Having enough hours of sleep is a huge privilege for anyone.
Why? Because not everybody gets to enjoy it. Whether you use up most of your
time in front of the TV or PC before going to sleep or you have a sleep
disorder, not getting ample sleep hours can disrupt your life. If you are
trying to swallow that sleeping pill as your cure for your sleep problems, you
might want to choose the healthier way -- and techie that is.
There are lots of apps and gadgets that can help you sleep using
different methods, like soothing sounds, hypnosis, meditation, colored lights
and some other proven methods. Below we have listed six apps and gadgets that
may help you sleep.
Check out these three apps that will help you get a good night
sleep using different audio-based techniques.
A self hypnosis and
meditation app popularized by the famous British hypnotherapist Glenn Harold,
Relax & Sleep Well basically consists of recordings of Glenn Harold on
multiple self hypnosis types. The free version comes with a 29-minute self
hypnosis recording for falling asleep with background sounds and Glenn's
calming voice. You will also get a meditation music track of 639 hertz
Solfeggio Sonic Meditation that will surely help you relax. As for the rest of
the tracks, you will have to buy it as in-app purchases. They each cater to
different self hypnosis and meditation needs like relaxing, losing weight,
gaining confidence, staying happy, lucid dreams, and smoking cessation.
The Pzizz app plays a
different soundtrack each time you use it to help you relax and fall asleep
using sounds, music, voices, and binaural beats all together. The makers of the
app claims that it can solve insomnia using its unique random algorithm that
generates a new sound track every time you use it. It also claims that there
are more than 100 billion combinations, which means it's almost impossible for
you to hear the same track twice. Aside from that, it gives full control over
track duration (from 10 minutes to 12 hours) and controls individual
voices/music/sounds and audio type like stereo or 3D. The best part is that the
app is completely free to use now, although it was $9.99 before.
Sleep Genius comes with
tracks created using neurosensory algorithms that help your brain get ready to
sleep and then guide it during the sleeping cycles. This enables you to sleep
easily and deeply the whole night through. It also comes with a unique alarm
that takes five minutes to wake you up energized using varying sounds. The app
is primarily created for NASA astronauts to help them sleep while in space, and
in a NASA 2015 annual publication it was a featured technology. You have to pay
$9.99 to enjoy all of the features of Sleep Genius, including power naps and
sleep tracking.
Here are three gadgets that help you sleep using different
methods.
The main
function of Withings Aura is sleep
tracking, but it also does a great job of helping you fall asleep. Aura comes
with a sensor that tucks under your mattress, which tracks body movements,
heart rate and breathing cycles, etc. Aura itself works as a lamp and releases
light that stimulates melatonin (a hormone responsible for sleep), and it also
has soothing soundtracks to help you sleep. If you want a good sleep tracker
that also helps you sleep, then you might want to consider Aura.
Price: $299.95
Do you
know that the blue light coming from your PC or TV's screen affects melatonin
hormone inversely and makes it hard to sleep afterwards? BluBlocker glasses
block the blue light and also UV light to ensure you sleep easily after using a
digital device and see things more clearly on them. They come in many styles to
suit your styling needs.
Price: $99.95
Drift Light is a bulb
that is designed to help you sleep well. This device emits blue light than
regular bulbs and comes with a 37-minute dimming time (equal to a sunset) to
help you go to sleep. The bulb is capable of emitting light equal to a 40 watt
regular bulb, but it only uses 7 watts power.
Price: $24.95
