6-7 on the weekends and weekdays. I code better free of distractions. To accommodate this requirement, I moved my sleep schedule. I sleep from 4am-11am. I feel most awake and in the zone somewhere between 10pm-2am, give or take.
Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?
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#92I have a four month old baby. I'm lucky if I get five hours.
I don't miss those days. Although now that she's two, I have a "natural" alarm clock that gets up around 6:30-7 everyday.
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#93I think the real question is: "How much quality sleep per night do you get?" I roll into bed around 10:30 or 11:00pm, to wake up at 6:30. Assuming I sleep the whole time, that makes it look like I'd be getting about ~8 hours on average. Factor in it takes about 20-30 minutes to fall asleep, brings it down to ~7:30 hours of sleep. Factor in time spent tossing and turning during the night, laying in bed in that "I'm no…
That sounds awful I'm in the 7 hour range of sleeping but when I go to bed I usually end up falling asleep within fifteen minutes and sleeping rather sound. Even when my dog wakes me up to be let out after she does her business and comes in I go back to sleep almost instantly. The only time I have had trouble falling asleep is if I had caffeine after 6 pm (I go to bed around 10 pm). I have to ask is alcohol or caffei…
I cut out all caffeine several years ago (that I know of - I'm sure it slips into me somehow), I don't drink coffee, soda, or even tea.
I don't drink a lot of alcohol as of late, mainly as a money-and-waist saving expenditure.
There are nights where I'll hit the pillow and be asleep in minutes, and there are nights where I wont. My sleeping can be very erratic. If you were to ask my S/O, she'd tell you i'm out like a light in 2 seconds, but that's only because her issues are worse than mine, so to her it seems like I'm an amazing sleeper.
She sleeps like a log on her days off, however, so to each their own. Woe be to the foolish man who dares try to wake her.
But I'm usually in that half awake / half asleep mode most nights, for a non-trivial amount of time. I've gotten used to it; The trick is to never open your eyes. Keep "playing" asleep, and eventually it'll happen. Once you open your eyes and let your brain turn on more fully, you're screwed.
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#941.5 hour caffeine power naps: I found that if I drink a red bull or a cup of coffee right before going to bed, I wake up in an hour and a half feeling refreshed and alert
I have vivid nightmares if I do this. (Not that this is a bad thing. It's nice to wake up and realize that you did not, in fact, just run over 30 people with your car and engage in a high-speed police chase.)
That's why there's GTA :)
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#95To anyone having problems with sleeping schedule—check if you have Vitamin D deficiency. Taking supplement seems to help in my case.
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#96I was chronically sleep-deprived for about 5-6 years but didn't know it, once I started watching the stock market closely. I would go to sleep at 12-1am and wake up at 6am to watch the stock market open. Then at 930am I would leave for work and come back at 730pm. I would have dinner, do some additional work and then repeat the cycle. I loved it, but I would regularly get between 4-6 hrs per night even on weekends. I…
Same 4-6 hrs sleep pattern here, and recently I too have suddenly started to forget simple things like how words I use every day are spelled. Yet I can't seem to be able to consistently force myself to be in bed early enough.
You really should consider forcing yourself to sleep more. This whole incident changed how I view my life, and how important health is.
When I was lying in the MRI machine, wondering WTF was wrong with me, I literally saw my life flashing before my eyes.
After the MRI was negative, I quit my job, and decided to spend the next year working on something that I wanted to work on, and get my health back into order, ie. lose 20 lbs and decrease my blood pressure.
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#97I was chronically sleep-deprived for about 5-6 years but didn't know it, once I started watching the stock market closely. I would go to sleep at 12-1am and wake up at 6am to watch the stock market open. Then at 930am I would leave for work and come back at 730pm. I would have dinner, do some additional work and then repeat the cycle. I loved it, but I would regularly get between 4-6 hrs per night even on weekends. I…
Thanks for sharing this experience. It reminds that many of us far too often overestimate our abilities to ‘read’ our bodies. Being aware of a problem when it affects the brain is the trickiest part. Good that you've noticed it in time.
Yes truly we tend to overestimate the our body's abilities. I remember reading an article of a young and successful executive at Adobe India who prided himself at being very fit (used to run marathons) and also being able to make do with just 3-4 hrs of sleep. He died of cardiac arrest at 35. Thats when I have decided to give myself atleast 6 hrs of sleep daily. Im guessing it should be enough sleep needed.
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#98I think the real question is: "How much quality sleep per night do you get?" I roll into bed around 10:30 or 11:00pm, to wake up at 6:30. Assuming I sleep the whole time, that makes it look like I'd be getting about ~8 hours on average. Factor in it takes about 20-30 minutes to fall asleep, brings it down to ~7:30 hours of sleep. Factor in time spent tossing and turning during the night, laying in bed in that "I'm no…
That sounds awful I'm in the 7 hour range of sleeping but when I go to bed I usually end up falling asleep within fifteen minutes and sleeping rather sound. Even when my dog wakes me up to be let out after she does her business and comes in I go back to sleep almost instantly. The only time I have had trouble falling asleep is if I had caffeine after 6 pm (I go to bed around 10 pm). I have to ask is alcohol or caffei…
I am honestly curious if the ability to go to sleep almost instantly, even if you are woken up in the middle of the night, is purely genetic?
Or perhaps it's a combination of habits and fitness?
Or could be a symptom of something bad, like exhaustion?
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same 4-6 hrs sleep pattern here, and recently I too have suddenly started to forget simple things like how words I use every day are spelled. Yet I can't seem to be able to consistently force myself to be in bed early enough.
You really should consider forcing yourself to sleep more. This whole incident changed how I view my life, and how important health is. When I was lying in the MRI machine, wondering WTF was wrong with me, I literally saw my life flashing before my eyes. After the MRI was negative, I quit my job, and decided to spend the next year working on something that I wanted to work on, and get my health back into order, ie. l…
I quit my job
That answers the other question I was thinking of, how to do it.
It might have to come to that for me as well. (Yawning as I type this)
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#100I do about 6-7 on weekdays, then crash on weekends and sleep 12-13 hours. If I don't get my weekend crash and roll into the next week, I'm practically brain dead by the end of that week. I have some respiratory problems that make the sleep quality not that great either and 6-7 often more like 3-5 depending. I'm chronically sleep deprived. It's not healthy. I'm also a supreme night owl, doing my best work around 6-9pm…
'Beer' can help with sleeping earlier during weekdays :)
Alcohol in general may ease your ability to fall asleep, but it impairs the quality of sleep.