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by babuskov 4859 days ago
I found out a few years ago that my sleep cycle is actually 45 minutes, and not 90 as sleepyti.me suggests. Is there a way to make it work in 45-minute steps?
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There is a lot of variance in sleep cycles between individuals, between nights, between different types of sleep. Saying 'a sleep cycle is 90 minutes' is like saying 'The left side of the brain is for logic'. There is a rough element of truth there, but nothing to hang your hat on.

Source: once worked as an overnight sleep lab technician, collaborated with sleep specialists in next job working for the lab equipment maker.

Also, a timer with 90 minute steps inherently includes 45-minute steps. If you do desperately want the in-between steps, it's a trivial mental calculation on the four steps you do get given at the site.

You're right that it is trivial to calculate it myself, but then again, it is trivial to calculate it without using the website. I thought the whole point is that you do not have to calculate anything ;)

Anyway, I believe the site should allow "set custom cycle". As you wrote above, it varies between individuals a lot.

How would it be different? show more times in the morning? The 90 minute cycles it shows you are still valid 45 minute cycles too...

I assume you need more cycles than people who have 90 minute cycles?