I Started Using Android's Bedtime Mode: Here's How It Improved My Sleep
Like most of you, my phone is my alarm. I thought this was enough, but Android's "Bedtime Mode" feature has taught me I was wrong. Despite my doubts, here's how my phone has helped me establish better sleep habits.
It's All About Establishing a Routine
When you set up Android's Bedtime Mode (or "Sleep Mode," as it's called on my Samsung phone), you're making an intention. You're telling yourself that you plan to get better sleep, and you're allowing your phone to help you with that commitment in a number of ways.
It's one thing to merely tell yourself you need to sleep better. It's another to make actual changes and establish a new routine. In a nutshell, that's what makes Bedtime Mode so helpful. You set a routine, and the mode helps you stick to it.
Have I stuck to my new routine? It's a work in progress, but the changes have been good.
Bedtime Is More Important Than Wake-Up Time
Phone alarms help us wake up in time to get to school or make it to work, but this does nothing to make sure we get enough sleep. That part depends on when we go to bed.
This is why having a bedtime is so important. To get good sleep, you need to put down your phone, stop faffing about, and get in bed. Bedtime Mode cuts through the distractions and lets you know that the time has come to go to sleep.
How? That part depends on you. Bedtime mode lets you change how your phone functions during the hours when you'd like to be asleep. One of those options is turning your screen black and white, and for me, it's an important one.
Grayscale Keeps Me Accountable
Sure, there are a number of ways to tell yourself it's time to go to bed. You can set a reminder, for starters, but after you swipe away the notification, it's easy to go about as you were. This is where grayscale really helps by being more of a roadblock. By putting the display in black-and-white, it's virtually impossible to ignore (unless you're reading an ebook), and you then have to decide whether to actively
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