Dear LPG,     

I have been wearing a smart watch for the past couple of years which doesn’t mean that I am any sportier than anyone else.  It was a present from one of my children and, in the beginning I just wore it so that I was seen to appreciate the gift.  

I am just a normal pensioner in my mid-seventies who has a bit of a dodgy hip these days and I hobble around like most of the older people of my age do.  I am lucky to ever get the watch to register more than 5000 of the 10000 steps a day that was originally recommended back in 1964. 

It is colourful to look at and I like being able to change the clock face every now and then but the other day I took a good look at some of the other health-related readings it takes and the one that caught my eye was the sleep monitor.  

I am not a particularly active person but, as I have got older, I seem to have developed an irregular set of day-to-day sleeping habits.    I think that having relatively little to do during those lockdown days of the pandemic might have had something to do with changing the amount of hour’s sleep that quite a lot of us get each night too.

The odd thing is that there are mornings when I get up feeling that I have barely slept for more than a couple of hours but the sleep monitor on my watch tells me that I have slept for a lot longer than that.  

When you finally find them there are all those details about how much of each type of sleep you have had that also have a bearing on how well you slept. 

So even though there is a not a lot that we can do about the amount of each of the sorts of sleep that we get, getting seriously quality depends on a lot more than the amount of time we spend tucked up each night…

WD, Southwark 

It’s technical but WD has found us a few relatively simple explanations…

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