Sleep talk now online

[mattbell]

My talk on Sleep Hacking from the May Quantified Self is now online. Thanks, Alexandra!

Matt Bell - Hacking the Sleep/Wake Cycle from Loren Risker on Vimeo.

Comments

Sleeptracker

[janet lai chang (from livejournal.com)]

Hey Matt,

Have you tried/heard of the SleepTracker watch? Someone made a blog recording their experience with polyphasic (both Uberman and Dymaxion, I believe) sleep adaptation, and it was interesting to know that it might make sleep-time-deprived days easier, given that the watch monitors sleep stages and wakes you up at accordingly good/easy times.

By the way, I found your blog after hearing (and getting excited) about Peter Theil's new Foundation for "20 people under age 20", then finding our mutual interests in sleep, health care and Patri's seasteading, AND moving to the Bay Area recently (coincidence?).

I still need to read through the proliferating comments in your health care post...

Re: Sleeptracker

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

Good to meet you.

I'm guessing the SleepTracker uses actigraphy, which is just body motion. Actigraphy is less accurate for sleep stage measurement than EEG, but it's great for detecting movement and snoring. I'm currently doing a side-by-side comparison of the Zeo and the FitBit, which is similar to the SleepTracker.

I do think the polyphasic sleep people are kind of nuts as I haven't met a single person who's strictly adhered to it for more than a month. Almost everyone I know who's done it admits that they take naps periodically or occasionally "crash" to supplement the sleep regimen.

Also, clicking through to your facebook profile, it appears we went to the same high school. Yes, the bay area is great for filtering by interest. Not a coincidence. :-)

Re: Sleeptracker

[janet lai chang (from livejournal.com)]

Fitbit seems like it would be great for people who want to track their daytime activities in addition to sleeptime metrics. I think the main perks for Sleeptracker is the portability, which Fitbit offers, and being able to know the time. Zeo does neither, but is more precise as you've knowledgeably pointed out.

In a Google search for "sleeptracker vs (zeo)", before I could type in zeo, Google suggested "sleeptracker vs. axbo", which you may or may not have heard of (I hadn't!). Axbo looks like another alarm system that uses wristbands and a sensor for tracking...

Anyway I'm sure everyone would like to know how your Zeo vs Fitbit experiment goes in the near future!

There are too many "Matt Bell"s to make it easy enough to find you on Facebook, but if you'd like to converse more, feel free to shoot a quick email to janetlaichang@gmail.com.

Cheers!
Janet

Re: Sleeptracker

[nasu-dengaku.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of the axbo. Good to know.