If you have read my story, you know that my insomnia often feels like an engine that refuses to shut down. The doctors call it “hyperarousal.” I call it “tired but wired.” You are exhausted, your eyes are burning, but your heart rate is just slightly too high, and your mind is looping through thoughts […]

If you have spent any time reading my articles, you know that I am skeptical of wrist-based sleep tracking. Devices like the Oura Ring Gen 4 or the Apple Watch are incredible feats of engineering, but they are essentially guessing. They look at your heart rate, your movement, and your temperature, and they use an […]

For the biohacker or the desperate insomniac, the Holy Grail of sleep tracking is the EEG (Electroencephalogram). We know that wrist wearables like the Apple Watch or Oura Ring gen 4 are just guessing. They look at your heart rate and movement and infer what your brain is doing. But to truly know if you […]