I ran a 204 day long experiment with a schedule where each day was randomly assigned to meditate either once or twice per day. I usually meditate for 15 minutes per session, so this came out to 15 min vs 30 min of meditation per day.

I found that meditating more increased my readiness score the next day, increased my sleep score and sleep duration, and significantly increased my REM sleep the night after meditating. There was also a very small, but significant decrease in average heart rate and respiratory rate the night after meditating more.

I wrote about these results in more detail, as well as how meditation impacted my mood, on my blog.

Source: I analyzed sleep data automatically provided by my Oura Ring. The visualization was created with Reflect, a personal tracking iOS app I'm a co-creator of. I developed the self-experiment feature in the app and associated result visualizations)

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  1. I wrote about these results in more detail, as well as how meditation impacted my mood, [on my blog](https://waragainstentropy.substack.com/p/meditating-more-made-me-sleep-better).

    **Source:** I analyzed sleep data automatically provided by my [Oura Ring](https://ouraring.com/). The visualization was created with [Reflect](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reflect-track-anything/id6463800032), a personal tracking iOS app I’m a co-creator of. I developed the self-experiment feature in the app and associated result visualizations)

  2. Did you consider other factors like balanced-diet, working-out/ stretching/ jogging, or screen time that might have influenced your sleep? Also, did you face plateau after certain time?

  3. Thanks for this post. I want to improve my sleep and have considered meditation but no idea where to start. You’ve inspired me.

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