my body needs nine hours of sleep
It's been 3 weeks since I started experimenting with free-running sleep. This means I go to bed when both my body and brain feel tired enough, and I wake up without alarms. The results are confusing. Key observations so far:
- I need between 8 and 10 hours of sleep on average. Usually 9.
- The schedule is still unstable, but I wake up roughly at the same time, around 9:30.
- Bedtime shifts slightly to a later time every day, but wake time is roughly the same, so my circadian rhythm seems to reset every day naturally. This will become clearer with more data.
- Although I still feel like shit when I wake up, I now spend less time in bed between waking up and getting up.
Notes
- Data source is me writing down the time before I go to bed and the first thing when I wake up.
- I would often read in bed before falling asleep, so bedtime for half the days should start 20 to 40 minutes later.
- Dec 8 to Dec 11 is me traveling and not logging my sleep
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