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That time I swore my sleep tracking app was lying to me...
For 2 weeks my app said I woke up over 20 times a night, but I felt fine. Then I recorded myself with a cheap camera from Target - turns out I was thrashing around and mumbling every 45 minutes without remembering a thing. Has anyone else caught their own 3 AM habits on video and been totally shocked?
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wilson.joseph1mo ago
...and that's why I don't trust those apps worth a damn anymore. My phone kept telling me I was getting perfect sleep scores every night, but I was dragging through my days like a zombie. So I borrowed my brother's trail cam and set it up on a tripod facing my bed. Caught myself sitting bolt upright at 2:47 AM staring at the wall for a solid three minutes before flopping back down. No memory of it at all. Now I wonder how many nights I've been doing weird stuff like that my whole life without knowing. Makes you think twice about whether "feeling fine" actually means anything.
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michaeld481mo ago
The part about "sitting bolt upright at 2:47 AM" gave me chills. That's super specific. Did you end up keeping that trail cam setup for a few weeks or just that one night? Because I'd be obsessed if I saw that once. Would want to film every night just to see if it happens again.
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uma_williams1mo ago
Oh WOW, that is actually kind of freaky to think about. But you're not giving your sleep app enough credit here - it wasn't "lying," it was just picking up on movement that you didn't remember, which is pretty impressive for a phone sensor honestly. The real lesson is that feeling fine doesn't always mean NOTHING weird is happening, and that's a MUCH scarier thought than the app being wrong.
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