Your 4 Axes
Each letter of your 4-character code represents one axis of your sleep personality:
Personality Narrative
The RNWF — Night Guardian — is the protective warm thinker who guards the night home, processes the day in bed, and sleeps face-up under heavy bedding. You're the partner who checks the doors at 11 PM, the parent who knows when the children settle.
Sleep onset 20-30 minutes of thinking (often about family, security, and protection), face-up sleeping in a warm bedroom, heavy bedding preference. You wake mid-morning with steady energy.
Strengths: protective instinct, emotional reliability, deep care for family and friends. Trap: over-functioning for others, depleting your own reserves.
Bedding sweet spot: medium-firm mattress (supportive for back-sleeping), low-medium pillow, weighted blanket (excellent fit), and warm flannel or jersey sheets in winter. The weight of bedding regulates your nervous system.
Schedule explicit self-care alongside your protective duties. The Night Guardian gives best when their own reserves are full. Pamper yourself unapologetically — that's not selfishness; it's stewardship of the resource that supports everyone you care about.
Night Ritual — 4 steps
7-Day Starter Program
- Day 1 — End protective tasks by 11 PM
- Day 2 — Warm shower at 11:30; weighted blanket
- Day 3 — Self-care ritual added (face mask, foot soak)
- Day 4 — Test bedroom 20-21°C with weighted bedding
- Day 5 — Reduce 'family check' worry-time before bed
- Day 6 — Weekend explicit self-care day
- Day 7 — Lock in the guardian + self-care balance