Why Your Sleep App Won’t Solve Your Sleep Problems.
Sleep trackers promise improved sleep, but as I discovered in bed, their data alone can’t address deeper issues. DEREK WALTER |06.01.16 | 8:00 AM The inability to get a proper night’s sleep used to unleash a spectacularly twisted punishment. Instead of being refreshed and rested for the new day, I woke up exhausted, groggy, and often with a pounding headache. Yet the day had to begin, and it usually required a two-cup-of-coffee minimum to get rolling. Sleep was the constant thought in the back of my mind, pestering me like a nagging relative. Then there were the 2 a.m. doldrums. …
A sleep scientist says there’s one major problem with sleep tracking apps.
Julia Calderone | Feb. 17, 2016, 11:13 AM Type the word “sleep” into the Apple App store search bar, and hundreds of smartphone and computer applications will appear. There are sleep trackers, smart alarm clocks, and white noise generators — all portable technologies designed specifically to do something that many of us have a surprisingly hard time with: sleeping. About 70 million people in the US suffer from sleep-related problems. Of those, about 60% have a chronic disorder. Nearly two thirds of people in the US own a smartphone. If you’re one of the millions who suffer from restless …
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