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These alarm clocks have novel ways to rouse deep sleepers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

The number of female rough sleepers rose by 8% to 733, while there were 3,938 men and another 122 cases where the gender was not recorded.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Probably that’s what woke the residential sleepers, who got up next.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

How could she have deployed this, again and again, into the dreams of the helpless sleepers of Weep?

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor