We’ve gathered Pokemon cards on the school playground, took pictures of them on our Nintendo 64s, battled them on our Game Boys, and walked around town to catch them on our smartphones. Now, we’ll be able to gather them in our dreams. Pokemon Sleep is a new app that will let you catch Pokemon just by sleeping, according to The Verge.
The thing about this app is that it’s a very fun sleep tracker. It will monitor how long you sleep and give you a report on how long you slept. That idea sounds odd, but sleep trackers are no new thing. Several smartwatches and fitness trackers have the ability to track your sleep and give you a report. Having healthy sleep patterns is part of being overall healthy.
Pokemon Sleep is an app where you can catch Pokemon in your sleep
There’s a fair bit to this app outside of tracking your sleep. The core mechanic is to monitor how long you sleep each night and present you with the metrics when you wake up in the morning.
The thing about this app is that it incentivizes you to practice good sleep habits. Starting off, you’ll see a Snorlax just snoozing during the day. You’ll give it food and drinks in order to help it gain strength in the form of a number. The more that you feed the Snorlax, the higher that number.
Next, when you sleep, you’ll receive a Sleep Score number based on how long you sleep that night. It looks like your Sleep Score will range from 1 to 100. The longer you sleep, the higher your Sleep Score.
When you wake up, the app will multiply your Sleep Score by Snorlax’s strength to get your Drowsy Power. The higher your Drowsy Power, the more Pokemon will gather while you sleep. So, the more you sleep, the more Pokemon will gather as you sleep. Along with Pokemon, you’ll also get a report on how you slept.
The app will recommend that you place your phone on your pillow while you sleep so that it can better track your sleep. So, if you’re comfortable with doing that, then you shouldn’t have an issue.
Pokemon Sleep is currently up for pre-registration on the Google Play Store. We’re not sure when the company’s going to officially launch the app, so you’ll want to stay tuned.