Testimonial from Irene: amazing[…]!
“I just wanted to express how amazing your app is! It’s the only one that consistently helps me fall asleep quickly” (23 Sept 2025)
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Mindfulness
🧘♂️ BSBM+: Updating A New Advanced Multi-Anchor Meditation Technique
🧘♂️ BSBM+: A New Advanced Multi-Anchor Meditation Technique If you’re familiar with my work on the cognitive shuffle and other cognitive techniques for improving sleep and emotional regulation, you might be interested in my updates to the new meditation method I’ve developed. It’s now called BSBM+. The “+” is for the optional unstructured meditation that
Mindfulness
BSBM: A new form of meditation
If you read my initial article on the cognitive shuffle and the theory behind it, published in 2013, you’ll see that I said that the cognitive shuffle (such as serial diverse imagining) is a form of meditation. None of the journalists who covered the cognitive shuffle, to my knowledge, has commented on that. Most forms
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mySleepButton still not back on Google Play Store. Blame Google
mySleepButton was removed from Google Play in January and we’ve been trying to get back on. They are saying: Your tax form expired on Jan 1, 2025. Google may need to withhold up to 30% of your payouts or hold payouts completely until you submit a new tax form and it’s approved. You’re currently unable
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Paper in Sleep Theories Book to be Published in Cambridge Handbook of Sleep Models and Theories edited by Daniel Kay
The cognitive shuffle is not just some random technique to facilitate sleep onset. There’s some serious thinking behind it. In fact, it is derived from a theory of sleep onset and insomnolence called “the somnolent information-processing theory”. The theory and technique are outlined in more detail in this upcoming paper that has been accepted
Research
The Psychology of Covid-19: Is Mental Perturbance Keeping You Awake?
Unsurprisingly, during the Covid era, there have been several reports of people having more difficulty getting to sleep and back to sleep — a state we call “insomnolence” rather than “insomnia”. This tends , formally and informally, to be attributed to “worry”, “repetitive thought”, “racing minds”, “rumination”, “cognitive arousal”. However, none of those concepts are
Research
More Thoughts About Somnolence and Our Recent Review Paper
Over on CogZest, I’ve published a bit more background about our “Pre-sleep cognitive activity in adults: A systematic review” paper: Can Your Bedtime Thinking Keep You Awake? Or Help You Fell Asleep? – CogZest.
Research
Infographic for “Pre-sleep Cognitive Activity in Adults: A Systematic Review”
(How) can bedtime thinking affect falling asleep? We’ve created the infographic (below) to help you quickly grasp our recent paper, “Pre-sleep cognitive activity in adults: A systematic review” (published earlier this month in Sleep Medicine Reviews).
Announcements, Research
Pre-sleep cognitive activity in adults: a systematic review (Sleep Medicine Reviews journal article)
I’m pleased to announce that our systematic review of the literature on pre-sleep mental activity has been accepted for publication as a Clinical Review by the prestigious, high-impact journal, Sleep Medicine Reviews: Lemyre, A., Belzile, F., Landry, M., Bastien, C., & Beaudoin, L. P. (2020) Pre-sleep cognitive activity: A systematic review.. 50 (1-13). Sleep Medicine
Research
Limitations of Sleep Tracking Apps and Hardware
Recently over at the Mac Power Users, someone asked whether it was worth trying to track sleep with Apple Watch apps. Another poster (“Rob”) asked whether consumer EEG devices (like Dreem) are any better. I provide some opinions (but no advice).