orthosomnia
tracking your sleep
keeps you awake.
orthosomnia is the anxious pursuit of perfect sleep data. sleep researchers coined the term in 2017 after meeting patients who slept badly because of their trackers – checking the score first thing every morning, lying in bed longer to improve it, doubting their own body when the number disagreed with how they felt. the tracker was supposed to help. instead, it became the thing they worried about.
if you recognise yourself in that, this page is for you. four things we believe – and the reason Luina exists.
I
take control of what you can.
you cannot control how deep you sleep, how often you wake, or what your heart does at 3 am. nobody can. what you can control are two moments a day: when you turn off the light, and when you get up. so those are the only two things worth writing down. everything else is weather.
II
everything else is unproven.
deep, light, rem – a ring or a watch on your wrist guesses those stages from movement and pulse. against real sleep-lab measurement, consumer wearables get the stages wrong a large share of the time, and the "sleep score" built on top of them has no clinical standard behind it. it's a number that looks precise. it isn't. and it is not something you can act on – you can't choose to have more deep sleep tonight.
III
a steady rhythm and enough hours.
the two things sleep research keeps coming back to are simple: regularity and duration. going to bed and getting up at roughly the same time – on free nights too – and giving yourself enough hours in between. sleep regularity is now linked to health outcomes as strongly as sleep length itself. no supplement, no hack, no sound machine comes close. that's the whole method.
IV
your nights are private.
what you write about your sleep is about as personal as it gets. the app has no account, no analytics and no third parties. your nights sync through your own iCloud – and are never sold. nobody at Luina can read it, and nobody ever will.
for people with orthosomnia
if your tracker made
sleep worse.
if you've started dreading the morning report, you're not alone. take the ring off. put the phone down at your hour, and let the night be. Luina will never tell you how you slept – it only keeps the phone away until morning, and shows you, quietly, whether your nights are getting steadier. that's the part you can actually change.
Luina for orthosomnia
put the number down.
put the phone down.
one gesture, every evening. nothing else.
Luina measures nothing. each evening you hold the moon, and the apps that keep you up fall asleep until morning. over the weeks it shows you how steady your rhythm is – and how far your free nights drift from your working ones. no grade, no score, no ai. you will never be told how well you slept, because that is yours to know.
Luina is an app, not a medical device. if sleep troubles persist, please talk to a doctor.
sleep with Luina
tonight is a good
night to begin.
