I’m a big fan of personal metrics and tracking tools. Recently I discovered YawnLog and have been using it to mark my bedtime and wake-up every day. My goal is to get 7.5 hours of sleep every night but YawnLog only supports setting goals at full integer hour numbers, so I have to choose 7 or 8. I’m interested to see if there are any patterns which emerge after I do this for a few months. Already, I noticed a huge sleep surplus the days before I started to feel under the weather, perhaps my body adjusting to the oncoming virus I had for two days. If I can get better at noticing patterns in my sleep I’ll learn a lot about myself in combination with my dream journal.

Through Self-Hypnosis techniques I learned from Adam Eason’s book many years ago, I’ve been able to wake up with out alarms for quite some time in most scenarios. I’ll be interested to see if I can meet my target of 7.5 hours in bed or if my body likes to meet a different quota for sleep.

tracking my sleeps with YawnLog