South Africa's sleep health platform
You spend a third of your life somewhere you have never seen.
Sleep is the only part of your health that happens while you are not there to watch it. That is exactly why it goes unnamed for years, and it is what Khaya is for.
Start with the sleeper you are. Four questions, about twenty seconds, no account.
Then turn the lamp off and follow one night
Four questions, one go
1.With no alarm and nowhere to be, when would you fall asleep?
2.On a normal weeknight, how much sleep do you actually get?
3.Do you doze off during the day when you did not mean to?
4.Which of these sounds most like you?
Answer all four to see it.
21:55Lights out
Right. Bed.
You have decided to be sensible about it tonight. Phone down, lamp off, a reasonable hour for once. Everything from here happens without you, which is the whole difficulty with sleep: you are the only witness, and you are asleep.
What follows is one ordinary night. Not a worst case, and nothing in it will wake you enough to remember.
22:40The room
The room starts working against you.
A closed bedroom fills with the carbon dioxide you breathe out, and by the early hours it can reach several times the level outside. You will never notice it happening.
The same goes for a room that runs warm, a streetlight through thin curtains, or the neighbour's dog at three. None of it wakes you enough to remember, and all of it shows up in the morning as though it were you.
01:15Nobody is counting
Your breathing stops, and you will not remember it.
About 1 in 7 South African adults live with obstructive sleep apnoea. More than 80% of them do not know, because the only person in the room is asleep for all of it.
Nothing in an ordinary week ever puts a name to it. A fragmented healthcare system, few specialised sleep clinics, and sleep studies that cost enough to put anybody off. So you carry on assuming it is work, or stress, or your age.
Out of every 100 South African adults, 15 are affected and 12 do not know
03:20Wide awake
You are awake, doing the arithmetic.
Four hours and ten minutes, if you fall asleep right now. You work it out again at half past. Nobody has ever fallen asleep faster for having calculated it.
This is the part people do remember, and it is still the part they explain away. Lying awake gets treated as a personality trait, or a busy period, or something that started around the time of a job you no longer have. It is measurable, it has names, and several of the things behind it are treatable.
06:45The alarm
You get up and call it a bad night.
One of them is a bad night. Four hundred of them is a different thing entirely, and this is where it stops being about sleep at all.
Your body keeps the score
Broken sleep, night after night, raises the risk of cardiovascular disease and Type II diabetes. It accumulates over years, without a single night that felt like the problem.
Your mind pays first
Concentration, memory and patience go before anything else does. Most people put that down to stress or age, because tiredness is the one explanation nobody thinks to question.
Your day gets smaller
The drive home takes more out of you. You are shorter with the people you like most. You stop doing the things you used to do in the evening, and you cannot say when that started.
06:58
It gets light whether you slept or not.
Morning
Here is what we can actually name.
SleepPath is the assessment behind all of this. Around 10 minutes, in four short parts you can spread over several sittings. It scores 8 dimensions of how you sleep and runs 3 clinical screens, then tells you which hour of that night was yours and what to change first.
If it warrants going further, a vetted network of GPs, sleep technologists and specialists is booked and coordinated in one place, and your assessment travels with the referral.
Not ready for ten minutes? Start with five questions, about a minute.
Five questions, about a minute
Do you often wake up feeling like you have not really rested?
Do you feel tired or sleepy during the day, even after a full night in bed?
Do you find it harder than it should be to concentrate, or notice your memory slipping?
Does it take you a long time to fall asleep, or do you lie awake during the night?
Has anyone told you that you snore loudly, or seen you stop breathing while asleep?
Or go straight to the full assessment and get your overall score, your Sleep Animal, and a clear picture of what is affecting your sleep.
Three ways in.
The same assessment underneath, pointed at whichever of these you are.
For you
SleepPath
Your animal, your score, and a report that says what each part of your sleep means and what to change first. There is a full week of Sleep Sanctuary on that page to play.
See what you get backFor clinicians
Hand them a code
Decide what a patient should be asked, from three quick questions to the full assessment. They scan in the room, and a scored result comes back to you.
See the clinician sideFor employers
Nobody calls in sick for bad sleep
They come in and work at a fraction of what they are worth. Put your own payroll in and see what that costs, then screen your workforce without seeing anybody's answers.
Work out your exposure