Recently a friend turned me on to an app called "Sleep Cycle Alarm Clock (opens iTunes)." It runs on your iPhone while you're asleep and produces the data visualized in this graphic.
You simply set it on the bed next to your head you before you start sawing Zs. It uses the motion sensor to see how much you toss and turn during the night, and somehow interpolates all of that data into when you're deep sleeping and when you're not.
As an added benefit, and since no one really wants to have all that cellular antennae stuff beaming everywhere in your brain while you sleep, the developers suggest you put the phone in airplane mode.
I'm loving that! No more 6AM text messages from my nephew on the east coast! No more drunk calls from Japan! Sweet!
So not only do I get to sleep all night now, but I get to start tracking my actual sleep patterns. I'll post more data after I've used it for a while…
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Ha!