Thought Lateral
Looking at the world laterally, but that’s beside the point ;-)
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Having a crying baby is like an alarm clock that wont switch off. What if cute-yet-very-loud-and-noisy baby had a snooze button? That would be a helpful thing for any parent to soothe their crying child quickly…

As mentioned in Life Hack #12, shocking your body into conciousness is not the best way to start the day. Observe how long it takes from initially regaining conciousness to being fully awake, and adjust the alarm clock sound accordingly. So if it takes five minutes to awake play a five minute audio track. For [...]

An alarm clock does the job. That’s why we use it. It’s purpose is to wake us up. However there is one rather large drawback from using it, as indicated by it’s name. We awake in a state of alarm. Not really an ideal start to any day – being shocked into conciousness. I’d also [...]

What is the difference between the alarm going off in the morning and getting out of bed? For me it is the snooze time in between. When the alarm goes off I’m still semi-concious and hit the snooze button for extra repose. So the time set on the alarm to get up is not the [...]