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assholy (01/09/2016) [-]
Has anyone tried using one of those smart alarm apps on their phones?
I started using one yesterday and even though I only slept like 4 hours because of schoolwork, I woke up well rested.
I started using one yesterday and even though I only slept like 4 hours because of schoolwork, I woke up well rested.
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assholy (01/09/2016) [-]
There are some free ones out there, personally I use Sleep as Android play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en 14 day free trial, $5 for the full version though It seems to say 5 MX pesos now that I'm in mexico
You don't need anything other than your phone, but if you dislike having you phone on your bed while you sleep or if you can't, you can use wearable tech.
Otherwise, it'll use your phone's accelerometer to measure your movements as you sleep and estimate your sleep phase. You set a fixed amount of time within which it is allowed to wake you and it will do so when it detects you're in light sleep, so you wake refreshed and not groggy as if you were in deep sleep.
So say you set your alarm for 7:00a.m. with a 30 minute wake period. If at anypoint from 6:30am-7:00am you enter light sleep, the alarm will go off. It's also not a sudden start, the alarm gradually increases in volume, so on the off chance that during that period you don't exit deep sleep, it's still not a "jerked out of rest" waking.
If you have an Iphone, I dunno what a good alternative is, I've only tested this one, though surely one of the free ones works just as well albeit with less settings/options perhaps.
This specific app also has settings to help you try to have lucid dreams, though I only found it today and have yet to see how effective it might be.
You don't need anything other than your phone, but if you dislike having you phone on your bed while you sleep or if you can't, you can use wearable tech.
Otherwise, it'll use your phone's accelerometer to measure your movements as you sleep and estimate your sleep phase. You set a fixed amount of time within which it is allowed to wake you and it will do so when it detects you're in light sleep, so you wake refreshed and not groggy as if you were in deep sleep.
So say you set your alarm for 7:00a.m. with a 30 minute wake period. If at anypoint from 6:30am-7:00am you enter light sleep, the alarm will go off. It's also not a sudden start, the alarm gradually increases in volume, so on the off chance that during that period you don't exit deep sleep, it's still not a "jerked out of rest" waking.
If you have an Iphone, I dunno what a good alternative is, I've only tested this one, though surely one of the free ones works just as well albeit with less settings/options perhaps.
This specific app also has settings to help you try to have lucid dreams, though I only found it today and have yet to see how effective it might be.
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assholy (01/09/2016) [-] 
I don't have any, so no.
The accelerometer is pretty accurate, I used the trial on an older phone last year and forgot about the app till recently. So long as your phone's not ****** up (I've dropped mine like 10 times now), it'll work accurately enough.
Also, the app has nearly 200,000 review, of which over half of them are 5/7 perfect, the bad ones seem to be a bug caused by a new update it is constantly worked on and supported, with complaints from users as recently as december having a reply from the devs so it might be smart to keep a "last minute" alarm on a separate app if you're paranoid about that kinda thing.
I especially like how it graphs out your sleep stages and tells you how much sleep you missed, how much of your sleep was in the deep sleep stage, snoring stats, etc.
So last night I slept just over 4 hours, (almost five since it keeps counting time after you hit snooze like I did 5 times) 48% of which was in deep sleep. Woke me up at around 6:15 and I probably didn't dream much since I didn't hit REM sleep apparently.
So it's accurate enough and IMO it's effective. My friend also tried one out on his Iphone, and for the first time all semester, he didn't fall asleep in class.
The accelerometer is pretty accurate, I used the trial on an older phone last year and forgot about the app till recently. So long as your phone's not ****** up (I've dropped mine like 10 times now), it'll work accurately enough.
Also, the app has nearly 200,000 review, of which over half of them are 5/7 perfect, the bad ones seem to be a bug caused by a new update it is constantly worked on and supported, with complaints from users as recently as december having a reply from the devs so it might be smart to keep a "last minute" alarm on a separate app if you're paranoid about that kinda thing.
I especially like how it graphs out your sleep stages and tells you how much sleep you missed, how much of your sleep was in the deep sleep stage, snoring stats, etc.
So last night I slept just over 4 hours, (almost five since it keeps counting time after you hit snooze like I did 5 times) 48% of which was in deep sleep. Woke me up at around 6:15 and I probably didn't dream much since I didn't hit REM sleep apparently.
So it's accurate enough and IMO it's effective. My friend also tried one out on his Iphone, and for the first time all semester, he didn't fall asleep in class.
