Matthew Walker

And orthosomnia is about getting so obsessed with getting your sleep perfect and your sleep straight that it causes an insomnia-like syndrome.

Now, I don't know.

I think the press has made more of this than there is.

It probably is about 5% to 7% of the population.

I would say at that moment in time,

do one of two things.

Either take the ring off entirely and just say, I'm going to get my sea legs back underneath me, get some cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia.

And when I'm confident, I'll put the ring back on.

Or don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Keep wearing the ring.

Try to say to yourself, only on, let's say, a Sunday afternoon, will I open up the app and look historically what's been happening during the past week.

so that you keep getting your data, but you don't get the anxiogenic daily sort of repetition of reinforcement of, I'm not sleeping well.

I should also note, by the way, that I think sleep trackers are not a substitute for either a sleep recording laboratory, but also they're not a substitute for ultimately telling you entirely how good your sleep is.

Don't forget, you should always keep in mind, how do I feel the next day?

Because I think a lot of people will see their readiness score as 92 and they feel miserable.

They just feel rough.

And then another day, my readiness score was 62 and I just went out and I just ran my fastest five mile, you know, that I've done in the past six months.

So don't forget that subjective sense of sleep is just as important as objective measures of sleep.

The final thing I would say to your point about the mattresses, I actually do think that they are a really great vehicle for sleep augmentation because these smart mattresses, they're filled with sensors, things like eight sleep, and they will assess your physiology.

They will track your sleep just like a sleep tracking ring.