I just woke up from my first run and....

My earphones turned out to be more of a problem than I thought it would be. Fortunely, it's not the type that would hurt my ears if pressed on, but it fell off a lot of times. I mean, that's 8 full hours of sleep after all. It's not like power naps or the 90 minute, well, lullaby as I would describe it. Well basically, it fell off several times.

Because of that, I woke up a lot. I'm not sure why. Maybe because only having 1 ear listen wakes my brain up. Surprisingly though, I actually don't hear anything in only 1 ear with the low volume I set. I'm still not exactly sure why I woke up a lot. 

I quickly fall asleep after putting it back in though. Now here's what I'm worried about. Is it even okay to put it? I mean, my brain is like awake but what if the track was on stage 3? Doesn't that mean putting it back in will force my brain to go to stage 3? It would be great to have some clarifications on this. I woke up last when it was 7 hours and 11 minutes. I decided that I slept long enough and considering the danger presented above, my brain woke up from the fear of abruptly understanding it. 

Another thing I noticed is that I was expecting to dream a lot. I never dreamed even once, as far as I can recall. Although I usually don't dream anyway, so that might be a personal thing of mine. Even then, the main point of this track that I'm very interested in is the enhancement of growth hormones. Well, I highly doubt that would show any reasonable result after 1 sleep.

All in all, it was way far from a perfect sleep run. That said, I'm still willing to give it more tries. If nothing else, it does make me sleep very fast. For now, I should try to fix the problem of the earphones falling off. Maybe drill a sleeping posture into my body, or taping the earphones into my ears(lol)?

Anyway, that's all I have for my first run.
Most likely you had a lot of expectation/anticipation which is never good for a night of sleep. :)
Your concerns about trying to restart a cycle halfway through are totally valid. It's the #1 reason why I avoided making an 8-hour track for so long. But people kept asking for it, so ... I figured I'd make the best one I could.
You definitely always dream, you just don't always remember it!
Mint Cola