An alarm won't usually get me up as reliably as I would like. During the adjustment phase, I would just turn it off and go back to sleep - small differences in aural environment seem to be more effective than a standard alarm.

I found a constant stream of audio much more dependable - music to help me sleep; twenty minutes of pink noise laced with a binaural beat to keep me under; a few seconds of silence to start waking up and music to finish it.

I used SBaGen to generate the beats - I found that a theta pattern mixed with a soft background track worked best.

• Just the 20-minute binaural section: high-quality OGG Vorbis | lower-quality MP3
• Binaural section with music on either side (what I'm using currently): high-quality OGG Vorbis | lower-quality MP3

• River sounds are by Jim Peters, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike.
• Emptiness (the first song) is by Alexander Blu, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike.
• Crunk Shit (the second song) is by Emcee Lynx, under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike.

Thanks to the creators for the awesome sounds.

tesser.org - Sharif Olorin <siolorin@gmail.com>

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