What is an average of the # of times folks are awakened during the night?

[Bigsister]

What is an average of the # of times folks are awakened during the night? 

[Odyssey13]

This is something many of us wonder.

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[JohnHimm]

Me, varies between 2 - 5 times per night. Many times it's from a cat jumping on me.Quote

[JohnHimm]

Me, varies between 2 - 5 times per night. Many times it's from a cat jumping on me.

[ShrinkingNinja]

I am averging about 17 times a night. I knew I had an issue going on, this seems to confirm it.

[bakecm]

I am averaging about 17 - 20 times a night, a lot from the dogs having to go out and pee in the middle of the night.  I figured I was having a problem and the fitbit helps confirm it for me.

[CharliBee]

Typically 9-20 times per night.  I think that is a lot.  Before I had my Fitbit, I thought I only woke up 2-3 times at most. Honestly though,I think it sometimes just calculates my tossing and turning as me beign awake. I notice that when I wear my fitbit on my non-dominant arm (left), it says I was awake more often and my sleep efficiency is usually around 30-60 percent, but when it is on my left arm, it says I was awake slightly less often and my sleep efficiency is usually around 90-100 percent.

[mkit]

Some sleep experts will tell you not to wear it at night because they believe it might actually contribute to people waking up by fixating on the number of times they wake up. It's useful, certainly, to know at the beginning and it might confirm some not very good patterns, but it's probably best to ditch the Fitbit if you want to improve your ZZs. Having said that, it was in part because of the very bad news that the Fitbit delivered last year that I stopped drinking caffeine finally -- and started sleeping much better.

[ririsho]

I guess I'm lucky. I'm in my mid 60's and wake only once or twice a night and have 98% sleep efficiency. And I ususally have a cup or two of afternoon coffee.  

[Llclawson]

I'm right there with you. Most nights I wake up 0 times, max 3 times for a total of a couple minutes. I'm restless maybe 8-12 times which is usually because I'm too warm and throwing off covers or too cold and pulling them back on. As my husband says, I have never had a problem sleeping. I can certainly understand if people are sleep deprived if they are waking up several times a night.

[IsThisThingOn]

I'm fourteen and I usually wake up around twelve times a night. A lot of those times, though, I don't remember coming into consciousness.

[AdrianM]

I wear the One clipped to my t-shirt at the neck (avoids having to keep taking it in and out of the armband). On 'normal' sensitivity it would often report 0 times awake, and <5 minutes to get to sleep (100% efficient)

... I changed to 'Sensitive' and it shows ~15-20 mins to get to sleep, and 'waking' about 10 times with some quite long restless periods.

I can't get too hung up on 'what others record' and feel that these numbers just have to be used as a personal comparison from one day to the next.

[spiritwoman]

On normal mode, it logs me as awake ~1-2 times per night (I usually remember them) and restless between 10-20 times per night (I don't generally remember those). 

[stephjhawk]

I get woken up on average about 20-25 times a night. I am a very light sleeper and it really takes a toll. I am constantly exhausted. I just started using my fitbit earlier this month. There have been several nights where I wake up almost 30 times and as many as 61 once! Its outrageous! But I know its true! I just wish that my puppy and boyfriend were more respectful of my sensitivity. I can't blame the dog though she doesn't understand! 

[Llclawson]

You poor soul. Sounds like sometimes you can barely make it through the day!

[stephjhawk]

Yes some days it can be a real challenge!

[SunsetRunner]

I've only used the One for 4 nights so far, but each time I've been restless 12 times and awake twice. Interestingly I always wake up (and I was already aware of this) about 30 minutes after I first fall asleep for the night! Doesn't matter what time it is when I go to bed, 30 mins later I wake up, just for a few minutes!

[LEI]

There is a difference though between waking and stirring in your sleep.

My fitbit flex tells me I woke 3 times last night and stirred 16 times - meaning rolled over.

It gave me a 93% sleep efficiency - I usually wake 1 time and stir 12 to 15 times.

[philchenevert]

My FitBit tells me I average about 15 - 29 awakenings during the night.  Looking at the graph showing sleep stages the 'awake' points are obvious - short red point way at the top.  Today there were 23 of them according to FitBit. 

This is measured I assume by my respiration and heart rate increasing.  Of course I remember only 3 of them the rest not arousal enogh to be noticed.  EDIT : I am 78 y ears old in good health and use a full face CPAP.