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Why don't you stop tracking your sleep altogether? And what about wakefulness? Do you like being awake? If not, your brain will try to confront you with that "problem" and solve it. You should welcome wakefulness when you wake up, instead of trying to get away from it again. Sleepiness will return after a while, if more sleep is needed in the early morning hours.
Anyway, I recommend the book This is Natto.
The problem is when I wake up in the middle of the night, I usually am not sufficiently rested. I know I need more sleep.
I track sleep because it is a leading metric on other things: recovery from training above all. I really don't understand the skepticism towards biometrics on this forum.
You're still dodging the question of your relationship to wakefulness.
"Needing" sleep, worrying about sleep, tracking sleep and its markers... this will just problematize it further.
You should worry about increasing your internal understanding of your mind. It's the mind which produces the sleep drive and the brakes on that drive.
Read the book I recommended. It's short.
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