A claim my co-authors and I make in an upcoming paper on sleep onset and insomnia is that perturbant emotion causes insomnolence. This is not to say that perturbance is the sole cause of insomnolence. In fact, our theory proposes …

Asking Questions About Grief and Limerence to Understand Emotions and Insomnolence Read more »

Over the last several months, I’ve been too busy doing research and development —including on sleep onset and insomnia —, writing papers, and managing a new product launch, to contribute much to this blog. But the work we are doing …

Book Recommendation — Why We Sleep by Dr. Matthew Walker Read more »

As promised, mySleepButton version 1.4.12 for iOS  has been released with support for Siri Shortcuts. You can now define shortcuts to tell Siri to “put me to sleep”, and it will start playing mySleepButton. This is handy if you’re sleeping …

mySleepButton for iOS, version 1.4.12, Available — It Supports Siri Shortcuts Read more »