IF you have been on social media lately, you have likely been swamped by the number of users playing the hottest free-to-play mobile game.
Putting health at the forefront, it aims to gamify your well-being and encourage good habits.
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Pokémon Sleep has added the monster-collecting aspect to sleep, encouraging people to stick to a good sleep schedule.
You input your desired bedtime that you hope to stick to, and Pokémon Sleep will give you bonuses for how often you stick to it.
It recommends that adults sleep for 8.5 hours a day, and children for 11 hours, and you’ll attract more Pokémon the better you stick to these times.
However, there is a bit of an issue with this. Your timer doesn’t start when you start trying to sleep, but rather when it thinks you have fallen asleep.
It judges this by how much you move, though not everyone stops moving once they fall asleep.
In order to check this, you also need to keep the app running while you sleep, and also have your phone in the bed with you.
This can make you liable to kick it out of bed and cause damage to it, so users need to be careful.
In the morning you will find that Pokémon have gathered around your Snorlax, who sleeps alongside you every night.
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The Pokémon you find are based on how well you slept and how powerful your Snorlax is.
You can encourage sleeping Pokémon to help you by feeding them biscuits, and these Pokémon will collect berries for your Snorlax and ingredients for cooking.
The monster collecting is just the catalyst to encourage good habits and improve the user’s sleep.
It works as a decent tracker by itself, and the rewards you gain are just extra incentive to stick to your bedtime.
However, there are three sleep styles, dozing for when you move, snoozing for when you make noise, and slumbering for when you are still and quiet.
This means it can be difficult to pick up different Pokémon as you have no control over the way you sleep.
It also can record all the noises you make in the night so you can tell just how much you’re moving, farting, and snoring.
Just from the nature of recording yourself for so many nights, you should see a variety though, as long as you stick to it.
Ultimately the mission of Pokémon Sleep, to encourage people both young and old to keep a good sleep schedule is admirable.
In our busy lives sleep is often one of the first things to be neglected despite it being one of the most important for our overall health.
We can understand why people are hesitant to download it, as it’s another method a big company is using to collect user data.
But if you’re someone who struggles to find the time to sleep, this could be the encouragement you need.
Written by Georgina Young on behalf of GLHF.
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