I sleep from 1am - 4am and then take 2 x 30 minute naps at 11am and 6pm. I've done this for a very long time. As a child and teenager I was often forced to try and sleep so I just lay awake. Once it was realized that I just couldn't sleep I was allowed to do quiet tasks like read or after I learned to code, code :-)
Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
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#62I work in Academia. I sleep after lunch every day. I have lunch in 30 minutes and then I sleep 20 minutes. I have an sleeping mat and a pillow in my office and I sleep on the floor. It really boosts my afternoon productivity, specially now that I have a baby and wake up several times during the night. During the weekends I sleep a little longer. I've been doing this for many years and I struggle a little bit when in…
Do you drink caffeine at all?
Re: Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
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is that after falling asleep or including that time? Im asking because I cant fall asleep in 30minutes
Generally 25 minutes of actual sleep. If it takes you longer than 15 minutes to fall asleep, you might need to look at cutting caffeine or other stimulants out of your diet completely. Exercise will also help. Usually helps if you're feeling a strong sleep inertia signal (i.e. desire to sleep) compared to just feeling fatigued.
I don't need caffeine or other stimulants for it to take me way more than 15 minutes...
Re: Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
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Sub-optimal sleep can absolutely ruin you, in the long run. E.g. it's been suggested that a significant portion (a third, IIRC, have to find that article) of chronic fatigue incidents are due to non-restorative sleep. Definitely a problem worth solving if you have it. If you lie in bed awake once per week or so, you surely don't need to fret about it. It just must not become part of your lifestyle - if it does, get a…
Calm down. We all die in the long run... Want better sleep? Stop worrying and work with your hands a bit.
Heart attacks increase by 25% When we lose that 1 hour of sleep by switching to Daylight Savings time.
Re: Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
#65I personally know a case of trying the "uberman" sleep schedule (aka "da vinci" sleep schedule, or ~30min sleep every four hours, permanently), having tried hard but could never completely convert to the schedule, where doing so is one of two strong possible causes of the individual now suffering very debilitating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and can no longer work regularly despite years of medical tests and efforts.
Re: Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
#66From a human performance and health point of view, yes, you need between 7-9 hrs of sleep a night.
It doesn't need to be continuous or perfect, but good sleep is going to have a huge impact on your quality of life.
In the short term, you can deal with the less, but your cognitive function, physical performance and metabolism are going to be impaired.
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#68My digestion won't support 8 hours of uninterrupted anything. I'm up 2-3 times every night, as though I had a young child, but I'm single. Some nights, I'll be up for an hour or more, then return to bed for "second sleep".
I understand how difficult that can be.
I suffer from nocturia (diagnosed as non pathological after many rounds of tests all turning up negative). In a typical night I get five hours max of contiguous sleep and have started sleeping (by that I mean the in bed duration) nine to ten hours as an attempt to compensate for not being able to stay asleep.
I've always been curious about the difference between time spent in bed and actual time in deep sleep and their equivalence (or exchange factor).
Have you also resulted in increasing how long you are in bed to compensate?
Re: Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
#69My digestion won't support 8 hours of uninterrupted anything. I'm up 2-3 times every night, as though I had a young child, but I'm single. Some nights, I'll be up for an hour or more, then return to bed for "second sleep".
I understand how difficult that can be. I suffer from nocturia (diagnosed as non pathological after many rounds of tests all turning up negative). In a typical night I get five hours max of contiguous sleep and have started sleeping (by that I mean the in bed duration) nine to ten hours as an attempt to compensate for not being able to stay asleep. I've always been curious about the difference between time spent in b…
I've used Sleep for Android to track my sleeping patterns since about 2013. I consistently get 3-4 hours of deep sleep per night in 6 hours of actual sleep.
Sometimes it's simpler to watch an hour of YouTube (or post on HN, upvotes are easier at night), than to get up and lay back down several times.
The app pauses sleep tracking when it can tell you're awake. This makes it annoying to see I've been sleeping from 9pm until 7am, and only got 6.5 hours of sleep.
Re: Do we really need eight hours of uninterrupted sleep a night?
#70I personally know a case of trying the "uberman" sleep schedule (aka "da vinci" sleep schedule, or ~30min sleep every four hours, permanently), having tried hard but could never completely convert to the schedule, where doing so is one of two strong possible causes of the individual now suffering very debilitating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and can no longer work regularly despite years of medical tests and efforts.
That sounds like a terrible idea