Sleep

Over the past 2 weeks, I have been using the Sleep Cycle application on my phone. It is pretty interesting. It tracks the depth of your sleep based on you movement. I would almost think it would bullshit if the alarm didn't start going off right as I stir into vague consciousness in the morning.

It is definitely helping me to wake up at a more regular, most consistent time every day. On the few mornings I have not used it or set it later than other mornings, I usually wake up around the time I normally set it for. And the wake up alarm I am using could not be more pleasant.

I love being able to see the graph of my sleep.

When I wake up in the middle of the night (which is most nights), I can see it in the graph and know that it is accurate.

The only measurement I don't agree with it the Sleep Quality %. The graph above is from last night's sleep. It looks like I spent most the night within the Sleep-Deep Sleep range and that it wasn't until closer to the morning that I started to move towards being Awake. That looks like good sleep to me. I also woke up feeling well rested, even if I only spent under 7 hours asleep.

And then there is a night like this one where the quality reads at 90%, but the sleep fluctuation is enormous. But I was in bed for over 8 hours.

I am starting to think that is bases quality most so from the time spent in bed rather than the degree of fluctuation between Sleep/Deep Sleep and Awake. Especially because I think I wake up feeling worse on days that look like this and on days that exceed 8 hours in bed. This week, I will try to aim for about 7 hours of sleep and see how I feel.

*I do want to get better about recording this with more extensive notes. How active I was in day, what I ate, menstrual cycle, overall mood and disposition, etc.