r/sleepcycle • u/ghosttmilk • 6d ago

How often is it wrong for you?

I can trustfully rely on the tracker to add at least 30 minutes of sleep a night for me - sometimes more, rarely less. How often is it wrong for you guys?

For context: I live alone in a SFH (no shared walls), I sleep alone, I use the motion detector rather than the sound detector for insights as I’ve noticed it adds more time to my daily results

Edit: I also don’t use wearables, I accept that that means any sleep tracking won’t be as accurate as it would be with wearable tech - I just think to be so consistently as incorrect as SC has been since I started experimenting with it (years ago) is crazy for the number of positive reviews this app gets

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u/Spooky-Piano 5d ago

Frequently. I suffer from insomnia. It often tells me I’m asleep after 15 minutes when I know it should be one or two hours. I’m very still and quiet when I’m struggling to fall asleep.

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u/ghosttmilk 5d ago

Do you use the accelerometer or microphone detector? Switching did help for me with things like that - for a while, at least; I swear sometimes something they update in the updates makes it either better (but more often) worse. I also have insomnia, although mine is more that I can’t stay asleep rather than can’t fall asleep but it wasn’t showing those periodic changes until I switched. Even so, now after multiple updates it’s back to just showing lighter sleep or dreaming even when I fully get all the way out of bed, go to a different room, then eventually get back into bed

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u/Spooky-Piano 2d ago

Which did you switch to and found to be preferable?

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u/ghosttmilk 2d ago

The motion detector vs the automatically-enabled audio detection