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Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

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Re: Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

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Post by Kenji »

pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

Apparently, smoking pot makes you dream less. I have no experience with that kind of stuff, and I don't recommend you to take drugs, but as a last resort - why not try that?

Re: Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

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Post by z3t4 »

pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

When I'm tired my brain tricks me into going back to sleep, so I guess you are just tired. If you are sleeping more then 8 hours and still feel tired you might have bad sleep quality.

Re: Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

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Post by budoso »

pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

I have this strange experience where I only remember my dreams if I am woken up from sleep unnaturally. When it happens it feels as if my mind knows that in the future I'll be woken up by something. Obviously this isn't how the brain chemistry works, but I can't help but feel this way when it happens.

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Post by blackbear_ »

georgewsinger wrote: post #3

Oversleep can also be bad along some dimensions: > For cognition only, associations shift to a negative association of sleep duration and cognition for participants sleeping more than 8 hr a day. Though looking at the charts from the study I can say that Nassim Taleb would not be pleased with how weak the correlations seem to be: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/545fd00f-8924-4047...

From table 1, the largest significant correlation coefficient is 0.135. This study can be safely ignored.

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Post by DerDangDerDang »

alfonsodev wrote: post #8
pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

I'm not an expert on this matter, but it seems that you primed yourself to think that to a subconscious level, maybe try to prime yourself to think about gratitude first thing in the morning, but you'll have to belive deep down that is true, useful and important otherwise those dreams will be more interesting to your mind. Maybe you could start being grateful about the dreams and let them go, and focus on your body,…

That was great, thank you.

I know consciously expressing gratitude can be a powerful way to ground yourself and stay positive, but your insight about spurring action to fight thermodynamics is awesome.

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Post by TooSmugToFail »

pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

Very interesting.

I often wake up at night or early in the morning to go to bathroom, or take water. I found that the best way to go back to sleep after waking up is to think about the dream I just had. It seems like this 'forced' dream continuity is somehow sleep inducing.

What may be happening to you is the same thing: your firs instinct is trying to remember your dream, as you trained yourself through years of dream journaling. It's a learned behaviour. But what happens is, this induces sleep, and you're caught in the loop.

Maybe the trick is to go back to writing down your dreams when you wake up. This activity may keep you from falling back asleep.

Hope this helps.

Re: Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

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Post by amelius »

pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

By the way, I've noticed that changing sides makes me start a new dream. Useful when a dream isn't interesting or pleasant.

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Post by amelius »

vlunkr wrote: post #7
pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

Put your alarm clock on the other side of the room.

Or get one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/Clocky-Rolling-Sleeper-Bed-Room-Run-a...

Re: Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance

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Post by pulkitsh1234 »

TooSmugToFail wrote: post #16
pulkitsh1234 wrote: post #5

I have a very weird problem/issue, maybe someone can help. In my school days I used to maintain a dream diary, where I would note down every dream I had after waking up. I stopped doing that when I got into college, but dreams never stopped and I never stopped analysing and trying to remember the dreams. Fast forward to present time (10 years from school), whenever I want to wake up i.e. after 6-7 hours of sleep I ca…

Very interesting. I often wake up at night or early in the morning to go to bathroom, or take water. I found that the best way to go back to sleep after waking up is to think about the dream I just had. It seems like this 'forced' dream continuity is somehow sleep inducing. What may be happening to you is the same thing: your firs instinct is trying to remember your dream, as you trained yourself through years of dre…

That's a really interesting take.

I stopped journalling because I noticed I was interpolating the missing bits of my memory while writing down the dream. It became more like writing an imaginary story inspired from my dream, then recording my actual dream.

But that said, I definitely think this is good way to force myself out of the loop.

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