Coach | Mindfulness | Sleep Meditations - Waking me up every hour!

[JimBobBillyBeau]

Last night - as I often do - I chose a sleep meditation. One that I have done many times before. I fell deep asleep.  At 3:10 I woke up - startled! I heard someone say something. I decided that it was a dream. I went back to sleep. At 4:10 I woke up - startled, again! A voice - but couldn't make out what it was saying. I thought I was having auditory hallucinations. Something was wrong! I went back to bed, thinking I am going to have to speak with my doctor. This is not good. 

I woke up at 6AM. Staring at the ceiling. at 6:10AM that **ahem** voice announced something like "Sleep deep" and I realized it was the **ahem** fitbit app on my phone!

When and who changed that?  I am never going to use those **ahem**able sleep meditations again if this can't be switched off!  How do I switch it OFF?  ARRRRHHH!

[LZeeW]

@JimBobBillyBeau   Please share the specific meditation.  I want to try and reproduce your experience.  Need more details.

[JimBobBillyBeau]

It was Calm  
"Deep sleep relax" 15 minute - Mindfulness.
Relax your mind and muscles for as soothing slumber

I have used this repeatedly for several years. This was just weird!

[LZeeW]

@JimBobBillyBeau   I reproduced your experience, but need a little more experience to see if I can make it stop.  I did this while awake, so my sleep wasn't disrupted.  I started that meditation, then minimized the screen.  It played, then ended.  About an hour later, the words "peaceful sleep" came out of my phone -- in the voice of that meditation.  I opened my Fitbit app and ended the session.  Even tough the audio ended, it kept recording my heart rate trace until I manually left the screen.

We should be able to fall asleep during a sleep promoting meditation and not be bothered by a feature bug.

Weird definitely describes it, but I don't have a clue why a random phrase can come from my phone if the session is over.  For now, all I can say is you are not hallucinating.  I'm also going to move this thread to the Premium forum.  I think it is a better fit for this issue -- these meditations are a premium feature, not specific to a device.

[JimBobBillyBeau]

@LZeeW  I'm so glad you were able to reproduce that behavior! That's' a relief, because it means it's repeatable. I also did it while awake to make sure it wasn't a one-off. What an odd "feature" to enable (IMHO). 

Thank you for reaching out, trying it, and for moving it to the Premium forum!