Strongly recommended: rose-colored glasses are Redshift/f.lux for the whole world, not just screens.
I’m mildly disappointed with my Oura ring, although I still use it and don’t actively regret purchasing it; I like having “objective” information on my sleep (gathered from actual sensors on the ring, not just me looking at the clock before going to bed and having to guess how long it took for me to go down), but the distillation from objective sensor data to the information the app shows isn’t super high quality: the sleep-stages breakdown barely registers any REM at all (which I don’t think is biologically plausible), and sometimes it fails to register periods of sleep (e.g., if I woke up at 5 a.m., but am sure I dozed off again from about 6 to 7:30, the latter doesn’t register as part of my night’s sleep, although sometimes it gets picked up as “Rest”). It’s interesting that I seem to spend less time “objectively” asleep than I thought, while still seeming to function OK: the app claims I’m averaging 4 hours, 9 minutes of sleep in 5 hours, 21 minutes in bed per night, which, while surely an underestimate, is less than I would have expected after taking into account how often it seems I was clearly asleep but the app didn’t pick it up. I appreciate the developer API on principle, even if I don’t have any practical need for it. (I did write a program to Tweet about my sleep, but that was also just on principle.)
I’m curious how you actually use the information from your Oura ring? To help measure the effectiveness of sleep interventions? As one input for deciding how to spend your day? As a motivator to sleep better? Something else?
Strongly recommended: rose-colored glasses are Redshift/f.lux for the whole world, not just screens.
I’m mildly disappointed with my Oura ring, although I still use it and don’t actively regret purchasing it; I like having “objective” information on my sleep (gathered from actual sensors on the ring, not just me looking at the clock before going to bed and having to guess how long it took for me to go down), but the distillation from objective sensor data to the information the app shows isn’t super high quality: the sleep-stages breakdown barely registers any REM at all (which I don’t think is biologically plausible), and sometimes it fails to register periods of sleep (e.g., if I woke up at 5 a.m., but am sure I dozed off again from about 6 to 7:30, the latter doesn’t register as part of my night’s sleep, although sometimes it gets picked up as “Rest”). It’s interesting that I seem to spend less time “objectively” asleep than I thought, while still seeming to function OK: the app claims I’m averaging 4 hours, 9 minutes of sleep in 5 hours, 21 minutes in bed per night, which, while surely an underestimate, is less than I would have expected after taking into account how often it seems I was clearly asleep but the app didn’t pick it up. I appreciate the developer API on principle, even if I don’t have any practical need for it. (I did write a program to Tweet about my sleep, but that was also just on principle.)
I’m curious how you actually use the information from your Oura ring? To help measure the effectiveness of sleep interventions? As one input for deciding how to spend your day? As a motivator to sleep better? Something else?