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Sleep Cycle iPhone App is Highly Recommended

The main reasons I've switched to this over an alarm are:

1. It uses the time you set as a guide, not a rule. It measures your level of sleep with the accelorometer (your iphone sleeps with you on the edge of your bed) to determine your depth of sleep. If it catches you mostly awake within a 30 minute window of your set wake-up time it goes ahead and gets you up. It is healthier to awaken from a lighter sleep than a deep sleep. Studies have shown that if you awaken from REM you have a more pesimistic view of the world, due to your worst-case-scenario dream state. However, if you are awakened from a lighter sleep, which contains more open, creative dream perspectives of life, your outlook will share that mood leaving you in a better state of mind to go about life more receptively.
2. It has an escalating alarm sound. Meaning it starts off really quiet and gradually gets louder until you awaken. Great for your partner, if you have one in bed with you.

Drawbacks:

1. On the partner issue, if you sleep in the same bed with one (or more) people, the Sleep Cycle measurement of your sleep pattern is effected by your sleeping buddy's thrashing about.
2. If your mattress passes the bowling-ball-wine-glass test, this may be ineffective for you. The phone has to be able to feel your night moves.
3. And yes it will measure the performance time of your other 'night moves'. :) (Like this: honeymoon-couples-bed-to-tweet-when-they-do-the-deed)

 

Here is the block of image and info that is available to share, if you're into that sort of "I ate stuff, I pooped just now, I now knap" type sharing.

Sleep statistics for 12 - 13 Jul (Tue).

Went to bed / woke up: 10:45 PM / 5:45 AM
Total time: 6h 59m

Analysis made by Sleep Cycle.

My sleep graph for the entire night:

 

 

• 13 July 2010
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