Facehugger: 5th night

[mdlbear]

Slept much better last night: woke up, but went back to sleep. Turning the machine off for a few minutes seems to reset it so that I'm not fighting the mask leakage. Or something -- I'm not all that alert at two or three in the morning. Of course, the fact that I was falling-over sleepy must have helped.

Got up with the alarm at 6:30 feeling as though I could have used another hour's sleep, but basically OK. Need to see what my choices are for masks and pillows; I'll find out more at my appointment on Wednesday.

Comments

[hvideo.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting to take this further - do you recall where the article was?

The alarm clock wakes one at random. It would be interesting if it was feasible to monitor the sleep cycle at home and make sure that one was awakened during the period where one feels most refreshed upon waking.

(Hey, I already have a face-hugger - what's a few electrodes?)

[mdlbear]

I've seen proposals for such a thing; it's tempting. If sleep cycle phase is reflected in your breathing you could probably get it off the CPAP, otherwise you could attach electrodes to the facehugger's straps that would probably work well enough.

[donsimpson.livejournal.com]

Don't recall, but I found some links to the subject that have a lot more "information" (that's in quotes, because there are some contradictory claims). Also, there is an alarm watch that claims to track your sleep cycle by your body movements, using an accelerometer....

http://www.harvardmagazine.com/on-line/070587.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Patterns_and_disruptions