The behavior I looked at was my tendency to spend time in my bed during the day, doing work on my laptop or just lounging around. I have been working on creating better sleep habits and have been told that spending too much time in your room (and specifically your bed) while not trying to sleep can lead to difficulty falling asleep at night. Additionally, I find that I feel more lethargic and I think it might be conditioning me to feel drowsy during the day.
Of course, the main reason I decided to spend time in my bed was that I was already drowsy. Additionally, I tended to spend more time in bed when I was stressed or overly focused, since I tended to sideline my desire to improve my sleep and focus more on a task or problem at hand and I wanted to be more comfortable.
There are a number of cycles I can get into where I will either be doing a better job with sleep habits, or a worse one. For instance, if on a particular day I feel motivated, I will spend more time outside of the dorm and be more likely to go to the gym, in which case I will sleep better and feel more motivated the next day. But if there is one night where I don’t sleep particularly well, I might spend the next day feeling drowsy, spend more time in my room, and have trouble falling asleep the next night. I noticed that on the second day of measuring myself, I didn’t spend any time in my bed throughout the day leading me to believe that more consistent focus in noticing myself and correcting myself engaging in these habits will help me break those feedback loops quicker.
