When Sleep Goes Haywire
Like Duolingo, but for When Sleep Goes Haywire. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in When Sleep Goes Haywire
- The sleep-wake switch is failing to transition fully into the 'off' position
- Narcolepsy involves a breakdown in the boundaries between being awake and asleep
- Sleep drive is the biological need for sleep, distinct from feeling tired
- Fatigue can exist without the brain being ready to shut down
- The brain's regulatory system can get stuck in a 'gray zone'
- Narcolepsy and insomnia can coexist when the sleep-wake transition is broken
- Why the brain remains hyper-alert at night despite daytime sleepiness
- Distinguishing between physical exhaustion and biological sleep drive
- The nature of the 'tired but wired' state
- Cold temperature triggers physiological arousal
- Physical movement is more effective than mental effort
- Light exposure regulates sleep-wake hormones
- Temperature shifts toggle arousal state
- Passive environmental changes are weaker than active physical shocks
- Thermal shocks (cold) are among the fastest non-chemical ways to trigger alertness
- Choosing the most effective immediate environmental trigger for an emergency alertness response
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives When Sleep Goes Haywire the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
What happens to the walls between being awake and asleep in a brain with narcolepsy?
Get it right to open this lesson and 25 more in the app.
Where When Sleep Goes Haywire takes you
Ever felt wide awake at 3 AM but ready to collapse at noon? Explore the strange world where insomnia and narcolepsy meet to disrupt your internal clock.
- 1
Surviving the Day and Night
- The Paradox of Being Tired but Wired
- How to Stay Awake When Your Brain Says No
- Getting Through a Night of Broken Sleep
- Spotting the Signs of Sleep Attacks
- 2
Decoding Your Body's Mixed Signals
- Why You Can't Just 'Sleep More'
- Dreaming While You're Still Awake
- The Mystery of Sleep Paralysis
- How Emotions Can Trigger Sleepiness
- When Your Body Clock Loses Its Way
- The Role of Brain Chemicals in Sleep
- 3
Building a Better Sleep Routine
- Creating a Schedule That Actually Works
- Talking to Doctors About Sleep Struggles
- Modern Tools for Managing Sleep Disorders
3 sections · 13 units · 26 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
When Sleep Goes Haywire is taught in the Explain Like I'm 5 style: no big words. promise.. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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