#sleep data

I’m still having trouble adjusting to the sounds and rhythms of living with the two newest housemates

Night before last a crisis happened with upstairs roommate right before I was going to head to bed so my nerves were shot and I slept badly.

Last night I had just gotten to sleep when one of the new roommates knocked on my door to ask if I could give him a jump (listen I don’t even have a license but we are still getting to know the basics here)

it shattered the last remnants of any remaining circadian rhythm my body may have been clinging to and I slept even more badly

I had planned to stop by the supermarket after work to get some melatonin

then I showed up for work and they were like “wait why are you here you’re closing”

I had neglected to double-check my schedule at the appropriate time

SO! Errands and prep for tomorrow’s convention will be my midday, work will be my evening, instead of vice-versa. The mistake adds about 40-50 minutes more walking to my day.

Drawbacks: if I had known, I might have been able to sleep in a little more.

Advantages: 

a) an extra 45 minutes of sunshine and exercise today is only going to bring me closer to my goal of resetting my body and sleeping like the dead tonight.

b) somewhere along the way to work I was like “oh shit I was going to buy a train ticket for the con tomorrow morning but I don’t think the ticket office is open on weekends” and then on my way back, in addition to getting that melatonin, I caught the last ten minutes of the ticket office hours before they closed for the weekend and got my day pass.

c)I’m up and mostly awake and I can get the rest of my con prep done early so I won’t spend my work shift worrying if I’ll be able to get my cosplay done.

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If you can measure, you can improve it... Sleep?

During the spring of 2008 I started to forget things and words a healthy, athletic 30 year old should not have hard time remembering: simple English words like "plate" and names of my closest co-workers I had spent most of the waking hours with for a few years. And I was getting sick all the time, while I typically "never" get sick from the common flu's and cold's. First I was puzzled, but quickly realized that my 3-5 hour nightly sleep hours might have something to do with it.

I admitted that I had to focus on sleeping more. Sounds simple, but it was tough to change the habit of working until midnight or 1am and waking up around 5am or 6am for a kick-ass workout before getting back to office. Unfortunately "sleep when you're dead" -philosophy is way too over-rated and I believed in it too, for too long.

I decided to set a goal of 7 hour average sleep each week (7-day moving average) and most importantly, start tracking my sleep hours on my master spreadsheet.

In a couple of months I recovered, got my memory back and got rid of all the sickness that had haunted me.

Today I shared the stats with a co-worker of mine and suddenly realized that I have 3 years worth of sleep data! I've been able to stay pretty close to the 7-hr average, but still have way too many 4-5 hour nights. Interestingly, I can also see a huge spike in the sleep hours during Jan/Dec each year, and a few other times: every time I take a break from work and have a 1-2 travel vacation. And not surprisingly, there's crunch time in February and March each year, following the more restful period over the holidays. But most importantly, this simple tracking tool has allowed me to stay accountable and increase my average sleep from 5-6hrs/night to about 7hrs/night.

What I'm tracking now is my speed of thinking and problem solving and trying to correlate it with my sleep hours. More on that later...