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Sleep Trackers Can Make it Harder to Fall Asleep

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday February 18 2020, @09:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the irony dept.

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https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/805291279/losing-sleep-over-the-quest-for-a-perfect-nights-rest

If you're having a hard time falling asleep, that sleep tracker on your wrist might be to blame.

And there's a name for this new kind of insomnia of the digital age: orthosomnia.

It's "when you just really become fixated on having this perfect sleep via tracker," said Seema Khosla, medical director at the North Dakota Center for Sleep. "And then you start worrying about it, and you wind up giving yourself insomnia."

[...] But in an irony of our digital lifestyles, for some people, perfecting that sleep score becomes an end unto itself — so much so that they can lose sleep over it.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday February 18 2020, @10:00PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday February 18 2020, @10:00PM (#959678)

    I used to make apnea monitors, they would alarm LOUDLY when an apnea happened, or... when the patient rolled over and detached the sensors: guess which happens more often.

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