scf wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:35 am
not to get caught up in thinking that there is some type of competition to see who can get the lowest score. Or maybe that is just a personality flaw that I have, lol.
Not a personality flaw at all. Just human nature in general. We target numbers or pretty graphs as "proof" we are doing the best we can do because that's what we have been taught to do. Human nature really.
Numbers and graphs are easy to measure but subjective feelings are difficult to measure. We tend to take the easy way out.
Or we think that if we have the nice low numbers and pretty graphs that it guarantees we feel like superwoman/man. I wish it were that simple. Getting good numbers is actually very easy but feeling them is a whole different ball game.
Sleep is a very fragile commodity for a lot of people. Case in point the billions of dollars sleep industry in general.
That industry wouldn't be flourishing without fodder. I don't need a bed or an app or a gadget to tell me I didn't get enough sleep last night....my body is quite capable of telling me that fact if I just listen to it.
It's not all about OSA or my therapy or my machine settings either, no matter how much I might want to fix my sleep problems with little tweaks from the machine. Night before last my brain just wouldn't shut off....damn thing...it wanted to solve all the world's problems (and mine) and the insomnia monster set up shop. Then last night we had thunderstorms roll in and I have a neurotic dog who can hear it thunder a hundred miles away and just has to be in my lap. So last night bedtime was 3 hours late and today I get to try to fix a door frame the dog ate because I didn't get him in my lap soon enough. I am going to feel like crap again today. 5 hours of sleep simply isn't enough and that nice low AHI means absolutely nothing. Two nights in a row with 5 hours of sleep....crap city for sure. I don't need a gadget to tell me what my body will already tell me.
Anyway, enough of my soap box rambling. Good job on last night. Things will get better and better with time and experience. Don't beat yourself up when you have a bad night either. We all have them for any number of reasons and while annoying as hell it isn't the end of the world.
I may have to RISE but I refuse to SHINE.
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