Knowledge can be troublesome at times and nowhere has this been that interesting than getting an understanding of my sleeping patterns over the last week. My Honor Band 5 tracker has been plotting my daily sleep cycle from wakefulness to deep sleep, indicating I have not been getting enough deep sleep and the continuity of my deep sleep is too below the expected levels.
I seem to have lots
of REM (Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, which apparently is the lightest form of
sleep and the region in which you dream and remember the dreams. Who would have
thought wishing someone sweet dreams as they were going to bed was hardly wishing
they would have a restful night?
Then, I do appear to
have an above range period of light sleep, I am putting in the hours though the
graphical representation of REM Sleep to Light Sleep to Deep Sleep with the
fluctuations and durations can be the stuff of serious mathematical
computations yet to find some formulaic expression.
Becoming better
friends
I have decided not to
bother too much about it, I am getting some good hours. Except if I go to a
professional sleep clinic for clinical and scientific observation, I probably
will not learn much more about how to benefit from sleep.
Then, it is probably
the long-term side effects of pills I have been on for over a decade. The somewhat
imposed decision to change them did not work that well with me for after 7
weeks, I had had enough of being a guinea pig two years ago that I asked to be
put back on my old drug regimen. Besides, I have shied away from sleep
medication for as long as I can remember, I would get as much sleep as nature
will allow.
Some modifications to
diet, the time I take my sleep and when I take my pills, might help. I have not
murdered sleep; I just need to find out how we can be better than just friends.
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