I have been using Sleep Cycle app for 3 years now and love looking at the stats. But lately wondering if even tracking sleep is affecting quality of my sleep.
Haven’t used it in a week and have slept better. Or is merely a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy?
@paulopinto That is way too interesting… I can see where you’re coming from. I find that if I don’t log things, then I forget to actually perform the good habits.
@paulopinto wow. That’s an absolutely fantastic point. I will definitely start keeping that in mind the more I keep track of stuff. I’m going to actually evaluate in terms of some things whether I I even need to. After all, a lot of it comes automatically thanks to Apple, so it also depends on how much work you’re putting into it on your part.
@pratik I don’t remember where I saw it, but there is research around sleep apps adversely affecting sleep. I know it did mine when I used them!
@pratik Tracking your sleep doesn’t improve your sleep all by itself, but I have found it very useful for one specific thing: running experiments for interventions that I’m trying. For example, my Oura ring let me see that three hours to digest dinner before going to bed was not sufficient. I need at least four hours. Otherwise my heart rate remains elevated and I don’t get any deep sleep in the first hour. I don’t know how long it would have taken me to just “figure that out” if I didn’t have measurements.
@philipbrewer Of course. I meant, I have monitored my sleep quality and seen correlations with my other activity I have done. I guess now I’m just tracking it for the sake of tracking it and may be affecting quality adversely.
@pratik I used AutoSleep for ~2 years. It was educational but for the most part confirmed what I already imagined regarding my sleep and the influences on it. I stopped tracking a few months ago and don’t miss it. One less data point to track and contemplate with no loss of quality of life, or sleep.
