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The sleep chart is confusing!

‎10-27-2020 04:37

‎10-27-2020 04:37

I got my first fitbit yay! and I find he sleep chart to be confusing. I read there are 4 sleep cycles:

Stage 1: NREM it means you are kinda of awake but drifting to sleep

Stage 2: Light sleep. This is went your body gets cold, your heart rate decreases, and your brain activities slowdown

Stage:3:Transition into deep sleep and deep sleep - During deep sleep, your breathing, heartbeat, body temperature, and brain waves reach their lowest levels. Your muscles are extremely relaxed, and you are most difficult to rouse.

Stage 4: Deepest sleep stage! Also known as the healing stage, when tissue growth and repair take place, important hormones are released to do their jobs, and cellular energy is restored.

 

and then there is a stage 5, which is the REM sleep! and boy! magic happens there! you are almost awake! your eyes are rolling, you start dreaming and your body is paralyzed to stop you from acting!

 

Come to Confusing Part: fitbit displays that your sleep goes from deep to light to REM!? I think it should be displayed from Deep to REM. In other words, REM should be displayed on the vertical axis below Deep and not above it.. unless you go back to sleep light before entering REM.... Thoughts?

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‎11-25-2020 17:43

‎11-25-2020 17:43

@zenislander wrote:

Come to Confusing Part: fitbit displays that your sleep goes from deep to light to REM!? I think it should be displayed from Deep to REM. In other words, REM should be displayed on the vertical axis below Deep and not above it.. unless you go back to sleep light before entering REM.... Thoughts?

Mine changes from time to time, with no "standard" in going from one mode to the next.  Last night, for example, it went from wake to deep to wake to light to deep to REM to light to wake to light to REM, etc., etc., etc.  The night before it went from wake to deep to light to deep to REM to light to REM to light to REM to light, etc., etc., etc.   I don't find it confusing as much as a constantly changing sleep pattern.   The only thing that confuses me is the Estimated Oxygen Variation chart....

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