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I bought a Beddit for my husband because I worried about his sleep. He is a busy doctor with late nights, stressful situations, and interrupted sleep from phone calls. After reading that sleep deprivation is our nations new epidemic (akin to obesity), and seeing the research on the importance of good sleep to our overall health, I wanted the Beddit to provide my husband with his own personal data on the adequacy and efficiency of his sleep. Its like having your own sleep study night after night. After watching his results for a few weeks, I decided I wanted one, too.
Turns out that between the two of us, Im generally the poorer sleeper. It makes sense now why some days my brain feels in a fog and some days it feels so alert. I see my sleep depth cycle and my perception of exercise effort change. I watch my ability to stay asleep or to sleep deeply, seeing often that it correlates with my nutrition that day (I use a different app to track nutrition). I notice that if I stay up late and miss my sleep window (Im not a night owl), I dont have a good night. I especially like watching my heart rate over time, indicating when my exercise is getting intense and it is time for some recovery days. Mostly it is just interesting to read the data each morning on the Beddit and decide what I need to do throughout the coming day to have a good nights sleep.
My first two nights with it, I really didnt sleep well. I was worried about the numbers and was trying not to move. Night number three I was so tired I just didnt care anymore, and I slept fine. From that night on, I havent given it a second thought (after opening the app and tapping the sleep button, then tapping on my phone again when Im awake), and it hasnt been an issue in my sleep since.
I havent had any trouble at all with the app crashing. My data seems to be pretty accurate, although it has missed noting some short "away from bed" times in the night for the bathroom. I enjoy reading the daily tips on sleep. I think the biggest benefit to both myself and my husband is that we are reminded daily the importance of taking sleep seriously, and know when we need to adjust sleep habits, particularly after several nights of poor sleep.
Certainly you dont need an app to tell you in the morning if you feel refreshed or not, but the data is interesting and it is helpful to see patterns and the role stress, nutrition and hormones play in sleep, and it is nice to know that an alert mind can be regained with careful attention to sleep (I was pretty sure after having my 4 kids that theyd divided my brain amongst them and I was only left with a shadow of it. I realize a lot of that is sleep deprivation).
Happy dreams.

1Steph about Beddit (for Model 3.0)