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This post from the Hypnagogia blog is part of our Featured Blogger initiative. In this entry, they discuss how alcohol consumption lead to an increase of their sleep apnea index (AHI) and a decrease in sleep quality. A nightcap helps you sleep, right? Well, yes…but not they way you think it does. During my initial [...]
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Making sure that teenagers get enough sleep is a daunting task. Today, teenagers have a myriad of demands to stay awake and cheat sleep, such as job commitments, school work, family obligations and the powerful distracting force of the Internet. While excessive daytime sleepiness and a hindered ability to focus and excel in school are [...]
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This article comes from the team at REM Sleep Labs, an accredited sleep testing center with Sleep Centers in Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Diego Their goal is to develop and maintain high quality healthcare service and provide education to the public and healthcare professionals. Being tired isn’t exactly out of the ordinary for [...]
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Editor’s note: When I came across Laurie Frick’s sleep inspired works of art, I thought “Yes! This is a whole new way of using and looking at Zeo data that we never imagined–but here it is!” I was even more excited to learn that Laurie has been at this for years, using bio-feedback and bio-rhythms [...]
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Today’s post comes from Seth Roberts, a professor of psychology at Tsinghua University in Beijing and a self-tracking champ. Recently, Seth went to a Quantified Self Meet-Up, saw a presentation by a Zeo user, and wrote this post as a result. He blogs about his and others’ experiments at blog.sethroberts.net Christine Peterson’s poster of her [...]
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Today’s post comes from Tim Post of Lucidipedia, an online educational community that teaches lucid dreaming to help anyone learn how to lucid dream, or improve their own techniques. We’re really excited to introduce him and Lucidipedia to the Zeo community at large; check them out on Twitter and read their review of Zeo. Sweet [...]
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Since November is Jaw Joints-TMJ Awareness Month, we asked Stacy Stone, founder of TMJ Hope, an information & support website for TMJ disorder patients, to share with us what TMJ disorder is and how it can impact sleep–especially among women. What is TMJ Disorder? Temporomandibular joint disorder (or TMJ disorder) is a painful disorder that [...]
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Today’s post is an interview with Kevin Kruse, a leader of the e-Patient Connections conference. At this year’s conference, Kevin talked about his CPAP use and presented his sleep data on stage with Ben@Zeo and we wanted to share his story with you. Kevin Kruse (right) and Ben Rubin presenting at ePatient Connections 2010 You’ve [...]
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Veterans’ Day: a time to reflect on the sacrifices that millions of service-men and -women have made for their friends, relatives, and neighbors. In the sleep world, one of the first things that comes to mind, regrettably, is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Steve@Zeo recently had a chat with Dr Wil Pigeon, Director of the [...]
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Polyphasic sleep refers to the practice of sleeping (or napping) multiple times during a 24hr period instead of getting all your sleep at once (a.k.a Monophasic sleep). We recently picked up on a fascinating post mentioning Zeo from the “Polyphasic Sleep” Google Group and asked the author, Oki, for this guest post as a way to launch [...]
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