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Similar story here. I always thought I slept like the dead and nothing short of a force of nature could wake me. Fitbit rolled out their new sleep types tracki
by Swizec 9y ago
Similar story here. I always thought I slept like the dead and nothing short of a force of nature could wake me.
Fitbit rolled out their new sleep types tracking and I find out I'm actually a super light sleeper. Most nights I don't get anywhere near the low-end benchmark for Deep Sleep and I overshoot the high-end benchmark for Light Sleep by many points.
It's weird because my subjective experience and the data that Fitbit shows are so out of whack. I could swear that I sleep well, but nope.
- E6300 9y agoCrazy thought, but perhaps the device is actually pretty terrible at measuring when the user is asleep? Wrist-band heart-rate monitors are known to be fairly less accurate than chest-band HRMs.
- just4themoney 9y agoI hate to be so pessimistic but since Fitbit doesn't measure brain waves (among many other things) any "sleep" data generated by the Fitbit is somewhere between those novelty love tester machines and random bits in accuracy. Don't trust it over your subjective experience.
- 0xffff2 9y ago>I could swear that I sleep well, but nope. Who's really right here then? I'm curious, if you have some nights where the Fitbit says you sleep better or worse than average, does that correlate with your subjective experience?
- brlewis 9y agoOr possibly not all 7 billion people need the same amount of each sleep stage? Maybe you and your Fitbit are both right, but the benchmark is wrong for you. All the stages have some benefit. https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2163#DifferentStages https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2163#Dif...