Through It All
Posted: April 4, 2010 at 6:32 am | Tags: waking up effortlesslyJust a note to let you know that I’ve been using the Sleeptracker watch a great deal and it has been great. I have found that even when I don’t use it that my body seems to have had enough biofeedback that it knows when to wake up.
This morning, in fact, I woke up early than normal and I believe if it weren’t for the Sleeptraker watch that I wouldn’t be up right now getting a few things done and I’d be asleep right now.
I’ve been setting it so that I get a forty-minute nap. I set the alarm to go off an hour from now, tell it to wake me 20 minutes earlier and it does the rest. It’s really great!
We have moved to a new apartment and I’ve just been super-busy. I’m glad I had this time to check in and blog.
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Greetings! Thanks for sharing your experiences on here. Sounds like this watch could really be great for polyphasic sleepers. I just had a quick question I was hoping you could answer: does the sleeptracker watch work for shorter naps in the 20–25 minute range? I’d prefer to try the uberman schedule instead of the dymaxion, but I’m concerned that the watch wouldn’t work for such a short interval naps (and spending $150+ on a “useless” watch doesn’t appeal to me). Thanks for any info you can provide, and good luck with your sleep!
Hi Mike and thanks for commenting. This watch is really great for polyphasic sleepers because it allows you to set the length of your nap with no problem. Let’s say you don’t want to nap more than 25 minutes and in 25 minutes it will be 3:25 pm. Just set the watch for 3:25 pm with a window of 15 minutes to wake you (which gives you 10 minutes to becauseour doze off and flop around if you like). When your body is ready to wake, your arms will move more and the watch will go off. If you didn’t get enough sleep and your arms aren’t moving, the watch will wake you at 3:25 pm anyway. You can’t lose. It’s like letting nature wake you up (your arm makes the watch alarm go off) or science waking you up (the alarm makes you wake up since your arm didn’t).
The watch is far from useless because my wife wears it most of the time unless I need it for a nap. She loves it. She wakes up early to get on the phone to do interpreting and she needs to be alert when she gets up because groggy means poor quality work and she gets 911 calls sometimes. She loves it.
I love it because it works with my own body’s sleep rhythm. It’s fantastic. Even if I weren’t interested in polyphasic sleep, it would be a worthwhile investment simply because of how alert and rested I feel…but that could also be the polyphasic sleep, too, but my wife isn’t a polyphasic sleeper so I will take her word for it.