Wow, I'm appalled by how much I've become dependant on external supports: the first time I took the remember-nonsense-words and the remember-digit-sequences tests, I instinctively wanted to reach for my pencil (because that's what I would do ‘in real life’ to remember a sequence of digits or similar), and I felt that having to tell my hand not to do that was quite distracting.
I'm thinking that it should be possible to decide when to sleep based on reduced performance.
Can anyone suggest a tool for that purpose? Perhaps some reaction time testing software?
I guess I would have to track myself during the day to make a baseline, which is fine.
But without some sort of test I end up staying up way pass effectiveness, which is a waste of my time.
-Robin