Even if it still takes me an hour to fall asleep, I will have gained one full hour of sleep over my television watching days, and the payoff should be immediately observable.
The Implementation
Though I broke with my plan on the weekends (Friday and Saturday nights only; twice I fell asleep watching television on the couch and I watched more than my allotted hour the other two nights), I managed to restrict myself to single hour of television at a specific time every evening. Keeping track of exactly when I fell asleep was difficult (completely impossible, actually), but I was generally in bed and trying to sleep an hour to two hours sooner than I had been while watching television. I also appeared to be falling asleep sooner, as my last-remembered glances at the clock grew closer and closer to the time I had shut the lights off. Again, however, it is impossible to state this with any certainty, as I did not have a research assistant present to time the exact instant when I truly fell asleep.
I can say with a fair degree of certainty that I awoke less during the night then I usually do, starting on the third night. For the duration of the experiment, I kept a simple tally sheet next to my bed to mark the number of times I awoke (that is, the number of times I was conscious enough to make a tally mark). This number dropped off from a height of five on the nights before the intervention, to only two on the third day and only one every few days in the second week. I still felt exhausted waking up at six-thirty in the morning (and I'll intervene with my boss about that next), but I perked up much faster and felt generally more rested and energetic throughout the...
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