How Awake Are You? Game Measures Sleepiness

Recently, I discovered Harvard’s Healthy Sleep website featuring the “How Awake Are You?” interactive game. In 5 minutes, it analyzes your wakefulness. Th game is an online adaptation of performance tests commonly used in research labs to examine the effects of sleep deprivation.

When I played, I felt a bit sleepy and the program picked up on this. Check it out

 

16 Comments

  1. Garey Wheatley on April 10, 2013 at 2:30 pm

    I guess I am really asleep. I can not even find out how I am supposed to react. I tried space bar, return key, left/right arrows??

  2. Garey Wheatley on April 10, 2013 at 2:38 pm

    OK, figured it out.

    • Nellie on April 10, 2013 at 5:04 pm

      Is it the spacebar? O.O

      • julie on April 11, 2013 at 3:26 pm

        Yes, the spacebar. Thanks, Nellie!

    • julie on April 11, 2013 at 3:28 pm

      Great! I’m so glad.

  3. Elaine Armstrong on April 10, 2013 at 3:02 pm

    This is really good ..my boys kept asking me questions about their homework during this 5min test , so it would be the same distraction I would have if driving them somewhere.
    Even though I didn`t feel so tired during it, it did show up that I may start to feel tired at this time of the afternoon. !!

    • julie on April 11, 2013 at 3:27 pm

      Too funny about your boys distracting you. How true! Hope you didn’t hit anything. I did. 😉

  4. Becky Bennett on April 10, 2013 at 6:28 pm

    My avg reaction time was 0.32 with 0 accidents! Yay! :O)

    • julie on April 11, 2013 at 3:26 pm

      You must be wide awake, Becky! Good job. 🙂

  5. The Dreamer on April 11, 2013 at 5:24 pm

    My avg reaction time was 0.30…which makes me safe? But, I had one crash.

    It was long and boring enough…that I could feel the threat of microsleeps creeping in….

    What’s better is that I barely slept 2 hours after my second dose this morning….so I’m still in a bit of a fog.

    • julie on April 12, 2013 at 2:19 pm

      Hi Dreamer: Thanks for checking this out! I agree, long and boring enough to make it realistic. 😉 Sending wakefulness and smiles your way, Julie

  6. Julie on April 13, 2013 at 3:09 am

    Wasn’t very diagnostic for me. I am sleepy and have a migraine and yet I scored as safe with a reaction time of 29 seconds. I purposely did it with a migraine to see how much that would impair my functioning. I feel like I am thinking slowly but apparently it didn’t affect my reaction time.

    • julie on April 14, 2013 at 5:04 pm

      Thanks for trying it, Julie. Hope you’re feeling better!

  7. SMcLeod on April 13, 2013 at 9:53 pm

    Awesome little program… Reaction time of 0.43 sec with 7 accidents. Sadly unsurprising given that I have a real track record of 4 major accidents and lots of close calls (prior to diagnosis, now I don’t drive and am far happier for it!). I feel like it would be an eye opener if something like this were a mandatory part of getting a driver’s licence – one round with no access to a cellphone, and once while using it to text/talk/read email/etc.

    • julie on April 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm

      Thank you for your comment! I agree, it’s a great tool for examining sleepiness.

  8. Jan on June 22, 2013 at 3:24 pm

    I have sleep apnea and RLS my physician thinks I have narcolepsy also. I cannot concentrate or remember anything I am desperate to save my job what can I do?

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