Getting Out Of Bed...

So there are two types of people in this world... those that sleep light, wake up for anything, and jump out of bed in the mornings. Then there are the type who sleep heavy, wake up for nothing, and dread getting out of bed in the morning. I myself DEFINITELY fit into the second catagory! I absolutely struggle getting out of bed. And alarms don't work... because they typically shock me awake and I'm hitting the off switch as fast as I can. I've tried the across the room trick as well... but still end up back in bed! It's bad!
So I thought that an alarm that coaxes me out of bed would be ideal! Unfortunately, everything in the industry that has a "gradual" alarm means that it goes from soft to SHOCK & AWE in 30 seconds... tops! Even the $$$ models. 30 seconds when your asleep is about 2 heartbeats.. definitely not long enough. So I got to thinking... and after my head stopped hurting from that... I had an idea.

I went out and bought this simple RCA Clock Radio for around $60. This had a few perks... but what I really needed was the "Wake Up To CD" function.

I then went home and made a "magic" CD that would ramp up over 6 minutes rather than the 30 seconds I talked about. Then I just set the alarm to play the CD... set the volume to a decent level... and let the music play normally. I used two songs off of Jack Johnson's "In Between Dreams" album. I just tried it this morning... and it worked just like I had hoped!

Check it out below... if it is really soft at the beginning... that is the point. It will be loud enough to pull you out of bed by about 4 minutes or so.

You can grab this album off of iTunes here.