For anyone with a smartphone...
 

get this app k

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/slee...&affId=1736887

It's so cool :amazed: I've used it two days running so far and I've woke up feeling better than I usually do! And it's interesting to see the different stages of sleep you went through.

There's a free version but I can't find it online, just search for it on the App Store though.

Is it just an Apple app or is it on Android?

I have a similar one. Might be the same.

It's good

i literally just got an iPhone today and was told to get this app

Well that tells you something :amazed: all the reviews I've seen are overwhelmingly positive and I've found it good so far, obviously a longer time frame is needed for me to be able to accurately judge it but even just being able to see the different stages of sleep you went through is interesting enough for me.

I never get enough sleep, never sleep at the right time and all sorts, so whilst searching stuff about sleep the other day stumbled across this and thought I'd give it a try, hopefully with it telling you how efficient your sleep was, I might be able to sort myself out :joker:

I always forget to put mine one at night. I did it for a week then just stopped.

im not sure if this is the same one my friend showed me... his one told him what time he went to sleep and woke up, showed him times that he woke up during the night and if he had a drink that night it would show him the differences between a sleep with no alcohol and a sleep with alcohol.. was pretty interesting

I will see if it works on my iTouch :D

I don't understand how it analyses your sleep?

i dunno how I feel about doing this... I dont trust apps for waking me up.... I only just trust my alarm clock on my phone.

ah heres the app he uses

http://www.sleepcycle.com/howitworks.html

i think you put the phone under your pillow.. not too sure

It wakes you up slowly. If you set it for 7am it will begin to wake you up at half six.

Apparently you feel better for being woken up slowly than abruptly.

It uses the iPhone's accelerometer (which basically powers movement and knows its position in the air...like you know in a game when you move it and the action on the screen will move, well that's what the accelerometer powers I think). You lay it screen face down on the bed near to you, and it'll pick up on the tiniest of movements through the mattress that you make during the night and analyse the stages of sleep you're in through that (as I think during REM/deep sleep your body and muscles are essentially paralysed and you make little movement).

Oh I saw that one too, might give it a try actually :amazed:

Basically you go through 4/5 stages of sleep during a night (and that cycle is repeated several times every 90 minutes), ranging from awake, light sleep to REM (rapid eye movement, which is the stage where generally you dream) which is deep sleep. The problem with most standard alarm clocks is that it'll wake you up regardless of what stage of sleep you're in, and if you're in the middle of REM you'll end up feeling very tired and groggy, if you're out of REM and are woken up while 'awake'/in light sleep you'll wake up feeling refreshed. So the app is meant to work out when you're in the lightest possible stage of sleep, and then wake you up then.

How the **** does it wake you up slowly though?

From the app's website:

And these are the five stages of sleep everyone goes through for anyone interested:

http://psychology.about.com/od/state...leepStages.htm

Fascinating.

Ohhh

i must just be unlucky and wake up in the tired and irritated phase every morning

I can't get it :( my iPod isn't ios5 and I can hardly sleep with my iPad in my bed :laugh:

I'm the same way :joker::joker:

And I just searched for sleep time and found the free version. Wasn't that hard to find tbh

Will it cure my narcolepsy, though ..... :conf2:

Why would you download an app instead of setting your alarm half an hour earlier?