Anyone used a sleep cycle app?

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

I bought one last night and attempted to use it. I failed.

The app didn't fail, I did because I was hyper aware of IT being there and monitoring my sleep and also because I thought I needed the sound on my iThing switched on for it to wake me up (you don't) so when an idiot sent me a text at 2am, it woke me up X-( I got cranky with the iThing and the app and turned them all off and went back to sleep.

Handy Hint: You don't need the sound on your iThing switched on for the alarm to wake you up or for the sleep cycle app to work.  

What I do like about the sleep cycle app is how you can set it to play rain noises, or white noise or pink noise or brown noise, or all sorts of falling asleep noise (NO, not THAT noise! X-( ). It also will, apparently, wake you up in a light sleep cycle between the time chunks you choose. It records your sleep by apparently tracking your breathing and movement and shows it all in lovely graphs (that I suppose someone will come along sooner or later to tell me the CIA are using to take me down and monitor my life by - this is the Internet so it's only a matter of time and whoever else is still awake...).

I'm going to try it again tonight. Wish me luck. Anyone else?

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

slightly off topic but the poor person you claim sent a message at 2am probably didn't.....my daughter is finding her messages are coming in at odd hours too. one from me sent the daybegkre at lunchtime woke her at 4am. 

Nah, they are not a "poor person" they are an idiot and deserve my scorn. Thanks anyway! :-x

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

You guys mot getting enough beauty sleep?

That explains a whole host of things :-x

[poddster]

Self portrait??  Good likeness 🙂

[lady*em]

The thing that worried me about that app was that you had to turn off the auto lock.  So your phone stays on the whole time.  Have you felt hot the phone gets?  I'm concerned it may explode due to excessive heat. 

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

The thing that worried me about that app was that you had to turn off the auto lock.  So your phone stays on the whole time.  Have you felt hot the phone gets?  I'm concerned it may explode due to excessive heat. 

I was also worried about that however, I didn't turn off the auto lock and the app still worked. Phone wasn't hot in the morning. Apps are updated all the time, so maybe they've fixed that?

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

Good likeness 🙂

Thanks!

It was amazing how quickly the artist managed to capture your essence.

[cosmosgrove]

I'm curious enough about this to want to try it, but I hate the idea of sleeping with my phone so close to my head 😞

[cosmosgrove]

Well I overcame my fear of being exposed to EMR's 😛 and having been using this app the last four nights. It confirms how badly I actually sleep, now to find ways to improve that.