It effectively muffles everything—including occasional cat meows—and keeps me asleep all night long. If you’re looking for all the bells and whistles, app-enabled lights allow you to control everything from your phone and provide users with the most customization options. That said, if you find the preset brightness is too intense, or not bright enough, you can adjust it. The best sunrise alarm clocks also tend to feature a whole host of other morning-enhancing features like mood light settings, FM radios, reading light settings, charging ports and a variety of natural sounds.

I tested each of these recommended wake up lights, using them in their different modes and testing all the features.According to Bupa, SAD affects 3% of the UK population and is four times more likely to affect women than men. Enjoy a radio alarm, stream music via Bluetooth, or enjoy the wide range of 256 nuances to control the mood light. Lights can wake you up with different sounds or radio stations and many have timers to fade them out after a certain period of time.

Some of the others are featured in this edit, and I love them, too - but this is a nice, affordable choice if you're not too worried about fancy coloured lights or listening to the radio (I stream most of my music, so I wasn't). Your sunrise will begin 30 minutes before your alarm sounds, encouraging you to wake up gently, and there are six colours for mood-boosting flair - green, red, blue, pink, orange, or light blue. The Bodyclock Shine 300 sits in the middle of Lumie’s range but I think most people will be more than happy with its functions. If the item comes direct from a manufacturer, it may be delivered in non-retail packaging, such as a plain or unprinted box or plastic bag.

Perhaps this is a good thing, but I wind up shutting it off from my phone each time because I never want to get up. Sunrise alarm clocks, or wake-up light alarm clocks as they're also commonly known, serve up a far less shocking wake-up method in comparison to their sound-only counterparts. Combining light therapy with a variety of soothing sounds, you can adjust both the brightness and the volume to create profiles that are unique to you. Jo loves exploring the latest design trends, although she’s yet to find a carpet that doesn’t show up the cat hair from the cats she and her husband foster.

If you frequent hotels, occasionally like to drown out distractions in your office, or have a child who's fussy in the car, it's nice to pick it up and go where you need to go.I woke up before my alarm even sounded - which is completely unheard of for me - and I felt genuinely wide awake when it did. Whether you feel the same or not, you probably still don’t get enough sleep, and if you’re like most people, it’s not for lack of trying. You need a nightlight: you can pluck this alarm off its base for a gentle nightlight if you need to get up in the night.

Control via app or touch: Control with soft-touch buttons on the device, or use the free companion app for iOS or Android. We're all about getting a good night's sleep, so we've also rounded up the best silk pillowcases and the best pillow sprays to step up your beauty slumber. So believe me when I say the reality is not quite as glamorous, but it’s not too far off from the truth, either. It turns out, I only pressed the left button instead of holding it down, so I didn’t actually turn the alarm off. Morphée's meditation machine includes a range of sleep sounds—I particularly like the cat purring and fireplace sounds—but I love the meditations that are designed to relax you into a deep sleep.It’s not really fit for purpose and, hearing only three sounds after the bells and whistles of so many of the other machines I reviewed, I was a bit disappointed. As a starting point, I invested in Lumie's Bodyclock Rise 100, which features in my round-up of the best sunrise alarm clocks below. I started off with one of the dullest, red light settings - but I still felt a tad startled when the noise sounded at 6:30am. This machine is also marketed for babies—there's a shhhh sound that sounds comforting and a child lock on the back to disable the buttons. Sunrise shifts gently from red to yellow and then white, but the SmartSleep is also an excellent reading light and has an equally good wind down feature.