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Hi,
First post and looking for opinions on the following:-
Have been using the free version of a sleep monitor and the app shows little to no REM sleep.
Am a little concerned as reading on this a little it seems that 20-25% of our sleep should be in REM.
My mood has been worse as getting between 4 and 6 hours of sleep a night. Added to this I had started a nightshift job 4 months ago so couple of questions about this
Would an app accurately pick up on REM sleep and how can REM been increased?
TIA
Hello TIA
If you want to sleep well, my advice is get off sleep monitoring or tracking of ANY kind. It won’t help you to sleep better in future and whatever tracking purportedly done, whether accurate or not, is already past. It causes unnecessary anxiety because you then try to “DIY” stuffs and that starts you down the rabbit hole of doing endless sleep efforts and chasing sleep. Just trust your own body. It knows what it’s doing. Sleep is really passive, it doesn’t respond to effort of any kind, mental or physical. The more you obesses over it, the worse it tends to get.
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