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Pugsy wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 28, 2024 7:43 am

You weren't in deep sound sleep. That's arousal breathing...you may or may not remember the arousal but you weren't asleep or at least in deep sleep.

What are you using to measure sleep status?

Oura ring, I compare it with my notes of when I wake up and it seems to be fairly accurate. Couple times it might mistake a quick arousal for light sleep that I’ve noticed, but never had awakening that I at least remembered during when it says I am supposedly in deep sleep. Maybe didn’t register a shift from deep to light sleep. Does light sleep have weird breathing patterns like this?

bjbeck04 wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 28, 2024 8:16 am

Does light sleep have weird breathing patterns like this?

I don't think so. May understanding is that we are either asleep or not asleep but perhaps the transition from arousal to asleep still shows that pattern.
It's not really a "weird" breathing pattern. It is normal for our breathing to be erratic and/or irregular when not asleep.
We just don't notice it while awake. So what you are seeing is actually "normal" arousal/awake breathing.

If you are that concerned about each breath....ask your doctor or find a sleep tech who can read wave forms.
We have a sleep tech (retired) who comes here on occasion and I can tell you right now he will call it arousal/awake breathing. He has corrected me on more than one occasion when I said I thought someone was asleep and he pointed out one little tiny irregularity that made it arousal breathing and not asleep breathing.