I hate getting up in the morning. I mean I really hate hearing the alarm clock go off, dragging me out of my peaceful slumber. I’m half-asleep and pawing for the “snooze bar” and the five minutes of blissful sleep it provides.

My problem is that I keep pawing at the snooze bar, over and over and over. There are some mornings where I just keep “snoozing” until I glance at my watch and realize how horribly late I am running. And you know what? That’s just a lousy way to start your day. You get that feeling in the pit of your stomach, you know you’ve screwed up by over sleeping and there is just no way you’ll be able to step-and-fetch fast enough to get where you need to be on time.

I *hate* that feeling.

Every now and then I’ll catch myself waking up and feeling great. Full of energy and ready to start the days. This happens pretty infrequently, but when it does it’s just great! I’ve tried timing my sleep to try to figure out at what point I feel completely refreshed like this and so far I’ve not found a solid pattern. Every time I think I have it nailed and I start keeping a new sleeping pattern I find out I don’t have it “nailed” after all.

Thus began my search to find something to address my hatred of the alarm clock and of waking up feeling like my head is full of mud.

In my search I found several references to an odd little gadget called The Sleeptracker. It’s a watch that you wear at night (or all the time I suppose, it’s a watch). This watch senses your sleep patterns and determines when you are most awake in your target wake-up window. Once it’s made this determination, it rouses you from your (very light at this point) slumber to face the day recharged and full of energy.

Hogwash! New age quackery! How can a watch sense your sleep patterns and wake you at the best possible time? Foolishness!

Yes, this is what went through my head while reading their web site. I was intrigued by the possibility however, so I spent some time Googling for this particularly pricey gadget to see what other people had to say.

And I was surprised to find out that other people generally had positive things to say about the Sleeptracker - one site in particular rated it a 10 out of 10.

So I thought about it some, and read their web site some more and my eye kept creeping back to the “30 day guarantee” on their web site. So I decided to give it a try. I desperately needed a better way to get up in the morning and this promised to deliver that and be a nifty gadget at the same time. I figured if it didn’t work, I could always send it back for a refund.

I am now tracking my package, eagerly awaiting its arrival and hopefully the end of my dreadful alarm clock. I will post a review of the product here as soon as it’s in my hot little hands.

Isn’t this a wonderful time we live in? We can use science - coupled with gadgets - to outsmart ourselves!