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Having tried a number of sleep tracking solutions to get this whole "wake up when your body is most ready for it" thing I'm not sure it works for me. To me, it
by mstade 9y ago
Having tried a number of sleep tracking solutions to get this whole "wake up when your body is most ready for it" thing I'm not sure it works for me. To me, it seems the only way for me to wake up and actually get up is:
1. Someone or something wakes me up
2. I get the hell up; no snoozing allowed
It doesn't seem to matter when or how I'm woken, if I don't just get out of bed I simply won't truly wake up. Snoozing is the bane of my existence.
I've gone from trying to use these fancy sleep tracking devices and apps and what not, to just sleeping with my Apple watch on my wrist and have an alarm set every day, including weekends. It's the same time, and I only turn it off under special circumstances, like I had to stay up all night for some reason or other.
I never get woken up by notifications, because do-not-disturb is on during sleeping hours, and when the watch is on my wrist it wakes me up by vibrating at the set time. This alone has done more to improve my sleeping habits I think, because something gently vibrating my wrist is a quite nice way to wake up, as opposed to blaring a war signal horn in my ear. When I don't have my watch with me or available, I do what someone else around here tipped about: sleep with my phone under my pillow and have it vibrate at a set hour.
There's probably some serious scientific fact around waking people up during light sleep making for better sleep or whatever, but it just hasn't worked out for me.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago> Snoozing is the bane of my existence. For me it's not snoozing, it's auto-snoozing. Who the hell had the idea that an alarm clock should _stop_ after a minute or so? I want an app that does not turn off alarm "due to inactivity", I want it blasting away until I wake up (or my neighbours wake me up by knocking to the doors).
- annnnd 9y agoI think the idea is that people sometimes make mistakes... They leave home early and forget that alarm is still turned on, and then get home in the afternoon to find the front doors broken by angry neighbors. But yeah, if that watch could measure heartbeat... ;)
- tokenizerrr 9y agoSleep as Android is perfect and has fully configurable snooze settings.
- coldtea 9y ago>Having tried a number of sleep tracking solutions to get this whole "wake up when your body is most ready for it" thing I'm not sure it works for me. This feature also depends on personal health as it just checks for REM cycles and deep sleep. People with apnea (like me) will never be "ready for it" regardless of the phase they are in. At best they'll be "a little more ready for it but still very much needing sleep".
- mstade 9y agoAh, this might be it then because like you I suffer from apnea. Thanks for that tidbit!