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Introduction
Congratulations on your purchase of the Verilux
®
Rise & Shine
®
Natural Sleep
System. With the Rise & Shine, you’ll fall asleep peacefully and wake refreshed
with soothing, ambient lighting and sound, customized to your preferences.
Sound options
The Rise & Shine provides relaxing and rejuvenating sleeping and waking
experiences with an FM radio and an MP3 player that can support up to 800
MP3 fi les from a USB thumb drive or SD card. Additionally, an AUX IN connection
allows you to connect to external audio sources, including iPods
®
, as another
option to customize the audio portion of your sleeping and waking experience.
Come morning, the Rise & Shine light panel will slowly brighten as your selected
audio increases in volume over 5, 15 or 30 minutes. Find serenity when waking
gently to one of eight included natural ambient soundscapes, your favorite FM
radio station, MP3 songs, talk therapy programs or books.
Light options
Your Rise & Shine’s LED light panel – which incorporates both blue and white
LEDs — helps you to fall asleep and wake at a gentle, gradual pace.
At night, the LED panel’s white LEDs dim gradually over your chosen “sleep
duration” as you fall asleep. The light panel has 20 brightness levels — and you
can also use an optional external lamp, which will dim and brighten automatically
with the LED panel to help you sleep or wake.
For the Sleep Cycle, you set the initial brightness level for the cycle. When the
Sleep Cycle begins, the white LEDs will begin at this level then continue to dim
until the Sleep Cycle duration ends.
In the morning, fi rst blue then white light gradually brightens to help you wake
refreshed. The blue LED’s are only used in the wake-up program to provide
additional stimulus to your body’s waking functions.
The use of light from both the LED light panel and an external lamp are optional.
You may choose:
• no light • LED light only
• an external lamp only • both LED light and external lamp light