My initial sleep study finished this past Sunday. During the course of the experiment, I noticed that I was waking up in the middle of the night more often than I remembered doing before the study started. My hypothesis/concern is that the process of noting down when I woke up during the night was disrupting my rest and causing me to be more aware of it.
To check this hypothesis, I’m extending the sleep study by one more week, this time taking no melatonin and only noting down the number of times I remember waking up after I finally get up for good in the morning. This is, of course, not blinded, but will at least test whether the initial observation was correct.
This will push back the final analysis of the sleep study to this weekend and posting of it to 8/21/21.
– QD
