My partner and I decided to use this clock as part of our wellness plan. This plan includes the now "famous" waking up at 5:30 every morning. We struggled some before we received this clock. However now that we have it the "sunrise" has been very helpful. I am not sure though that it shouldn't be a bit brighter when it maxes out near the 30 minute point. But it has worked. I find myself "noticing" the light at around 5:15 and then I'll float back to sleep until the music starts.

The music. Yeah, seven tracks of goodness - right? No. The music quality is terrible. There has to be a way that they could have at very little extra cost included higher quality tracks. It sounds like I am playing with a child's wind up toy that talks when you wind it up - or at least the toys that were around when I was a kid (they're probably in HD sound now)

All that said, I did give this four stars because it is doing what we bought it to do - helping us wake up and STAY up more easily in the morning. The next challenge is 4:30 a.m.

Let's do it!

I really do not like this clock. At all. First, the numbers are very bright, so I have to have the clock facing away at night, or it's shining in my eyes. Second, you cannot see the buttons in the dark. So, if you want to set the alarm when your spouse is already asleep, or if you were up all night with a sick child so you want to reset the alarm for later, you CANNOT see the buttons in the dark. Something else I find frustrating is that the buttons are very sensitive, so a little kid could go in and mess everything up very easily. Also, all the options are by pressing a button a number of times to get there. I don't know a better way to explain this, but I just find everything about this clock to be not very well done. And the icing on the cake is that it doesn't make me wake up magically rested like the others say it does (I'm not knocking it for that though :-). I bought this clock to take the place of my cell phone, so maybe my expectations are too high.

Wow. All I can say is wow. We moved from a place near the equator to a place in the north. The first winter was brutal. My child with sensory integration issues had a particularly difficult time. He couldn't understand why we would make him exit his bed before the sun came up. It just wasn't fair! No matter what methods we used, every morning began in tears. I buy a ton of things on Amazon but rarely leave a review. I felt like I just had to this time. This clock is AMAZING! My son is particularly sensitive to sound, so it was fantastic that he could choose a sound that wasn't upsetting. The light woke him gently and effectively. He came downstairs all by himself. ALL BY HIMSELF PEOPLE! I didn't write a review the first day because I was afraid it was a fluke. Now we are well into our first week of school and early mornings, and I am a believer. BUY THIS CLOCK!

I'm a late person so whenever I've morning appointment I need to set the alarm clock on my cell phone. However, since I used to get up late, I'm still afraid that I will continue to sleep. I need to have some kind of back up to make sure that I can get up on time. After using this clock for few days, I really like it. It's a very reliable alarm with different natural colors to wake up a person. I'm very alert of light. I might still sleep with the noises on but I definitely can't sleep with the light on. Thus this is a very effective way to wake me up. Besides that it's also a radio too. It's so good!

Love this alarm clock. I didn't know how if this concept would actually work, but it really does. I am not a morning person, I have a really hard time waking up and I'm one of those people that pushes the snooze button several times before I can get up. I have not been doing this since I go this clock.

How it works, you set the alarm time for the time you need to be awake. Thirty (30) minutes before that time, the light comes on - very dimly at first and then it slowly grows brighter. It's not like turning on a light, it's a progressive yellowish color light like sunlight. It makes your room a yellow-orange color at it's brightest. I have a large bedroom, it will light up the entire room. At the time you have the alarm set for is when it will make the sound (various beeps, nature sounds, or the radio are your options). So if you set the alarm for 7:00 a.m., the "sunlight" begins rising at 6:30 a.m., and the alarm sounds at 7.

I wake up before the sound goes off every morning, somewhere between 5 to 10 minutes before, just because oft the "sunrise." And it's a natural progressive waking up, not being blasted awake. It has an opposite feature for at night, of the "sun" going down, but I never use that.

Other positive: You can turn off the clock light at night so no glaring light from the time! Love that!