The idea is that it figures out when you're in light sleep
then wakes you at the closest point to your alarm time. The idea being that you don't wake up in the middle of a dream, or when you're getting some proper sleep, or summat.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:33, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

but what if your alarm time is fixed?
you know, by reference to your job start time or something? does it slowly train you to wake up naturally at the right time?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:39, Reply)

Say you need to be up by six to get to work on time:
you give it half an hour leeway, and from half five, it looks out for the first time you're in 'light sleep', then wakes you up. If you're not awake by the alarm time, it'll wake you up then.

I think that's the principle, anyway. It's supposed to wake you up without you feeling all confuzzled and grumpy.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:44, Reply)