Sleep tracking via wearables (Apple Watch, Oura, Whoop, Fitbit) quantifies sleep stages, duration, quality. Apps like Sleep Cycle use phone accelerometer. By 2020, 30%+ U.S. adults tracked sleep. Dr. Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep (2017) evangelized importance. Concern: sleep data anxiety—obsessing over scores worsens sleep (orthosomnia). Consumer device accuracy approximates medical polysomnography.
Sources: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/how-sleep-works/sleep-tracking