Meditation confused with sleep

Hi all,

I usually do a long meditation before sleeping. What I noticed yesterday is that the watch thought I went to sleep soon after I started meditating but I wasn't sleeping. Any ideas on how to correct for this? One that comes to mind is to simply take the watch out but that wouldn't allow me to track my heart and breathing while I'm meditating. I checked for a meditation activity that my tell the watch I'm not sleeping yet but none are available

Any thoughts?

thanks!

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BobMiles over 3 years ago +1

Could you maybe use the breathing exercise activity?

There is no manual correction for sleep that I know of. And I don't think the watch will be able to tell meditation from sleep in any way since your…

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0 BobMiles over 3 years ago

Could you maybe use the breathing exercise activity?

There is no manual correction for sleep that I know of. And I don't think the watch will be able to tell meditation from sleep in any way since your body is reacting to both with similar patterns...

0 BeneGi over 3 years ago

Don’t meditate in your sleep schedule? I can understand why the watch can’t separate those two things?

you can edit your sleep times in the Garmin Connect app. After you wake up, sync your watch and when the sleep data appears in the my day feed, open it and edit it. It will correct sleep score when you change the start and/or end point.

0 jaamgans over 3 years ago

I suspect you weren't tracking it as an activity? If you start a tracked activity you should be fine, as watch should then recognize that your dropped HR isn't due to you sleep as you are tracking. You could always discard the activity - you don't have to save it.

0 Nico over 3 years ago in reply to jaamgans

Thanks for your response. Yeah, this is what I did. I ran the Yoga activity and it worked. It's a shame though that there's no dedicated app for meditation. It shouldn't be that hard to make either.

0 Nico over 3 years ago in reply to BeneGi

Yeah, I thought about this too, thanks!

0 Nico over 3 years ago in reply to BobMiles

THanks for your suggestions. Yes, I read some people use the breathing activity, the problem is that it has set times and they are very short. I usually meditate between 30 min and 2 hrs per session, and that app has a max of 16 min. Instead, I used the Yoga app which somehow worked.

0 Mladen T over 3 years ago in reply to Nico

You can use "Other" and create a "Meditation" activity with the data fields that you want to see and that's it.