Shuffle Your Thoughts to Sleep…
Sleep-onset Reimagined
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you keep your mind off the kind of thinking that keeps you awake, -
your mind wanders from one “random” image to another.
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press the “Put Me to Sleep” button, and -
imagine the diverse things mentioned by the app.
![mySleepButton Home Screen](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mySleepButton-1.1.0-countdown.png)
Let your Imagination Lull You to Sleep
Choose What You Imagine (mySleepButton Pack)
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Simple Things (single words or short phrases), -
Scenes (multi-word phrases, e.g., “Bird on a branch”), and -
Things to Draw.
![mySleepButton modes](/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mySleepButton-1.1.0-home.png)
Play to Sleep
a highly playful child or adult is not going to be depressed. It’s a signal of good emotional health. And conversely, the lack of play and the downer which that evokes in most of us is smoldering depression. […] the evidence is so solid that if you do incorporate healthy play into your life your performance is going to be better, your health is going to be better, your relationships are going to better.
Dr. Stuart Brown
Be an Artist: Imagine Drawing to Sleep
Testimonials
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Marj “OMG – I was astonished. It worked” (May 1, 2017 testimonial) May 3, 2017 All I can say is …. this is the answer to sleepless nights, when the hamster wheel is in overdrive. I feel like I haven’t slept for months, having a really tough time, waking up in the morning feeling exhausted. I heard a quick snip on CBC radio re: Serial Diverse Imaging, interest piqued for ... -
Brett Terpstra, Read and Trust Productivity Blogger, Podcaster, App Developer July 13, 2014 The act of changing completely what you’re thinking about every 15 seconds or so disrupts your brain from being able to get onto what you were thinking about, to get onto those racing thoughts that keep you awake at night… You just start to drift off and fall asleep. I’ve found very ... -
Dr. Tomas Kuca, Anesthesiologist June 24, 2014 “I’ve been trying out your app – It’s a fantastic concept and it’s definitely effective. ” Dr. Tomas Kuca, Anesthesiologist -
Ken MacAllister @kenmacallister May 24 June 20, 2014 Trouble sleeping? The free, http://mysleepbutton.com app from @CogSciApps will knock you out without drugs. I tried it, and it really works. -
James Harcus (Port Coquitlam Firefighter) May 16, 2014 I’ve been using the cognitive shuffle for over a year now. Every time I can’t get to sleep because I have had too much coffee or whatever, I just do the cognitive shuffle and it knocks me into sleep.
How Does mySleepButton Compare to Other Sleep Apps?
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mySleepButton is based on theories about sleep, moods, emotion, motivation, consciousness, AI and more. -
mySleepButton leverages the new cognitive shuffle / somnolent mentation framework proposed by CogSci Apps Corp. co-founder, Dr. Luc Beaudoin. -
mySleepButton is meant to improve upon the well-researched (monotonous) “imagery training” method. -
mySleepButton gets you to serially imagine diverse things. -
mySleepButton is extremely simple. -
mySleepButton is laser-focused on sleep onset; it does not require that you enter personal data or delve into psychological issues. -
mySleepButton has an option to imagine yourself drawing items, which can also induce sleep (and is fun!). -
mySleepButton even has a DIY variant. -
mySleepButton code is also used in a tool available only for sleep researchers, meaning that it contributes to scientific knowledge. -
mySleepButton is designed to help us continuously improve our understanding of sleep onset and to improve the app itself. -
We have a backlog of new CogSci Apps™ features and enhancements to mySleepButton in the works; they are gradually being introduced in product updates. -
mySleepButton deliberately involves a form of play; it’s fun!
Somnolent Information-processing Theory of Sleep-onset
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“ Insomnolent mentation” is mentation that interferes with falling asleep. -
“ Counter-insomnolent mentation” is mentation that interferes with insomnolent mentation (e.g., typical meditation and progress relaxation). That is what a lot of psychological techniques involve. But this is not always sufficient to push you over the edge into sleep! -
“ Pro-somnolent mentation” is thinking in a manner that signals to your brain that it is time to fall asleep. -
Whereas waking consciousness is characterized by a tendency to maintain a coherent awareness, while falling asleep thinking becomes less constrained by coherence, and the brain often produces micro-dreams, a cognitive shuffle . -
Information-processing and experience that the brain tends uniquely to produce during sleep-onset is pro-somnolent. That means that the sleep onset control system contains a positive feedback loop.
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Super-somnolent mentation = Counter-insomnolent + pro-somnolent mentation.
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