What Is Sleeptracker?

Sleep­tracker is a watch, but more impor­tantly, it helps you wake up at the best pos­si­ble moment: when you are the most awake dur­ing your sleep.

You see, when you sleep, your brain goes through dif­fer­ent stages and degrees of alert sleep (sim­i­lar to an awake state) and deep sleep. Sci­en­tists call the dif­fer­ent stages of sleep “REM sleep.” The Sleep­tracker mon­i­tors your sleep and deter­mines the best time to wake up based on the time when you are far­thest away from deep sleep so that you wake com­pletely refreshed and not at all sleepy.

So what does Uber­man, or polypha­sic sleep, have to do with this? Well, the biggest prob­lem with polypha­sic sleep (sleep­ing only a half hour every four hours dur­ing the whole day instead of get­ting eight hours of sleep at night) is wak­ing up at the right time. Most polypha­sic sleep­ers try to force their bod­ies to wake up at the right time after a light sleep, but this makes it very dif­fi­cult. Also, using an alarm clock doesn’t help either because you may slip into a deeper sleep stage than you should to be able to stay awake for the next four hours. The answer is using a Sleep­tracker and I’m out to prove that this will not only work, but that it will work well.

Joseph Dowdy