![]() ![]() It even tells you to account for the 15 minutes it takes on average for people to fall asleep. What you do is put in the time you have to be up and the app will calculate when you should go to bed to get the best amount of rest. ![]() Surprisingly, how much sleep you get, isn’t the most important factor. This is a great little site that helps you understand the very best time to go to bed to get a good night’s rest. The effort of concentrating on both exercises tends to silence the "inner voice", and consciously relaxing muscles tends to remove blocks to sleeping that I didn't know were there the nights that you can't sleep, you're probably laying there in bed clenching some set of muscles without realizing it.The time change and early darkness as fall shifts into winter always throws off my sleep cycle. Most nights, I'm asleep in just a couple of minutes my wife frequently remarks on how fast I go from alert to dead asleep. If it fails, I restart the exercise, with a 4-count on the breaths, and so on. I'm usually asleep before it hits the legs. At the same time, I sort of visualize a wave moving slowly down my body from the top of my head, and where ever it touches, I relax those muscles. I consciously slow my breathing and hold after each breath in or out for a 3-count. The second thing is a falling-asleep routine that I think is probably closer to self-hypnosis than simple relaxation. The jury's still out on its effects on serotonin, but anecdotally, it seems to help me sleep easier and more deeply. I use L-Theanine capsules in combination with caffeine to sharpen my thinking it works great, but if taken without caffeine, it can be a bit of a relaxant/depressant, which can make it easier to sleep. Sometimes I wish I had someone to knock me out cold with a baseball bat, or that inner voice that keeps talking and planning and refuses to STFU. But would be a rapt audience to anyone who can share any information along these lines.įor me, the 14 minute rule just does not work. Sure this is a very complicated problem, even cataloging what all those reactions are is a huge task. Rather than smothering fatigue signals with a stimulant I would like to make my body more efficient at sleeping. You would be more refreshed for the same amount of sleep, or need less. I am sure there will be a lot of benefit to speeding those reactions up. I am curious to know about the opposite: chemicals, or enzymes if you will, that catalyzes the important reactions that takes place when we sleep. Caffeine, at least, I know work by blocking those receptors that signal the feeling of sleepiness. These days stimulants get a lot of press, from adderall to ritalin to modafinil etc., not to mention plain old caffeine. The following is only peripherally related, but would appreciate nuggets of knowledge. I'd be happy to answer any questions you guys have, or listen to any suggestions - I'm thinking about putting an FAQ on the site for common issues, but haven't gotten around to it yet. Without the encouragement of the few comments I received here and on reddit, as well as the inspiration of all the awesome projects HN members created, this never would have happened. It seems that has come full circle - HN was the first community to ever see the site in action. I even had a brief affiliate agreement with a YC company, but unfortunately the terms didn't serve either side as well as I would have liked-we parted amicably. I serve approximately 30,000 hits per day according to Google Analytics, and I've been covered by several news outlets and blogs (LifeHacker, MSNBC, The Toronto Star, TheNextWeb, CNet and more). These days, I'm ramen profitable-a small webapp isn't a startup, but the supplemental income from the occasional banner click is nice. Through the feedback and improvements suggested from my HN post (and later a reddit post), I launched and became mildly popular on Reddit and StumbleUpon. I didn't expect too much to come of it, since I created it originally to learn jQuery and for my own personal use. A while ago, I submitted a request for feedback on a weekend project I had, designed to help you wake up more refreshed.
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