How do you know if you’re snoring in your sleep? Or what is that disturbance that causes you to wake up?
For some who are constantly frustrated by their quality of sleep, a number of apps and fitness gadgets that monitor their bed time abound.
From tracking the number of hours you sleep and calculating when you need to sleep and wake up to giving you white noise or soothing meditative tracks to fall asleep to and even keeping track of when you are dreaming, the apps and gadgets can do plenty. They are available on both Android and iOS and, depending on your requirements and what you would like to have monitored, there are a number of options.
For one resident of Chennai, who uses a wearable activity tracker, the experience has been useful. “The fitness band I use shows how many hours I sleep and also manages to show my ‘light sleep’ and ‘deep sleep’ time separately. This is extremely useful when we increase activity and workouts as our sleep patterns should subsequently improve in relation to this, and we can observe it on the app,” she says.
‘No substitute’
However, Suresh Kumar, a city-based consultant in neurology and sleep medicine, cautions that apps are no substitute for medical advice.
