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SHUFFLE YOUR THOUGHTS TO SLEEP…

mySleepButton is an app designed to help you fall asleep. It’s based on our
contribution to cognitive science. Just press the “Put Me to Sleep” button,
close your eyes, and imagine the various things mySleepButton reads to you as
you fall asleep.

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SLEEP-ONSET REIMAGINED

It’s much easier to fall asleep when:

1. you keep your mind off the kind of thinking that keeps you awake,
2. your mind wanders from one “random” image to another.

mySleepButton is designed to put your mind in this sleep-inducing state.

All you need to do is:

* press the “Put Me to Sleep” button, and
* imagine the diverse things mentioned by the app.

This will keep your mind off your concerns and into a state that is wonderfully
conducive to sleep…

It’s that simple.

mySleepButton Home Screen

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LET YOUR IMAGINATION LULL YOU TO SLEEP

Adults live in a very “left-brain” world dominated by language and thinking.
Young children in contrast spend a lot of time imagining and playing. Of course,
adults look at a lot of images — videos, TV, film, photos and logos. But they
tend to do so passively, and usually with lots of chatter (whether it’s vocal or
not).

Sleep researchers have found that as people fall asleep, they often experience
visual images and “micro-dreams”. The diverse images people imagine may help
them fall asleep.

In contrast, continuing to think in a verbal, analytic, problem-solving mode can
delay sleep onset.

mySleepButton helps you replace your internal mental dialog with a dreamy parade
of sundry images that might be more conducive to sleep.

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CHOOSE WHAT YOU IMAGINE (MYSLEEPBUTTON PACK)

mySleepButton gives you the choice between several different kinds of things to
imagine, each in its own mySleepButton Pack:

* Simple Things (single words or short phrases),
* Scenes (multi-word phrases, e.g., “Bird on a branch”), and
* Things to Draw.

mySleepButton modes

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PLAY TO SLEEP

Many busy people are not only sleep deprived, they’re play deprived. As Dr.
Stuart Brown, author of the book, Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the
Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, says:

> a highly playful child or adult is not going to be depressed. It’s a signal of
> good emotional health. And conversely, the lack of play and the downer which
> that evokes in most of us is smoldering depression. […] the evidence is so
> solid that if you do incorporate healthy play into your life your performance
> is going to be better, your health is going to be better, your relationships
> are going to better.
>
> Dr. Stuart Brown

mySleepButton is a playful app.

There is even a game-like way of using the principles leveraged by
mySleepButton: Do-It-Yourself Cognitive Shuffle.

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BE AN ARTIST: IMAGINE DRAWING TO SLEEP

Not only do people not play enough, or imagine enough, they don’t draw enough
either. Well, who would have thought that a sleep app could also let you draw?

When you choose the “Things to Draw” mySleepButton pack, the app names things to
imagine yourself drawing, one at a time. Fortunately, drawing in your head is a
lot easier than drawing on paper. Just imagine yourself easily drawing the item!

Will imagining yourself drawing help you draw during the day? Many psychologists
believe visualization does help performance. For example, as a way to practice,
some professional hockey players imagine themselves scoring. Find out if it
works for you!

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TESTIMONIALS

We’ve received a lot of positive feedback about mySleepButton. For example…

* Marj “OMG – I was astonished. It worked” (May 1, 2017 testimonial) May 3,
2017
All I can say is …. this is the answer to sleepless nights, when the hamster
wheel is in overdrive. I feel like I haven’t slept for months, having a
really tough time, waking up in the morning feeling exhausted. I heard a
quick snip on CBC radio re: Serial Diverse Imaging, interest piqued for ...
* Brett Terpstra, Read and Trust Productivity Blogger, Podcaster, App Developer
July 13, 2014
The act of changing completely what you’re thinking about every 15 seconds or
so disrupts your brain from being able to get onto what you were thinking
about, to get onto those racing thoughts that keep you awake at night… You
just start to drift off and fall asleep. I’ve found very ...
* Dr. Tomas Kuca, Anesthesiologist June 24, 2014
“I’ve been trying out your app – It’s a fantastic concept and it’s definitely
effective. ” Dr. Tomas Kuca, Anesthesiologist
* Ken MacAllister ‏@kenmacallister May 24 June 20, 2014
Trouble sleeping? The free, http://mysleepbutton.com app from @CogSciApps
will knock you out without drugs. I tried it, and it really works.
* James Harcus (Port Coquitlam Firefighter) May 16, 2014
I’ve been using the cognitive shuffle for over a year now. Every time I can’t
get to sleep because I have had too much coffee or whatever, I just do the
cognitive shuffle and it knocks me into sleep.

Show more testimonials

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HOW DOES MYSLEEPBUTTON COMPARE TO OTHER SLEEP APPS?

mySleepButton uses a radically different approach to induce sleep than the other
apps on the market.

* mySleepButton is based on theories about sleep, moods, emotion, motivation,
consciousness, AI and more.
* mySleepButton leverages the new cognitive shuffle / somnolent mentation
framework proposed by CogSci Apps Corp. co-founder, Dr. Luc Beaudoin.
* mySleepButton is meant to improve upon the well-researched (monotonous)
“imagery training” method.
* mySleepButton gets you to serially imagine diverse things.
* mySleepButton is extremely simple.
* mySleepButton is laser-focused on sleep onset; it does not require that you
enter personal data or delve into psychological issues.
* mySleepButton has an option to imagine yourself drawing items, which can also
induce sleep (and is fun!).
* mySleepButton even has a DIY variant.
* mySleepButton code is also used in a tool available only for sleep
researchers, meaning that it contributes to scientific knowledge.
* mySleepButton is designed to help us continuously improve our understanding
of sleep onset and to improve the app itself.
* We have a backlog of new CogSci Apps™ features and enhancements to
mySleepButton in the works; they are gradually being introduced in product
updates.
* mySleepButton deliberately involves a form of play; it’s fun!

mySleepButton is free to try on iOS, and less than $5 on Google Play (prices
vary by jurisdiction). If you find it helpful, please consider purchasing one or
more of the Full mySleepButton packs from the Packs tab. The packs give you more
content to imagine. Developing a better cognitive sleep aid that does not
involve medication has been a major objective of sleep research for a long time.
Your purchase will help fund our Research & Development to make this app even
better. Because mySleepButton is also part of a scientific project, you are also
supporting the development of a scientific tool. Hence you are supporting sleep
research and cognitive science. This inexpensive app has the potential to help
millions of people. Please also consider letting others know about
mySleepButton.

CogSci Apps™ software is designed to work with the human mind. Although
mySleepButton is fun, we take cognitive science very seriously. Compare Luc
Beaudoin’s book, Cognitive Productivity: The Art and Science of Using Knowledge
to Become Profoundly Effective.

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SOMNOLENT INFORMATION-PROCESSING THEORY OF SLEEP-ONSET

mySleepButton is based on a recent theory about how the human sleep onset
control system.

Here are the basic concepts and postulates.

* “Insomnolent mentation” is mentation that interferes with falling asleep.
* “Counter-insomnolent mentation” is mentation that interferes with insomnolent
mentation (e.g., typical meditation and progress relaxation). That is what a
lot of psychological techniques involve. But this is not always sufficient to
push you over the edge into sleep!
* “Pro-somnolent mentation” is thinking in a manner that signals to your brain
that it is time to fall asleep.
* Whereas waking consciousness is characterized by a tendency to maintain a
coherent awareness, while falling asleep thinking becomes less constrained by
coherence, and the brain often produces micro-dreams, a cognitive shuffle.
* Information-processing and experience that the brain tends uniquely to
produce during sleep-onset is pro-somnolent. That means that the sleep onset
control system contains a positive feedback loop.

If this is true, then other things being equal, if you can engage in mentation
that is both counter-insomnolent and pro-somnolent, you are more likely to fall
asleep. That is what mySleepButton is meant to facilitate:

* Super-somnolent mentation = Counter-insomnolent + pro-somnolent mentation.

This theoretical framework is not meant to replace, but to augment, previous
postulates about sleep-onset based on circadian and homeostatic sleep factors.
The somnolent information-processing theory also contains other postulates that
are meant to make sense of data about how “emotions” and motivation can affect
sleep-onset latency.

The theory raises many exciting new empirical questions and possibilities that
will need to be tested in and outside the lab. Some naturalistic studies have
taken place on this theory, involving several Canadian universities. We have
more planned. We hope this theory will spawn much more research.

Similarly, the theory is not meant to replace prior evidence-based
recommendations, but to explain why they work when they do, and why they don’t
when they don’t.

Meanwhile, the software is free to try, so you can find out for yourself if and
when the techniques are helpful.

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FIND OUT MORE

Check out our support pages for more information.

Sign-up to our newsletter. We only use it for major announcements, such as the
upcoming availability of the Android version of mySleepButton.

There is more to the theory than described above. You can read about it here and
in the documents linked from here.

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So, give mySleepButton a try. And let your family and friends know through
Twitter, Facebook, email or other social media that they can shuffle their
thoughts to sleep with mySleepButton.

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