A New Alternative To Wake Up To   Awakening Sounds are custom sound combinations that gently awaken you from sleep using a gradual ten minute increase in the sound volume. The first tape is called "Nature" and consists of a Mountain Stream, Ocean Waves, Waterfall, Meadow Birds, Thunderstorm and a Gentle Whirlpool.

	The Awakening Sound tape cassette is used in combination with an alarm clock/tape player, stereo system with a turn on timer tape player feature or with a 24 hr. digital timer switch used in conjuction with a tape player.   * Pythagoras was well know for waking his students slowly with gentle songs.   * "Let no one wake a person brusquely for it is a matter difficult of cure if the soul find not its way back." The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad   * "Alarm clocks that shock us awake with fear will go the way of the dinosaurs, as people choose sounds of beauty and harmony for awakening from their sleep." Prof. Dick Edgemont   * "The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living." Jean Cocteau   * "When we are wide awake our sense of time is vertical so that we are aware only of the present moment. But when we are asleep, time becomes for us horizontal, so we can travel into the past or the future." J. W. Dunne   * "Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the universe." Heraclitus   If you would like to get a tape and or would like to learn about other tapes, please email me. Thank you.
	SLEEP SURVEY - THE AWAKENING PROCESS (a survey given to the top sleep researchers from around the world)   1. Do you ever experience difficulty in awakening from the state of sleep with Sleep Drunkenness/Inertia? Sometimes - 55%, Never - 25%, Most of the time - 16%, All the time - 4%   2. What type of awakening technique do you use when you need to awake from sleep at a certain time? Electronic Beeping Sound - 37%, Radio Station - 36%, Alarm Clock (Bells) - 14%, Another Person - 13%   3. What helps you get going after you awake from sleep? Shower - 44%, Coffee - 32%, Exercise - 10%, Prescription Drugs - 4%, Tea - 3%, Soft Drink - 3%, Food - 3%, Cigarette - 1%   4. How many hours do you average in sleep within a 24hr. period? 7 hrs. - 40%, 8 hrs. - 31%, 6 hrs. - 11%, 9 hrs. - 9%, 10 hrs. or more - 5%, 5 hrs. - 3%, 4 hrs. - 1%
	5. Have you ever awakened from sleep to an alternative awakening method? Willing myself to awake at a certain time - 47%, No I have not - 37%, Gradual sound volume increase - 12%, Light machine - 4%   6. Is awakening to some sort of shocking sound (Bells, Buzzers, etc.) the best way to awaken for sleep? No - 57%, Undecided - 12%, Yes - 5%   7. Should there be more testing in other techniques other than awakening by sounds that shock someone awake? Yes - 52%, Undecided - 33%, No - 15%   8. Do you feel that some dreams take place in another reality other than your own subconscious mind? No - 57%, Maybe - 19%, Yes - 16%, Undecided - 14%   9. Do you feel that there should be more research done in the awakening process from the sleep state in general? Yes - 73%, Undecided - 24%, No - 6% _________________________________   I would like to personally thank all those who participated in this survey.   Note: There has been very little clinical research done on the awakening process. All the major studies have been on how to put people to sleep, not on waking them up. I find this scenario a bit strange. This analogy can be made; consider the sleeping process as if it were that of a airplane flight. Taking off would be that of falling asleep, while waking up would be that of landing. Our focus has been one on taking off just fine. As to waking up, we think as a society that it is not a problem to crash land every morning with our traditional alarm clocks.   * * * * * * * * *   ANALOG vs. DIGITAL SOUND   In late 1900's the music industry one day came along and took all the records (analog recordings) off the shelf. In their place was the "New Sound Revolution" called Compact Discs or CD's (digital recordings). CD's were so convenient (as the name implies), hard to scratch and were so clean sounding. It seemed like it was almost too good to be true. And in fact, this is what some have implied. For the CD sound wave is not a continuous flowing sound wave as the analog sound wave is. Digital sound is instead made up of many tiny steps that emulate the smooth sound wave of analog. To some audio experts there is a cold artificial sound to digital in contrast to the warm sound of analog. And many people find it hard listening to digital music/sound for any extended period of time. I have recently started to take a closer look at this controversy via the internet. So far I have gotten various points of views from those in the sound and medical fields. My hope has been to try and get more research done as to the health effects of this new technology called digital sound on the human body/mind/spirit.   * "CD's have a noise cut off at 20,000 hz. This means all the sonic information (harmonics, etc.) that might be quite beneficial to the human energy system, may de deleted. The 20k cut off is a fact. The manufacturers figure that if humans can't hear above a certain level, that the rest is just useless information. But it may not be. It may be therapeutic and transformative." a Sound Researcher   * "An ultra high frequency digital noise is created in CDs that although difficult to consciously discern, is present in most, if not all CDs. Humans can be tested and have awareness up to approximately 16,000 HZ. Most audiograms stop testing at 8,000 HZ." a Neurologist   * "Many of today's DJ's and musicians playing dance music prefer the warm sound of analogue records." a Music DJ   * "One should consider the on/off effect of the digital sound process. The sound is on when it is going horizontal and off when it climbs vertically to the next step of the sound wave. Most experts will say that this "strobe effect" of sound is happening so fast that no human ear can tell the difference. This may be so, but the human body is most likely feeling the difference. What we are talking about then is that half of the information is gone, half of the time. This might be one of the reasons why digital sound makes people feel uneasy." a Sound Engineer   * "This is the darkest time for recorded music that has ever happened. We'll come out the other end and it'll be okay, but we'll look back and go, "Wow, that was the digital age. I wonder what it really sounded like? They were so carried away that they didn't really record it. They just made digital copies of it." That's what people will say-mark my word." Neil Young - Guitar Player Magazine May 1992   Although there has been no medical research done as of yet on the effects of digital sound on the human body, there is an interesting Institute I found on the internet. It is called the Anstendig Institute and they have done some good research on the subject. Their website is listed as one of my links.

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