pegkerr | Sleep Cycle (Reply)

I've learned a lot from that app I purchased, Sleep Cycle.

Since I've started using it, I've learned several specific things, more than just the vague, "I haven't been sleeping well."

Thursdays, oddly enough, are my worst nights for sleeping, and Fridays are the best.
I have difficulty entering the deep sleep cycle in the second half of the night. Frequently I will wake up at 3:00 or 4:00 a.m. (unfortunately, this is often triggered by Rob coming to bed at that time). And then I have difficulty going back into the deep stages after that.
You can chart notes and see what affects your sleep. After keeping track of how using Melatonin affected my sleep cycle, which was something that had been recommended to me, I discovered it wasn't doing a thing except perhaps making things worse, so I discontinued it.
I sleep an average of seven and a half hours a night.
Frequently, I alternate a bad night with a good night. I had a particularly dramatic example this week, when my worst night (chart below), with only a 50% sleep effectiveness rate, was followed with one of my best nights, with a 98% effectiveness rate.

Here is a chart showing the best night I've had since starting using the application. As you will note, I woke once, briefly, right before midnight, but I managed to drop off again right away. I reached both the deep sleep level and the REM stages

This was my worst night. I never even reached the REM state except briefly right before 6:00 a.m.

This is a good example of what seems to be some of my typical problems: I manage the deep sleep state in the first half of the night, wake up, and then don't sleep as deeply the second half. During the last hour, I was semi-awake, dozing before my alarm went off.