I was recently talking to a neighbor who mentioned that he has an serious concern with setting alarms on his phone to wake up every afternoon.
He has to set several alarms every afternoon, although he will still sleep through all of them.
If he does manage to find an alarm that acceptablely riles him from his deep sleep, he develops such an adverse reaction to the alarm that he cannot sleep at night. He just lies awake & dreads the frightening sound splitting through his silent home office. Honestly, this is the first time that I had thought about an alarm in a long time. I don’t use a conventional alarm, because my body will naturally wake up as soon as I odor a fresh cup of coffee. Thankfully, my Heating, Ventilation, & A/C system is set up in a way that this is never a problem. Whoever originally installed our Heating & Cooling plan, along with the ductwork that links our heating system & air conditioner device to every room, positions of the air return vent in a different place. The air return is right in the kitchen, over one of the countertops. The air vent functions to draw up our indoor air & return it to the heating system or cooling system, depending on the heating or cooling setting being engaged. Then, the air is cleaned & retreated before circulating back through the ductworks. I’m not sure why they chose this position for the air return vent in our house, however it has a beneficial side effect for a troubled sleeper like me! Every afternoon when my partner gets up & makes coffee, the odor of his fresh joe wafts right through the air return vent, passes through the Heating, Ventilation, & A/C system, & is redistributed through the ductwork. I wake up every afternoon like the star of a Folgers commercial.
