Fitbit Sleep Tracking "OK" - labels wrong

[obiscott]

I have been watching the conversation and aligning it with my own experience.  I would offer this up to anyone trying to make sense of the Sleep Tracking function of Fitbit.  It would seem that the issue is with how the status of sleep is labled.  

Looking at WebMd or any site that describes the sleep cycle there is clearly a deep sleep "non REM" as well as the more well known REM cycle of sleep.  My experience suggests that the "no movement" Blue portion of Fitbits monitoring aligns with deep sleep (or NonRem) portion of the sleep cycle.  

The red bars align with what would be considered REM sleep - where the muscles are active but the body is still asleep.  This is what Fitbit has labled as "awake" which I suggest is misleading. 

In fact it is understandable that a device such as the fitbit would not be able to distinguish from Rem sleep or from being truly away - it is only based on motion.   

As such I personally am only focusing on the blue portion which should be an indicaiton of deep sleep and for which only a relatively small portion of the nights sleep is actually expected. 

At least for me, I certainly do not feel that the "awake" portion actually aligns to when a person is awake during the evening and as such is misleading. 

[zapleahy]

@obiscott  What Fitbit calls "Times Awoken" includes periods of restlessness along with times when your tracker is in sleep mode and you're up and walking around. I agree that the sleep tracking functionality could be improved upon with more varyance in the display of data, and would invite you to take a few minutes to skim through and add your votes/comments to some of the existing feature improvement requests.

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