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[John Thornton]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> John Thornton wrote:
>   
>> I bought myself one of those alarm clocks that offers Nature Sounds, a
>> CD, or regular alarm along with a ramping up effect for volume.
>> I use the sound of birds with the ramp up effect and waking up is a much
>> more natural process.
>>     
>
> I would guess that during the period 1 million to 100,000 bp when our
> nervous systems were being formed our ancestors were regularly awoken by
> far more alarming sounds than an alarm clock or even a fire alarm. The
> most natural process might just be to wake up screaming and running like
> hell.
>
> Carrol

Studies of chimps and gorillas show no such behaviour so I'm uncertain 
why our ancestors would have behaved so differently.
Do you have any evidence to suggest what you write is true or are you 
just being a contrarian because you think how a person awakes is not 
important?
If your alarm doesn't have such an effect I can imagine you think it's 
insignificant but as one who was extremely startled by his alarm I can 
assure you it is very unpleasant and I see no reason to believe that 
being startled in this manner every day could quite easily have 
deleterious effects.

John Thornton