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I have 29 days of records now, of my sleeping hours. I don't have any idea of how to interpret it though.
I think that I have discovered the reason for my emotionalism of the last year (discounting the tail end of menopause), and of my inability to think clearly. Of the 29 days, 20 of them featured less than 6 hours of sleep, the majority of which were 0 - 4 hours in one day. That's probably not good. The other nine days were long sleep-sessions of 8 or more hours, and two of those, Glory Hallelujah, were normal ole 8 hours each. Those stood out like sore thumbs.
So I guess I might have enough information to take to the doctor to discuss a plan. The short / short / short/ long / short / long /short cycle seems to have been unaffected by travel or Bossman's heart attack (that occurred during one of my three-days-of-short stretches).
Levels of activity, and of caffeine, do not seem to affect the sleeping. I had days of extreme activity where I didn't sleep more than 3 hours in 48, and other days where I actually drank coffee (rare, for me) and then slept for over 11 hours, with the opposite also happening. So I don't know.
The actual hours were all over the clock but I can see that the morning, roughly 5-ish to noon, appears to be the most common time of unconsciousness for me. Oddly, the next clump of sleep-hours is between 5pm and 10pm.
Not that any of this is interesting to anyone. I've just been up graphing out my next page of sleep log ("You can do that in Excel," said my husband, just to get my goat) and so I had, of course, to play with numbers and see if I could find a common thread going through all of the recorded information.
I think that I have discovered the reason for my emotionalism of the last year (discounting the tail end of menopause), and of my inability to think clearly. Of the 29 days, 20 of them featured less than 6 hours of sleep, the majority of which were 0 - 4 hours in one day. That's probably not good. The other nine days were long sleep-sessions of 8 or more hours, and two of those, Glory Hallelujah, were normal ole 8 hours each. Those stood out like sore thumbs.
So I guess I might have enough information to take to the doctor to discuss a plan. The short / short / short/ long / short / long /short cycle seems to have been unaffected by travel or Bossman's heart attack (that occurred during one of my three-days-of-short stretches).
Levels of activity, and of caffeine, do not seem to affect the sleeping. I had days of extreme activity where I didn't sleep more than 3 hours in 48, and other days where I actually drank coffee (rare, for me) and then slept for over 11 hours, with the opposite also happening. So I don't know.
The actual hours were all over the clock but I can see that the morning, roughly 5-ish to noon, appears to be the most common time of unconsciousness for me. Oddly, the next clump of sleep-hours is between 5pm and 10pm.
Not that any of this is interesting to anyone. I've just been up graphing out my next page of sleep log ("You can do that in Excel," said my husband, just to get my goat) and so I had, of course, to play with numbers and see if I could find a common thread going through all of the recorded information.
