Thread: Sleep Pattern Research.

Many of you might be interested in an outcome of this experiment.


I'll be keeping a dream journal together with reporting dream events at night upon awakening. After a while, a history of dreaming and sleep is created. Within the history, there would be pattern of dreaming within each night, patterns of falling asleep and awakenings.

Each green and gray markers on the graph below represents a dream. Each dream journal entry can be accessed from that screen for quick access. I hope to be able to understand when my dreamsigns appear (during which cycles), see which dreams preceeded and followed it and relate the overall dream quality and duration to the quality of the sleep that I had on that night.

Black Marker: bedtime
Silver Marker: rise time
Red Marker: awakenings
Silver Marker: no dream recall
Green Marker: dream recalled
Blue Marker: lucid dream experienced

Top ruler purple ruler: sleep cycles
Bottom cyan ruler: hours

(App crashed on Dec 12, causing only half night of data to be recorded)


The image above is a 9 day scrolling history. ~12 days of history are present, but only 9 are visible at a time.
Together, this shows an over time pattern of sleep and dreaming. As I start to write in a dream journal like that, I would be able to see when I see and don't see certain kinds of dreams.

As I get more data, I'll try to analyze it in more detail. I'll probably be posting some graphs and tables to explain data like that as well.