• frogman [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    The average sleep cycle is 1hr30mins. I think when we sleep for 6 hours, we complete 4 sleep cycles and wake up refreshed. When we sleep for 7 hours, we wake up mid-cycle. At ~8 hours, we wake up before we get stuck into the middle of a sleep cycle or enter REM.

    I read this somewhere online, someone who knows more can verify if this is the actual science. If not, it’s a fun hypothesis I’ll choose to believe :p

    • Balthasar~@feddit.deEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yes, that’s true! And at least for me it is surprisingly accurate with 1h30. I started the habit of looking at the clock everytime I fall to sleep and wake up and it is always after 4.5, 6, 7.5 or 9 hours of sleep! If you want a simple app to calculate the ideal time to go to bed/time to wake up I can really recommend “Sleepy”, available on F-Droid.

      Also I heard that it is better to sleep 7.5 hours compared to 8 hours, because being waken up from deep sleep allegedly will make you more tired than these 30 minutes of extra sleep.

    • catacomb@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Probably, I used to have an app which is supposed to wake you up at the right part of the cycle. It kind of worked? Stupid body needs to be happy I allocated enough time at all