Day 13 - Making the experiment scientific

We wouldn't be scientists, if we just slept without monitoring and evaluating our sleep. We already started with the Sleep Cycle iPhone app, but we questioned its accuracy. Thus, our new sleep gadget arrived in the mail yesterday:

• http://www.myzeo.com

This baby is actually able to read your brainwaves and determine whether you are awake, in light sleep, deep sleep or REM sleep. I used it for my core sleep last night and got the following results compared to the iPhone app:

According to this, the iPhone app seems to determine deep sleep pretty accurately, but is not able to distinguish between awake and REM sleep. As of today, I will not use the iPhone app anymore.

But more importantly, let's look at the sleep graph the ZEO gave me: I fell asleep after only 5 minutes, whereas the average person of my age needs about 18 minutes to fall asleep. I immediately dived into deep sleep after 15 minutes, which is comparatively fast. My total time of REM sleep for the night adds up to 1h 17m, whereas the average per night for a person of my age is 1h 36m. For deep sleep, my total time was 49m, the average is 1h 23m. To remind you of the total time I sleep: Only 3 hours per night. The average total time for a person of my age is 7h 16m.

As you can see, compared to an average male of my age, I only got 44% of the total sleep, but 59% of the REM sleep and 78% of the deep sleep! I think, this is amazing. Apparently, my body realizes, that it does not get as much sleep as usual and it automatically adjust the ratio between the sleep phases, so it gets what it needs to recover and feel rested. This totally explains, why I feel so amazingly good during the day. Also, I did not wake up a single time during the night. The average person of my age wakes up 2 times per night and stays awake for a total of 16 minutes. I was awake for 0 minutes!

So far, we only talked about my core sleep, but not the naps. I haven't tried the ZEO for my naps yet, but I will do it today. I think, I can add a lot more REM sleep and maybe I can even get to 100% for REM and deep sleep. I will let you know!

By the way: If you want to get a ZEO for yourself, I recommend the following link:

• http://myzeo.tellapal.com/a/clk/6ZJ2b

You get $15 off and free shipping, which is usually $14.95. Unfortunately, it only ships to the US, so if any of my friends from Germany wants to have one, just shoot me an email. I can ship it to Germany or even bring it the next time I come over.