Most non-American folks have a midday nap. I'm seriously considering instituting one personally b/c i'm around 4/hrs a night
Poll: How many hours do you sleep?
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#223-4 hour a night people (all 4 of you(•)): what the heck? For how long have you slept this little? Is that natural, or are you pushing yourself (for some reason)? Do you feel awake right now, or has reality become some sort of weird half-awake, half-asleep fantasia? (•)as of this writing
I agree. That amount of sleep can't be healthy. I read a story about a startup founder who was pushing himself that hard for a long time. Even though he exercised regularly and had a great diet, he died young of cardiac arrest. I don't remember any mention of a prior condition, but remember that his sleep schedule was strongly suspected of causing his heart to weaken.
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#233-4 hour a night people (all 4 of you(•)): what the heck? For how long have you slept this little? Is that natural, or are you pushing yourself (for some reason)? Do you feel awake right now, or has reality become some sort of weird half-awake, half-asleep fantasia? (•)as of this writing
As long as I can remember. Even very young, I would just read at night rather than sleep. Sometimes I crash and sleep for 5-6, once or twice I've slept more after going a few days without sleep.
I have always seen sleep as one of the biggest problems with life. If we could cure it, our effective lifespans would increase. So it's possible my sleeping habits are partly psychosomatic.
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#245-7 depending on the night, but would prefer to sleep more. infant and a startup...
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#258. And I keep the same sleep schedule on weekends.
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#263-4 hour a night people (all 4 of you(•)): what the heck? For how long have you slept this little? Is that natural, or are you pushing yourself (for some reason)? Do you feel awake right now, or has reality become some sort of weird half-awake, half-asleep fantasia? (•)as of this writing
As long as I can remember. Even very young, I would just read at night rather than sleep. Sometimes I crash and sleep for 5-6, once or twice I've slept more after going a few days without sleep. I have always seen sleep as one of the biggest problems with life. If we could cure it, our effective lifespans would increase. So it's possible my sleeping habits are partly psychosomatic.
By the way throughout highschool I only slept two hours, midnight to 2am. It seemed to me that if you wake up before reaching your REM cycle you do not feel tired.
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#27What a terrible breakdown. How is 7-10, which is what I imagine the majority of people sleep, a single category? Try something like: (< 4, 4-5, 5-6, 6-7, 7-8, 8-9, 9+)
Yeah, I just now realized that choices are not very cleverly made. I just expected(haha) that everyone sleeps pretty much as me (maybe I was trying to justify my sleep hours..?). But now, probably, I should not change choices as there are plenty of votes. Sorry for that.
I'd have posted it as a +/- against the 'standard' 8 hours :)
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#287-8, every night. I find I can't think clearly enough to code if I don't get enough sleep consistently.
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#297-8 for sure. Anything less for a sustained period of time and I lose a ton of productivity. I was seriously considering going on a polyphasic sleep experiment for a while to cut down on the hours, but after doing a lot of research it didn't really seem legit. Does anyone here have any real experience with polyphasic sleep?
For about 6 months during high school I would take a 1.5 hour nap after dinner from about 7:30pm until 9:00pm then sleep again from either 2:00am or 3:30am until 6:30am when I had to wake up (multiples of 90 minutes).
With 4.5 or 6 hours of sleep per night, I had more energy during the day than I ever have since sleeping 7-10 hours. I stopped because I was waking my parents at night and since then I haven't been able to work it back into my schedule.
Some caveats: (1) I needed somebody to call me to wake me up at 9:00 (I used my long-distance girlfriend for this – it was a good excuse to talk anyway). If I didn't have somebody to wake me up, I would often sleep through my alarm and wake up at 6:00am. Sometimes I found my alarm clock and/or bedside lamp on the floor. (2) My state of mind after the early evening nap was very much unlike normal waking experience. There was a sense of unbreakable tranquility and bodily calmness, as if a thin membrane had been stretched over experience and time had stopped. I read somewhere that certain writers are known to have induced this state for the purpose of doing their work.
I blogged my experience at the time, but it appears that the blog is now gone and I don't have an archive to my knowledge: " rel="nofollow">http://alternatesleep.blogspot.com/>.
You may be interested to read this person's log: http://polyphasic.blogspot.com/ – my experience was similar to his.
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#303-4 hour a night people (all 4 of you(•)): what the heck? For how long have you slept this little? Is that natural, or are you pushing yourself (for some reason)? Do you feel awake right now, or has reality become some sort of weird half-awake, half-asleep fantasia? (•)as of this writing
I agree. That amount of sleep can't be healthy. I read a story about a startup founder who was pushing himself that hard for a long time. Even though he exercised regularly and had a great diet, he died young of cardiac arrest. I don't remember any mention of a prior condition, but remember that his sleep schedule was strongly suspected of causing his heart to weaken.
I agree that it's not enough for the majority of people (myself included), but I have a great aunt that has, for her entire life, slept four hours a night (midnight to 4am). She's a retired school teacher, no commitments that are keeping her awake, and that's still the schedule she keeps. She apparently just doesn't need as much sleep as most people do.