Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Sleep Cycle Alarm App day 1

I'm documenting a week's worth of finding for using this new app i've been researching on. It's called Sleep Cycle Alarm and it uses the ipod touch's accelerometer to gauge movements when u're sleeping to tell you when your cycle [dozing off, sleeping, deep sleep, back to sleeping and waking up] is... and using that information, it'll choose an appropriate time to wake u up [during your waking up/dozing off stage]... hard to explain but it's supposedly able to make you wake up less abruptly which would naturally cause u to not feel tired through the day.

It has a 30min time period before your actual alarm is set so you can be woken up during that 30min gap... which is pretty awesome if it works. :)

nonetheless, after reading up about it, i decided to try it for myself and document my experience.

Day 1:
Set the alarm to 10.30 and went to sleep at bout 2am. Woke up naturally half way through the night coz a poster i stuck on my wall fell down and made a sound. Went back to sleep and woke up naturally at 9plus wondering how long more i had left to sleep. Woke up again at 10plus wondering why the alarm hadn't sounded yet. Woke at 10.50 and checked the app. Realized i mistakingly set the alarm to 10.30pm. :S stupid me.
Checked the statistics page and i think it's too sensitive coz it showed i was awake all the time [it takes 2 days to calibrate itself to your sleep pattern and mattress quality]

Will try again tonite and for the next week but for what it's worth, i woke up today feeling quite awake... and i can't attribute that to the sleep cycle alarm clock. hahaha :)

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