You can also keep a "dawn simulator" — a lamp that comes on gradually — by your bedside.
"Every morning through the 1730s, Richardson rose early and, by light of the dawning day, or else candle and lamp, peered at his own countenance for information on the progress or retreat of his moral condition".
It begins with local merchants selling fresh orange juice who arrive at dawn, and over the course of the day, you'll see lamp sellers, garden merchants, henna painters, medics, fortune tellers, snake charmers, dancers and musicians.
If you need to wake up when it's dark, or if you live in a dreary, cloudy place, consider using a timer on your bedroom lamp or getting a light box or a bedside dawn simulator.
"Morning Rain, Grand Canal, Venice, Italy" (1999) shows dawn's first light as it creeps through the dock, lighted by lamp posts, where gondolas shiver in the quivering sea.
Many farmers preferred to do their pre-dawn chores in the dark rather than risk having a kerosene lamp in the barn.
Next door is Hive, a subversive underground nightclub-cum-art collective where you are as likely to purchase an eco-design lamp from its onsite shop as you are to dance until dawn.
Unless you have a lamp shining on the flag, be sure to raise it at dawn and lower and fold it at dusk.
A Dawn Simulator sounds just as promising; equipped with something called a Sunrise System, the lamp can be programmed to brighten gradually in the morning over an interval lasting anywhere from 10to9090 minutes.
Every evening as dusk fell they lit the gas lamps that illuminated the city's shadowy streets, returning just before dawn to extinguish the flames.
