There are people all over the world who struggle with getting a good night's sleep. Many of us toss and turn throughout the night due to stress and restlessness. With so much going on in our lives and in the world, it's pretty common that many of us need help to track our sleeping patterns.
However, one woman underwent a traumatic experience when using her sleep tracking app and it's leaving all of us shook.
It may be hard for people to choose between the dozens of apps on the market that are geared toward people who need to track and manage their sleeping patterns. ShutEye is just one of the many apps on the market that many people use.
The app does this by using the microphone that is built into your phone. According to the app's website, it analyzes these sleep patterns using "artificial intelligence algorithms to produce your sleep status information."
The microphone picks up on sounds, using your own breathing (and sometimes snoring), and can pick up on different sounds in the room—such as your pets. However, one woman's SleepEye app picked up on something else entirely.
Robyn Esplin was home with her son and her two dogs using the app when she was startled by a sound that was picked up through the app's microphone in her sleep. The sound was not her, nor her son, nor either of her dogs.
Esplin shared that the app picked up a voice of a man, who was heard saying "Can I rip down the sheets?" The voice also spoke in a Cockney accent.
Some may consider that the recording was not hers or that the app messed up their playback. However, Esplin said that at the end of the recording, you can hear her dog barking.
As she does not live with a man, nor know anyone with a Cockney accent, Esplin was left extremely nervous and on edge. She is now saying that she's scared to sleep at night.
"I've listened to it over and over again, trying to figure out how it's been picked up. What's getting me is that's definitely Alan's bark at the end of the clip," she stated.
"He's heard something in order to bark because if there's any sort of noise he'll start yapping away, otherwise he's sound asleep - I just can't get my head around it," she shared.
"I've Googled it and tried to do some research into the app to see if it's a glitch that has happened to a lot of people, but absolutely nothing comes up. The sleep app itself is rated as number one and accuracy is said to be above 90%," she said.
Both Esplin and Chronicle Live reached out to SleepEye to see if they had any insight as to why this was happening, however, the app has not reached back out for comments as of yet. Clearly, they have some explaining to do!
