I installed a couple of LED cornbulbs, which make my room about half as bright as full sunlight. Then I recently bought a couple of wifi-based lightbulbs, which connect to my smartphone and allow me to turn them on one at a time 1 hour and 30 minutes before my alarm goes off. This is far better than a normal light-based alarm because it is bright enough to actually influence your wakefulness (and doesn’t increase the footprint of items in your room). The major problem is that my partner, like all right-thinking people, hates my LED cornbulbs. We’ve had a long-distance relationship for the last two years, but will be moving in together in the fall, and I anticipate I will have to give up on my beloved engineered bedroom at that time.
I installed a couple of LED cornbulbs, which make my room about half as bright as full sunlight. Then I recently bought a couple of wifi-based lightbulbs, which connect to my smartphone and allow me to turn them on one at a time 1 hour and 30 minutes before my alarm goes off. This is far better than a normal light-based alarm because it is bright enough to actually influence your wakefulness (and doesn’t increase the footprint of items in your room). The major problem is that my partner, like all right-thinking people, hates my LED cornbulbs. We’ve had a long-distance relationship for the last two years, but will be moving in together in the fall, and I anticipate I will have to give up on my beloved engineered bedroom at that time.