there’s evidence that it isn’t—going to sleep is the opposite of being mindful, and a mindfulness practice can make sleep more difficult.
It’s opposite in some regards but not all of them. Both sleep and mindfulness meditation usually lead to very little beta wave activity in the brain.
I don’t have a Zeo myself but it wouldn’t surprise me if I could reach a state in meditation where I’m mindful but the Zeo labels me as sleeping.
As far as researching whether meditation improves how well you feel, I think that’s hard. 5 years ago, if you asked me how I’m feeling than a real answer might be good or bad. Maybe even 7 different stages of a Likert scale. Today a full answer might take 5 minutes because I have awareness of a lot of stuff that goes on inside myself. If you simply compare the values towards those 5 years ago I don’t think that would tell you very much. There was a while when I tried to keep numbers about my daily happiness level but after a while I simply gave up because it didn’t seem to provide useful insight because they reference points aren’t stable.
It’s opposite in some regards but not all of them. Both sleep and mindfulness meditation usually lead to very little beta wave activity in the brain.
I don’t have a Zeo myself but it wouldn’t surprise me if I could reach a state in meditation where I’m mindful but the Zeo labels me as sleeping.
As far as researching whether meditation improves how well you feel, I think that’s hard. 5 years ago, if you asked me how I’m feeling than a real answer might be good or bad. Maybe even 7 different stages of a Likert scale. Today a full answer might take 5 minutes because I have awareness of a lot of stuff that goes on inside myself. If you simply compare the values towards those 5 years ago I don’t think that would tell you very much. There was a while when I tried to keep numbers about my daily happiness level but after a while I simply gave up because it didn’t seem to provide useful insight because they reference points aren’t stable.