As a therapist I know how fundamental sleep is to wellbeing, and that modern life makes getting it harder. This blog is a record of my own efforts to get a good night's sleep.
Monday - Tuesday 23-24/7/2018
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A very inadequate sleep well short of the critical minimum - I went to bed an hour later and inexplicably awoke early. Usual sleep patterns were reversed, with Deep Sleep too short and turning up much later.
Though substandard, this sleep wasn't as disastrous as I imagined, getting within an hour of the critical minimum. Going to bed late was my fault, although the long restless period wasn't in my conscious control. It's a case of shrug shoulders and move on.
I have had something of a "what comes naturally" attitude to sleep this weekend, particularly this sleep, where I went to bed feeling sleepy and stayed there until I wasn't. I probably won't adopt it as a long-term strategy, but it was interesting to observe that it did deliver a little over the critical minimum with adequate deep sleep. I suspect I had more REM sleep than the tracker recorded, but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
I've noticed how unique every sleep pattern is, but this one is on the more typical side - a first half where most of the deep sleep happens, a restless hour in the middle, then a second half where most of the REM sleep happens. A satisfactory well-balanced sleep achieving the critical minimum.
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