You must try waking to this sunrise. (You won't ever put up with a ringing alarm again.)

I have been using this dawn simulator for a month; I am no longer tired in the morning; I no longer have heart palpitations because of a ringing alarm. Awake systematically five minutes before the scheduled time, I have time to get used to the idea of getting up: a real satisfaction. I recommend it to all those who like me are grouchy in the morning. Even my colleagues have noticed the difference! ! !

by Vincent H. - Saint-Claude March 25, 2006 [translated from French]
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The best 6:30am wakeup I have ever had
... We have the sunrise set for 6:30 and a 15 minute cycle. The very first morning, I (and my husband) woke up by myself around 6:25 and felt refreshed. It was a weird feeling because I am not used to feeling refreshed at 6:30 in the morning. The second day, we woke up at about 6:20. We use a lamp across the room that is pretty bright (it is actually made of 3 lights that you can adjust/tilt, and we have all 3 pointed towards the bed). ...

By Sylvia R - Sunny California January 27, 2007
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A noise surprises you and surprises your body. A lamp which very gradually becomes brighter awakens you in a very different manner. The first initial light prepares your body and you will be delighted when you open your eyes, look at the time and wonder what woke you up! (It's the light.)

Important: You will not have more cortisol in the body. You simply reach your normal morning level earlier.

How it works :

Light signals your brain even through closed eyelids while you are sleeping. This is the sign for all animals since the dawn of time that the day is approaching. Hormone messengers change your body temperature and adjust your wake time:
Production of the sleepy hormone, melatonin is stopped. Production of the action hormone, cortisol is stepped up. And you wake up!

David Servan-Schreiber dedicated an entire chapter to this subject in his book, The Instinct to Heal. (Rodale, 2003). He suggests that the natural awakening afforded by light permits us to finish a dream, and that being awoken in the middle of a dream has a negative effect on the rest of our entire day!

General features on our dawn simulators :

There is an optional alarm for your first nights or if you just want to feel sure if it's an especially early morning. You may also program a sunset to go to sleep by.

Specialties of this dawn simulator: Sunrise System

The Sunrise System has the best light control or our simulators, handling perfectly the low light at the beginning of the sunrise, all the way to full brightness (end of sunrise) and never becoming bright too fast. It also permits a different wake-up time for each day of the week. Available sunrise and sunset times are 15, 30, 45, 60 and 90 minutes. (Compare with Lumie 200 which skips 45 min). The SRS100-v2 turns itself off an hour after wake-up time. And you will get a new dawn again tomorrow and everyday automatically without touching the clock again--you only have to set it once.

Plug your bedside lamp into one of the Y cords and the other into the wall. You can also use an adaptor and plug in two lamps (we tested this.) Use an incandescent bulb, (not fluorescent, nor compact fluorescent, nore low voltage halogen. However the new classic halogen lamps marked dimmable and that work on the wall voltage (220V) are fine. Otherwise, its functionality is similar to the Lumie 200, with a larger very readable screen and very clear feed-back . Display in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or Finnish.

Click here to see a comparison between the Sunrise System and Lumie 200

Don't forget to look at our nice opaline glass lamps that we especially selected for your personal dawn!