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Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Re: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Post by jasongullickson »

Homunculiheaded wrote: post #46
jasongullickson wrote: post #22

I'm glad that I finally have something (albeit thin) to point people to when they feel the need to lecture me about my sleeping habits. As long as I can remember I've been happy with a mix of 4 and 6 hour sleeping sessions, two or three days of 4 followed by one night of more sleep (typically 6 hours) and then back to 4 hours again. Under the recommendation of my peers and physicians I have attempted to do 8 hour nig…

I've had a similar experience, since I hit my teenage years I rarely sleep more than just a few hours a night. At that time I would typically sleep 3-4 hours a night, and then really crash on the weekends. But as I got older I needed less and less weekend sleep. Whenever I try to go to bed earlier or sleep in to get close to 8 hours (even for extended periods of time) I find that I'm just as tired, if not more so tha…

Absolutely, if I can go "lights out" for 30 minutes during the day (between 1:00pm and 2:00pm works best for me) I can eliminate the need for the "catch-up" sleep.

Re: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Post by eru »

gmac wrote: post #34
keyle wrote: post #5

Lucky buggers. Technically since time is money, that could make them 16% richer than most of us (assuming they sleep 2 hours less).

In fact, probably more, since they also accumulate and compound valuable experience that much more quickly!

Probably less. Since most people have a day job, and work something like 8 hours a day, no matter what.

Staying up longer just increases the time you spent spending money and consuming stuff. Sleep is a cheap entertainment.

Re: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Post by Vivtek »

eru wrote: post #50
Vivtek wrote: post #42

Candidate number two for gene surgery (my current #1 being that color vision y'all talk about so much).

There's no colour vision. They just make it up as they go along. It's just a huge conspiracy / April fools' joke.

My family seems not only convinc{ed|ing} but consistent in their delusion.

Re: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Post by GrangalanJr »

kls wrote: post #43

There has been a link to depression and too much sleep so much so that sleep deprivation is used as a treatment for depression where other treatments fail. It actually puts the patient into a manic episode. It was peculiar to note that people who are short-sleepers also share a slight manic trait in their personality. While the article makes short-sleep cycles out to look like all sunshine and roses it is not all it…

I have used total sleep deprivation to kick myself out of persistent low mood. So far it has worked every time.

Not a method to use too often, of course.

Re: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Post by cynicalkane »

jasongullickson wrote: post #22

I'm glad that I finally have something (albeit thin) to point people to when they feel the need to lecture me about my sleeping habits. As long as I can remember I've been happy with a mix of 4 and 6 hour sleeping sessions, two or three days of 4 followed by one night of more sleep (typically 6 hours) and then back to 4 hours again. Under the recommendation of my peers and physicians I have attempted to do 8 hour nig…

For me, If I get all the sleep I want, I'm lethargic and unenergetic, but if I get less sleep I'm tired all day (but strangely more energetic). It's like there's no happy medium. I wonder if anyone else has this problem, and if there's a solution.

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Post by pathik »

AgentConundrum wrote: post #49
bound008 wrote: post #20

I emailed the researcher, whose address was at the end of the article with the appropriate gene data (BHLHE41 on Chromosome 12) to see if my DNA is a match. The article said its a mutation, but maybe those with the mutation exhibit a certain codon pair. Its an amazing time when you can read an article about such a thing, and then cross check your DNA in a matter of seconds. Articles will have to start posting the raw…

Just out of curiosity, why do you have your genetic makeup readily available for cross checking?

23AndMe, I guess.

Re: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Post by aycangulez »

The primary function of sleep is to permanently store the things learned during the day (long-term potentiation). Although different people need different amounts of sleep, those who need less usually find that they sleep longer if they learn challenging new material (e.g. a new language). That is the reason why babies sleep the most. Their brains are empty sponges constantly absorbing new information.

Re: Why Some People Can Run on Little Sleep and Get So Much Done

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Post by driverdan »

Swizec wrote: post #24

Not saying that I'm one of the sleepless elite, but I seem to function best on 6 hours of sleep a day. Whenever I try to sleep more I just feel tired all day and when I sleep less ... well that depends on how much less. For optimum energivity I find an hour of sleep is best, just enough to reset your cycle. But you can't do this more than once at a time, the next day the whole 6 hours are needed. Don't have any idea…

Energivity?
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