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azurelunatic) wrote2022-04-05 12:54 am
azurelunatic) wrote2022-04-05 12:54 am
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Sleep Graph
My current sleep chart is probably going to get overhauled at some point, because the setup is labor-intensive.
15 columns, 14 of little squares, followed by a line.
Column 1 is the day of the month.
2-14 are hours of sleep, top row color-coded.
The line is for total hours of sleep and notes.
Color coding:
Red for insufficient sleep. If a sleep length is of this, I am likely either unsafe to operate heavy machinery or make important decisions, or I will only be okay for a few hours before I will need to restore my forces by napping. If circumstances are bad, I may have depression symptoms that I should inform my providers about immediately. I should attempt to nap or at least lie down quietly with my eyes closed.
Yellow for the bare minimum of functionality. If a sleep length is yellow, I can drive and decide things, but my mood and creativity are likely impacted. I may have breakthrough depression symptoms, be crabby and unlikely to want company outside of my nearest and dearest, not be up for novel media, and be generally unwell.
Green is sufficient sleep, at least technically. If I am tired and draggy, it is likely something other than sleep that makes me so. I have a good chance of being coherent. I should be able to operate heavy machinery and make decisions.
Purple is extra sleep. It is likely that something has made me more tired than usual, including medication changes, illness, and insufficient sleep the previous day.
Dark gray is for awake time that replaces or interrupts sleep, since Dr. V asked about that.
Generally I color all the squares in one day's record with the color for the total, but sometimes I will color the first section of divided sleep with the color that it would have been if I weren't able to get more sleep.
The notes line gets the sleep hours, or sum of sleep hours, a note about meds changes, pain, or whatever might fuck with my sleep. It gets highlighted with the color of the total.
This would probably work better with a wider page, a longer page, graph paper, and/or Excel.
15 columns, 14 of little squares, followed by a line.
Column 1 is the day of the month.
2-14 are hours of sleep, top row color-coded.
The line is for total hours of sleep and notes.
Color coding:
Red for insufficient sleep. If a sleep length is of this, I am likely either unsafe to operate heavy machinery or make important decisions, or I will only be okay for a few hours before I will need to restore my forces by napping. If circumstances are bad, I may have depression symptoms that I should inform my providers about immediately. I should attempt to nap or at least lie down quietly with my eyes closed.
Yellow for the bare minimum of functionality. If a sleep length is yellow, I can drive and decide things, but my mood and creativity are likely impacted. I may have breakthrough depression symptoms, be crabby and unlikely to want company outside of my nearest and dearest, not be up for novel media, and be generally unwell.
Green is sufficient sleep, at least technically. If I am tired and draggy, it is likely something other than sleep that makes me so. I have a good chance of being coherent. I should be able to operate heavy machinery and make decisions.
Purple is extra sleep. It is likely that something has made me more tired than usual, including medication changes, illness, and insufficient sleep the previous day.
Dark gray is for awake time that replaces or interrupts sleep, since Dr. V asked about that.
Generally I color all the squares in one day's record with the color for the total, but sometimes I will color the first section of divided sleep with the color that it would have been if I weren't able to get more sleep.
The notes line gets the sleep hours, or sum of sleep hours, a note about meds changes, pain, or whatever might fuck with my sleep. It gets highlighted with the color of the total.
This would probably work better with a wider page, a longer page, graph paper, and/or Excel.
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