When / How Much do you Sleep?

[SFSV650]

Pre-apocalypse, 10:30-5:30.
Current situation, 10:15/10:30 - 6:30/7:00
"Bed by ten" is our mantra and we refer to it as living the dream.

I get a lot of flack for needing and prioritizing sleep, but it's just not possible for me to be effective in my career without it. I ran a huge sleep deficit in my twenties, then something broke and I just can't do all nighters anymore.

 

[doc4216]

The first 13 years of my career never came with a set schedule so my sleep was always messed up.

The last 6 years have been amazing to getting mostly consistent sleep. I typically get to bed between 9:30-10 (fall asleep by 11) and wake up between 6-7.

My lower back is usually sore from sleeping in one position too long, which is usually what wakes me up. That and our new pup Cleo likes to starting whining about that time. Even without those two issues, I am always awake by 7:30.

 

[Entoptic]

I used to have a hard time going to sleep and staying asleep. I started meditating before bed and now I sleep through the night like I am a teenager again.

This plus no illuminating boxes for the last hour before bed. I will usually put headphones on for the last hour and listen to white noise or some spiritual stuff.

A new bed made all the difference as well.

 

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Might have gotten up late but not letting that get in the way if my noon nap

 

[lefty]

Sixty-eight last August.

My body says: SLEEP at 8:00 p.m. Says WAKE at 2:00 a.m. No watch, no alarm, no pets, wife on different rhythm. Six hours a night for decades.

I like BARF, I always find out that I'm no alone in this life, that someone else is also on the path I trod.

Ahhhh, I have found my Soulmate!!! (I'm 57) and a Capricorn. :laughing

 

[Agent Orange]

Went to bed last night at 11 PM, woke up this morning at 7:30. Felt goood.

 

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Just 10 minutes of nap midday and I wake up feeling turbocharged. Id encourage everyone to do it for productivity.

 

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There are articles out there that say napping isn't good for your health. I say f it.

Sometimes I even nap after dinner, which is suppose to be really bad for you

 

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Napping is bad for you if you do it in the wrong place like at your desk, you could be fired.

 

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some articles say taking naps are bad for your heart, but I think taking short power-naps are probably good for you especially if you feel the beneficial effects of it in your energy level


this is Me, Uncle Bp

 

[bojangle]

Almost 19 years of working 3 12-hr night shifts per week has given me a terrible sleep schedule. Flipping back and forth is hard, and I've never been a morning person. My ideal sleep time would be from like 0600-1400. I stay up for 24+hours at least once per week, but then I also like to sometimes sleep for 12+ hours. Other days it's only a couple hours at a time with some naps. I'll probably die earlier because of it, but that's just fewer mornings I'd have to endure. A sunrise is much more beautiful for me right before bed.

As someone who's worked many years of night shifts, this is pretty familiar, minus the 24+ hours once a week and the 12+ hour sleeps.

I'm on a more normal schedule right now.

 

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some articles say taking naps are bad for your heart, but I think taking short power-naps are probably good for you especially if you feel the beneficial effects of it in your energy level


this is Me, Uncle Bp
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So cute with your big work pillow.



Btw you're fired

 

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:wow

 

[Critter]

Two full time jobs. I average about 4 hours of sleep daily.

Up at 1130P work from 12-830A

Day Job starts at 10A work til 6P

Get home square things away and maybe eat and catch a couple YouTube videos then rinse and repeat.

This Quarantine has really got me reconsidering the importance of having two gigs as opposed to my health.

 

[dagle]

if you guys have a chance and the time, there's a sleep researcher who went into detail on the topic. i was previously a short sleeper, averaging 4-6 hours on weekdays, and now i try to get 6-8 as often as possible.

podcast by matt walker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

there's a few other ones by the same man with different podcast hosts.

cliff notes:
-6hours or less of sleep per night is a very light form of brain damage
-prefrontal cortex cleansing/washing happens during REM sleep
-dementia patients and alzheimers patients get zero or near-zero REM sleep and the weird placque-y proteiny things are the things cleaned in prefrontal cortex during sleep.
-sleep in the dark, don't disrupt with any light
-have a regular circadian rhythm
-breathe through your nose if you can
-get an apnea machine if you snore, etc.
-avoid sleep aids (alcohol, melatonin, weed, etc.)
-recovery happens during sleep

 

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Poor nights sleep but up at 7:30am for a zoom meeting. 10am took what was intended to be a short nap however just woke up about 15 minutes ago. An unusually long mid day nap and now feel like a zombie.

 

[lefty]

So cute with your big work pillow.



Btw you're fired

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if you guys have a chance and the time, there's a sleep researcher who went into detail on the topic. i was previously a short sleeper, averaging 4-6 hours on weekdays, and now i try to get 6-8 as often as possible.

podcast by matt walker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

there's a few other ones by the same man with different podcast hosts.

cliff notes:
-6hours or less of sleep per night is a very light form of brain damage
-prefrontal cortex cleansing/washing happens during REM sleep
-dementia patients and alzheimers patients get zero or near-zero REM sleep and the weird placque-y proteiny things are the things cleaned in prefrontal cortex during sleep.
-sleep in the dark, don't disrupt with any light
-have a regular circadian rhythm
-breathe through your nose if you can
-get an apnea machine if you snore, etc.
-avoid sleep aids (alcohol, melatonin, weed, etc.)
-recovery happens during sleep

Thank you. I will listen to that.

Critter-

Brother, you gotta get some rest. You work waaaaay too much.

 

[kuksul08]

I think I would do better if days were 25 hours long. Right now I always tend to stay up an hour later than I should and it shifts my sleep schedule, and I also need more sleep than a lot of people. I was unemployed for a while and started shifting to being nocturnal - going to bed at 12, then 1, then 2, then 3, then 4, and sleeping for almost 9 hours. I felt amazing though.

 

[TerryM]

...podcast by matt walker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

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And his book Why We Sleep is very good if you prefer reading to listening. (Even says he doesn't consider it an insult if reading it puts you to sleep.)

I'm lucky to never have or had sleep problems and get 8 - 9 hrs nightly. I read the book to find out why animals need sleep (rather than just rest). Not sure he really answers that, but he does make persuasive arguments that we do and has tips on how to get it.

 

[EEEliminator]

~7 hours if I'm lucky.

I love sleeping, but unfortunately later at night is the only time I have for me or time with just me and the wife. I try to get to sleep by 11PM wake up at 5:45AM. I'm not morning person AT ALL, but have always started early from high school, thru college and work full time. For work I hate being up early but, I hate being stuck at work late even more. Assuming everything goes smoothly I'm off work at 4:00 or I stay as late as needed.

For me sticking to a regular schedule is probably more important, I need to be more disciplined during the week when I go to sleep. I don't think I can give up staying up until 1-2AM on Friday/Saturday.