Who Needs A Vibrating Alarm Clock?
Getting up in the morning should be an easy enough task but for some people it can be a real problem. If you suffer from impaired hearing or you're a very heavy sleeper, conventional alarm clocks can be next to useless.
Even those who don't quite fall into the heavy sleeper category can find a normal alarm clock fails them. Ever been roused by the noise of the alarm going off simply to press the off button and fall immediately back to sleep? An alarm clock is no good if it fails to wake you up completely.
For those people who are finding themselves a little hard of hearing vibration pads may not be a totally new concept. Some phones designed for those with hearing problems have vibrating pads so that you can feel the phone ring if you're in bed.
A vibrating alarm clock works on much the same principle. Not only is the volume of the clock adjustable so that it's louder than on a normal alarm clock but they usually have bright strobe light which is particularly effective on the long, dark winter mornings when getting up is even harder. The flashing light is yet another way of grabbing the attention of one of your senses as you slowing begin to wake.
But what makes a vibrating alarm clock so much more effective than other types of clock is, of course, the vibration it produces. When you look at the various shaped pads that these clocks come with you may think that they look too small to be effective.
Don't let yourself be fooled. Some pads are so powerful you'll find the whole bed starts to shake. Being physically shaken is a more effective way of waking someone than simply by noise alone. You know how it is. Someone opens your door to yell loudly at you to get up only to have to come back a few minutes later to yell at you again before resorting to shaking you until you wake up properly.
A vibrating alarm clock means you no longer have to rely on someone else having to physically intervene to get you up. Just set the alarm and slip the pad under your pillow or under your bottom sheet and then just fall asleep without having to worry about waking up on time.
There are some draw backs. One is the trailing wire that attached the pad to the clock. If you're a restless sleeper you could end up disconnecting the pad preventing it from vibrating. Luckily there are wireless models available so that you can place you pad anywhere you want without having to worry about getting entangled in trailing wires.
Another more obvious problem is that if you share a bed your partner might not appreciate being woken up is so dramatic fashion. This is a difficult problem to get round but a vibrating wristwatch with an alarm feature may be what you need. Instead of shaking the bed just the arm on which your watch is attached will shake.
Waking up on time in the morning may be difficult for some people but with a vibrating alarm clock it should be a lot easier.