: A perfect alarm tone can enhance your alertness upon waking. Here’s what it should sound like #IndiaNEWS With the return to office work – and no longer being able to roll out of bed and straight

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A perfect alarm tone can enhance your alertness upon waking. Here’s what it should sound like #IndiaNEWS
With the return to office work – and no longer being able to roll out of bed and straight into a Zoom meeting – many of us will be waking up earlier to beat the morning rush. So it is important to ensure we are on top of our alarm game.But what type of alarm provides peak alertness upon waking? Pythagoras posited this same question in around 500 BC. He believed specific songs – melodies that roused the energies – had the ability to counteract the drowsiness waking may bring.And he appears to have had a point. Research has now shown certain alarm sounds can indeed enhance our alertness upon waking.In particular, alarms that have the qualities of “tunefulness� (think ABC by The Jackson 5) have melodies that energise the listener and are great for effective waking. But to understand why this is the case, we first need to understand how our brains respond to complex stimuli when moving out of the sleep state.Waking up groggy never feels right. And how we wake up can not only affect our mood and the day’s outlook, but also our cognition and mental performance.In some instances, grogginess after waking has the potential to be dangerous several hours later, by reducing our...Read more

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