The Oura ring sucks, and it made my sleep quality worse.

Quick entry since I've gotta get to art and thesis work. 

Best explanation so far

I paid like $300 for this thing and I pay like $7 a month for a subscription. It is a cool gadget and I like the heart rate and Sp02 data, but the sleep data is really inaccurate. 

It thinks I'm awake for half the night. If I wake up to write in my dream journal or wake up to pee, even if I'm only up for 5 minutes, it thinks I'm awake for 30+ minutes. 

In fact, when I started using Oura instead of my old Circul (which was good but the hardware was crap and busted after about 4 months of use), my sleep quality decreased significantly. Because no matter how well I slept, even if I slept for a whole 9 hours, I would never get more than maybe 6.5 hours asleep on the ring, and it constantly tells me that I need to sleep more. Fun fact, stressing about that makes me sleep even worse!

I've had to hop back on melatonin for the first time since 2013 in order to force myself to start sleeping normally again. 

Oh, and it freaks out if your resting HR goes up, even just a little bit, and tells you to "take it easy". In other words, while the Apple Watch tries to kill you (by telling you you're being lazy if you don't exercise the day after a 21-mile hike), the Oura ring babies you (oh your HR went up from 39 to 44, please only do light activity today, you poor little thing!). 

TL;DR sleep trackers are garbage. The HR tracking is nice though and the Oura also looks super sleek. I just don't look at the sleep data anymore, and am probably going to unlink it from my Apple Health (or modify it using the "Time in Bed" sliders). 

If Pokemon Sleep doesn't turn out to be any good then I'm done with sleep trackers! 

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