About six weeks ago, I posted about a sleep app I use.
Since people don’t seem to like to comment, I got emails asking me quite a few questions and this great comment from Rachel so I decided to mush it all up into one post.
How much did my app cost?
$0,99 (Sleep Time) and the one Rachel references in her comment costs the same, which is about R11 for South Africans at current exchange rates.
How does it work?
I keep the iphone on, lay it face down under my pillow and somehow (magic?) it figures everything out by my heartbeat or something similar. I’m not attached to the process but I am results-focussed 🙂 so as long as it works, I’m happy to trust the process.
Do I have a choice as to wake-up times?
Yes, I set the wake-up time as the time I HAVE TO BE UP. And then there’s another setting – basically the alarm can wake me within 20 minutes of that time (time to slowly wake-up and get my mind in gear).
I haven’t checked to see exactly how many minutes it always wakes me before my preferred wake-up time – my schedule is quite erratic based on meetings, gym, church and such.
There is a snooze function which I do use.
How do you stop the alarm?
I believe I have two options; I only figured them out tonight. Somehow I’d set it to the one where I have to hold the big button for 3 seconds to stop it. 3 seconds is long when you’re fast asleep so that wakes me well enough.
What do I find most valuable?
I love stats. LOVE THEM.
Especially stats on me 🙂
So here’s how I’m currently doing.
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| weekly view – as you can see, I’ve been very naughty, reading very late at night 🙂 |
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| and…. my sleep is all over the place |
I’m going to be writing up a new training manual over the next two weeks but after that, I want to get my sleep back to some normal bedtimes again.
How have you been sleeping over the last 6 weeks?
