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Why are Bodyclock wake-up lights so effective?
Bodyclock Active 250 is a medical device that wakes you up gradually with light that mimics the spectrum changes of a real sunrise. The brightening light brings you more gently out of sleep, prompting your body to reduce the production of sleep hormones such as melatonin, while increasing the levels of hormones like cortisol that help you get up and go. This provides a fantastic start to the day for sufferers of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and the winter blues, and helps anyone who is not naturally a morning person to feel brighter and more energetic first thing.
It’s not just a nicer way to wake up. Waking to natural light every day resets your sleep/wake cycle and has been shown to boost your mood, productivity and energy levels throughout the day. Our physiological body clocks are aligned by sunrise and sunset. As most of us experience a mix of early starts, late nights, weekend lie-ins and sometimes travel disruption, our internal sleep rhythms are thrown into disarray. We feel tired and stressed trying to wake up for work, school or sports training. A dawn simulator device re-sets your body clock to run in time with your day, helping you feel more awake during the day and more ready for sleep at night.
Combine light and sound for ideal mornings and nights
Bodyclock Active 250 has a range of short (from 15 minutes) and longer (up to 90 minutes) sunrise and sunset options. In the morning, you can complement your sunrise with a rooster call, dawn chorus, simple alarm beep or FM radio and choose to relax with the sunset and waves or white noise at night. It doubles as a dimmable bedside light, nightlight and security light and comes with a snooze function, auto-dimming display, back-up alarm beep and power back-up. Bodyclock Active 250 comes with a 2-year warranty.
Bodyclock Active 250 is a certified medical device
Bodyclock Active 250 is certified to the Medical Devices Directive EC93/42. It has been designed for a medical purpose, to help with SAD syndrome (Seasonal Affective Disorder), winter blues and other physical difficulties with waking and sleeping. As a medical device, it conforms to European manufacturing standards and carries the correct CE mark. Lumie Bodyclock has been tested and proven effective through clinical trials.
Lumie, the light therapy specialist
When you purchase a dawn simulator (light alarm clock), make sure it comes from a specialist, experienced company. A real dawn simulator can cost a lot of money and you want to ensure that it actually works for you. Bodyclock Active 250 is made by Lumie, the Cambridge-based company who specialise in light therapy products – and nothing else. Lumie invented the integrated dawn simulator back in 1993. Working with the scientific community and gaining vital customer feedback over the years, they have developed the concepts into the best-selling Bodyclock range, as well as applying their specialist knowledge to create other devices for health issues such as SAD, jet lag and acne. They now sell a full range of SAD light boxes, SAD lamps, light alarm clocks and acne lamps.
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PROS:
- Gradual sunrise setting are brilliant. Not having a bright flash of light bursting through makes a pleasant and noticeable difference in the morning.
- You have control over how long a period you want the light to slowly dim on, and how bright you want it to get to.
- The lamp is BRIGHT if you want it to be, it is easily comparable to a 100W bulb.
- Various different alarm clock noises, including a radio, so on the whole you'll find something that suits you. I found that the radio (when put to something easy like Heart FM) is generally the best, and I have yet to put it on snooze since. This is coming from a long-time-multi-snooze person (7am? nahhh.... 20 more minutes...).
- For all you oldies, there's still that alarm noise (BEEP BEEP BEEP...) that will make you nostalgic for the 80s. But the aforementioned radio is still more pleasant. ;)
- A relatively cheap replaceable bulb (£5). Now that might sound like a no-brainer, I mean aren't all bulbs replaceable? Well, if you were to buy the Philips version of this lamps, the answer is "no". So though it seems like such a non-issue, make sure whichever slow dimming/glowing lamp you buy, you can buy just the bulb and not have to buy the whole unit again.
- 2 Years manufacturer's warranty included, so if your machine decides to not work, you can rest assured that someone will fix it for you. Granted you'll be minus 1 alarm clock for that duration.
CONS:
- Radio is not DAB, so it doesn't have the crystal clear quality that some of you might be used to, but that said, it's not a bad regular FM radio at all. The radio receiver is a cheap looking white wire that trails from the back of the unit. It does have a digital tuner as a small compensation....
- The bird that chirps on one of the alarm settings needs to be shot. In short, I haven't put it on that one.
- No battery option, so if there is a power outage, you can rest assured that you'll be late for work. :)
- £100 price mark. As far as lamps or alarm clocks go, this is by no measurable means "cheap". However, as that adage goes: you get what you pay for, and I have noticed that getting up in the morning is a lot less stressful lately. Can you put a price on that? Well, yes...
SUMMARY:
There are a few lumie models out there on the market at the moment, with noticeable price difference, but this was the one I settled for in the end because of 1) replaceable bulb 2) 2 year warranty 3) radio function 4) controllable dim/glow function over your own set time. Is it worth £100? No, maybe more the £70 mark, but when it's all said and done, it's the only one I could find that satisfactorily ticked all the boxes. Am I happy with this purchase? Yeah, I guess you can say that I am. :)
I am an elite triathlete and have to get up early 5 times a week for swimming and running training at 5.45. This can definitely be hard work in mid-winter when it is still dark, wet and cold outside. It isn't appealing when my annoying phone alarm goes off and there is always a temptation to switch it off and fall back to sleep.
However with the Lumie bodyclock you don't get this sudden jolt which wakes you up like most alarms. The light gradually wakes you (the time the light starts to brighten is variable) and by the time it is at full light you are ready to get up. There is also an option to listen to the radio or natural sounds when the alarm comes on too. I usually have classic fm. This allows me to start training in as a relaxed mood as possible and more importantly, i am not in a bad mood with my training partners in the morning!
There is also a great sunset feature which varies in time and it causes the light to slowly darken which sends me to sleep naturally, the darker it gets, the more difficult it is to read which naturally makes me sleepy. Perfect if you want to get an earlier night than normal.
My choices at the moment are 20 mins for sunset and 1hr for sunrise.
There are some minor pointers you have to consider...
Remember to turn the alarm on each night before you go to bed, i forgot this on my second time of using it and was late for training.
Experiment with sunsets and sunrises and find what time is good for you, don't always stick with the factory settings.
Also experiment with different sounds you wake up to, i have the radio most of the time, but the sound of waves was really nice too.
I hope this help with your choice.
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