1.How much difficulty have you had falling asleep?
Lying awake at the start of the night.
2.How much difficulty have you had staying asleep?
Waking during the night and struggling to drop off again.
3.How much of a problem has waking too early been?
Waking before you meant to and not getting back to sleep.
4.How satisfied are you with your sleep as it is right now?
Your honest overall feeling about it.
5.How much do you think your sleep is affecting things others would notice?
Your mood, your energy, how you come across.
6.How worried or distressed do you feel about your sleep?
How much mental space it takes up.
7.How much is your sleep getting in the way of daily life?
Work, concentration, chores, relationships.
How sleep severity is actually scored
Clinicians do not judge insomnia by how many hours you sleep. Plenty of people function well on six hours and plenty struggle on eight. What matters is the combination of how hard it is to sleep, how much it bothers you, and how much it costs you during the day.
The standard tool for this is the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) — a short, validated questionnaire that scores seven areas from 0 to 4, giving a total out of 28. The bands above (under 8, 8–14, 15–21, 22–28) are the ones used with it, which is why a score of 15 means something specific rather than just “quite bad”.
This page is not the ISI itself — that is a copyrighted clinical instrument, and we run it inside the Lunara app rather than reproducing it here. What you have just filled in covers the same seven areas in our own words, scored the same way, so the number you got is a fair indication of where you would land.
What counts as chronic insomnia?
The usual threshold is difficulty sleeping at least three nights a week for three months or more, with a daytime cost. Below that it is generally called short-term or acute insomnia, which often resolves once whatever caused it passes.
What is the recommended treatment?
CBT-I — cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia. The NHS, the American College of Physicians and sleep specialists all recommend it ahead of sleeping pills for chronic insomnia, because it treats the mechanism rather than sedating you for one night, and the results tend to hold years later.
Please read this bit. This is a self-check, not a diagnosis, and Lunara is not a medical device. A score here cannot rule anything in or out — sleep problems can accompany conditions like sleep apnea, depression, thyroid disorders and others that need a clinician to identify. If your sleep has been bad for months, if you are falling asleep during the day, or if you are struggling with your mental health, please speak to your GP.