Sleeping, are you sleeping?

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sallykate Oct 2020 11:18am, 21 Oct 2020 7,047 posts	0 sallykate Managed to sleep through without needing the loo, hooray! Does anyone use a sleep tracker? I'm intrigued to know what proportion of my sleep is REM etc. I do sometimes use the phone thing, and I have a Garmin which gives limited data but not REM-level.
Night-owl Oct 2020 2:27pm, 21 Oct 2020 34,793 posts	0 Night-owl No. I did used to use the garmin but stopped for some reason I can't remember. Popped to Morrison's after work so got home a little later but bed after 8 ish bit broken sleep got up at 1:30 Knew I wouldn't sleep as great as yesterday never have 2 great sleeps consecutively. Just as well least I can hopefully sleep OK tonight
WA Oct 2020 5:10pm, 21 Oct 2020 7,659 posts	0 WA I wear my garmin overnight as I use it as an alarm. Looked on my connect app today and it does record sleep- deep, light and REM. I never knew! Apparently I average 2 hours REM a night and between 30-60 mins deep sleep. The rest is light sleep or awake. I don't know what is normal so not sure how that compares
SarahWoo Oct 2020 5:16pm, 21 Oct 2020 12,478 posts	0 SarahWoo According to Fitbit, it's normal for most of your sleep to be light sleep, and to have a relatively short spell of deep sleep so I think yours sounds fairly normal, WA.
Groundhog Oct 2020 5:17pm, 21 Oct 2020 1,306 posts	0 Groundhog I not sure what my garmin is doing when it measures sleep. I think it counts me as sleeping when I am sitting watching TV and not moving, or in bed reading a book. It keeps saying I have had 9 or 10 hours sleep when I know I was awake beyond midnight and up before 7. It also never records any REM for me, just deep and light.
Nellers Oct 2020 5:21pm, 21 Oct 2020 37,411 posts	0 Nellers Groundhog, my Garmin has settings for when "normal Sleep Time" is (10pm-7am is what I've told it). It doesn't ever record daytime naps as sleep because of that. I also never get any REM showing up. I think what it looks for and assumes is sleep is reduced movement and HR, so I've had bits where I've been sat on the sofa watching something later than 10pm and it's registered it as sleep, but I've also had patches where I've been asleep but fidgety and it's disregarded them during the night and thought I was awake. It's very much an imperfect measure either way!
sallykate Oct 2020 6:49pm, 21 Oct 2020 7,048 posts	0 sallykate There's a limited number of Garmin devices which will record REM ( support.garmin.com ) and my 735 isn't on it. Very imperfect, true, but I'm still intrigued!
WA Oct 2020 7:45pm, 21 Oct 2020 7,661 posts	0 WA Mine is a vivoactive 3 Screenshot of analysis
Rosehip Oct 2020 7:50pm, 21 Oct 2020 18,261 posts	0 Rosehip My old fitbit used to do really nice sleep analysis, if I thought I'd had an especially bad night I usually told me I'd slept more than I thought. If anyone knows how to make an Apple watch do the analysis it's supposed to do, please let me know because I can't get anything sensible from it at all
Lip Gloss Oct 2020 7:59pm, 21 Oct 2020 45,043 posts	0 Lip Gloss WA, what Garmin do you have and did you have set anything? I fancy giving it a go to see my sleep. Past couple of nights it’s been a midnight wake for loo instead of 2.00am but still wake up during the night