{"id":60780,"date":"2024-08-29T23:56:55","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T23:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/sunrise-alarm-clock-didnt-make-waking-up-easier-but-made-sleeping-more-peaceful\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T23:56:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T23:56:55","slug":"sunrise-alarm-clock-didnt-make-waking-up-easier-but-made-sleeping-more-peaceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/sunrise-alarm-clock-didnt-make-waking-up-easier-but-made-sleeping-more-peaceful\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise alarm clock didn\u2019t make waking up easier\u2014but made sleeping more peaceful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/20240829_185819-980x552.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n            The Hatch Restore 2 with one of its lighting options on.                          [credit:<br \/>\n                              Scharon Harding                            ]\n                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To say &#8220;I\u2019m not a morning person&#8221; would be an understatement. Not only is it hard for me to be useful in the first hour (or so) of being awake, but it\u2019s hard for me to wake up. I mean, <em>really hard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve tried various recommendations and tricks: I&#8217;ve set multiple alarms and had coffee ready and waiting, and I&#8217;ve put my alarm clock far from my bed and kept my blinds open so that sunlight might wake me. But I\u2019m still prone to sleeping through my alarm or hitting snooze until the last minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Hatch Restore 2, a smart alarm clock with lighting that mimics sunrises and sunsets, seemed like a technologically savvy approach to realizing my dreams of becoming a morning person.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2046183#p3\">Read 19 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=2046183&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hatch Restore 2 with one of its lighting options on. [credit: Scharon Harding ] To say &#8220;I\u2019m not a morning person&#8221; would be an understatement. Not only is it hard for me to be useful in the first hour (or so) of being awake, but it\u2019s hard for me to wake up. I mean, really hard. I\u2019ve tried various recommendations and tricks: I&#8217;ve set multiple alarms and had coffee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sunrise alarm clock didn\u2019t make waking up easier\u2014but made sleeping more peaceful - UshopWell.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/sunrise-alarm-clock-didnt-make-waking-up-easier-but-made-sleeping-more-peaceful\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sunrise alarm clock didn\u2019t make waking up easier\u2014but made sleeping more peaceful - UshopWell.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Hatch Restore 2 with one of its lighting options on. 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