Fragmentation

published by Peter Gardner on Wed, 03/28/2012 - 10:55
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If someone get's "adequate" (relative to age) REM and Deep Sleep and the ZQ score is high yet has multiple awakenings (lasting 5-10' and are remembered), do the studies suggest that the overall quality of that night's sleep is the same as if the same time in REM and deep sleep (and ZQ score) were measured in non-interrupted sleep?  I have plenty of time in all measurements but wake up for 5-10' 4-5x/night... Does it really matter that I get up (from a functional) standpoint?  

Thanks...

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das997

Thu, 03/29/2012 - 13:40

Hi Peter:

I think that waking up 4-5 times a night and remembering those times is not all that unusual. If your REM and Deep are up there, and they occur in significant enough "chunks" (ie: not 10 minutes here and 5 minutes there), things are OK.'

My problem is waking multiple times a night (10-20), and never getting those "big chunks" of REM or Deep. If you scroll about halfway down this page (http://buildbettersleep.com/reviews/review-zeo/) you can see a detailed Zeo diagram of a typical night for me. How does yours compare?

Cheers,

Doug

Peter Gardner

Fri, 03/30/2012 - 16:26

Doug,

I'm having a real problem with these forums (searching, responding, finding my own posts!), I responded to this yesterday and saw my response yet don't see it up here... did you get it? If not, I'll repost...

Peter Gardner

Mon, 04/02/2012 - 06:14

In follow up to my question about fragmentation, if ZEO only picks up awakenings of 2' or longer, is significant fragmentation possible?  For example, can one go from Deep Sleep to short awakening right back to deep sleep so ZEO would only show deep sleep?  Same for REM?  Is this clinically signficant?