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If you get one with the HR tracking, you get more detailed info on your sleep stages - https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2163 https://help.fit
by kdamken 9y ago
If you get one with the HR tracking, you get more detailed info on your sleep stages - https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2163 https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/2163
I'm with you though. I thought I was doing a good job on sleep and then picked up a Charge 2 and was super surprised at just how little I was getting. It's helped me get better at going to bed at a reasonable hour.
- KGIII 9y agoHow accurate are these things, really? I don't sleep much, I never have. However, I can pretty much shut my body down and meditate, which probably has similar outward physiological expressions as sleep. I call it my time in my rejuvenation center. It isn't sleep. I'll do that for hours and then get three to five hours of sleep - estimating, of course. When I did my sleep study, they asked me to not do that. So, I sat there awake and it was not a very fruitful study. I am sure I am not unique but I am only finding generic information when I search.
- WalterSear 9y agoAre you aware of the condition known as Pseudoinsomnia?
- KGIII 9y agoI am. But, in thus case, I can tell you when the dog got on the bed, when the missus moved, etc... I'm very much awake and alert to my surroundings.
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- WalterSear 9y agoYou can be aware of those things in lighter levels of sleep. Some of the protocols used in lucid dreaming research rely on it.
- KGIII 9y agoI could but I think I will trust the doctor. We had this conversation. I can just lay there and do something, but I prefer to meditate as it seems to offer some level of rejuvenation.
- WalterSear 9y agoI'm not sure I follow.
- KGIII 9y agoBy slowing myself down to a restful position, it affords some of the same benefits of sleep. I am very much awake for those few hours, and then I fall asleep. There's no pseudoinsomnia involved. I stay nearly perfectly still, inasmuch as a human can, and meditate. Once I am asleep, I guess I toss and turn, as well as snore. I highly doubt that I am unique, in these regards. The proscribed medical solution is a rotation of pharmacutical sleep aids. I don't usually bother with them, as I dislike the groggy feeling that I have the following day. But yeah, I am very much awake. My pulse rate slows, as does my respiration. At some point, I'll change position and that's when I have actually fallen asleep. The duration varies, and I sometimes just give up and go do something else.
- E6300 9y agoSo it's basically a nap?