Idea: Wake me during light sleep

[Sven Klomp]

Someting like this:
http://www.axbo.com/

Hey, Freerunner has accelerometers, so tie the phone around your arm :-)


On Wednesday 14 May 2008 17:19:38 Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote:
> On 3/12/07, Bartlomiej Zdanowski AutoGuard Ltd.
>
> <b.zdanowski at autoguard.pl> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Ole Tange napisał(a):
> > If you are woken during periods of light sleep then you will feel more
> > rested than if you are woken during deep sleep.
> >
> > To reliably identify when you are sleeping lightly we will need EEG.
> > In a real life scenario that is not possible and it may be OK if the
> > identification is not completely reliable.
> >
> > If we assume that you are more noisy (e.g. turning in you sleep) then
> > we can use the noise level as indicator.
> >
> > I like the idea very much. I though about it a week ago! :-)
> > You must know (and probably do about REM) the thing is, that the cycle
> > with deep and shallow sleep takes about 1,5h. Optimal solution is to
> > sleep during multiplies of 1,5h then you will wake up during shallow
> > sleep and be more rested. My idea was to observe (by sounds and/or
> > vision) sleeping person to guess when he/she fallen asleep. Then the 1,5h
> > counter begins.
> > Idea with ranges is awesome.
>
> I think a combination of this and controlling an external light source
> could manage to wake me up. No matter how loud the sound is, I would just
> continue to sleep... ignoring the alarm. I hope this sleep pattern
> detection is possible. If not, a mechanical lift under the top of the bed
> would help (lifting the bed up to 80 deg so you get on your feat), but I
> can't afford it.
>
> I hope there is somebody that can write an app for sleep state detection:)