Friday
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I’ve taken part in a few sleep studies.
An overnight turned into a week, which turned into a month. As I had time to kill and a curious researcher on staff.
Which found a few things;
1. During my ‘normal’ sleep, I don’t hit REM until I’ve been woken up, but am clinically unconscious until my first alarm sounds, and then I cycle through REM 15+ times per hour.
2. I can be in REM for 20+ hours with no change of state, 1-2 times per week. So the idea that I’m dreaming ‘all night’? Is often true.
3. At 0400 hours I experience an adrenaline surge; rather than the more typical deepest sleep most humans experience at 0400 hours, even whilst awake.
4. It takes me, on average, 60-120 minutes to fall asleep, once I have laid down to sleep.
5. I can be both in REM & entirely conscious, at the same time. “Dozing”.
What does this tell you, or suggest to you?
An overnight turned into a week, which turned into a month. As I had time to kill and a curious researcher on staff.
Which found a few things;
1. During my ‘normal’ sleep, I don’t hit REM until I’ve been woken up, but am clinically unconscious until my first alarm sounds, and then I cycle through REM 15+ times per hour.
2. I can be in REM for 20+ hours with no change of state, 1-2 times per week. So the idea that I’m dreaming ‘all night’? Is often true.
3. At 0400 hours I experience an adrenaline surge; rather than the more typical deepest sleep most humans experience at 0400 hours, even whilst awake.
4. It takes me, on average, 60-120 minutes to fall asleep, once I have laid down to sleep.
5. I can be both in REM & entirely conscious, at the same time. “Dozing”.
What does this tell you, or suggest to you?