Do you ever have trouble sleeping? Do you have to ingest all the caffeinated products you can during the mornings just to get through the day? Well I have just the solution! Introducing the sleep game, a game designed to help you sleep. Armed with all the general knowledge of an average high school graduate with little to no research done on the topic, I have designed the perfect game to help you get to sleep. The game has three main properties that are supposed to help you sleep, these include dimming lights, sounds, and a purposefully repetitive task which must be done over and over again.

When your eyes receive no light for an amount of time, it sets off a type of a timer in your brain which sets off an inhibitor in your genes which allows formation of melatonin which helps you to relax. That last sentence was probably not at all accurate, but everyone knows that darkness helps you sleep, so as time goes on the backlight for the app slowly becomes dimmer, since this will allow the user to guess how much time has passed without reading anything, and should also help with the production of melatonin.

In place of music within the game, which I find keeps me more awake than it should, my game will have a soundtrack that you can choose from, including the ocean, a waterfall, the wind, or cars going past (As a city dweller, I miss this when I stay somewhere else). Alternatively, you can choose to hear someone breathing. Yes, that's right, breathing. Weird as it sounds, supposedly there is a scientific pattern trending at the moment, I'm calling it the "4, 7 8" technique for lack of an actual name to go by. It is been said that if you spent four second breathing in, hold your breath for seven seconds then breathe out for eight, it will help you fall asleep miraculously quickly. It's worth a try for all, so a soundtrack to go by should help with timing. The first two rounds would include voice cues, to help you get used to the pattern.

The end of that paragraph signifies it's purposefully repetitive task time! Such tasks include simply watching a timer go up next to a colour changing loading bar, swiping a sheep with a counter (of course I used counting sheep), or, for those of us who stress about exams and study best at night, swiping through exam notes (written by yourself). The exam notes would slowly become replaced with more and more sheep in place of a note, because reading requires a lot of attention and is not ideal for falling asleep (unless you're stressing about not having studied enough).

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*contrary to what you might be thinking, my app won't help kittens sleep. But isn't this the cutest picture you've seen all day?!