I downloaded one of those sleep tracker app things yesterday.
To be fair, it seems to have actually woken me up at the right time, but I'm fucking exhausted and I've got a frozen shoulder.
Alt: Not really, no.
AltAlt: Morning can kiss my pasty Scots arse.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:04, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

What does it track? Your breathing or summat?

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:09, Reply)

Also, can you ask what the point of them is? I don't know what you do with the information gleaned from such an application.

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:10, Reply)

As your shit internet doctor,
I can confirm they're rubbish.
(DBT became a fruitarian on, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:14, Reply)

But if they *did* work, what could you do with the info?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:15, Reply)

work out how many times you get woken up by someone snoring/coughing/poking you on the forehead?

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:27, Reply)

Pushed and shoved, hit on the head and, bizarrely, having fingers clicked by your ears?

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:32, Reply)

i am sure it will record ALL OF THAT

( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:33, Reply)

*Downloads*

( MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:34, Reply)

+ /shitting the bed
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:36, Reply)

it's expensive designer bedding and it's white
he'd better fucking not
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:38, Reply)

Well that does surprise me.
I was expecting some cheap shit from Argos.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:46, Reply)

I expect it's at least 600 count Egyptian.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:46, Reply)

Well mine's 400, nothing wrong with having decent bedding.
You spend half your life in bed, after all.
( Kroney, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:55, Reply)

The idea is that it figures out when you're in light sleep
then wakes you at the closest point to your alarm time. The idea being that you don't wake up in the middle of a dream, or when you're getting some proper sleep, or summat.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:33, Reply)

but what if your alarm time is fixed?
you know, by reference to your job start time or something? does it slowly train you to wake up naturally at the right time?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:39, Reply)

Say you need to be up by six to get to work on time:
you give it half an hour leeway, and from half five, it looks out for the first time you're in 'light sleep', then wakes you up. If you're not awake by the alarm time, it'll wake you up then.

I think that's the principle, anyway. It's supposed to wake you up without you feeling all confuzzled and grumpy.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 3 Mar 2014, 10:44, Reply)