Wow that graph… I’m jealous!
As a non-24 the graph looks more like this: https://photos.app.goo.gl/pdsZmimGqKmKm4wE9
It has improved over the years since, thanks to melatonin (285 micrograms), sleep masks, and if all else fails, Xanax.
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#12I think the biggest detriment to the quality of sleep is to start trying to improve sleep. It should not be a performance with self monitoring and evaluation.
The everpresent bad advice to get 8-9 or more hours of sleep definitely ruined my sleep experience for years when I'd keep trying and fail to do so.
Just change that advice into: spend 8-9 hours in bed.
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#13Drink one cup of coffee less per day, and stop it completely after 3PM. This was one of the many small things that helped me sleep better. There were more sinister things I discovered to be the true reason for my poor sleep. Something to do with poor mental health, but I’ll write about those some other time.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
True, failed to mention that I never drink caffeine after 2pm. I never understood how some people can have a coffee in the evening and go to bed just fine.
>I never understood how some people can have a coffee in the evening and go to bed just fine By building tolerance and genetics.
Regarding genetics, are there enzymes that some people lack, and that they can take to digest caffeine better?
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#15Things which improve my sleep tremendously:
- be active (Walking, Running) for at least 20 min a day
- do not drink coffee after noon
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#16there is interesting historical research, which pops up from time to time, showing that people in many cultures before the advent of electric lighting commonly slept in two phases -- about 4 hours, a couple hours awake, and about 4 hours.
i think it gets too strong when people claim that this is "natural" or "better" or something. but the historical evidence suggests it's at least "okay", and if you sometimes wake up at 3am maybe just embrace this, get up, do something tedious, and go back to bed.
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#17Biggest improvement to sleep quality I had was giving up caffeine, which isn't mentioned in this article. I'm inclined to bet, most people in the west who self report suffering form poor sleep, can narrow it down to caffeine over-consumption, since it leads you slowly to this march of death burning the candle at both ends where you drink coffee to compensate for poor sleep and you sleep poorly because of too much caf…
You are overgeneralizing from your own experience. It happens to some but most people with sleep problems do test if reducing caffeine fixes their problem.
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#18My first reaction is, if I'd worry that much about my sleep I would sleep bad, too.
Then again I don't think the OP has a very unusual sleep pattern. But if it bothers the OP, go get checked up. I would make it possible to be in the country where I have a doctor's appointment in three months if it is important to me.
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#19Linking this here as it's still the best sleep supplement I've found:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Nootropics/comments/15ceths/timerel...
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#20I don't sleep enough. I don't usually have a problem with falling asleep as much as I do staying asleep. I've found Magnesium Glycinate extremely helpful with sleeping longer.