Restful Sleep insight - Share your sleep results

[slyronit]

I like the concept and the tracking results, but what about that heart rate sensor. I'm annoyed with that green light (under the covers for me right now), but doesn't it bother you?

If you can see the green light, its not fit properly.

 

[slyronit]

Here is my sleep from last night. Sadly, it is all too typical, and even on the better side of my usual nights.View attachment 87150

You need a doctor, not a band

 

[DroidUser42]

Here is my sleep from last night. Sadly, it is all too typical, and even on the better side of my usual nights.View attachment 87150

Doesn't look that bad once you actually get to sleep. But it does look like something that needs to be worked on. Are you a shift worker that just changed shifts? 3AM to Noon seems odd.

 

[DroidUser42]

If you can see the green light, its not fit properly.

Keep in mind that if you wear it with the display to the inside, when you rest your hand on something, it will push the HR sensor away. It may take a pretty tight fit to make it invisible under all situations. I'd look into a different hand position. Not so much so that there's no gap, but that the light doesn't reach your eyes.

I've only had it happen once, so it's not an issue. Then again, I started switching wrists for the night to give my "day" wrist a rest. (try saying that fast). I haven't had an issue since.

 

[noirsoft]

Thanks for the concern, folks! I am a natural night person who has been forced to spend the last 41 years living on a normal schedule. As a professional computer programmer, I have a certain leeway to set my schedule. but I can't quite make a "sleep at 6 am, wake up past noon" work for most employers. I also have sleep apnea (diagnosed -- but why do they insist on only measuring you from 10 PM until early morning?) but have not yet gotten a CPAP machine. So, I have seen doctors, it's just a long process that is still ongoing. And here's the next night's sleep:

 

[moc426]

What are you doing in bed from 230 am to nearly 7 am while awake?

Thanks for the concern, folks! I am a natural night person who has been forced to spend the last 41 years living on a normal schedule. As a professional computer programmer, I have a certain leeway to set my schedule. but I can't quite make a "sleep at 6 am, wake up past noon" work for most employers. I also have sleep apnea (diagnosed -- but why do they insist on only measuring you from 10 PM until early morning?) but have not yet gotten a CPAP machine. So, I have seen doctors, it's just a long process that is still ongoing. And here's the next night's sleep:
View attachment 87229

 

[noirsoft]

What are you doing in bed from 230 am to nearly 7 am while awake?

The quick answer is "trying to fall asleep" :winktongue:
The longer answer: One thing the Band does not seem to be sensitive enough to capture is the state of being half asleep, drifting off for a minute or two, then waking back up because of apnea or restless leg. While it almost certainly is more than an hour between me starting sleep mode and first drifting off towards sleep, I definitely was not 100% awake until 7 AM.

 

[moc426]

Ouch sorry if I sounded insensitive, I don't know much about this condition. That is really terrible.

The quick answer is "trying to fall asleep" :winktongue:
The longer answer: One thing the Band does not seem to be sensitive enough to capture is the state of being half asleep, drifting off for a minute or two, then waking back up because of apnea or restless leg. While it almost certainly is more than an hour between me starting sleep mode and first drifting off towards sleep, I definitely was not 100% awake until 7 AM.

 

[anon(7822191)]

I'm sleeping horribly apparently. Can someone tell me what's up with my sleep? The least I've woken up at night since monitoring is like 8x... This band gives you a reasonable amount of data but I kind of want to know how deviant my sleep patterns are from the norm as well as what habits I have that could be causing them.

 

[DroidUser42]

I'm sleeping horribly apparently. Can someone tell me what's up with my sleep? The least I've woken up at night since monitoring is like 8x... This band gives you a reasonable amount of data but I kind of want to know how deviant my sleep patterns are from the norm as well as what habits I have that could be causing them. View attachment 87309

Except for the duration of 9.5 hours to my 7 hours, it doesn't look that much different than mine. I would like to get more restful sleep, but I have no idea what's normal, how the Band senses it, or what exactly it means - much less come up with an action plan to improve it.

Summery: Neat! Now what? For now, we seem to be stuck getting medical advice from anonymous posters on the internet. :/

 

[gshifrin]

So does anyone know what's being measured to define light or deep sleep? Is it just movement? Heart rate? What? Obviously it's not detecting REM sleep.

 

[gadgetrants]

I was all ready to trumpet the fact that I'd "scored" 1.5 hours of restful sleep two nights ago (a personal best for me! LOL -- I'm usually closer to 30-40 minutes) but then...drum roll please...

...this morning I got the AMAZING score of....

0 SECONDS RESTFUL SLEEP. :devil: What's even stranger is that it also says I woke up 2 times, which is equally odd for me (normally more like 8-10 times).

Talk about taking the wind out of *my* sails! Funny that regardless of the number the Band reports, I feel more or less the same. :winktongue:

-Matt

 

[slyronit]

Had a good sleep

 

[Bobvfr]

I don't have anything to add since I haven't been able to get a Band yet, but I just wanted to comment on dainla and jwpear falling asleep in ~6 minutes. I can't even get comfortable in 6 minutes.

I find the best way to get a restfull sleep is to put on any form of motorsport on my TV, it's like a children's mobile toy for me, all those noisy buzzy things going round in circles....

The only thing that will disturb my slumber is if my wife touches the remote and I will wake long enough to say "I was watching that".

And if I have been on an early shift I find a good documentary a close second, but for those I am ready and somehow manage to press the record button as my head hits the sofa :wink:

 

[MadSci2]

Don't fret. In this context, "Deep Sleep" does not equal REM sleep. Its likely that the Band software conflates the two,since REM would appear similar to Deep Sleep to the sensors that the Band has.

 

[MadSci2]

Unless you are kidding, you need to see a Sleep Specialist. An inability to fall asleep for 4 hours isn't normal, or healthy. The good news in , there are effective treatments for delayed Sleep Cycle and most of the other ailments that cause this kind of pattern. Except kids of course.
Seriously, look into some professional help. No need to suffer!

 

[MadSci2]

I can't see it. Perhaps your might tighten your Band a little?

 

[MadSci2]

IT should be pretty clear to all involved. You should be on CPAP right now. A lot of Apnea Pts have delayed sleep onset after years of almost choking for hours as they tried to fall asleep. Altering your lifestyle to accommodate a sleep issue sis a common, but unwise strategy. CPAP therapy, and treatment for Delayed Sleep Onset is required.

Its not just sleep. Apnea can lead very readily to obesity, diabetes, hypertension, strokes and heart attacks. All preventable with therapy. Please move to get it going as soon as possible.

Best of luck!

 

[eyecrispy]

I don't think the tracking is accurate at all. Less than 18 min of restful sleep? I slept like a log! My Up24 showed I got almost 3.5 hrs of deep sleep. How can it be that far off?

 

[DroidUser42]

View attachment 88334

I don't think the tracking is accurate at all. Less than 18 min of restful sleep? I slept like a log! My Up24 showed I got almost 3.5 hrs of deep sleep. How can it be that far off?

What's with the chart? There's no graph. Since we don't know the definition of "deep sleep" it's hard to tell who's right and who's wrong.