Perhaps you’ve heard that sleep is the new sex. And when sleep becomes the new sex, the natural progression is performance anxiety. It usually happens like this: “You’re going to bed before you’re very sleepy, because you think you should,” says Dr. Janet Kennedy, a clinical psychologist and founder of NYC Sleep Doctor. “Insomniacs have always felt this: Tonight I’d better sleep so I can get out of this rut.”
As if to heighten the anxiety, there are now a whole assortment of sleep trackers—the new Amazon Halo, an alarm clock with a sleep-analyzing function, along with the Oura ring and the Whoop band—that are all too ready to let you know how bad you are in bed.
