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I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

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Re: I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

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Post by darkwater »

jrmg wrote: post #257
darkwater wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Intrigued by your comment and being someone that have a broken sleeping pattern due to both me being a nervous person and having went through raising 2 kids, I went to the linked article hoping to learn something new about my pattern. And it turns out it's just about talking the habit of "siesta" - so having a short sleep period during daytime - and NOT about wake up in the middle of the night naturally. So, I find t…

In the third paragraph: Prior to that, many people across different continents and cultures followed a biphasic sleep schedule. They went to bed in the evening and slept for a few hours, waking up around midnight. Then, they would stay up for a few hours to eat, tend to their children, or add wood to the fire, before finally falling back asleep for their second sleep phase. And it goes on to mention this pre-industri…

Which is absolutely not what many of us experience when awaken by sounds or something else in the middle of the night. Because you fall asleep again shortly after, not after few hours.

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Post by alsetmusic »

jonheller wrote: post #270
brandall10 wrote: post #263

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Huge fan of my Anker Soundcore A20s w/ a mixture of noise colors over conventional ear plugs. Much more comfortable and don't create such a closed in effect. Easy to take in/out if I need to chat w/ a partner. Also a simple noise machine can work wonders.

Agreed. These have been a game changer especially for those with partners who snore. It took a few days but my ears got used to them after that. They are very comfortable. To the person who asked, I can sleep with these in on my side without a problem after I made sure to use the right tip size.

I’ve been using fans as white noise generators for decades. When staying in a hotel room, I run the bathroom fan if it’s loud enough. It’s a great way to drown out thoughts if you have trouble falling asleep.

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Post by brandall10 »

Aardwolf wrote: post #268
brandall10 wrote: post #263

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Huge fan of my Anker Soundcore A20s w/ a mixture of noise colors over conventional ear plugs. Much more comfortable and don't create such a closed in effect. Easy to take in/out if I need to chat w/ a partner. Also a simple noise machine can work wonders.

Is side sleeping possible with these?

They're designed for side-sleeping, but may present a bit of pressure on your ears... they do for me, I've adjusted. It's minor as the materials are quite soft.

They have a newer model that is slightly slimmer w/ more features like active noise cancellation, but has a smaller battery that is marginal for full-night sleeping, so I didn't bother upgrading.

One thing to note is they have some bad reviews due to issues with batteries dying or depleting quickly - my right bud wouldn't charge past 50% after 9 months of daily usage, which only lasted about 6 hours or so before dying. That said, Anker's tech support promptly sent out a new pair with minimal friction, which I received just days after reaching out. I've had 4 months of usage on those new ones without a hitch. Hopefully those kinks have been worked out.

Even if these new ones die outside of warranty, they're so good that I feel I'll have gotten my money's worth and will immediately buy them again.

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Post by preordained »

empireofdust wrote: post #261
babblingfish wrote: post #39

Hey, OP, consider sleeping with ear plugs. They're scientifically proven to reduce night time awakenings due to audio disturbances. [1] [1] https://academic.oup.com/sleep/advance-article/doi/10.1093/s...

Do you use an alarm? Does this affect your wake up?

This is very important question that demands answer

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Post by reactordev »

user_7832 wrote: post #244
flux3125 wrote: post #222

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> Don't listen to him That's the idea

Hopefully the ear plugs are good enough to not hear the "badum tiss" too :)

Unless the joke lands on deaf ears

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Post by brandall10 »

alsetmusic wrote: post #272
jonheller wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. These have been a game changer especially for those with partners who snore. It took a few days but my ears got used to them after that. They are very comfortable. To the person who asked, I can sleep with these in on my side without a problem after I made sure to use the right tip size.

I’ve been using fans as white noise generators for decades. When staying in a hotel room, I run the bathroom fan if it’s loud enough. It’s a great way to drown out thoughts if you have trouble falling asleep.

You might want to consider investing in something like a Babelio sound machine. It's tiny, quite loud, kinder to the environment and will guarantee you have a solution if the bathroom is too far away or the outside noise is a bit too aggressive.

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Post by Windchaser »

lucalouren wrote: post #213

This is amazing. I wish I had this when I was struggling with sleep. I tried a lot of things and stacked them: Mouth taping (stopped snoring immediately), magnesium glycinate before bed, no screens an hour before sleep, keeping the room cold, not eating dinner so late and regular sauna sessions. Individually they helped. Together they made a real difference, loud cars and city noise don't wake me up anymore. I know i…

Yeah, a cool/cold bedroom and not-eating-so-late have been pretty clear helpers for me, and I can very clearly see the differences the days that I eat a lot, late. Also the days when I have drinks after 5pm or so; alcohol is a well-known sleep disturber.

I'm also on a CPAP these days, but always looking for a better solution so I'm not so tethered to technology.

Last: when I'm trying to lose weight, I have to be careful or I'm also waking up from hunger. Only it doesn't show up as hunger at first, just a kind of mildly-anxious alertness - that's from the cortisol your body releases when your blood sugar is too low during the night. And then later, after about an hour awake, I get ravenously hungry.

So now I'm stuck trying to balance this: given that a lot of my physical activity is in the evening, how do I eat enough, early enough, that I don't sleep badly from too-low blood sugar and also don't sleep badly from eating too much too late?

Bodies are weird

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Post by curiouser2 »

simonbarker87 wrote: post #260

I live in a silent area at night and regularly woke up at 3:30 am a couple of years ago. Turns out it was a leading indicator for digestive issues, nothing major and fixed now but it seems 3:30am was the point my body said “I need more food and I don’t care you’re asleep” and according to the dietician I saw this is relatively common with IBS.

wow i've been dealing with this exact problem for years. is the fix just eating a snack right before bed?

Re: I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night

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Post by thegrim33 »

Yet, another day, yet another article hyping up AI tooling. 99.999% chance the author works for a company selling AI products. Let's see ..

Click through to their blog's main page. Click their LinkedIn link, google their current employer ...... "{Company} is a company that provides a platform for real-time search, observability, security, and generative AI"

Aaaaaand there it is. A person whose livelihood is tied to selling AI products writing blog posts hyping up how amazing AI products are. Who could have ever guessed?

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