I got a new clock for Christmas. I have wanted this clock forever (BEFORE it was featured in any of those magazines, even!), and my mom finally bought it for me.
The alarm clock I used growing up was a very simple and harsh affair. I still have it but I keep it in the living room – it’s a small black box with a silver face, and you set the alarm by turning a little knob to the approximate time you want and pulling out a metal pin. It goes off with the worst sound I have known. I don’t even know how it produces this harsh, insanely loud buzz. You have to push the pin back in to stop it, and there is no snooze.
In law school I bought a very ugly sort of faux-future-looking thing, silver, digitial, with a radio and various “soothing sounds” available to wake you. I’ve been using the church bells, and they get progressively louder if you ignore them, which is hardly soothing at all. This clock served its purpose just fine and I likely wouldn’t have bothered to want to replace it until I saw The Twilight.
Seriously, it looks so much better in my room than Silver Future Clock, I can’t even tell you. The four-minute snooze is admittedly short, but I used to not snooze at all, so I think that’s ok. The bell is loud and a little startling, but not painful. I love the lit dial; when I turned off my light it gave off a very dim, very warm light (though I can see how the light from the dial might not be ideal for insomniacs or creatures of the night).
I think my favorite part though, the thing I didn’t notice until I put my book down and shut off the light and was falling asleep, is that it ticks! I find the sound of a clock ticking off the seconds very soothing, so long as it is pretty quiet. This was just at the edge of hearing. Had I not been utterly unable to fall asleep for other reasons entirely, it absolutely would have lulled me.
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