Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This light is designed to face you so that the increasing brightness will help you to wake up gently. However, the unit has a large LED style clock face that is in the middle of the light. While this display is dimmable, unfortunately the lowest dimmer setting is far too bright. If the designers had consulted with anyone knowledgeable about sleep issues, they would have been told that people who have trouble sleeping are more sensitive to stray light and need to darken their room, cover clock-radios and charger LEDs, use blackout blinds and otherwise make sure that their rooms are dark during sleep hours. I have made some effort to do this, and it has improved my sleep. This clock is obtrusively bright even through closed eyelids. I find myself trying to lay in such a position that I don’t face the clock display. I guess the designers expect me to go back to wearing eye masks while I sleep? Why is it that I need to know the time in the middle of the night when I am trying to sleep? In fact, sleep experts will tell you not to check the time if you wake up in the middle of the night as it adds to stress, which is counterproductive. I notice that the unit has a touch-sensor and the controls around the clock face light up when you touch the unit so that you can see them in the dark. Too much , I suppose to ask them to have the clock digits also go out until you need them. A second design flaw is that the sound that goes with the wake-up cycle is not adjustable. There is one alarm that controls both light and sound, so that your light starts coming up gradually and your sound comes on 30 minutes later, when your light is at full brightness. Even my cheap clock radio has two alarms and a choice between buzzer and radio for each one. I would like the light to start low and the radio to come on about 15 minutes later. Not possible with this unit. But by far the overwhelming problem is the too-bright display light, which makes it unusable. The best design for this would be an Liquid Crystal Display (NOT an LED) with an “indiglo” style back-light that comes on for a few seconds when you touch the unit. I am returning it for a refund.