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Sleep Cycle [iTunes] is an iPhone app from LexWare Labs and it’’s available in App Store right now. I first read about this app a couple of weeks ago but didn”t give it a second thought nor did I buy it. Then a user at MacBay, Danish Mac/Apple forum, wrote a little review of the app. After reading the review and all the responses on the app’’s page I bought it right there. I”ve been using the app since Wednesday night and I feel like it’’s working really great.

So what does Sleep Cycle do exactly?

It uses the iPhone/iPod Touch built-in accelerometer to measure what sleep-stage you are in. It measures how much you move around and then translates that into sleep-stages. It works because , when you go into “Deep Sleep” your brain sends a command to your spine that shuts down all your muscles and you are basically paralysed. The reason people sometimes just suddenly wake up with the feeling that they are falling and that is caused because your brain sends the command before you are actually ready to go into “Deep Sleep”. So you place your iPhone at the top of your bed with the display down and it registers all your movements. Right before you go to bed you set the alarm in the application and then it”ll wake you up as close to that time but also when you are in the lightest sleep phase.

It’’s easier to explain how it works with a some screenshots from the application itself:

As you can see, they are recommending placing it at top of the bed just under the bed sheet.

All my experiences with the application has been really great and way better than I expected. I got to admit that my sleep routines/patterns are pretty messed up right now. But here is some screenshots from the application which shows how my sleep pattern looks.

Developers website: Sleep Cycle

Applications Twitter: @sleepcycle

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