When / How Much do you Sleep?
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alien
Finally got around to giving this a listen, when I should have been sleeping.
I knew sleep was important but listening to an expert break it down was eye opening.
Hospital residency work hours are wack. Weird how bad ideas can get such acceptance.
Holy crap! :wow How many days a week are you doing that? That's no bueno man. That sounds like a recipe for a shortened life. And I thought I worked a lot of hours.
KWeezyXB12
SKRRRRRRRRRRRT!!!!!!
im usually 4 to 7 hours if im lucky. i mostly work over nighters. usually five 12-14 hour shifts with a 7pm start at the earliest.
afm199
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Until I finally got a CPAP, I was lucky to get six hours of sleep in a nine hour night. It made a world of difference. I used to spend days or weeks with sleep deficit and it really affected me negatively. I can't say enough good about CPAP. If you have trouble sleeping, get a test. I didn't even know I had sleep apnea, just that I had trouble sleeping. I sleep 7-9 hours a night now, and it's amazing.
kevin 714
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mathew walker also wrote an amazng book called "why we sleep", its life changing if you follow its advice. the science of sleep and what even less than 7 hours does to your body, is wild
a few months ago I made a hard change tp focus on sleep quality and its massively effected my life positively in every avenue
I get 9 hours of sleep per night, dpending on my sleep efficency
less than 7 hours of sleep basically reducing everything you do in quality. everything. you recover worse, learn worse, have a worse immune system, can concenrate less, you crave worse foods, perform poorer, everything you do is effected negatively for such an easy thing to address
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sprorchid
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I am a very light sleeper and a night owl. So light Of a sleeper, that if my dogs need to go to the backyard to pee in the middle of the night, they just walk on the hardwood floors till I wake up.
Pre pandemic, try to go to bed by 11pm, get up ay 6:30am am usually OTD in 15 min ( I eat breakfast at work).
Working for a school, I get summers off. Summer I try to sleep by 1am, up by noon or 1pm.
My body prefers 10 hours of sleep, but I can function on 4 or 5 hours. And that myth, the older you get, the less you sleep, so not true for me.
Pre pandemic, try to go to bed by 11pm, get up ay 6:30am am usually OTD in 15 min ( I eat breakfast at work).
Working for a school, I get summers off. Summer I try to sleep by 1am, up by noon or 1pm.
My body prefers 10 hours of sleep, but I can function on 4 or 5 hours. And that myth, the older you get, the less you sleep, so not true for me.
One full time job, one side hustle. About 4 hours of sleep per night for the past 10 years or so.
This quarantine has resulted in slower work on the side gig, giving me time to get at learning some money-making skills and getting more sleep. Goal is to make more in less hours.
Take care of yourself, man.
littlebeast
get it while it's easy
when i was younger, i was practically narcoleptic. slept for 10-12 on a routine basis - and it still wasn’t enough. anywhere, anytime, in the middle of whatever i was doing at the time. i’d just lay down on whatever surface was available (including the floor) and go to sleep (friends were originally like WTF? but they eventually got used to it).
am the exact opposite now. midnight might as well be noon.
am the exact opposite now. midnight might as well be noon.
Abacinator
Unholy Blasphemies
Lately never/not at all :nchantr
SVsick50
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My entire adult life, I have had horrible sleep. I take Melatonin and one OTC sleep aid, but I try not to do the sleep aid or I ween myself off when I feel normal. I don't think, long term, this stuff is good for the liver. I don't drink alcohol (which is horrible for sleep) nor go the green medicinal route because marijuana screws me up in a bad way. I'm not opposed to either if it works for a person, but it doesn't for me.
My wife and I went on a trip when I forgot my Melatonin and I sat up and stared out the window the entire night.
I try to go down by 10pm, and up at 6:30-7am.
My wife and I went on a trip when I forgot my Melatonin and I sat up and stared out the window the entire night.
I try to go down by 10pm, and up at 6:30-7am.
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alien
Hope you're closing in on an end goal cause that just can't be healthy
kevin 714
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Every metric shows he’s almost assuredly shortened his life significantly by doing that
Beanzy
Wind free
Have no problem sleeping. Still my medication makes me urinate a lot. So I wake up at least twice, maybe thrice, during sleeping hours just to pee. Hate it. But I always fall back to sleep. Guess I get about six hours of sleep. Then again, I cat nap sometimes during the day, maybe 15 minutes at a time, at least once a day.