POSSESS [brain wave monitoring alarm clock]

No effective product exists that addresses the issue of using available time to sleep as efficiently as possible. As our lives become more hectic and the need for productivity rises, companies continue to develop ways to help people feel alert that are administered only while awake. Stimulants such as caffeine and ephedrine are offered, and not all of them are safe or effective. A Starbucks Coffee store is on virtually every corner. The myriad of statistics available concerning fatigue induced accidents supports the hypothesis that the current "solutions" to fatigue aren't really solutions at all, but merely somewhat futile attempts to solve an increasingly important problem:How can we pack more productivity into a day without walking around like sleep-deprived zombies?While such "solutions" to grogginess have their place in society, the POrtable Safety and Sleep Enhancement SyStem (POSSESS), tackles the above-stated problem from a different angle. The POSSESS, via a series of electrodes, monitors the brain waves and eye movements of a person during sleep. With this information, POSSESS is able to determine when a person is in REM sleep and, more importantly, when that person has just left an REM sleep cycle and should be awakened. By awakening a person after an REM sleep cycle, we minimize the amount of sleep inertia, or grogginess, a person feels upon awakening.