Sleep rollover

My sleep patterns had been interesting:

Bedtime by 10pm.
No-alarm wake by 6am.
No-alarm 10min power nap by 1pm.

I don’t know how I managed to learn how to wake without an alarm, it’s weird but wonderful. I still track my sleep scores at night. It’s usually in the 70% range, sometimes in the 80%, rare 90%, never 100%. But it hardly matters. 70% hardly affects my day now.

Because the body’s sleep clock had been amazingly consistent. And with this ritualistic rhythm, it’s like the body found a certain momentum, to thrive on it. It’s like, when you’re not chronically sleep deprived and forever in a fight-or-flight sleep crisis 24/7, the body learns to lean into the routine and starts to relax into it, expecting it will get its needed sleep, and stops panicking.

I think having such consistency of sleep credit rolling over each night—a sleep rollover—for a long period of time probably adds 10% more to your sleep score.

The body knows.