How to measure your own nights
You’ll want to know whether it is making a difference. Here is a fair way to find out, and what to be careful about.
A fair comparison, in four steps
- Pick how you will record
A snore-recording app or the voice recorder on your phone, or notes from someone who shares your room. Use the same one every night.
- Record 3 nights first
Before you start, in your usual bed, with the phone in the same place each night. Write down anything unusual: a cold, alcohol, sleeping on your back. The NHS lists alcohol and back sleeping among the things that make snoring more likely. [5]
- Record 3 or more nights with it in
Keep the conditions the same, and note which step the lower tray is on. Change one thing at a time.
- Compare
Listen to the loudest parts and roughly how long the snoring lasts. Add how you feel in the morning, and what the other person noticed.
What a phone can’t tell you
In the 2019 study, snoring volume was measured with a calibrated digital sound meter during a full-night sleep study. [6] A phone in your bedroom is much less exact. It can show a pattern across nights. It can’t give you a medical measurement.
One good or bad night proves little. Look at several nights side by side, and be honest about what changed between them.
Deciding
You have 60 nights from delivery. That is enough to record a few nights before and after, try a step or two, and decide. If it isn’t right for you, write to us for a full refund.
your snoring comes with gasping or choking, or with heavy daytime sleepiness. A recording is not a substitute for that. Take the 30-second check