I average 6 hours and 8 minutes. Not enough.
What makes you think it’s not enough? Do you have mental or physiological symptoms?
Just tired. A lot more tired than I should be.
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#222I'd like to share my sleeping practice which I've developed after several years of focusing on it and trying to recreate the pre-industrial (and possibly pre-farming) sleep patterns my ancestors had for millions of years before the last few thousand. Whenever I feel tired, I lay down to rest. Whenever I am sleeping, I allow myself to sleep until I am "fully slept", meaning I can lay there for a while, still physicall…
Do you have children? If yes, how on earth is this doable?
If you have kids probably ignore this advice and just sleep once they are asleep. It depends on the age but from about 2 they are probably sleeping through the night most of the time so should be OK.
WFH for your day nap!
Re: Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
#223I'd like to share my sleeping practice which I've developed after several years of focusing on it and trying to recreate the pre-industrial (and possibly pre-farming) sleep patterns my ancestors had for millions of years before the last few thousand. Whenever I feel tired, I lay down to rest. Whenever I am sleeping, I allow myself to sleep until I am "fully slept", meaning I can lay there for a while, still physicall…
Was it hard to get your life to shift around your sleep patterns? (If you sleep in and skip a bunch of meetings without notice or miss your kids soccer game)
Conceptually you are on to something. Pushing exhaustion isn’t smart.
Re: Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance
#224I'd like to share my sleeping practice which I've developed after several years of focusing on it and trying to recreate the pre-industrial (and possibly pre-farming) sleep patterns my ancestors had for millions of years before the last few thousand. Whenever I feel tired, I lay down to rest. Whenever I am sleeping, I allow myself to sleep until I am "fully slept", meaning I can lay there for a while, still physicall…
I used to think that our body know better. But I realise it doesn't do what is better but rather what it is used to do. I felt I had to eat sweets frequently, drink coca-coca everyday and 3 meals a day etc. My body felt terrible when I didn't. I stopped listed to what my body wanted and consciously stop those things. First week it was really painful. Second week I got used to. Third week I completely changed. Now I h…
Our body evolved for an environment without those things that you listed.
I think you were right to consciously remove those things from its access.
Sleep was always an essential part of the equation, however.
Try to imagine how you lived 10K years ago.
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Though compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus
Yeah... I think it's laughable, preposterous to call focus and flow a "disorder." Whoever wants to call me being able to focus on a task at hand a disorder can stuff it up their butt.
The first component of any disorder is that it's causing a problem. If you like it and it's not harming others then it's not a disorder regardless of what condition it may resemble.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have children? If yes, how on earth is this doable?
If you have kids probably ignore this advice and just sleep once they are asleep. It depends on the age but from about 2 they are probably sleeping through the night most of the time so should be OK. WFH for your day nap!
I’m the opposite. I go to sleep when I give up on them going to bed. :-)
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I'm interested in hearing more about you, your life, where you were, why you changed, and how it's affected you. I'm guessing you were in a situation like many people I know (including myself). Well off, couldn't really reasonably ask for much more, yet still chasing happiness like a carrot on a stick. Tired, unmotivated, and forever looking for the next thing to feel better. Diet, sleep, and exercise are all "in che…
I'm a creative person by nature, blessed with being allowed to figure out how things work by taking them apart when I was a child. I didn't hear "No" very often. Eventually, I found myself working on software maintenance at a bank, a job I become attached to because I thought I wasn't worth much without a degree. I worked there for 5 years. In corporate, my three role models have been Wally, Costanza, and Gibbons, so…
> I rode out six months on unemployment, also eating through my savings.
> I realized that with five years at the bank on my resume, it will be much easier to find another job, so I did that.
What are you saying here? You had the five years on your resume all the time you were struggling and on unemployment.
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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…
> 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. That is what I do too. For me, it is the best way to fall sleep right away.
Sometimes I can even resume the dream I was having the morning before and fall asleep instantly. Unfortunately I usually can't remember.
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#229Sustained-release melatonin. Minimum dose. Last meal 3-4 hours before bed or earlier. Blocker glasses. Etc.
Melatonin blunts much of degeneration triggers that occur with age and is balanced by vitamin D3 (+ K2; ensure magnesium sufficiency) in the morning.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Though compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfocus
Yeah... I think it's laughable, preposterous to call focus and flow a "disorder." Whoever wants to call me being able to focus on a task at hand a disorder can stuff it up their butt.
I think you are trivializing problems that many people struggle with. From my understanding hyperfocus is not at all "being able to focus on a task at hand" but rather being unable to focus on anything other than a specific task. Often this task is often NOT what should be worked on during the allotted time.