All about INSOMNIA

Lucky you

if you never experience insomnia and you really don't have to. Unfortunately, many people have experience of it and they know worrying about it will only make it worse🥲. 

Sleep is a complex physiologic process that is influenced by many internal and environmental factors. Notably, not only humans have insomnia. The research has shown that both cats and dogs, usually domesticated animals, can have issues falling and staying asleep, much like humans. So to speak, insomnia is what the animals share in common.

(Your old dog can't sleep? Check this out👈🏻)

As you can imagine, the robots don't have sleeping issues at all. Being turned off, they can sleep immediately and sleep as long as they/we humans want. Nice and neat. 

So, is it possible for robots to develop insomnia someday? Can it be a sign/test of the sophisticated emotional capability? The other way around, can we understand the phenomenon of insomnia more by trying to instill it in bots? Or even better, can we solve our insomnia and be turned on and off just like bots?

Sadly for me

I didn't find any bot with insomnia. However, some people think the chatbots, like ChatGPT of course, could assist people in fighting insomnia. But I also haven't found any chatbot, from research or commercial purpose, that especially tackle the sleeping issues. 

I kept encountering the advertisement of insomnobot-3000👈🏻, a chatbot to help with human insomnia made by a mattress company. They have a funny demo on the website but I still have no clue whether I can or how to use it.

For my insomnia bots

there might be two approaches, emotional or behavioral.

If first, I realize how complex feelings we cross in somnia.  Excitement, boredom, anxiety, exhaustion, the fear of losing consciousness and more... This spectrum of emotions, I suppose, is hard to demonstrate by the bots. Integrating digital part into it might help.


If second, it seems more realistic to realize. When people can't sleep, they toss and turn on the bed, listen to music, grab a snack and watch TV, empty the full bladder every hour. Some behaviours are more common, some vary among people. My insomnia robots can imitate some of these.