I Slept On The Floor Every Night For A Week

00:26:46
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Summary

TLDRIn a challenge driven by audience requests and curiosity about natural sleeping surfaces, the speaker spends a week sleeping on the floor to explore its effects on sleep quality, posture, and physical health. Initially, the speaker experiences discomfort due to pressure points, which results in tossing and turning throughout the night. Despite these challenges, the data shows regular breathing patterns, indicating some benefit from the cooler ground. By mid-week, the speaker begins adjusting to this unconventional sleeping arrangement, noting some improvement in decompression, but remains groggy and unfocused during the day. The experiment ends with mixed results; while the speaker appreciates certain benefits like improved breathing, the overall discomfort and unsatisfactory sleep quality lead to a keen interest in optimizing traditional bed sleeping conditions, potentially using techniques learned from the floor sleeping experience. The narrative concludes with insights into personal comfort, sleep habits, and potential future strategies for enhancing rest, including exploring firmer sleeping surfaces and maintaining a cooler sleep environment.

Takeaways

  • πŸ›Œ Sleeping on the floor can be highly uncomfortable but offers unique insights.
  • 🌑 Floor sleeping showed improved breathing regularity perhaps due to cooler temperatures.
  • πŸ€” Adjusting to floor sleeping may require a significant adaptation period.
  • πŸ“‰ The experiment indicated less sleep and lower rest quality compared to bed sleeping.
  • πŸ“Š Data tracking provided useful insights despite subjective discomfort.
  • πŸ› Returning to a bed felt euphoric after the floor experiment, highlighting comfort disparities.
  • πŸ’‘ Consideration of cooler environments and firmer mattresses for sleep improvement.
  • πŸŒ€ Experiencing deep mental clarity from sleeping adjustments was noted.
  • 🌿 Natural sleeping surfaces like linen may bring holistic benefits.
  • πŸ”„ Balancing between traditional comforts and natural surface benefits is key.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The speaker took on a challenge to sleep on the floor for a week to see if it would improve sleep quality or posture, based on the idea that hard surfaces are more natural to sleep on. The first night was uncomfortable due to pressure points, causing frequent waking up and tossing and turning. Despite the discomfort, the speaker continued to document the experience and share initial data from smart sleep devices which suggested better sleep than felt.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    On the second night, the speaker slightly adjusted to the floor, with better personal feelings of sleep although the technology-supported data remained consistent. The sleep footage from the time-lapse was unsuccessful, and the speaker noticed a somewhat strange mental clarity alongside physical tiredness. Attempts to record better footage and analyzing breathing patterns led to further insights into sleep behaviors.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Throughout the next few nights, discomfort persisted with physical repercussions, such as a sore arm and grogginess, setting in. The speaker attempted to compensate with a power nap on a hardwood floor, which surprisingly offered some rest. This allowed continuation through the experiment despite worsening quality of sleep and body fatigue with issues like knee pain during workouts, hinting at the experiment's toll.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    As the experiment neared its end, adjustments, like changing to organic linen sheets, were made in hopes of improving sleep quality. The final nights showed slight adaptation to floor sleep, with measured decompression improving and a subjective feeling of rest returning. Despite earlier struggles, the experience seemed manageable, although not optimal, and readiness to return to a normal bed was felt.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:26:46

    Upon returning to the bed, sleep quality was perceived as vastly improved, illustrating that despite some potential benefits such as better breathing regularity, sleeping on the floor was uncomfortable and less effective according to overall sleep metrics. Reflections on the week included a consideration for environmental cooling devices to optimize sleep moving forward and questioning the bed's firmness relative to neck discomfort experienced prior to the experiment.

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Video Q&A

  • Why did the speaker choose to sleep on the floor?

    The speaker slept on the floor as a challenge to see the effects on sleep and posture, as well as to explore if a natural surface might improve sleep.

  • What challenges did the speaker face while sleeping on the floor?

    The speaker faced discomfort, frequent waking, pressure points, and sleep disturbances while adjusting to sleeping on the floor.

  • Did the speaker feel rested after sleeping on the floor?

    Initially, the speaker felt groggy and unrested despite some data suggesting otherwise, but gradually adapted by the end of the week.

  • How did the speaker's sleep data compare before and during the experiment?

    The speaker's sleep data showed less total sleep and lower REM and deep sleep averages while on the floor compared to normal bed sleep.

  • What benefits did the speaker notice from sleeping on the floor?

    The speaker noticed improved breathing regularity while sleeping on the floor.

  • Did the speaker's posture improve after sleeping on the floor?

    The speaker did not mention significant improvements in posture, focusing more on overall sleep quality and breathing.

  • What adjustments did the speaker consider for future sleep improvement?

    The speaker considered a cooler sleeping environment and possibly using a firmer but not uncomfortable sleeping surface for better sleep.

  • Did sleeping on the floor affect the speaker’s physical well-being during the day?

    Yes, the speaker felt initially groggy and unfocused, but gradually adjusted. However, there were moments of physical discomfort.

  • Why did the speaker feel lonely sleeping on the floor?

    The speaker described the experience as feeling "down" or lonely, being lower on the ground than a traditional bed.

  • Would the speaker continue sleeping on the floor?

    The speaker seemed to prefer returning to bed but was interested in incorporating some lessons learned about sleep environment improvements.

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    I slept on the floor every night for an
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    entire week not because I was in trouble
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    with the wife but because you guys
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    requested me to do so thank you so much
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    all jokes aside the reasons I chose to
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    endure this Challenge and track my sleep
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    on the cold hard floor is because the
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    floor is cold and hard and the argument
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    is that is potentially more of a natural
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    surface that we were meant to sleep on
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    would I actually sleep better would my
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    posture improve what other challenges
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    and discoveries would I learn about
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    sleep sleeping on the floor this is what
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    happened but you got to
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    focus jumping right into night one
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    setting up my little floor area to sleep
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    on I did put down a sheet to separate
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    myself from the synthetic carpet but
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    other than that this surface was hard oh
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    yeah let me hop in
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    bed I can't believe I'm actually going
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    to do this all right so two things I'm a
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    little questioning about first of all I
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    am actually a stomach sleeper I like to
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    sleep on my stomach but just sitting
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    here right now I'm realizing there's no
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    way I'm going to be able to flip around
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    on my stomach comfortably so I I think
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    I'm going to have to like force myself
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    to go to sleep on my back on the ground
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    the second thing is pillow do I use it
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    do I not use it I've been reading some
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    things people are like yeah use a pillow
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    you need to position yourself correctly
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    on the floor other people saying no no
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    if you want the spine to align properly
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    no pillow you know what I mean anyways
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    other than that nothing to it but to do
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    it night
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    one oh
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    bro wow honestly it feels pretty
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    decompressing on my spine right now
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    pressure points are a little bit hot
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    right now not going to lie I'm quickly
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    realizing this might be harder than I
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    thought my initial Impressions were the
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    obvious the surface was firm like very
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    firm however for the first few seconds
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    this felt kind of good but after a
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    couple of minutes those pressure points
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    like where my body's contacting the
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    ground started to get a bit
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    uncomfortable would I get used to this
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    or would I struggle through the night
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    well anyways I just decided to send it
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    good night good night
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    folks now this first night I woke up
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    multiple times but around 5:00 a.m. I
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    was able to hit record on my GoPro for
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    some nightlapse footage and well this is
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    what it looked like this is literally
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    what I was doing the entire night
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    flipping and flopping pillow no pillow
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    Stomach back Stomach back it was a
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    pretty rough night's sleep
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    that's my
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    quue so I took my morning height
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    measurement to measure decompression and
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    I was actually down a half in from
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    previous averages really feeling the
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    aftermath of sleeping on the floor
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    specifically in those hot spots I was
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    mentioning like the upper back anyways
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    going through the morning routine and
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    then sinking up my AA ring what would
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    the data say about my first night on the
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    ground soar ain't the right word 10
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    maybe that's the word I'm looking for I
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    was back and forth from the stomach to
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    the back like
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    dude that was hard it felt like taking a
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    a break on the ground in the middle of
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    the day you know how you kind of just it
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    just feels decompressing right but then
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    those pressure points started kicking in
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    specifically the upper back honestly
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    anyways let's see what the aura ring
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    says so time in bed 7 hours 31 minutes
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    total sleep 6 hours 39
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    minutes really
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    I don't know man I feel like I was awake
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    that entire time in the beginning right
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    there like all the way until like
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    midnight to be honest with you so you
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    know this is only taking data I think
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    based off heart rate temperature and
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    oxygen levels and whatnot but hey maybe
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    I was I don't know man it's hard to tell
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    I was like kind of yeah okay so I guess
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    not that bad I'm going to um just get on
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    with my day and see how that goes so
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    according to the aura ring data
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    apparently my sleep wasn't that bad
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    however I'm telling you some of that
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    sleep that was marked as REM sleep
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    towards the end of the night I was
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    definitely awake unless I'm like
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    dreaming of being awake but I mean
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    that's just strange because yeah I did
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    not feel as rested as this data was
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    trying to tell me I was and this really
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    showed as I got on with my day heading
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    to the gym I just felt groggy and kind
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    of in a Daz like in a cloud in a fog
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    surprisingly though physically I did
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    feel strong and actually had a decent
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    workout it was just more mentally at
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    this point in time
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    [Music]
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    [Music]
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    oh I can already feel the pressure
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    points no it ain't bad this is great
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    this is great living right here that's
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    what I'm talking about yeah honestly I
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    do feel a a instant decompression I'm
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    not going to lie like it just feels like
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    a relief but then it's quickly met by
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    like hot spots maybe I'll get used to it
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    tonight good night
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    [Music]
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    so if you can't tell after night 2 still
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    feeling a bit rough however I did feel
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    like I got better sleep than night one
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    and according to my morning height
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    measurements I was actually measuring in
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    higher than I did the previous morning
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    but not quite at my normal morning
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    average anyways after going through my
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    morning routine I decided to check the
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    Sleep data and to my
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    surprise how how did I still do good yes
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    so the data was telling me that I slept
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    optimally but I didn't feel optimal now
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    looking at the details you can see it
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    picked up on me moving a lot but this is
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    actually typical of Me based on previous
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    sleep data I took when I was sleeping in
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    my bed then also something I want to
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    point out is the breathing regularity
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    for these first two nights was optimal
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    on the floor whereas taking preliminary
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    data in my bed I often had nights where
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    the aura ring recorded me having
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    breathing disturbances during my sleep I
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    was still very sus though and decided I
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    wanted to take a close look at the GoPro
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    time-lapse footage that I actually
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    started at the beginning of the night on
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    this night two man I'm going to have to
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    look at the GoPro I so
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    this footage
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    [Music]
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    here it's like pitch black oh my gosh I
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    thought it was night lapse I thought
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    it's supposed to lapse the night I
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    wonder if I can enhance this I'm going
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    to have to try
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    that I guess it was too dark in the room
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    yeah so that was a fail but don't worry
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    on night 3 I will let in more light to
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    the room so I can get a better GoPro
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    time lapse to see how I go to sleep in
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    the beginning of the night until the
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    GoPro runs out of batteries of
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    course GoPro anyways on day two I was
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    noticing something kind of strange yes I
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    was feeling tired like on day one but I
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    was still feeling physically sharp as
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    well as strangely mentally clear however
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    this Clarity was taking on the form of
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    deep thinking where I could be doing
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    something very routinely but finding
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    myself in very deep thought do you know
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    that 1+ 2 + 3 + 4 and then onto Infinity
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    you know just keep adding them and this
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    and like that equals -1
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    over2 there's a proof but I couldn't
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    tell you off the top of my
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    head all right so I'm probably going to
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    have to put that back up but the reason
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    I'm taking this down for tonight is to
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    hopefully be able to retake that GoPro
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    time lapse footage that I tried to get
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    last night but nothing showed up last
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    night cuz it was way too dark in here
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    but I'm hoping that like night sky night
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    Moonlight perhaps is just enough to make
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    the nightlapse work on the GoPro to
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    track my move movement patterns over the
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    first couple of hours until it runs out
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    of
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    batteries I always sucked at making my
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    normal bed and I even suck at making my
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    ground bed what am I talking about I
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    never make my own bed I just leave it
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    I'm like dude I'm going to mess it up
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    anyways why do I even have to make it
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    who else is going to see it but me right
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    I guess my wife but
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    ooh that's nice I don't want to speak
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    too soon but I might be getting used to
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    this are you going to are you going to
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    come and give me company tonight no why
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    not I don't want to sleep on the
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    ground why would I I have a
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    bed because the ground is a perfect
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    vessel for going to sleep you see why
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    have we been sleeping worse this week
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    it's because it's an adjustment period
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    anyways here's the GoPro night3
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    nightlapse footage you can see I go from
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    pillow to no pillow then I flip over to
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    my typical sleeping position on my
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    stomach with the pillow this is where I
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    actually believe I fall asleep but then
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    you can see I kind of go from side to
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    side to side to side and I'm going to
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    speed this up a little bit here but
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    eventually I end up back on my back
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    again and then the GoPro runs out of
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    batteries it's so early my
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    dudes right
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    there
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    oh
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    jeez well I definitely feel groggy I'll
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    tell you that so first of all what I was
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    afraid of happening ended up happening
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    and that is the uh extra light coming in
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    the room from me taking that sheet as a
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    curtain off the the wall it uh let in
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    obviously more light early and I know
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    it's only like 5:40 but still it's the
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    sun's like just starting to it's not
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    even coming up but the lights coming up
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    and it it's in the room and that extra
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    light it got me up but I was actually
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    already awake already tossing and
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    turning so anyways another note last
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    night when I did wake up for that first
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    time in the middle of the night dude my
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    arm was like killing me and my hand was
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    like killing me now it's not like a
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    heart attack pain well I don't think so
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    because this is actually my old injured
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    shoulder and um like it felt just like
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    the old injury was aggravated and it
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    also felt like my hand was aggravated
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    like I I like Twisted it and it made
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    like a cracking noise and I'm like what
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    the heck was it something I did during
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    the night on the ground anyways I'm
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    going to I got to get to work groggy
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    yeah so you got to remember that GoPro
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    footage is only so long until it ran out
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    of batteries but even just looking at
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    that you can see all the to bossing and
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    turning I must have did something to my
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    hand when I was sleeping maybe I like
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    rolled over it or twisted my arm a
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    certain way but I remember waking up
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    this morning being like what the heck
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    happened it feels like my arm got
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    thrashed last night anyways getting on
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    with the day that stiffness and pain in
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    the hand and arm loosened up and well it
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    didn't Mount into anything thankfully
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    but still I was feeling very tired
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    groggy and it was getting hard to focus
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    in on
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    work all right um
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    what was I going to say no idea you just
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    said film me said film me woman yeah so
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    I actually had a very important workout
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    schedule this day and I did not want to
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    miss it so I did my best to power
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    through but as you can imagine the
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    physical toll of not sleeping the best
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    was beginning to take a hit and then all
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    of a sudden to make matters worse I felt
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    a twinge in my knee now there are some
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    other factors involved that you will see
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    in a future video coming up but
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    nonetheless this twinge did not feel
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    good and had me very scared luckily
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    though it didn't seem like it was
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    mounting into anything significant but
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    to play it safe I cut the workout short
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    and well now we're on to night
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    four
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    oops so I'm hanging that sheep back up
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    right there because thankfully tomorrow
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    I get to sleep in till 7 a.m. at least I
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    hope so yeah hopefully that'll block
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    some light coming in so I don't wake up
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    too prematurely but honestly I'm
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    probably going to wake up like I have
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    been so many times oh my gosh my brain I
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    can't think in a straight line it's
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    like anyways good night all right so
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    this is just some early morning footage
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    of the next morning I woke up decided to
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    hit the camera on record and you can see
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    I'm trying my best to go back to sleep
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    but
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    [Music]
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    then got
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    [Music]
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    it waking up and measuring in this
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    morning to my surprise I was actually at
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    my most decompressed yet during this
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    experiment however something I noticed
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    in this night's sleep data as well as in
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    the previous night's sleep data was
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    apparently according to the aura ring my
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    breathing regularity was only good for
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    the last two nights it recorded some
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    breathing disturbances in my sleep an
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    issue I wasn't necessarily having the
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    first two nights I figured it might be
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    something simple affecting my sleep like
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    too much dust down under so I decided to
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    wash my sheets this day for hopefully
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    better performance the following night
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    you know what while we're at it I think
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    I'm going to vacuum going to vacuum too
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    all right I actually never got to
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    vacuuming oh almost out of breath
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    walking up the stairs on this day it was
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    really all starting to hit me the
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    physical toll the mental toll in fact I
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    was actually contemplating ending this
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    experiment early but then I had an idea
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    one way to hopefully prevent myself from
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    imploding and continue this experiment a
  • 00:13:28
    power nap I'm normally a person who
  • 00:13:30
    never takes a nap like I never like naps
  • 00:13:32
    you always feel worse almost when you
  • 00:13:33
    wake up from a nap right but like I I
  • 00:13:35
    feel like I need it like I just need it
  • 00:13:37
    but because the theme of this video is
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    sleeping on the floor I decided I'd take
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    this nap on the most hardcore floor
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    there is I'm talking the hardwood floor
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    no pillow I don't even think I'm going
  • 00:13:52
    to use a blanket we'll see I'm going to
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    time it I'm going to see how long I can
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    nap for oh
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    yeah what the heck is it it's nice and
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    cool down
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    here just a great sound
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    so this might seem like a total joke but
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    I'm telling you there was a moment here
  • 00:14:39
    where I dozed off and that little bit of
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    a moment I think was all I needed
  • 00:14:47
    dude I think I dozed off a little bit
  • 00:14:49
    there to be honest with you after this I
  • 00:14:51
    was able to carry on with the rest of my
  • 00:14:53
    workday and had a fresh Outlook to be
  • 00:14:55
    able to push on for the rest of this
  • 00:14:57
    experiment maybe I'll have to take naps
  • 00:14:59
    more often in the future for emergency
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    purposes only I just don't like naps
  • 00:15:03
    comment below if you like naps or don't
  • 00:15:04
    like naps let me know
  • 00:15:07
    why this is
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    insane oh my gosh here's the kicker just
  • 00:15:13
    in time just in time for this
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    experiment linen
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    sheets I am out of my mind this is only
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    one sheet it's not even two the Frick
  • 00:15:30
    all right anyways I'm going to wash
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    these so a little off topic but somewhat
  • 00:15:33
    related if we're talking about naturally
  • 00:15:35
    sleeping I purchased an organic linen
  • 00:15:38
    sheet now for the price I thought it
  • 00:15:40
    came as a full set but it was only the
  • 00:15:43
    bottom cover wo anyways I washed this
  • 00:15:45
    too and replaced it with my bottom sheet
  • 00:15:47
    the idea behind having a linen sheet
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    apparently from what I was reading is it
  • 00:15:52
    may have some holistic benefits or
  • 00:15:53
    something like that I don't know I
  • 00:15:55
    wanted to give it a try because you guys
  • 00:15:57
    know I'm into that stuff anyway let me
  • 00:15:59
    know your thoughts on this topic let's
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    try it
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    out
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    ooh I don't know it's kind of like
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    different like this cotton this whatever
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    cotton is like nice and silky but that
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    roughness is kind of like it's kind of
  • 00:16:14
    cozy but we'll see how good it does
  • 00:16:16
    overnight on the floor
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    here I really hope that I
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    sleep good tonight cuz if I don't I am
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    going to implode
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    [Music]
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    good
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    morning
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    oh lot of movement
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    [Music]
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    there I think I spent the whole night on
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    my back did you really I think so cuz my
  • 00:17:02
    ribs like right where the pressure is
  • 00:17:04
    usually at like they're not not really
  • 00:17:06
    tender today or not as tender but that
  • 00:17:08
    like upper part of my back well actually
  • 00:17:11
    I feel like it's getting kind of used to
  • 00:17:15
    it w I'm getting hard sleeping on the
  • 00:17:18
    hard ground I'm waking up I feel a lot
  • 00:17:20
    better than yesterday let me tell you I
  • 00:17:22
    think that nap yesterday actually helped
  • 00:17:23
    me get through the day you had a nap
  • 00:17:25
    yesterday yeah when around like noon
  • 00:17:29
    when I was at work
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    yeah right on that kitchen floor the
  • 00:17:33
    kitchen floor no you didn't yeah right
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    there how long 39 minutes you're joking
  • 00:17:40
    did you put a blanket down no I went I
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    went hardcore oh my
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    gosh she's impressed I'm not impressed
  • 00:17:49
    I'm just wondering what's wrong with you
  • 00:17:51
    so I'd say today was probably one of the
  • 00:17:53
    first days of this entire experiment
  • 00:17:55
    where I felt like like I'm coming back
  • 00:17:58
    out of of it like I might actually be
  • 00:18:00
    getting adjusted to this yeah so yeah
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    I'm going to power through two more days
  • 00:18:04
    of this good night oh the green light oh
  • 00:18:08
    my gosh see that so I went from thinking
  • 00:18:10
    about quitting this experiment early to
  • 00:18:12
    being excited to power through to see
  • 00:18:14
    what it would bring and the very next
  • 00:18:16
    morning after the best night's sleep so
  • 00:18:19
    far I measured in at my most
  • 00:18:20
    decompressed yet finally above my
  • 00:18:23
    average from measurements before this
  • 00:18:24
    experiment while still a wee bit groggy
  • 00:18:27
    I was beginning to feel mentally normal
  • 00:18:29
    again and just like that before I knew
  • 00:18:31
    it it was the final night I cannot
  • 00:18:33
    believe I made it the final day I I
  • 00:18:36
    really thought I was going to quit on
  • 00:18:37
    day five I thought I was going to do the
  • 00:18:39
    whole Work Week thing you know it's been
  • 00:18:40
    a week a work week but ironically on day
  • 00:18:42
    five I just all of a sudden kind of had
  • 00:18:44
    a breakr and while I don't feel the best
  • 00:18:47
    right now it allowed me to power through
  • 00:18:49
    these last two days I do have one fear
  • 00:18:52
    though and that is now that this is
  • 00:18:55
    manageable down here tomorrow when I
  • 00:18:57
    finally get to go back into my bed is it
  • 00:18:59
    going to be too soft do you know what
  • 00:19:01
    I'm saying and then you're like why
  • 00:19:02
    don't you just go sleep back on the
  • 00:19:03
    floor if you adjust it to the floor to
  • 00:19:05
    to be honest like it's still sucks down
  • 00:19:07
    here I'm not going to lie like the floor
  • 00:19:08
    is still it's not the best I'm just
  • 00:19:10
    saying it's manageable so what if I just
  • 00:19:12
    messed everything up so yeah I was
  • 00:19:15
    afraid that now that I was getting used
  • 00:19:16
    to sleeping on the floor that when I
  • 00:19:18
    would go back into my bed it would be
  • 00:19:19
    too soft or something and then I'd be
  • 00:19:21
    all messed up regardless I powered
  • 00:19:23
    through the final night and finally
  • 00:19:25
    finally the week was over so there it is
  • 00:19:28
    I cannot believe I did it I can't
  • 00:19:29
    believe I made it a whole week sleeping
  • 00:19:31
    on the floor anyways I'm going to wash
  • 00:19:34
    this now and then put it back on my bed
  • 00:19:37
    and finally get to sleep in a normal bed
  • 00:19:40
    tonight but will it be the same so after
  • 00:19:43
    a week on the floor would my body accept
  • 00:19:46
    going back into my normal bed and how
  • 00:19:48
    does this week of sleeping on the floor
  • 00:19:49
    data compare to my normal sleeping in
  • 00:19:51
    the bed data by the way sleep last night
  • 00:19:53
    was actually terrible i've got like a
  • 00:19:55
    couple red markers
  • 00:19:57
    there well lady and gentlemen it is time
  • 00:19:59
    to look at the results so my first night
  • 00:20:02
    back into my normal
  • 00:20:04
    bed was fantastic dude when I first laid
  • 00:20:08
    down it was like Euphoria man I felt
  • 00:20:12
    like I was just sinking into a cloud of
  • 00:20:14
    bliss I'm not trying to exaggerate it
  • 00:20:17
    felt amazing slept pretty decently
  • 00:20:19
    according to my details here 7 hours and
  • 00:20:21
    6 minutes of total sleep I had a good
  • 00:20:23
    sleep score optimal breathing regularity
  • 00:20:26
    in my bed and markers pretty much they
  • 00:20:28
    were before I did this sleeping on the
  • 00:20:30
    floor experiment however it doesn't look
  • 00:20:33
    so different than sleeping on the floor
  • 00:20:35
    however let's now take a look at the
  • 00:20:37
    entire week sleeping on the floor
  • 00:20:39
    summary compared to an entire week of me
  • 00:20:41
    just tracking my sleep data normally in
  • 00:20:44
    my
  • 00:20:45
    bed boom so first of all looking at the
  • 00:20:48
    data tracking my normal sleep in bed for
  • 00:20:51
    a week we can see well I guess a bunch
  • 00:20:53
    of different numbers here but looking at
  • 00:20:54
    some important ones the average total
  • 00:20:57
    sleep per day for the week was 7 hours
  • 00:21:00
    and 20 minutes also the average deep
  • 00:21:02
    sleep per night 1 hour and 43 minutes
  • 00:21:05
    and the average Rim sleep per night 1
  • 00:21:07
    hour and 55 minutes however when we go
  • 00:21:09
    over to the floor we can see there is a
  • 00:21:11
    decrease it only had an average of 6
  • 00:21:13
    hours and 52 minutes per night an
  • 00:21:15
    average deep sleep of 1 hour and 39
  • 00:21:17
    minutes per night and an average REM
  • 00:21:19
    sleep of 1 hour 47 minutes per night so
  • 00:21:22
    all of those averages are lower than in
  • 00:21:24
    my normal bed and I would like to blame
  • 00:21:27
    most of that on the discomfort of the
  • 00:21:29
    floor being just way too firm for me to
  • 00:21:32
    get comfortable and sleep comfortably
  • 00:21:34
    now something interesting on the
  • 00:21:36
    contrary looking at my normal week tract
  • 00:21:39
    of sleep you can see my breathing
  • 00:21:41
    regularity was only good for the first
  • 00:21:44
    five nights if you guys have seen that
  • 00:21:46
    video then you'll know I talked about
  • 00:21:48
    this however when I jumped to the floor
  • 00:21:51
    I had optimal breathing regularity four
  • 00:21:53
    out of the seven nights and only three
  • 00:21:55
    good nights where I had some
  • 00:21:56
    disturbances and I suspected those good
  • 00:21:58
    nights were maybe because it was
  • 00:21:59
    starting to get like Dusty and my sheets
  • 00:22:00
    were getting old on the ground and like
  • 00:22:02
    right after I washed them I had an
  • 00:22:03
    optimal night and then for some reason I
  • 00:22:05
    only had a good night the next night but
  • 00:22:07
    then another optimal night on the final
  • 00:22:08
    night now I actually think this is due
  • 00:22:10
    to the floor being cooler one of the few
  • 00:22:13
    benefits people claim that sleeping on
  • 00:22:15
    the floor has you know like cold air
  • 00:22:17
    typically sinks if that's the right word
  • 00:22:19
    because it's more dense well it's more
  • 00:22:22
    cool near the floor and thus I think I
  • 00:22:25
    slept better because it was cooler or
  • 00:22:28
    maybe slept better isn't the right word
  • 00:22:29
    because I did get less sleep and like I
  • 00:22:31
    said it was uncomfortable and I was
  • 00:22:32
    tossing and turning blah blah blah but
  • 00:22:34
    at least my breathing regularity was
  • 00:22:37
    better now also some interesting data my
  • 00:22:39
    lowest heart rate and average HRV data
  • 00:22:41
    was slightly worse than sleeping on the
  • 00:22:44
    floor for my lowest average heart rate
  • 00:22:46
    sleeping on the floor was just a little
  • 00:22:48
    bit less than my normal data and my
  • 00:22:50
    average HRV sleeping on the floor is a
  • 00:22:52
    little bit higher than the previous week
  • 00:22:54
    normally sleeping in my bed and then
  • 00:22:56
    another piece of data I was looking at
  • 00:22:58
    that I think is important to touch on is
  • 00:23:00
    my height every morning and how that
  • 00:23:02
    fluctuated throughout this experiment so
  • 00:23:04
    you know first thing in the morning
  • 00:23:06
    usually you're typically a little bit
  • 00:23:07
    taller than you were like the previous
  • 00:23:10
    night because you had time to decompress
  • 00:23:12
    overnight and add a little bit of space
  • 00:23:14
    in between the joints and whatnot well
  • 00:23:16
    at first in the beginning of the week
  • 00:23:17
    sleeping on the floor I didn't have much
  • 00:23:19
    decompression that first night and then
  • 00:23:21
    it kind of came slowly towards the end
  • 00:23:23
    as I got used to sleeping on the floor I
  • 00:23:25
    think just all the tossing and turning
  • 00:23:27
    the poor quality of sleep um even though
  • 00:23:30
    the data didn't say it was that poor
  • 00:23:32
    quality I just think affected that
  • 00:23:33
    amount of decompression so unfortunately
  • 00:23:36
    the decompression I had sleeping on the
  • 00:23:38
    floor based on the measurements I took
  • 00:23:40
    in the morning was not better than
  • 00:23:42
    sleeping in my bed but all in all even
  • 00:23:44
    with some of these positive signs of
  • 00:23:45
    data I personally can't say I felt like
  • 00:23:48
    I slept better on the floor I mean
  • 00:23:50
    obviously as we saw in the video I was
  • 00:23:52
    not feeling as good as normal especially
  • 00:23:54
    in the beginning of the week but even
  • 00:23:56
    towards the end when I felt like I was
  • 00:23:57
    getting used to sleeping on the floor
  • 00:23:59
    it's still it was subpar let's just put
  • 00:24:02
    it that way and there's one more factor
  • 00:24:04
    that I didn't really touch on yet about
  • 00:24:06
    sleeping on the floor that kind of was
  • 00:24:08
    mentally getting to me and it's just the
  • 00:24:10
    fact that it's the floor and it's like I
  • 00:24:13
    don't know if lonely is the right word
  • 00:24:15
    but it's just something about sleeping
  • 00:24:17
    on the floor that feels it feels down
  • 00:24:20
    you know you're you're down on the
  • 00:24:21
    ground no maybe that's just from getting
  • 00:24:23
    used to sleeping slightly elevated in a
  • 00:24:25
    bed throughout the many years of life
  • 00:24:27
    and I think that's what also made
  • 00:24:29
    getting back into bed so much better it
  • 00:24:31
    felt like I was elevated so much softer
  • 00:24:34
    and just back to normal now all of this
  • 00:24:37
    data combined splitting the differences
  • 00:24:39
    now taking what I learned from sleeping
  • 00:24:40
    on the floor the benefits potentially
  • 00:24:42
    there but the benefits potentially in
  • 00:24:45
    the normal bed as well what I think I
  • 00:24:48
    might need to do to sleep more optimally
  • 00:24:50
    find a cooler environment or find
  • 00:24:52
    something that can cool me down while
  • 00:24:54
    I'm sleeping there's those like chili
  • 00:24:56
    pads or whatever that you can sleep on
  • 00:24:58
    that apparently make you cool that could
  • 00:25:00
    actually be a significant bioh hack I
  • 00:25:02
    should look into let me know if you guys
  • 00:25:04
    have any experience with those and maybe
  • 00:25:06
    what brands to look into because
  • 00:25:08
    honestly I have no idea where to start
  • 00:25:10
    and some of these ones that I actually
  • 00:25:11
    have been looking at the last couple of
  • 00:25:13
    days I don't know if it's quality or if
  • 00:25:14
    it's going to pop or something so yeah
  • 00:25:16
    let me know about that that that is
  • 00:25:18
    something the cool surface of sleeping
  • 00:25:20
    on the ground I think really helped with
  • 00:25:21
    my breathing regularity and um yeah if I
  • 00:25:24
    could mimic that in a softer bed
  • 00:25:26
    environment I think that would be it
  • 00:25:28
    amazing something also I just realized
  • 00:25:30
    was at the end of tracking my normal
  • 00:25:32
    sleep in my bed the last like 3 days or
  • 00:25:34
    so I kind of was waking up with some
  • 00:25:36
    neck discomfort now the entire time
  • 00:25:38
    sleeping on the ground I didn't wake up
  • 00:25:41
    with any neck discomfort it was only
  • 00:25:43
    those like hot spots you know where my
  • 00:25:45
    back was touching where my butt was
  • 00:25:46
    touching and occasionally where my head
  • 00:25:48
    was touching when I chose to sleep on
  • 00:25:51
    the ground at least in the beginning of
  • 00:25:52
    the night without a pillow like I said I
  • 00:25:54
    was all over the place pillow would go
  • 00:25:55
    on pillow would go off I just didn't
  • 00:25:57
    know where to go with that but still no
  • 00:25:59
    neck pain so with that in mind I'm also
  • 00:26:01
    wondering is my bed perhaps too soft you
  • 00:26:05
    know it's not like I need something as
  • 00:26:06
    firm as the ground because like I said
  • 00:26:08
    that was uncomfortable but what about
  • 00:26:10
    cutting the difference something in
  • 00:26:11
    between you know is my normal bed just
  • 00:26:13
    like too soft maybe it's too worn out
  • 00:26:15
    maybe when I flip over on my stomach I
  • 00:26:17
    don't even know if that's an optimal way
  • 00:26:18
    to sleep but it's probably not but maybe
  • 00:26:21
    my body is arching and it's causing me
  • 00:26:23
    this like neck pain maybe I should try
  • 00:26:25
    to teach myself to sleep on my back or
  • 00:26:27
    maybe the side or something let me know
  • 00:26:29
    your thoughts as for this video that's
  • 00:26:31
    what happened when I tried to sleep on
  • 00:26:32
    the floor I hope you guys enjoyed this
  • 00:26:34
    let me know if you have any experience
  • 00:26:35
    in this realm let me know your thoughts
  • 00:26:37
    thank you all so much for watching thank
  • 00:26:39
    you all so much for your positive
  • 00:26:40
    support and feedback hope you guys all
  • 00:26:42
    have a great day peace I will see you
  • 00:26:44
    all in the next video
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