13 Jun 2010

Can't believe this is still even here. Don't believe anyone is reading it, but must get back into the habit of reflecting on things.

I recently downloaded, Sleep Cycle, an application for my mobile iPhone that monitors my sleep. Because the phone itself is sensitive to movement, you place it on your mattress, near the pillow (with the network turned off) and it monitors movement; the idea being that the deeper the sleep, the less tossing and turning one does. It then looks at the cycles of light and deep sleep to determine when the best time for the alarm to go off. For example, if I set the alarm at 6am, but that would the deepest part of the sleep cycle, it goes off instead at 5.45 when my sleep would be light. It's kind of fun/ creepy to watch graphs of one's own sleep cycles. I seem to sleep well for five hours (say, 10-3am) and then have lots of light/deep cycles from 3-6. Anyway, I find it fascinating, sad git that I am.