Couple good tips, not worth the monney

Overall: While I learned a few useful concepts, I am not overly impressed. I dont feel this course is worth ~$90. If it were ~$40 that would be about right for the content and functionality.

Positives:

– I learned a few techniques and concepts about sleep that are useful.

- Sleep tracker is fun to enter daily.

- The email notifications on daily tasks was helpful (though a reminder in my calendar could do the same).

- I am somewhat “improved” but nothing that isnt normal for long term insomniacs -- we tend to have cycles where it gets worse and then better.

Negatives:

– The sleep tracker is basic, but gets the job done. For example, I didnt see a view of the entire sleep diary, its just a 7 day chart. Perhaps I just didnt see this?

- The lessons are short and not customized to what the sleep diary discloses.

- I believe the sleep restriction therapy was not calculated properly for me (and for a few others Ive posting here). I guess this is good since it makes it easier to do, though not as effective as the true approach. It also seems to just wait for 2 weeks regardless of your sleep efficiency before giving you another 15 minutes of sleep as I never got above 90%.

- They use the data we enter for other purposes yet we pay $90 to participate in their research. Sleepio should be much much cheaper than this fee. I should have listened to the reviews on iTunes that stated this fact.

- The lessons are short and could have been done in less time that 6 weeks. Feels like they draw them out to make it seem like the course is “longer” (see next point especially).

- The last lesson was to collect outcomes data for their benefit. This should not have even been called a session as no new techniques or information was presented.

Fios1715 about Sleepio, v1.6.9