Does anyone wear a watch that does sleep tracking? Am I abnormal?

[dangermouseisace]

Hello

I've recently bought a new running watch that seems to track everything. It tracks sleep too. It seems I don't really do deep sleep much (just over 1 hour is the norm) and the activity monitor shows I'm busy moving about all night. The consequence of this is that it says I get 'almost no restful moments' (in 24 hours) and that I'm at risk of exhaustion. The nights where I do get a lot of deep sleep, which seems to be once a week, it says I get enough restful moments.

I was wondering whether the lack of deep sleep has anything to do with my persistent recurring mental health problems, and so I'd like to know if my kind of sleep pattern is normal or not!

I have a Fitbit that tracks sleep and benchmarks it for your age

Have you got a Garmin perchance? I've started ignoring my stress readings because I think if they were as bad as they say they are I'd be dead!

I have a FitBit and get barely any deep sleep... usually less than half an hour a night. I also wake up at least 6 times a night for 20-30 mins a time. I am always blooming exhausted! I’ve had sleep issues since I was a child though.

So looking at my averages so last night I had 34 mins deep sleep, 48 mins awake, 4 hrs 34 mins light sleep and 1 hr 35 mins R.E.M. I was only below my bench mark for deep sleep

My Fitbit says I get about an hour's deep sleep per night. I thought that was normal?

Mine is usually 3+ hours awake 😩

Ouch @soydora

I have a fit bit and over the last two weeks have had between 26 minutes and 1hr35 minutes deep sleep a night.

My Fitbit tells me I slept for 7hrs 30 mins last night and only 11 mins was restless, the rest was deep.

I don't have any sleep issues, once I'm in bed I'm off and aside from one of the kids waking me up occasionally I'm gone till the alarm goes off.

I'm not sure it's that accurate but I do feel well rested.

This is mine. I had a bonkers night dreaming last night and it shows!

I rarely meet the target for deep sleep.

My Fitbit tracks sleep, and it tells me that average deep sleep for a woman my age (mid 30s) is 12-23%. I usually have about an hour of deep sleep a night, which seems similar to others on here.

it'sallgoingtobefine bingo! You guessed correctly!

I'm not going to worry too much then. I'm on quite a lot of medication that is meant to make you sleep/slow you down so I was concerned that they were not effective. But if you're all mentally normal it's all fine.

soydora why the hell are you awake for 3 hours?!!

How much deep sleep should you get a night? My Fitbit usually shows I'll have between 30 mins to 1hr 30 of deep sleep a night, rarely more, which doesn't seem much

Also it shows I'm awake 20-50 times.

I'm also one of those "tired all the time" people.

My Fitbit tells me I'm awake for an hour every night.. I know nothing about it!!

I am a very light sleeper.

My Fitbit tells me I slept for 7hrs 30 mins last night and only 11 mins was restless, the rest was deep.

what?? How?

None of these devices measure 'sleep' or even 'depth of sleep', never mind 'quality of sleep'.
They monitor movement, that's it.

DS1(15) moves so much at night that nobody wants to share a room with him on holiday, never mind a bed, and his bed is usually half stripped by the morning
DS2(14) sleeps like a corps....

Do you feel different on the days following 'good' or 'bad' sleep nights according to your Garmin?
I'd trust how you feel far more than any gadget tbh.

I constantly feel exhausted so mine seems right .
I know the awake periods are fairly accurate as I’m consciously awake, IYSWIM. I rarely feel well rested.

I’ve started waking around 5:20ish in the mornings. It was baffling me for a while and then I googled sunrise and bingo!! I’m waking up with the sun. Which is not bad pleasant as it sounds

mine measures it by movement, sometimes even has me asleep at work (I'm not).

I'm a terrible sleeper, but my watch doesn't think so.

Bad=as!

Yes, my boyfriends sleep is shocking. Mine is abnormally deep. I think it just tracked movement tbh- he rolls in his slee and I’m like a log.

Although normal is 70-120ish minutes of deep sleep so you’re not far off.

I have to say my Fitbit often thinks I'm in REM sleep when breastfeeding the toddler back to sleep at night while idly reading a long MN thread. I know I'm awake, but I'm not moving and my heart rate must be pretty relaxed so I guess it thinks I'm alseep!

I get about an hour of deep sleep a night according to my Fitbit.
I take it all with a pinch of salt though, my Fitbit will often tell me i’m asleep when I’m bed reading a book.
I do the odd overnight flight though and it knew I only had about an hours sleep and picked up that I fell asleep on the sofa when I got home!

I don't trust any sleep monitor (shame). I tried a fitbit for sleep... It counted all my still rests as sleep, so it thought I woke up like 46x in one night. Actually, I just had a 4 hour bout of insomnia. Liike still for 3-10 minutes then move (wakeup recorded on fitbit) Repeat. DH didn't find it accurate for his sleep, either.

I can usually manage on 2 hrs of sleep, though, I don't know how.

My friend had a Jawbone and the graph it yielded looked ace for her sleep. But obviously she slept 'perfectly' and long, so the pattern all made sense. Not someone with 4 hours of waiting around to be asleep again.