While browsing the 1000’s of iPhone applications available earlier this month I found a great little app that has the potential to make a big difference for iPhone owners...
Step 1: Set a wake up alarm on your iPhone.
Step 2: Place your iPhone beside your pillow and drift off... While you sleep your iPhone will do all the work! Sensing the motion of your movements during sleep it then makes a recording of them on a graph (see picture). The graph measures the peaks and lows of when you’re in a deep REM sleep, dreaming or near to waking up.
Step 3: Within 30 minutes of your set alarm time the iPhone will sense when you are at the optimum time in your sleep pattern to wake you. Often we wake up feeling groggy and still half asleep, that’s because we peaked to nearly awake and then headed back to sleep, dreaming and deep sleep again.
Looking at my example test on the night of 4th March 2010 – the alarm was set to wake me at 7am. I remember being in and out of sleep, waking up at around 3-4pm in the middle of the night for an hour before falling back to sleep again, just as its recorded. It then woke me at 6:42am as I started to drift back toward deep sleep .
The results – no grogginess or jetlagged feeling - I was awake, alert and ready to hit the ground running!
So far It’s been a true and correct representation of my sleep pattern but to prove its worth its weight in gold, I’ll test it again and post an update soon.
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