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I Got My Watch!

I got my watch today! I’ve read it and have set my alarm for 5:25 (5 min­utes before my wife gets up) and I have set it with a 40 minute win­dow (which allows the watch to wake me dur­ing that time if I am in an ideal sleep stage to wake up).

I’m not sure if this is true with all the mod­els of the watch, but to get the watch to start record­ing your sleep (for down­load to a Win­dows com­puter via USB) you must tell it at what time you will be asleep. They set it up so that you can just press the lower left but­ton on the watch down for 3 full sec­onds to tell the watch that in 30 min­utes you will be out for the night. I sus­pect that when I’m tak­ing short sleep spells that I will have to make this 5 or 10 min­utes after I get into sleep posi­tion because in 30 min­utes I’ll be done with my sleep spell.

The watch is big­gish and has an accelerom­e­ter inside which mea­sures fid­get­ing fre­quency which is an indi­ca­tor of my sleep stage. If I fid­get a lot then I’m closer to being fully awake. If I don’t fid­get or hardly fid­get at all, then I’m in deep sleep and hope­fully in REM sleep.

But the watch is really not much big­ger than my medium-sized Iron­man watch. The other day when I bought my Iron­man watch (for inter­val tim­ing because I use the Gal­loway method of marathon train­ing for work­ing out), they had a big­ger Iron­man watch which was big­ger than my Sleeptracker.

Any­way, I’m delighted to let you know how things go in the morning.

By the way, I set the alarm to vibrate and beep and I think that by the next day I’ll be able to just put it on vibrate to wake me.