This…this NEVER happens

[dreamshark]

I guess the secret to a good night’s sleep is absolute exhaustion and 5 nights of sleep deprivation. Doesn’t seem like the secret to a healthy lifestyle. But this is without question the best night of sleep my know-it-all Watch has ever recorded.

Comments

[pameladean]

I know! It's maddening that normal sleep behavior can be evoked by NOT SLEEPING for so long that it's just impossible to do regularly, or at least a bad idea. And the reset doesn't last, either. Bodies are ridiculous, I tell you what.

P.

[minnehaha]

Maybe it's the watch?

Me, I sleep ok, but I use ridiculous means to get there. Who listens to Sleep Baseball anyway? (Youtube is my source, and I set a timed to turn it off after 20 minutes. I last about 3 minutes.)

K.

[dreamshark]

The Watch's report generally tracks with my perceived experience. Out of 9 hours in bed I am lucky to log 8 hours of actual sleep. On a good night I have about an hour of awake time, 20-30 minutes of Deep, and about 90 of REM. Typically there will be many many short intervals of Awake scattered throughout, with one longer one somewhere (ranging from 20 minutes to 2 hours, depending on whether it's a good night or a bad one). I remember 5 or 6 of the wakeups.

The remarkable thing about this sleep graph is that there are just 6 short Awakes. And they are ALL WHERE THEY BELONG - at transition points between sleep phases. And it actually felt like what I gather most people think sleep is like: I fell asleep quickly and woke up a little over 8 hours later with no memory of the time in between. Egad!

I was sleepy again by afternoon, however, having not made up the Minicon sleep deficit yet. But I sure felt better today than I did the day before, when I had to get up early for a doctor appointment.