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A New Study Reveals Which Alarm Sound Is Best to Wake Up To

What sound do you wake up to in the morning? Our devices have lots of options, but which is the best one for you?

Ryan Seacrest revealed on-air there's a new study where they looked at which sounds do the best job of stimulating your reticular activating system, without too much of a jolt, and they found the perfect alarm should be a melody you can sing or hum along to, a dominant frequency around 500 hertz or in the key of C.

So, what are those sounds? Listen back to here the top 3 called uplift, by the seaside and sencha: