I have a love-hate relationship with Pokémon Sleep

polygon.com:

I have been using Pokémon Sleep for a week. I detest playing it, but I feel physically better than I have in months, so I guess this is my life now.

It’s not that my sleep has improved; it’s that Pokémon Sleep gets me to actually wake up in the morning, rather than hitting the snooze button until the last possible second. The experience of playing Pokémon Sleep in the morning is deeply irritating, but it sure does get my brain awake.

The premise of Pokémon Sleep is that I’m helping a Pokémon researcher to track the sleep habits of various Pokémon. This means that every week, I find a Snorlax and I sleep next to it. (In other words, I leave the app open on my phone while it’s face down next to my pillow as the Snorlax “sleeps” and I sleep.) When I wake up, I find that lots of other Pokémon have also come by to sleep next to the Snorlax, and I take pictures of each of their sleeping positions. After that, they wake up and I can give them treats in order to coax them into being part of my collection; once I’ve given them enough little biscuits or whatever, they join my crew, helping me collect berries that I can feed to Snorlax to increase its “Drowsy Power” (thereby encouraging more Pokémon to sleep nearby).

This entire experience involves a lot of tapping my finger on my phone. First, I tap on sleeping Pokémon to take pictures of them before they wake up. Once that mindless chore is done and the Pokémon have woken up, I tap on them again to get them to give me berries for Snorlax. Then I tap on all the berries, which float magically into a collection basket. Why does this process involve tapping so many times? I don’t know. It’s annoying. But it sure does wake me up!

The process is, of course, not done yet. I have to