Minutes to Fall Asleep

[Jenjen118]

I was curious what other peoples "minutes to fall asleep" is?

Mine is ALWAYS zero, and I was wondering if that could really be correct? I also have a 97%-%100% sleep efficiency most nights. Is this normal? Or am I blessed in the sleep realm?

Jen

[born2m8]

Its not impossible that you can fall asleep in under a minute, but to do it everytime everyday seems a bit of a reach. My normal time to sleep is under 2 min, but then I was in the military for 20+ years and we learned to sleep whenever possible, regardless of the surroundings.

You may be blessed, with being able to have sweet dreams and restful nights, enjoy them 🙂

[Colinm39]

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@born2m8 wrote:

Its not impossible that you can fall asleep in under a minute, but to do it everytime everyday seems a bit of a reach. My normal time to sleep is under 2 min, but then I was in the military for 20+ years and we learned to sleep whenever possible, regardless of the surroundings.

You may be blessed, with being able to have sweet dreams and restful nights, enjoy them 🙂

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@born2m8What lovely memories... Route marches, having a rest and sleeping in about 42oC (107oF) and using equipment as a pillow.. The fittest time of my life and over 55 years ago while doing National Service in the Army.

But back to the sleep issue. I find if you are just lying in bed contemplating sleep, virtually no movement my various Fitbit bits will have me showing zero minutes, BUT, if I examine the sleep graph and it has red at the start, I will edit it and change the start time by 1 minute and in last nights case "commence sleep" went for zero minutes to 6 minutes.

A few of us reported this last year but it has come to nothing.

[Jenjen118]

Just to update:

I put the fitbit on "sensitive" mode last night. Still 0 min to sleep..but now only a 67% sleep efficiency. It says I was awake/restless most of the night. With such varying differences between normal & sensitive how do I know which is more accurate? 

[Colinm39 · Accepted solution]

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@Jenjen118 wrote:

Just to update:

I put the fitbit on "sensitive" mode last night. Still 0 min to sleep..but now only a 67% sleep efficiency. It says I was awake/restless most of the night. With such varying differences between normal & sensitive how do I know which is more accurate? 

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@Jenjen118 I can only suggest you read this link and it may help you decide the most appropriate setting.

There are many posts in the Forums of Fitbitters addressing this issue, from those who feel tired when they awake, to sleep apnea Fitbitters, and others trying to resolve the differences.

[TheFinlander]

I also fall asleep in 0 minutes and have a 96% sleep efficiency.  I do believe it is accurate.  I do not sleep very long but the sleep I get is a deep sleep. I would like to learn to sleep longer each night.  Only getting 6.5 hours max per night.  Are you sleeping 8 hours with 97% efficiency?

[Colinm39]

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@Jenjen118 wrote:

I was curious what other peoples "minutes to fall asleep" is?

Mine is ALWAYS zero, and I was wondering if that could really be correct? I also have a 97%-%100% sleep efficiency most nights. Is this normal? Or am I blessed in the sleep realm?

Jen

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@Jenjen118 I have finally decided to post this about the time to fall asleep. I found by sheer accident that when you edit the start time of a sleep record it corrects the 0 minutes falling asleep problem.

This is with a Charge HR......

Why was I editing ?. Because if you have multiple sleep records only first record gets exported. I accidentally altered a start time on a sleep record by one minute and updated and it gave me the Time to fall asleep. I then edited that record again and made it the correct time and the Fall asleep time was still there.

Here is an example from last night.. Three sleep records and all edited the same way and then the result. I have accidentally truncated the last record off the Before image.

But I was wearing the Surge for another test and it's sleep records have exactly the same issue..

but one extra sleep record and the Charge was on the LH wrist and the Surge the RH wrist.

But importantly I need to edit the records if I want my "Fall asleep time"

Before -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

After -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Surge before..............................................

Surge After .....................................................

[ayconur]

About me

I have fitbit flex for about two months. Until last week, I was able to see the time to fall asleep on dashboard and application. This week, it shows nothing on the app and the dashboard it is shown as zero. I didnot change anything. Do you have any idea how to fix it or what I might be missing?

[Colinm39]

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@ayconur wrote:

About me

I have fitbit flex for about two months. Until last week, I was able to see the time to fall asleep on dashboard and application. This week, it shows nothing on the app and the dashboard it is shown as zero. I didnot change anything. Do you have any idea how to fix it or what I might be missing?

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@ayconur I'm not sure of the issue but editing the record fixes the problem, but only for today, +/- 1 minute and then put the original start time back..  See this link

[Rosiecat]

My fit bit flex has not been showing minutes to fall asleep like it did when I first got it does not seem to mater if I have the tracker in sleep mode or not. It does show times awake, times restless/awake and total time restless/awake in minutes as well as total sleep time. I dont recall changing anything any idea how to fix?

[Colinm39]

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@Rosiecat wrote:
My fit bit flex has not been showing minutes to fall asleep like it did when I first got it does not seem to mater if I have the tracker in sleep mode or not. It does show times awake, times restless/awake and total time restless/awake in minutes as well as total sleep time. I dont recall changing anything any idea how to fix?

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@Rosiecat Welcome, it's a known issue and has been reported and the work around is to edit the record. See this link

I have reported it in conjunction with the split sleep record problem which has been acknowledged. Both problems occur on my Charge HR and Surge. It is with the Engineers.

[Rosiecat]

I tried but only works part of the time and messes up everything else that was logged.

[Ilona46]

I think that the time to "fall asleep" isn't accurate! 2 days ago, it said 9 minutes but after one hour of NOT falling asleep I knew that what the fitbit says is not accurate!! LOL

[vlaura]

I just created a post on how to get a fix for it if you have to manually edit your time to fall asleep to get the right minutes. 😉 It's in this post (click here).