You are getting veerrryyyy sleeepppyyy.
This time of year gets my sleep schedule all out of whack. Winter is dragging on, New Year's Resolutions are becoming a well-intentioned memory as I stuff my face with a third (fifth) slice of pizza, and I am staying up later and later as the days slowly get longer and longer. By the time daylight savings starts in March (check your calendars!) I am craving my third (fifth) cup of coffee of the day and daydreaming (and regular dreaming) of afternoon naps. In order to get my sleep affairs in order, I rely on a few different apps to help me fall asleep, stay asleep and get the best sleep I can sleep.
Sleep Cycle alarm clock
Last but not least, a lot of phones these days come with some kind of sleep tracking function. Usually using a some kind of wearable tech works best because it can track your blood pressure through the night and therefore can tell when you’re in your deepest sleep and for how long.
If you don’t have anything to wear to bed (oh my!) the Sleep Cycle alarm clock will track your sleep habits through your phone’s built in motion detector and through sound using the microphone. The best feature of this app is that it uses the information it gathers throughout the night to wake you up at the best possible moment when you are in the lightest cycle of your sleep. This means that you aren’t getting dragged out of a deep sleep by that obnoxious beep-beeping that makes you throw your phone across the room and hulk-smash your nightstand. Everybody wins! Particularly your nightstand.
If you haven’t fallen asleep yet, don’t worry. There is nothing you have to do now. Except download all of these apps.
