How I Slept

An interesting sleep in which all the wakefulness was compressed into a single period. Fortunately I went back to sleep which pushed the total over the critical limit.

A self-inflicted highly disrupted sleep due to Tumblr addiction, but I have no regrets about an enjoyable "me time". My late night didn't stop me having a restless period in the early morning that disrupted sleep still further.

I don't usually sleep well on a Saturday night, but after going to bed late as normal, and unusually no 07:00 wake up required, I had a spectacularly successful healthy sleep - waking as late as 08:10 is unprecedented by my standards! I'm not sure why this was but I'm very grateful for it!

Another unusual sleep in which the REM sleep came before the deep sleep, but importantly I achieved the critical minimum.

This is an interesting one! At around 03:00 I was absolutely wide awake and kept awake by wife's snores/breath and the cat, so I moved to the Consulting Room. I then proceeded to have an epic dream session over 90 minutes long and unbroken! All this added up to a good sleep! Next time I'm wide awake at 3am, I'll know what to do!

After two inadequate sleeps, I was in bed for 2100 and had the best sleep for years! Apart from being sleep-deprived, I can't really explain why I slept so well, but I'm not complaining!

Absolutely no excuse for another self-inflicted short sleep. I'm definitely getting into bed at a reasonable hour tonight!

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.  

A short sleep self-inflicted by being late to bed. An usually "flat" sleep.

Late to bed and early to wake! Deep Sleep was oddly late in the sleep. I awoke naturally, prompted by daylight.

An unusual flat, dense sleep.

After a physical day spent on manual tasks, I was expecting to sleep well, and so it proved! Waking periods were unusually low. However my brain then wakes after six hours of actual sleep

Unusually in this sleep, the restless part was in the central third, but the sleep overall was reasonable quality and I achieved the critical minimum.

Effectively a repeat of the previous night, although slightly under the critical minimum this time.

This sleep felt quite restless, but this is only because the waking times were long enough to remember - the sleep actually turned out to be good quality.

A sleep of two starkly contrasting halves. I suspect some of these awake spikes may have actually been REM sleep, but no matter - I got the crucial 6 hours and didn't get up early.

I didn't pay off any "sleep debt" from the previous night but at least this one was a typical healthy sleep with normal cycling through the stages.

This was always going to be a short one as I had a night out. Sometimes you gotta party! However it was made shorter by early waking.

Though there were many awake spikes, I don't remember most of them and the overall picture adds up to a healthy balanced sleep

A short sleep brought about by the trauma of World Cup football!

WHY NOT??!!

This was a very fitful sleep, brought about by an unusual day and unfamiliar bed, but I was never awake enough to get out of bed apart for a wee, and this meant I ended up with a sleep of reasonable quality overall.

Though Monday is a "false positive", this is offset by several naps not picked up. A long deep meditation on Sunday helped obtain the critical minimum for the week.

Though falling just short short of the critical minimum, this sleep was healthy and well-balanced, and I woke naturally.

An unusually flat and short sleep not in my conscious control - just one of those nights. 

In this satisfactory sleep, all the wakefulness was concentrated into a single hour block, and I feel better for it! ; )

After an exciting but disrupted week, it was good to get it all out of the way yesterday then have a proper evening sleep routine. This is evident in this sound healthy sleep and a good cycling between sleep stages. I've awoken calm and refreshed.

ENGLAND WON A PENALTY SHOOT-OUT!! This rare event explains why getting to bed on time wasn't a priority. I have noticed with shorter sleeps how the sleep is more efficient and I get a good hour of REM and deep sleep. However light sleep is equally crucial and this suffers in a short sleep.

After a run of unreliable results by the tracker, at last this one is believable. A busy weekend deprived of sleep and meditation that ran into Monday resulted in this very efficient sleep. Rather than sleep longer to pay off sleep debt, I slept more intensely, with much less wakefulness than usual.

I can understand to some extent why I've got this false positive result - between 2200 and 0030 my left arm where I where the tracker was completely still. I unfotunately only actually got 4-5 hours due to Tumblr addiction.

Two hours of sleep data are MISSSING. In the two thirds that WERE recorded, unusually the restless spikes are all in the first third.