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?

[i-need-a-martini]

I have a battery operated rain noise thingy that I use for relaxation sometimes.

At first the thing used to drive me crazy and keep me awake. But you do get used to it and in the end your brain associates the noise with sleep.

But I started doing a small amount of relaxation exercises while it was on and that helped - simple things like clenching my face for 5 seconds and then relaxing, clenching my arms for 5 seconds and relaxing, etc all the way down to my toes.

Now all I have to do is switch that thing on and I am out like a light.

[j*oono]

:^O

I will have to check it out.  What is the name of the app that you used?

[poddster]

You guys mot getting enough beauty sleep?

That explains a whole host of things :-x

[gem-boy-g]

I just have a couple of glasses of wine and sleep all night :^O

[twinkles**stars]

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. 

[lis351]

I downloaded it last night because of this thread Buzz, but all it did was confirm what I have been thinking fro a while, I don't go into a proper sleep phase until 4am and its no bloody wonder I don't want to get up at 6:30-7am. LOL!

[Anonymous]

havent heard of it before, but I'll just stick to my sleep meds. lol.

[fiestas*girl]

i have used sleep cycle for months...well i used it months ago and established a good sleep pattern. it worked for me

[buzzlightyearsgirlfriend]

:^O

I will have to check it out.  What is the name of the app that you used?

Sleep Cycle alarm clock

http://www.sleepcycle.com/

I tried it again last night. I switched the iPhone sound off because you don't need it on for the alarm and the white noise to work.

Again, I was hyper aware of IT, so slept badly.

It did wake me up, albeit earlier than I wished, because that was when I was apparently in a "light sleep" cycle and, looking at the graph, if it didn't wake me up then I'd be in a deep sleep cycle for another 30 or so minutes, making me late.