- I'm tired.

I'm tired when I get up,

when I'm working,

when I'm eating, when I'm having fun.

The only time I'm not tired is when I should be asleep.

I don't know what's going on, but it needs to stop.

So I'm finally ditching my phone,

finding a better way to wake up,

and talking with a sleep scientist to figure it out.

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So I think I know what's causing my problem.

I think you know what's causing my problem.

(suspenseful music)

But maybe it isn't a problem.

Have you ever considered that?

Like I've been tired my whole life,

and that hasn't stopped me from achieving mediocrity.

I just go to bed at 11:00 PM

and then use my phone until 2:00 AM

when I literally can't hold my eyes open anymore,

and then I wake up at 7:00 AM to a blaring alarm,

and then I start using my phone again.

What's wrong with that? It turns out a lot.

If you use Google Scholar and try to find the relationship

between phones and sleep,

it's exactly what you expect: not good.

But how bad is bad sleep?

I picked up this pop science book,

which I thought would answer a lot of my questions,

but it really just had me asking a new one: Am I gonna die?

Dementia, diabetes, heart failure, death.

This book links all of that to bad sleep,

and it's freaking me out.

While I was reading the book, I did have some issues

with the way it framed some examples.

It was definitely written to make sleep

seem like a life or death issue,

but that is in extreme cases.

That being said, it was pretty clear

that sleep is inextractable from quality of life.

Kinda seems obvious, but seeing it in black and white

made me realize that I should take this seriously.

So I'm gonna do the thing that everybody says I should do.

I'm taking my phone

and I'm putting it in a different room when I go to sleep.

I don't wanna do it.

But in my defense, other than destroying my sleep,

my phone does serve a purpose.

It's my alarm clock. (alarm ringing)

So if I'm leaving it in a different room,

I need to find an alternative.

So I got all of them.

I just know I'm gonna get weird ads for a while.

I chose these because I wanted to target different ways

I could possibly wake up.

This is the Lexon Flip+ LCD Alarm Clock.

It tells the time. It has an alarm.

If you wanna turn it off, you flip it over.

Of course, we have the Philips Sunrise Simulator,

and this will slowly get brighter to simulate the sunrise.

Next, we have this.

It's an alarm clock with a bed shaker,

so it uses vibration to wake you up.

I believe these are especially useful

for people who are hard of hearing.

(tape ripping)

In hindsight, I'm not sure the sound is the thing

that's satisfying, but look how shiny that is.

Bed vibrator.

Don't demonetize this video.

The SoundSpa Slumber Scents.

So I can use stink to wake me up.

Reminds me of a rice cooker.

We've got a bit of target practice.

When your alarm goes off, this target should go up,

and then you have to use like a little laser pointer,

oh my God, to stop the alarm.

Notice how I'm avoiding using a certain word.

That's on purpose.

The final alarm clock, it runs away from you.

The idea is that once your alarm goes off in the morning,

this thing will just run away.

So you have to get out of bed

to go catch it and shut it off.

I wrote up a quick script in Python

that'll set the order for me.

We are starting with the stinky alarm clock.

All right, let's figure out

how to get this thing working.

So we've got the big old egg thing.

"Plug the adapter into the diffuser,

then plug the adapter into the outlet."

Seems pretty straightforward.

(alarm beeping)

Putting some stuff in.

Day one. Let's do it.

Wait.

I need to put this.

(phone clattering)

Bye-bye.

Okay, let's get to sleep.

Nope. (latch rattling)

Smells like onions. I can't take a nap.

Were you guys just hanging out without me?

- You said you were going to sleep.

- Why do you look so tall?

You stood in the middle.

- Why? - This is like,

like a bad Scooby-Doo.

- (laughs) I wanna know how you guys fall asleep.

(playful music)

- I look at the inside of my eyes.

- Shut up.

- Like I'll just lay there and let sleep take over.

But if that doesn't work,

then I'll listen to like soundscapes, a rainy day cafe.

But it's the 1970s or something. I don't know.

It's like someone else is in the other room, and then-

- There's someone else in the room.

- Like, but it's normal. It's calming.

- Look at the inside of my eyelids

and really focus on the darkness.

You spend all your time trying to see the black.

- But how do you look? It's closed.

- But I put a pillow on my head.

The room doesn't exist anymore.

The pillow exists only.

If it's a problem with my brain,

then I need to like have my brain

think about something else.

I listen to podcasts at half speed.

- If you watch this video at half speed...

- It's time for you to go to sleep.

- We should make sleep stuff.

- What do you mean by that?

- Here's what I mean by that.

We both know that sleep is really important,

and I'm trying to help us get more of it.

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Now, I should follow our own advice and get to sleep.

(device crackling)

I don't know why I thought waking up

to the sound of a crackling fire was a good idea.

I didn't even smell anything.

Oh, so I couldn't figure out how to turn it off.

This sucked.

Hopefully tomorrow's better.

(device whirring and beeping)

Why?

(device whirring and beeping)

(pistol shooting)

(device beeping)

(device vibrating)

(device beeping)

(device thudding)

(objects clattering)

This is- (coffee grinder whirring)

By the way, I have still been drinking coffee

throughout this whole thing.

I didn't wanna change too many variables at once.

And after watching Melissa's experience quitting coffee,

- It's hard.

- things might get too bleak.

Anyway, I was absolutely convinced

that getting rid of my phone would've like changed things,

and that at least one of the alarm clocks

would help me feel better.

But I've used all of them and it's not great.

Turn off the light. (device buzzing)

I thought that putting my phone in the other room

would solve my problem of going to sleep late,

but it hasn't.

I didn't realize, but I guess I'd been using my phone

to silence the part of my brain

that has, ow, generalized anxiety disorder.

So yeah, now instead of doomscrolling

before turning on a podcast and falling asleep,

I just feel a sense of doom for a few hours

before eventually falling asleep.

And this anxiety also means

that all of the alarm clocks are basically the same.

I'm a light sleeper. I know that I'm a light sleeper.

I don't know how I convinced myself

that a gentler sound would make me feel better.

Bro, I think birds chirping are a jump scare.

Now, I have noticed two benefits, right?

First, when I wake up in the middle of the night

due to any given sound, I can't use my phone.

It's annoying, but it probably means

that I'm getting more sleep as a whole.

Two, I have more hours in my day.

Because I'm not using my phone in the morning,

I get through my morning routine way faster

because I'm not doomscrolling on the toilet.

It's the little things in life.

Those are two great benefits, but hasn't solved my problem.

I am still tired. So plan A has failed.

I need to take a different approach.

So I went back to researching.

But instead of just focusing on the relationship

between phones and sleep,

I tried to get a better sense of the bigger picture.

I look like an inverted pumpkin.

Anyway, I've looked into culture and society,

psychology, biology,

and it turns out sleep is a little more complex

than just closing your eyes for a few hours.

The quality of your sleep depends on a lot

of biological, environmental, and social factors.

And the quantity of your sleep can be out of your control

because of things like school, work,

and familial obligation.

These are all things that I kind of knew

from my last round of research,