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Few better feelings than a 100% sleep score

Question for oura and whoop folks:

Do yall feel that your scores correlates closely with how you actually feel every morning?

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27 days in with whoop: yeah, generally. some caveats.

I was sick recently so I got a few extra long sleeps and low-activity days strung together, so my "recovery" was high, but I still felt like crap. 

so, kind of subjective there, but I think it does a good job of telling me how good my "recovery effort" was, even if that's not my "readiness score". 

like, 87% recovery isn't that I'm 87% recovered, but that I did 87% of the best I could do to recover that day/night, even if there's more to go.

and HRV is probably a good enough "readiness score" on its own, so I don't expect whoop to run a fancy calculation for me.

i'd rather kill the radio and listen to the rain hit.

time for a special edition of A Screenshot Says a Thousand Words:

first up, Stress Monitor and the Sleep event view.

this measures "strain" throughout the day and shows your sleep block in the chart too 

you can see I have a spike early in the night as I get comfortable, drift, and startle awake, which is quite stressful — and a common theme in my charts. 

I also appear to wake up in the middle of this particular night, and you can see that on the Sleep view too, which charts heart rate directly. 

stress is correlated with heart rate, but you can see they don't map 1:1

cool cool.. what does you doing 87% of your best to recover mean exactly? like you spent the recommended time sleeping overall + recommended time sleeping in each of the sleep stages? (even tho that may not have you recovered 87% necessarily)