'd sacrifice the 99 cents and just purchase the ringtone. However, I ran into some complications that rendered that difficult - I hadn't downloaded it on iTunes and didn't want to pay for it. Day Oneįirst off, I just want to disclose that my first choice song for my new, soft alarm was " Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac. So Sunday night, I turned up my phone volume as high as it would go, tucked myself in, and geared up for a goodnight's sleep - ready, or not.
I told myself that Nalick's soft-core bop was just a particularly annoying song to wake up to! Plus, it was at an incredibly ungodly hour. I almost lost my flipping mind, because it would play several times before she actually woke up.īut I reassured myself that this time, my experience with a "nice" alarm would be different.
My lovely college roommate of all four years was a varsity swimmer, and her extremely inoffensive alarm would go off every morning at 5:00 AM - Anna Nalick's sleeper radio hit " Breathe (2 AM)". Here's the thing: I had borne witness to a soft alarm gone wrong. Would we enjoy waking up more and snooze less? Would it extinguish the 'fear of the alarm' that we both found ourselves wrestling with when trying to fall asleep each night? The question was so provocative in fact, that I found myself volunteering to change my chainsaw alarm to a lighter ditty for a week, in order to properly examine its effects. The loud blaring beep hardly screams rise and shine - and yet, neither of us had ever considered changing it to something, dare I say, less "alarming." We toyed around with what would happen if we were to pick a tune that was a little more soothing, and a little less frightening.
In a recent meeting, a co-worker and I were bonding over the bizarrely harsh, disruptive alarm clock sounds available to us on our phones.
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