Heartrate and step surge when sitting still - PLEASE HELP

I have had a few instances where when my watch syncs with the connect app, it suddenly shows a significant spike in heart rate and steps. So I would be cooking dinner, and according to my watch during that time I did about 18k steps, and burnt more calories than during my 5km run. Today I was sitting infront of my laptop, same thing. Additional 16k steps, calories, heart rate etc. Does anyone know why this keeps happening?

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I am having the same high stress level recorded on my Garmin Viviosmart 5 that causes my sleep score to dropped from the usual of over 90 to under 50.

I am also wearing my Oura Ring and since the last 2 months the sleep score in my viviosmart 5 is very different , before they were always around the same sleep score .

I have read this forum and apparently this is NOT a NEW issue and apparently people at Garmin is not bother or not doubt anything about it .

I send an email to customer support which was based in Taiwan and at first she was very helpful until I send her the link to this forum that shows other users are having the same problem and from than onwards i received ZERO response !

Any other users having issues with their sleep score due to faulty high stress reading ?