How well did you sleep last night?
The question goes to the heart of how to measure your sleep quality. If you haven’t already, I invite you to shift your attention away from the number of hours you sleep and instead learn to gauge the quality of your slumber. Once you explore several dimensions of sleep quality, more solid footing will place you on the right path to solving virtually any sleep problem—whether at bedtime, middle of the night, early morning, or the next day.
Got it? Sleep quality rules!
Here’s the kicker—you cannot directly measure your own sleep quality—there are no reliable, data-driven, do-it-yourself scanners to analyze brain waves inside your head (electroencephalographic, EEG waves) while you are sleeping. This technology is soon on the way—but in the meantime—indirect subjective perceptions can guide you in assessing your own sleep quality and more than compensate for lack of direct data….