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Sleep Cycle. (Android link) It tracks your sleep quality and the alarm clock wakes you up in a period you set when it determines it will be easy for you to wake up. Works like a charm, makes mornings easy.
EDIT: link
FAQ:
It uses microphones, so you can leave your phone on your nightstand.
~~No, it won’t work when you aren’t sleeping alone.~~ Apparently it might, TIL
Sleep Cycle. Basically, it's an alarm clock app.
You set up an interval of time when you wanna wake up and the app uses your phone's accelerometer to see when you're in your lightest sleep phase within that interval and wakes you up.
Sleep cycle alarm. I'm sure there are better (free) ones but I've been using this one for almost six years and it works well enough.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
I mean, I have an alarm on my phone that monitors my sleep patterns and wakes me at my most shallow moment within a window of preset time. It can sometimes end up being at odd minutes, but the alarm itself is still set to normal people time.
EDIT: Here's the app I use for Android. The same people used to have it on the Apple Store, but since I don't own one of their products anymore I can't tell you if they still distribute it or not.
Keep a dream journal by your bed and every morning write what your dreams were immediately after waking up. After a while the dreams will start to stick. It took me a few months to be able to vividly recall almost every dream, some people get it in just a few weeks.
Also, use an app like sleep cycle repeatedly and go to sleep at the same time and set an alarm for a time where you're consistently in the 'waking' side of deep sleep. You dream most vivid in ~~the deepest sleep~~ REM and you're incredibly likely to remember. You shouldn't need the alarm after a few times, just be sure to write down every detail you remember.
It also doesn't hurt to make sure you're getting a good nights rest:
Sleep in a dark, quiet room (lights and sounds are stimuli and make getting into deep/rem sleep harder, use white noise if you need sound.)
Make sure you haven't had any caffeine near bed time.
Try to avoid bright lights near bed time, if you use anything with a screen in bed turn down brightness to a minimum. Also f.lux is great.
This is what I remember from researching it a few years back, so my information is probably off slightly but the main points should still be pretty valid.
Here's another app for that. No calculation, just set the time that you want to wake up (latest), and then it will monitor your sleep cycle and wake you up within a 30 minute window based on where you are in your sleep.
I've been using it for about 6 weeks now, and it's pretty neat to have it tracking how you are sleeping, and to know what days are good, what days are bad (it tracks and has graphs/reports that you can look at).
Hey, just thought I'd let you know about Sleep Cycle. I've been using it just as an alarm, but it's cool in that it uses your movement to track your sleep and determine when to wake you up. Maybe you could use it to get more accurate data
Here it is for Android, iOS icon is the same so it may help if you are on iOS. Also, the Android app is far behind the iOS app. Switched to Android a few weeks ago and noticed that myself. Don't expect most of the features they were talking about.
there are apps that you can set to a timeframe that supposedly wake you up at a good time... maybe something worth trying out? :P
i think this is the one i've used in the past
Sleep Cycle is a great app too. Same thing. I use it and I agree on everything /u/solarspeed said.
Also, you will hate it. But you will hate it way less than your regular alarm clock. :)
I haven't actually had a chance to try this little app out yet, but I'll post it on the chance it actually does work:
Yes.
I would post another sleep graph but the data is now horribly out of date due to the fact that the device I did use to use (a 4th generation iPod touch) had its battery pretty much crap out.
I've since moved on to a Samsung Galaxy S4 but I haven't bothered installing Sleep Cycle on it yet (Northcube AB actually listened and made a native Android app for once).
Sleep Cycle è un'app che personalizza l'orario di risveglio in base alle tue fasi di sonno (rilevate dal movimento del tuo corpo) e puo essere limitato in fasce orarie a scelta. Posso assicurare che funziona.
I've had great results with Sleep Cycle, and its for both Android and iOS. Super simple to use, a very fluid layout, and tons of helpful data that it graphs out in a straightforward manner.
FWIW, Sleep Cycle is available on Android. Doesn't seem like the developer cares as much about their Android app as the iOS one, though.
I used this one for a bit.
Your phone needs to be plugged in, on the corner of your bed near you, and it might get messed up if you aren't alone in bed. It monitors how much you move to assume what part of your sleep cycle you're in. When it gets close to your set wake-up time, and you're in the lightest part of your sleep cycle you're likely to be in based on your pattern that night, the alarm goes off. So it might go off up to a half hour before the set time, but you should be more awake when it does.
if you're having sleeping problem then sleep cycle alarm clock is your friend. if you're using nova launcher, you can upgrade to pro version. if you want a great music player, try poweramp. if you're hardcore android fans, titanium back up might suits you.
Also available on Android.
I've been using this app since the new year and it has really helped me figure out my sleep issues. 9/10, would recommend.
Yup, exactly right. Ever since I figured this out, I rarely feel groggy in the morning anymore. I've also used this app, Sleep Cycle on Android but I think it's for iOS too. You choose when you want to be woken up and it has a 30 minute window, or you can choose less. So if you want to be up by 8, it will wake you up between 7:30 - 8 depending on where you are on your cycle. It does that by monitoring your sleep all night by snoring and movement and in my experience it's pretty accurate. I also prefer the alarm, it's gentle and it builds up until you wake up, not like the stock alarms that warn of a nuclear attack.
I have a question about Doze. If I use Sleep Cycle, will Doze still affect my battery? Sleep Cycle basically requires your phone to be plugged in while it is running.
I had to do this when I learned to turn off my various alarm clocks in my sleep. Not a good talent to have!
Every so often I have to change my alarm tone to something different so it jolts me awake to something I'm not used to. Right now my setup is
- Sleep Cycle for a gentle wakeup, which I usually sleep through, then
- the standard alarm clock + my physical alarm clock at the same time. 5 minutes after that,
- Morning Routine comes on in full blast alarm settings with the most obnoxious alarm tone I could find. Usually I get up before this one comes on purely out of fear.
I think the next step for me is to put my alarm clock on the other side of my room, so I have to physically get out of bed to turn it off. I still think I would somehow justify lying back down with my half-asleep logic some days, though.
I found that even taking it in the morning or during the day in the usual 2:1 ratio with caffeine yielded a mild improvement on sleep quality, according to logs from the Sleep Cycle app. The reduction in "edge" from the caffeine seemed to make my days flow better by reducing the caffeine crash effect, which helped me maintain a more regular sleep cycle, which in turn improved sleep quality. I believe most the improvement came from eliminating late-afternoon powernaps. So it wasn't so much a direct effect, but rather an indirect effect via simply improving sleep regularity.
you would like SleepCycle also. Using it every time I am travelling thus getting less sleep than needed, for a smooth gentle wake up
I can't say I don't drink coffee, but I don't always have it everyday.
- Lots of sleep (7-9hrs)
- Exercise in the AM (usually around 7 or 8 am)
Something to consider related to sleep too, is to wake up gradually and not abruptly. I use an app that will play music or a track but start really quiet and it get's louder over 15 minutes. Or you have the option of letting it wake you up during the correct sleep cycle time. It feels like I'm waking up naturally.
Wow that's an answer far from when I posted, haha.
Good for you though. I use the Sleep Cycle. You give it a window (45 minutes for example) and it wakes you up within that window, it listens through microphone or uses the accelerometer to sense which sleep state you're in. Try it out, its basic is free on iPhone and costs $1 on Android. It's worth paying the small price on iPhone to get a year's back up and a bunch of cool statistics though.
This is not a sponsored message, lol. I just love this app. The only downside is: If I were to listen to anything with headphones while falling asleep it will ring in the headphones and not the speakers of the phone.
Yeah, it's that app, there's a bunch on the playstore, but I've bought "Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock, I figured, for 1€, even if it doesn't work, it's not that big of a loss.
Effects could be placebo, but tbh, I don't really care if it's genuine or placebo, as long as it has noticeable effects.
Use sleep cycle or something similar to wake up early. This year I started getting up at 5 and start gym and sleep cycle definitely helped.
Also, for running/jogging if you need help use [c25k program](www.c25k.com).
Download https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en&gl=US and use it to track your sleeping. You will find out if you are rousing from deep sleep more than what is normal, and can find out ways to rectify it from there.
I advise that you don't pay for anything until you're sure it works for you, and you can get the detection to work correctly. I tried the trial and I felt it was great, but didn't think about buying it until recently.
- Cool room, about 60 degrees does well for me
- I like sheets that release some heat, so I just use the top sheet.
- No electronics about 30 minutes before bed. Scientists recommend 1 hour.
- Being vegetarian helped me
- No food or water about an hour before bed.
- If you're thirsty, knock it out before the cut off time
- Orrr sip water. Like something to wet the mouth
- Try to empty the bladder and bowels before bed.
- Daily exercise. For me, weight lifting helps
- Wake up using a smart alarm that listens to your breathing and wakes up you during light sleep. Sleep Cycle is great
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-sleep-tracker/id320606217
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en&gl=US
Could this one work? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
It seems to have similar wording "Its unique design only wakes you up while you’re in your light sleep phase". It has fewer permissions, relatively speaking.
Here's their privacy policy: https://www.sleepcycle.com/privacy-policy/
Learned more about my sleep by analyzing it every night and started to value it more ever since.
aku udah setahunan pake sleep cycle app . Entah karena efek placebo atau apa, rasanya membantu banget sih. Mungkin bisa dicoba
It was called Sleep Cycle (play store link). You can get a free trial for a month but then you have to pay a subscription fee. It had some useful features though.
It sounds like a good ol fashion memory leak. This happened(happens) on the older versions of pixels as well.
I went to the Sleep Cycle app.(free) and haven't had the problem since.
I use sleep cycle
You can select what time range you want to wake up, say between 6.30-7.00 am and it wakes you up with a simple alarm the moment you naturally wake up from your sleep. It's not exactly what you want but I have started to wake up less groggy these days.
Or you can just use your Google Assistant "hey Google, wake me up after 6 hours and 15 minutes"
sleep cycle on Android and ios (link is Android)
It's an alarm clock that you keep running while you sleep, it analyzes your sleep and wakes you up when your sleep is the lightest. I've been using it for months and not once have hit snooze.
Thanks for you reply,
ok regarding the sleep cycle app, you are referring to this one right ?
App
I see it uses the microphone, how's the battery consumption or do you keep your phone plugged ?
J'ai voulu la télécharger pour tester mais il y en a plusieurs qui portent ce nom ou quelque chose de similaire. Tu as un lien ?
Edit : Est-ce que c'est celle-ci ?
SleepCycle: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
Sad sam išao gledati i imaju čak i za mikrofon pa na temelju zvuka rade procjenu! To prije nije bilo. Onda se ne mora stavljati telefon na madrac!
despite alot of comments and references made about sleep cycle, philips hue is not an option on the android version of the app, even the premium version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
At the moment, I am using Sleep Cycle alarm clock by Sleep Cycle AB on my OnePlus 3T (no external device):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
It's not as feature-packed as Sleep As Android, which in a way I feel is advantageous, it's simpler and has a cleaner UI. My only gripe at present is lack of Google Fit integration. It's able to use sound to track movement as well and seems able to do so without requiring the fiddly calibration that Sleep As Android needs.
Any alarm clock app that tracks your sleep pattern and wakes you up during your lightest sleep so you feel much more awake. I've been using Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock for many years now
Honestly, for me at the time it was loop of necessity. I was working 30hrs a week on top of being a full time student in advanced courses, which took up about 50hrs per week. I'm sure you can see how those conflict. However, I know numerous people who've had issues sleeping for various causes and the best thing for them was seeing their physician.
However, if you're looking for a recommendation, I'd say just try forcing yourself to sleep more. Be strict about a bed time, and make sure it's early enough to get the typical recommended 8hrs. It can take a month or two for things to return to normal (in my experience).
If you're interested, I use this app called Sleep Cycle that records how well I'm sleeping and estimates my sleep depth using my phone's accelerometer (they have mic support now, but I don't trust it). They then use that info to graph your sleep quality, time, length, etc over time and use your current sleep depth to wake you up at the best time (given an internal). That means no super harsh wakeups. That's not to say it makes actually getting out of bed easier though ;-) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle It's not free, but there should be a free trial.
Als wekkerapp zou ik Sleep Cycle enorm aanraden.
Ook voor Android trouwens, linkje.
It's Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock. Also on Android. I can't see where it tells you what permissions in requires on iOS, but on Android as far as I can tell, it doesn't request location permissions.
For those who want to track their sleep but don't want to pony up for a Fitbit, there's a great app called Sleep Cycle for Android and iOS (Android version linked, Apple heretics can do their OWN damn search) that tracks your sleep patterns via the microphone and motion sensors. You put your phone face down on your bed while you sleep (doesn't work with more than one person in bed) and it tracks how often and how deep you sleep in a handy line graph. Even comes with an alarm that wakes you up when you're in light stage sleep withing X minutes of your alarm so you don't get dragged out of REM sleep, which can be disorienting.
I know that feeling more than I wish I would. What helped me a bit was a sleep cycle app, especially this one. It wakes you up between a customizable time span when your body is most ready to wake up (not in deep REM). It makes you feel a bit more refreshed.
I just use the clock app that came with my phone, it has a setting to choose when it silences the alarm, up to "never".
It costs money but you could also look at the Sleep Cycle app, might help in waking you up at your lightest sleep https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
You set a "time window" that you need to wake up in and lay it on your bed when you're ready to go to sleep. It uses your phone's sensors to detect when you are moving, and uses that data to calculate when you fall asleep and what phase of your sleep cycle you are in. It wakes you up within your time window while you're at the best part of your sleep cycle, resulting in a non-drowsy and wide-awake feeling each morning.
Download and install Sleep Cycle. It determines your sleep state and wakes you up while you're in your lightest sleep stage.
I use it every day, and my mornings have drastically improved. No more waking up feeling like absolute crap.
Worst case scenario, it's only $1...
Sleep Cycle alarm clock is very useful and actually helped turn me into a morning person
Edit: thank you /u/OneAndOnlyJackSchitt for the links. Unfortunately I'm on mobile so I apologize for the shitty formatting
If you have trouble waking up in the morning, try Sleep Cycle for iOS or Android. It uses your phone's accelerometer to determine when wake you up within a customizable time range of your alarm.
Probably too late but Tunity. You can scan the image on a muted TV, the app figures out the channel, and the audio plays through your phone. Great during football season in bars.
Photomath. It uses the phones camera to capture math problems and solves them. It even walks you through the steps.
Pushbullet is honestly the most useful app I've ever used. It pushes notifications from your phone to other devices (such as chrome on a PC). Got a snap or app alert? You'll see it on your desktop and it will present context options such as "dismiss" (the same options that you see when you view the notification on your phone).
Word lens, now integrated into Google translate. Just point your camera at any text and it tries to translate it instantaneously. Works offline as well, so great when traveling to a foreign country.
Sleep Cycle alarm clock is very useful and actually helped turn me into a morning person
Links for this one:
(iOS) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id320606217?mt=8
(Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
(Website for more info) http://www.sleepcycle.com/
the App Flush gives you locations of bathrooms wherever you are.
Skymap. It shows the constellations and planets that your phone is pointed at.
Google clock- a fantastic alarm, stopwatch, timer and normal clock. It's extremely reliable for getting me out of bed in the morning.
Ingress - a real life game with a great community where you go around with your gps capturing portals at various landmarks in cities. You'll get lots of exercise walking around, and probably become addicted.
Player FM - fantastic free podcast app. I don't know why people pay for podcast apps when this one is perfect.
Pac-man 256 - awesome endless pac-man game. It's wonderful.
Business Calendar - the best calendar app, in my opinion. It shows you bars on the days so you can just glance and see when you have time open. It's hard to explain, but try it and you'll see.
Google keep - best notetaking application.
Office lens - take pictures of stuff and turn them into pdfs. Great for students.
Zedge - ringtones and wallpapers galore.
Quizup - really fun quiz app that lets you do trivia on any subject with people around the world.
Chaos Control- pretty great to do list app with nice widgets.
Poweramp - best music player on android.
Duolingo! It's an app that teaches you a new language
and last but not least
Alien Blue is, in my book, the best Reddit app of them all.
Hope Im not too late to the party!
Tunity.
You can scan the image on a muted TV, the app figures out the channel, and the audio plays through your phone. Great during football season in bars.
Photomath. It uses the phones camera to capture math problems and solves them. It even walks you through the steps.
Pushbullet is honestly the most useful app I've ever used. It pushes notifications from your phone to other devices (such as chrome on a PC). Got a snap or app alert? You'll see it on your desktop and it will present context options such as "dismiss" (the same options that you see when you view the notification on your phone).
Word lens, now integrated into Google translate. Just point your camera at any text and it tries to translate it instantaneously. Works offline as well, so great when traveling to a foreign country.
Sleep Cycle alarm clock is very useful and actually helped turn me into a morning person
Links for this one:
(iOS) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id320606217?mt=8
(Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
(Website for more info) http://www.sleepcycle.com/
the App Flush gives you locations of bathrooms wherever you are.
Skymap. It shows the constellations and planets that your phone is pointed at.
Google clock- a fantastic alarm, stopwatch, timer and normal clock. It's extremely reliable for getting me out of bed in the morning.
Ingress - a real life game with a great community where you go around with your gps capturing portals at various landmarks in cities. You'll get lots of exercise walking around, and probably become addicted.
Player FM - fantastic free podcast app. I don't know why people pay for podcast apps when this one is perfect.
Pac-man 256 - awesome endless pac-man game. It's wonderful.
Business Calendar - the best calendar app, in my opinion. It shows you bars on the days so you can just glance and see when you have time open. It's hard to explain, but try it and you'll see.
Google keep - best notetaking application.
Office lens - take pictures of stuff and turn them into pdfs. Great for students.
Zedge - ringtones and wallpapers galore.
Quizup - really fun quiz app that lets you do trivia on any subject with people around the world.
Chaos Control- pretty great to do list app with nice widgets.
Poweramp - best music player on android.
Duolingo! It's an app that teaches you a new language
and last but not least
Redditisfun is, in my book, the best Reddit app of them all.
Probably too late but Tunity. You can scan the image on a muted TV, the app figures out the channel, and the audio plays through your phone. Great during football season in bars.
Photomath. It uses the phones camera to capture math problems and solves them. It even walks you through the steps.
Pushbullet is honestly the most useful app I've ever used. It pushes notifications from your phone to other devices (such as chrome on a PC). Got a snap or app alert? You'll see it on your desktop and it will present context options such as "dismiss" (the same options that you see when you view the notification on your phone).
Word lens, now integrated into Google translate. Just point your camera at any text and it tries to translate it instantaneously. Works offline as well, so great when traveling to a foreign country.
Sleep Cycle alarm clock is very useful and actually helped turn me into a morning person
Links for this one:
(iOS) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleep-cycle-alarm-clock/id320606217?mt=8
(Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
(Website for more info) http://www.sleepcycle.com/
the App Flush gives you locations of bathrooms wherever you are.
Skymap. It shows the constellations and planets that your phone is pointed at.
Google clock- a fantastic alarm, stopwatch, timer and normal clock. It's extremely reliable for getting me out of bed in the morning.
Ingress - a real life game with a great community where you go around with your gps capturing portals at various landmarks in cities. You'll get lots of exercise walking around, and probably become addicted.
Player FM - fantastic free podcast app. I don't know why people pay for podcast apps when this one is perfect.
Pac-man 256 - awesome endless pac-man game. It's wonderful.
Business Calendar - the best calendar app, in my opinion. It shows you bars on the days so you can just glance and see when you have time open. It's hard to explain, but try it and you'll see.
Google keep - best notetaking application.
Office lens - take pictures of stuff and turn them into pdfs. Great for students.
Zedge - ringtones and wallpapers galore.
Quizup - really fun quiz app that lets you do trivia on any subject with people around the world.
Chaos Control- pretty great to do list app with nice widgets.
Poweramp - best music player on android.
Duolingo! It's an app that teaches you a new language
and last but not least
Alien Blue is, in my book, the best Reddit app of them all.
Edit: Thanks for the gold!
Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock does the same thing, but instead of assuming your cycles are 'about 90 minutes', it uses the phone's accelerometer to work out what phase you're in precisely.
You could try this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock
> ML isn't going to build apps that people interact with every day
ML isn't great at building full apps for users itself, I agree. It's very good at making them "smarter" though and it's perfectly applicable to everyday use cases.
A few example applications of ML:
> it isn't going build software
Depends how you define "software". I think a sufficiently advanced model can be classified as "software". For example a neural network that's being trained to play video games from scratch is essentially writing software.
> ML isn't even good at tasks that aren't repetitive or cyclical
I'm not sure how constrained you intend this to be. It sounds like you think it's not good at anything that doesn't follow a relatively simple pattern. AlphaGo is a pretty damn good example of something that isn't repetitive or cyclical I think.
> There are cyclical parts of our jobs, but the guts of what we do is writing new logic to solve new problems. This won't change, and ML isn't even capable of addressing these tasks.
I think this is true but it's ever so quickly becoming less true. A few years ago, writing a game AI meant digging into the guts of what to do when. These days writing a game AI means writing a neural network that can learn to play a game. The capabilities of machine learning are progressing incredibly fast.
Thanks. Also, can you elaborate why you preferred Sleep Cycle over Sleep as Android?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
This one? There are a couple called Sleep Cycle
Here it is for Android.
I've tried a layered alarm approach and it seems to work. It's a bit more of a headache to stay ontop of, but it works for me at least.
My first alarm is through the android app Sleep Cycle. I put some sound of birds chirping that is set to fade in. The way that app works, is it determines the best time to wake you up within the stage of your sleep where you are the most wakeful. This makes it so when you wake up, you're less likely to be tired.
At the same time, I have the HF3520 Phillips Wake Up Light. This provides a natural looking artificial sunrise to go along with it. It's expensive, but worth it.
After that, I usually have 3 or 4 more alarms go off within 2 minutes of each other. First of these is a pretty gentle alarm. The rest are a louder sound.
Then the last alarm I have is the most loud and obnoxious one I could find. This way, you know when you hear it that there are no more alarms coming after, and that you have to get up. You could use your bed shaker alarm to work in conjunction with this.
So the whole idea of this, is to pull you gently out of your sleep, and then hammer you with alarms once you're more conscious.
After waking up, the Blue-Light box is nice . It's almost like having a cup of coffee. I admit I don't use it all that often anymore though, just because it means I have to wake up earlier. The one I picked up, though, was the Philips goLITE BLU , which was the previous model of this one I linked. I realize I sound like I work at Philips now, but oh well. It was nice because it's portable, insanely bright, and holds a good charge.
Also a note, that android App, Sleep Cycle, also has some built in sleep sounds that automatically turn off when it determines you have fallen asleep. It also tracks your sleep cycles. Along with that, the Philips Wake Up Light has a sundown mode. Basically, you tell it to start 30 minutes(adjustable) before you want to go to bed, and it simulates a sunset. This helps to naturally get you ready to sleep.
Something else you could try, I recently saw this alarm clock that actually shocks you awake. Supposedly it works real well. It's called the Pavlok and it's currently in Indigogo. I also found these Gauss glasses which filter blue light wavelengths. Haven't tried them yet, though.
Lastly, check things that emit light in your room. The little light on your TV, your router, charging lights, etc. As a computer geek, I've got like 20 of these things blinking away when I shut the lights off. Supposedly, they mess with your body's circadian rhythm. So turn those off when you can, or cover them with electrical tape when you can't. Use apps like Twilight for your phone, and f.lux for your PC to cut back on blue light as much as possible if you have to use these devices before bed.
Sorry for the long-winded post. And I know this sounds way overkill. But it works for me as long as I stay ontop of it.
edit: Fixed the Philips Golite Blu link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
Never linked to an app before so let me know if that doesn't work
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en_US
Here’s the android link in case it hasn’t already been posted
Honestly its been working really great for me for years and I'd highly recommend it to absolutely everyone. The accelerometers on modern smartphones are really good at tracking movements so as long as you don't mind keeping your phone on your bed while you sleep (I find its best near my pillow) they can pretty accurately track your movements all night. The app itself also surprisingly takes up very little battery in the background overnight.
Basically within the wakeup window it just waits for you to start moving around which signals you are coming out of your deep rem cycle and it triggers the alarm. Combine that with the fact the alarm itself increases in volume starting off very quietly and raising to maximum volume over about 3-5 minutes it's really crazy how well it works once you get the hang of it. Honestly a lot of mornings I think I'm waking up naturally until I hear my alarm softly going off in the backround (I use nature sounds so its super subtle) and realize that's probably actually what woke me up.
As far as recommendations go I only have android so I cant recommend for ios but Sleep cycle IMO is the absolute best. Really clean layout and it has great tracking of your actual sleep over time. You can see graphs of things like how deeply you slept overnight or how long it took you to fall alseep. You can also create tags that you can quickly tick off at nights when your setting your alarm to make the stats much deeper.
Create tags for things like "Went to the gym" , "Drank alchohol" , "ate late" and then using your sleep metrics you can see stats on those tags. It also has a quick popup as you are dismissing the alarm in the mornings, basically a smile, frown, and neutral face. You dismiss the alarm by tapping one based on how you feel waking up that morning and it adds that to the metrics. Add that all together and you can see cool things over time like maybe you sleep 40% deeper when you workout at night but you wake up with a frown 75% of the time. Or you can look at graphs of your sleep on nights when you drank alchohol vs sober nights and compare. It gets pretty interesting if you're willing to mess with it.
Obviously all of those settings are optional, you can use as much or as little of em as you want. The only problem with that app is i'm pretty sure it was on a subscription model last time I tried it and I just didn't think it was worth the money. This app is the one I use now. I'm pretty sure it is free but I may have payed a couple bucks for it way back when. Its pretty much exactly the same as the other app but it's just not as polished. Overall still great and highly recommended.
Sorry for the wall of text again, I love sleeping.
I don't sleep with my watch on, but I do recommend this sleep cycle app. It's pretty phenomenal. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
Try taking a look at this other Redditor's post who had a similar problem to you here. In particular /u/redlp2 recommended this app (android) which I have been using for almost two years now and works pretty well for me, and on the off chance I sleep through it, I also have alarms set every 15 minutes for almost 2 hours until it's time to get up after that.
Here's the link. If the link doesn't work, the name is Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock, created by Northcube AB
How does this compare to Sleep Cycle alarm clock?
Since apparently your attempt to call a bot to link to it failed, here's the official website, the iOS app, and the Android app.
here's a link (it's worth the price).
I don't wet at night so I never really worry about it
I'm that cynical guy that never believes anyone or trusts anything til I do it myself, and I finally downloaded the sleep cycle app on Android a couple months ago and holy shit.
It is scary how well it works. I took a screenshot of last night, and as you can see it says I slept like shit. Which I absolutely did. And went to bed too late. (Don't judge.)
I wanted an alarm as I didn't want to sleep away my whole Sunday, and you set it for a half hour window. I set it for 11:30-12:00, and it detects (which I know, it really really sounds like a crock of shit) when you're sleeping your lightest and softly starts the alarm. I think it went off at around 11:40.
I'm not saying the technology is perfect, but I do know that waking up at the top of a sleep cycle is better than waking up when I'm in a deep sleep. I only slept five hours or so of shit sleep but when the alarm went off an hour ago I felt like I was just barely on the asleep side of the asleep/awake line. Was able to get right up, make coffee, instead of being groggy and feeling like I got hit by the Saturday night truck.
Give it a shot ya cynics, thank me later.
Edit: I wanted to also give you an example of a good night's sleep.
Even without the app I would have told you that was an amazing night of sleep. I guess where I get the most benefit is it's ability to take the known correlation between body movement and your body's location in the sleep cycle, and wake you up when you're already nearly awake.
There are others as well, but take a look at
From the play store ( link )
There is also Sleep Cycle if the other one doesn't work.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en&gl=US
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You can thank me later
This!! Oh my goodness. One day I slept by a window and my face was blasted by the sun. I still remember how peacefully and happily I woke up. And zero temptation to go back to sleep, even though I was on 4-5 hours of sleep. It was amazing. The annoying thing is that now, my room has floor to ceiling windows for this exact reason (sleep has ruined my life in so many ways) and I leave the blinds wide open. But because I'm facing the North, not the East... It only works 30% of the time. Glad to hear these clocks work - Im gonna try to buy one today!!
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(p.s. I have slept through those old school alarms, those alarms set to match your biorhythm (it worked at first - you might like it. I'll screenshot it below), college fire alarms, one fire alarm that was set several decibels above whats allowed because it would be physically painful to hear. Hurt while I was awake. Did nothing while I was asleep lol. Um, I've slept through those vibrating alarms, although I'm looking at the ones youre supposed to put under your mattress, and Im going to try putting it under my sheets instead lol. I've tried so many things. I completely understand and empathize. I think 'sound sleepers' used to refer to us back in the day. Our hearing is also asleep while other people's are not.)
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Things that have worked.
- Somebody waking me up. (Try paying your R.A.)
- The biorhythm alarm (suuuch a good couple of years there, while it worked.)
- Drinking energy drinks before I go to sleep (Only in emergencies, like the night before your S.A.T.s. You can't help but wake up 4 or 5 hours into your sleep.)
- Taking valerian root pills to force myself to sleep, so I can sleep early and inevitably wake up by that time.
- The SUN. The dang SUN. Do not underestimate how powerful the sun is. Its crazy. Once you experience it once... You'll understand the love. I used to sleep on the floor in my living room in my old apartment, on some days where I really needed to get up, just because it had the only window the sun would beam through in the morning. I'd lay my face right on that spot. Here's hoping that alarm is just as good.
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Sorry for the long message. I just empathize SO SO much.
(try one of these tonight. They're free and recommended by someone who's been in your shoes. They might work for you.)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
There are apps that wake you up between one of your sleep cycles and you feel well rested that's the one I use
You're probably waking up in the middle of a deep sleep cycle. Download the sleep cycle app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
So, I'm currently trying out Sleep Cycle: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
It's not bad so far. Only been using it for a week.
Sleep Cycle is another good app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
Sleep Cycle: Sleep analysis & Smart alarm clock | 4.5 rating | Free with IAP | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
> Relax, sleep better and wake up feeling rested with Sleep Cycle, the smart alarm clock. Track sleep from bedtime to morning, and get detailed analysis with the app that makes waking up in the morning ...
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Sleep Cycle: Sleep analysis & Smart alarm clock | 4.5 rating | Free with IAP | 5,000,000+ downloads | Search manually
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I haven't used it in a while but I remember an app called Sleep Cycle that was quite good at this. I think it's this one
I use the Sleep Cycle App But I know there are a few different ones, all the same concept though.
It's called Sleep Cycle. Not sure if it's also on iOS.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
This one? Doesn't it need some smartwatch or similar?
I use an app called "Sleep cycle"( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle ) it helps me wake up at the best possible time that i will feel less sleepy
Excuse moi, j'ai tenté un ninja edit que tu n'as pas du voir juste avant que tu me réponde, c'est celle-ci ?
Smartphone with microphone is enough, in can discern how you move or not move around the bed while you sleep, It can even roughly detect how long you are in each sleep stage (shallow, deep, REM etc) and you can check out the graph in the morning.
I prefer Sleep Cycle. Same basic concepts, but different.
Tem um aplicativo so para isso chamado sleep cycle. Comigo isso nao funcionou, mas vc pode tentar. Play store
you can download the app...
i think you should be able to.
let me check.
yup, you can.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
If you're on android, try Sleep Cycle
It does come on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
(For Android)
[Sleep Cycle]! Love this alarm, it's brilliant.
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edit: Also, it responds to the use of 24h time, which is just plain superior.
I've only ever used a sleep cycle calculator and never knew something like this existed.
This app does precisely what I want, but I'd want it in a wearable. Any ideas?
I use Sleep Cycle and it works fine for me... haven't tried the stock Clock app though.
Try this app. Let me know if you have any questions
Will give it a shot. Is it this one? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle&hl=en
TL;DR at bottom :)
I think the danger sometimes is information overload. It's easy to end up tracking way more than you actually need to make decisions. So here's some food for thought about how much time you want to spend analyzing data:
For sleep do you want to analyze every hour in depth? Or just know whether you slept well or not? If you want to try to avoid waking up in deep sleep an app like Motion X for iOS or Sleep Cycle for Android will wake you up at the best times for relatively cheap. They also "analyze sleep patterns", but... I don't really look in depth at those very often. I mostly use them as an alarm clock when needed.
I think the sleep alarm app works well. For something so cheap, my opinion is that if it works the way they say it does great, if it's placebo great (I feel better), if it doesn't work then I still need an alarm clock so oh well.
For training do you train in specific heart rate zones, calculate specific recovery times between sets based on heart rate or anything like that? Or do you just want to know if your training session was too little, too much or just the right stimulus?
Measuring progress on your actual exercises is a simple low tech option. I.e. did you squat more, did you sprint faster, etc. A pencil or your phone works well for that. Tracking these improvements plus changes in bodyweight can tell you a lot about what to do with diet as well.
Too few nutrients generally cause exercise performance to stagnate or decline (poor sleep causes same). Overeating typically causes weight gain without improvement in exercise performance. So if you gain a little weight but squat performance is increasing then you can assume it is at least partially muscle gain.
If it would be appealing to track something once a day that can show you what's going on with sleep quality, exercise quality, recovery, etc. then HRV would be a great option. HRV will not tell you directly what to do to sprint faster, but it will help keep you from sprinting too little or too much so that you can keep making incremental progress. Or, if you want to sprint more often it will help indicate that you aren't sleeping/eating/recovering enough to sustain that level of activity.
TL;DR
- Write down the performance of your first working set in weights/sprints/etc. Try to beat it next time
- Weigh yourself and combine with above to know to eat more or eat less (or just higher quality!)
- Measure HRV briefly each morning to know if sleep, nutrition and recovery are sufficient to sustain your goals
- Also if your exercise is too much or too little
- Get a sleep cycle alarm app (they're free or cheap)
I have a feeling I got off on a tangent somewhere, so hopefully this helps! By the way, (full disclosure) I have no affiliation with the sleep apps, but I do put out an HRV app at Elite HRV and there are other HRV apps out there as well.
ETA: formatting
Really? My search only showed one. It's the one developed by Northcube AB.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
It looks like it is on Android under the name "Sleep Cycle alarm clock". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
This one : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.northcube.sleepcycle
I'm using it on iOS, the update has been there for a long time, but I don't know if the android version has it.