Sleep experiment protocol

Sleep experiment protocol

Yesterday was very interesting!

I focused on meditation with feedback. I have used the HRV feature "moment" on my oura ring lately. This time I tried taking a cold bath around 8 pm followed by a session of 4-7-8 breathing exercise and mindfulness meditation. So I did one session before the cold bath. My pulse before was 70 and my HRV was 48. After the cold bath the second session my pulse was 57 and my HRV was 82.  

I am particularly impressed with the near doubling of HRV.

My extremities took a while to get warm again so I took a warm bath of my feet before bed.

These were my oura ring results:

Oura ring results to morning of 2019-12-31 #1 

Oura ring results to morning of 2019-12-31 #2

I have focused on getting up my efficiency lately. This I have achieved with some detailed principles, strategies and tactics. 

Also, I my ambition now is to get on top of getting restfulness up. I have done so the last days by minimising wake ups and to just mindfully resume a pattern of getting back to sleep on wake ups.

I have a detailed way of achieving this. But that will be outlined in a later blog post. 

By the way I want to focus on the underlying things that then result in the improvements of these metrics. I don't view the metrics as an end goal in them selves. They just serve as some deterministic proxies of what goes on underneath. In the end the main goal is to improve sleep and optimise health as a consequence.