sleeptheater

/ˈsliːpˌθɪətə/nounVerified New

Also in: Schlaftheater (Deutsch) · sueñoteatro (Español) · sommeilthéâtre (Français)

Performing sleep for the tracker rather than actually sleeping — the night staged for its own metrics.

Sleeptheater is the bedtime that begins with the app: the phone placed just so, the breathing slowed for the microphone, the stillness maintained for the score. The audience is an algorithm, the reviews arrive at breakfast, and the performance is sometimes better than the sleep.

Etym. — sleep + theater — the performance metaphor for quantified sleep; the theater is exactly what the night becomes when it is staged for a metric.

Rel. — sleepaudit · sleepbadge

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