If You Sleep, Competitive Sleeper wants to hear about it

Whether you’re pulling down top slumber night after night or even if you’re struggling to lock down a placid 6 hour session Competitive Sleeper wants to hear from you. We want to hear about deep winter sleep filled with fairytale dreams and we want to hear about the sleep you missed. People who aren’t committed to sleeping will argue that “sleep is sleep it’s all the same.” Why would they want to read the seemingly banal details of your nightly efforts in bed? The goal of the sleep stats board is to help all sleepers become better sleepers through knowledge sharing. 1 out of 2 people (even pros) have bad sleep habits. As we develop an archive of the events leading up a sleep, the sleep itself, the dreams and the events that mark your rise to consciousness we can compare the individual details our sleep processes. An old friend of mine went for 10 years without being able to sleep through an entire night. He had to get up and pee 2, 3 sometimes 4 times/night. That’s no way to sleep. So as a favor I slept over at his place to get a sense of his process. It only took 5 minutes to find 2 glaring items that were contributing to his interrupted sleep.

His blankets were light synthetics. Synthetic blankets don’t hold heat so your ability to store the heat your body generates is significantly undermined. As a result you’re often sleeping about 2 to 5 degrees cooler than your body’s own natural target sleeping temperature.
He would drink a full beverage after dinner and then he’d interrupt his sleep session to sip off of a water bottle on his nightstand.

Both items can equally undermine a quality sleep. Put both of those issues together and you create a disruptive if not dangerous synergy that will chip away at your sleep. Make a note of this. The lower the body temperature the more sensitive the bladder. It’s simple. You don’t need to put a quart of water in a guy who’s not using insulated bedding to make him feel like he needs to pee. When you sleep cold a single drop of urine will ring your sensitive bladder like a school bell. Without getting to scientific I finally just recommended that he buy a down comforter and to stop drinking the water before and during bed. Beds are for sleeping. Not drinking. He followed my advice and 6 months later he was able to qualify for an endurance sleeping event that was sponsored by the Riverside Roller Rink.