Getting a solid eight hours of uninterrupted sleep has long been seen as the gold standard of a good night’s rest. While that is a fine sleep target to aim for, I’ve spent the past year tracking and analyzing my sleep with the best sleep trackers on the market — and I’ve found total sleep time shouldn't be your main focus.
Lately, I’ve noticed that no matter my total sleep time, be it around the prime seven and a half to eight hours, or longer, my sleep score is never in the ‘good’ range (above 70, according to Oura Ring). The only thing that pushes my score up is if I spend plenty of time in two essential sleep stages: deep sleep and REM sleep.
