SoundSleep
Search for snoring advice and you will be told to change your pillow, stop drinking, lose weight, sleep on your side, tape your mouth, and raise the head of your bed. Some of that will work for you. Most of it will not. The internet cannot tell you which, because the internet has never met you.
One night proves nothing
The first trap is the single-night comparison. You try side sleeping, wake up to a lower score, and conclude it worked. But nights vary enormously on their own — a cold, a late dinner, a warm room, a glass of wine three hours before bed. One quiet night after a change is not evidence, it is weather.
This is why SoundSleep spends your first three nights building a baseline before it starts making comparisons. After that, every report is measured against your own normal instead of a generic average.
Tag the night, not your memory
Before bed you can log what you did: a new pillow, alcohol, a late meal, exercise, stress, new medication. It takes four seconds, and it is much more reliable than trying to reconstruct last Tuesday a fortnight later.
Once a factor has enough tagged nights behind it, the app reports what those nights actually cost you, in points, and stays quiet until then. A finding from two nights is not a finding.
Or run a real experiment
Tagging is observational, so it is vulnerable to the obvious problem: you might tag “exercised” on the same days you also happen to go to bed earlier. The Experiments Lab fixes that by alternating. Pick a remedy, and the app assigns it ON or OFF night by night, tracks both arms, and gives a verdict only once each side has enough nights to mean something.
That is the difference between believing a remedy works and knowing it does, for you.
The unglamorous advice
Track consistently. A run of ordinary nights is worth more than any single dramatic one, because it is the ordinary nights that tell you what your normal is — and everything else is measured against that.
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