My lovely college roommate of all four years was a varsity swimmer, and her extremely inoffensive alarm would go off every morning at 5:00 AM - Anna Nalick's sleeper radio hit ' Breathe (2 AM)'. Here's the thing: I had borne witness to a soft alarm gone wrong. Would we enjoy waking up more and snooze less? Would it extinguish the 'fear of the alarm' that we both found ourselves wrestling with when trying to fall asleep each night? The question was so provocative in fact, that I found myself volunteering to change my chainsaw alarm to a lighter ditty for a week, in order to properly examine its effects. The loud blaring beep hardly screams rise and shine - and yet, neither of us had ever considered changing it to something, dare I say, less 'alarming.' We toyed around with what would happen if we were to pick a tune that was a little more soothing, and a little less frightening. In a recent meeting, a co-worker and I were bonding over the bizarrely harsh, disruptive alarm clock sounds available to us on our phones.

Soft morning alarm tone