Stellar Sleep: Insomnia CBT 4+

Really, actually works

I found Slumber One at a point in my life where I hadn’t slept for weeks. I mean that literally. I track my sleep and I had gone for at least 3 weeks where Fitbit told me I literally had slept 0 minutes and 0 hours in the past 3 weeks.

I tried melatonin. I tried cutting out all coffee. I tried reading a book in bed. I tried meditation. I tried weed. Nothing worked.

Some days I would get tired. So frickin tired that I thought for sure I would be able to sleep that night. Nope. “Fooled you” my brain would say. I would lay in bed so exhausted that I felt like I could die, but I just wouldn’t fall asleep.

When I found Slumber One, I bought it on impulse, but I honestly didn’t think it would work. But I had already spent hundreds of dollars buying things so why not try something else. They’re from Harvard. Maybe it’ll work. If not I can tell people even Harvard can’t help me.

The first week using Slumber One I didn’t think much was changing. More money down the drain. But then the second week, by some miracle I actually slept. I slept for 2 nights. My Fitbit counter was finally no longer at 0. Third week I slept for 5 nights. By the fourth week, I actually slept every single night.

If you’re reading this and you can’t sleep, then do yourself a favor and get this app. This really, actually works. I don’t know how. Some of the stuff they tell you to do just seems completely illogical, but somehow, through their sequence of instructions, I can sleep again.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the 5-star review. We're glad that you found our program to be helpful. We wish you the best in your journey to improving your sleep.

Ineffective for my sleep issues

For me, it’s not working. I’m getting less sleep than when I started this program three weeks ago. I think the issue is that this seems to focus on those who have trouble falling asleep. It does briefly mention those with issues waking up in the middle of the night and not being able to get back to sleep, but only very little. That’s the problem I have and I’ve found this to be ineffective for that. Since I’ve started this, I’ve only been able to fall back asleep one time and and am typically getting about 4 hours of sleep a night. The other concern I have is that this is a very difficult and controversial approach to overcoming insomnia. The central element is sleep restriction therapy. It is absolutely brutal, but you don’t get the details as to just how brutal this approach is until after the low introductory cost for the first week has passed and you’ve been billed a hefty sum for your subscription. My bad for not doing my due diligence before signing up, but I’m pretty worn out and willing to try just about anything. Maybe it will get better, but so far it is absolutely terrible and I’m much worse off than before I started it. It would have been nice to know just how difficult this was before I paid for the subscription. That being said, from other reviews I’ve read, it does seem to work for other people. I’m just not one of them.

I can sleep now!

This app has totally changed my approach to solving my severe insomnia. I’ve had an average of 2-3 nights sleep for 7 months, which has left me feeling anxious, depressed, exhausted and in physical pain. I’ve felt as though my proverbial cheese was slipping off my proverbial cracker. This program is very enlightening and easy to follow. Most of it educates the user about things they’d just never know without it. While I did not use the accountability feature, I did value being accountable to myself for healing my own sleep deficit; it is a sort of gentle self-challenge. The sleep badges are adorable and strangely satisfying to earn! One improvement I can think of, is to be able to go back to all of the sleep modules already completed, so the lessons can be revisited if a user wants to. Over all, I highly recommend this app to anyone who struggles with insomnia. I only wish I’d found it 6 months ago!