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.
Thursday - Friday 19-20/7/2018
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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
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.
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!
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