Coaching practices for How to Measure Sleep Quality

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• When someone asks how I slept I genuinely can’t say
• I lie in bed for eight or nine hours and only actually sleep five of them, and the rest is just me staring at the ceiling
• I’m lying in bed tired but still keyed up
• Sleep is the first thing I sacrifice
• I’ve read the scary headlines about what poor sleep does to me and now I lie there panicking about my sleep score, which is obviously making it worse

Practices that may help

1. Keep a daily sleep diary
   Track sleep and wake times daily to reveal patterns and benchmark treatment progress.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
2. Calculate your sleep efficiency before starting
   Track your actual sleep time versus time in bed for one week — the gap is the starting point for restriction.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
3. Use 4-7-8 breathing as a sleep-onset ritual
   Four to eight cycles in bed before sleep reduces physiological arousal and supports the transition into sleep.
   4-7-8 Breathing, Made Practical
4. Sleep Hygiene That Actually Moves the Needle
   Sleep hygiene is the set of daily behaviors and environmental conditions that make good sleep more likely — a consistent schedule, bright morning light, a cool dark room, sensible caffeine timing, and a wind-down buffer. The core habits have solid research support, though sleep hygiene is for healthy sleepers, not a substitute for treating a diagnosed sleep disorder.
5. Treat sleep as the highest-ROI longevity investment
   No single intervention produces more broad-spectrum health benefit per hour than consistent, high-quality sleep.
   Healthspan vs. Lifespan: Optimizing How Well You Age, Not Just How Long
6. Separate the science from the overstatement
   Keep the reliable sleep practices; hold the scariest popular claims loosely.
   Why We Sleep, Translated Into Practice
7. Sleep restriction therapy
   Temporarily compress your time in bed to match how much you actually sleep, then expand it as efficiency improves.
   CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I), Made Practical
8. Expand the sleep window by fifteen minutes when efficiency improves
   Once sleep efficiency exceeds 85–90% for a week, add fifteen minutes to the window — then repeat.
   Sleep Restriction Therapy
9. Build homeostatic sleep pressure by staying awake
   Resist napping late or sleeping in when you want to fix your sleep — consistent waking builds the pressure that makes sleep arrive.
   The Two-Process Model of Sleep
10. Measure your social jetlag
    Calculate the gap between when your body wants to sleep and when your schedule forces you to.
    Sleep Debt and Social Jetlag: Recovery Strategies

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