omg, how many charts this page has... i fell asleep just scrolling through the page.
Good sleep, good learning, good life
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Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#32" It is everyone's dream to wake up fresh, happy, and ready for action on a daily basis. Sadly, in the modern world, only a small minority lives that dream. Yet the dream is within reach for most healthy people given a bit of knowledge, and a readiness to make some lifestyle sacrifice ." If I click print is says 203 pages. That is not "a bit of knowledge" - not that I mind to spend time on what looks to be a very int…
> You ingest caffeine only in the morning. But that makes no sense. Caffeine binds to adenosine receptors, which have to do with how sleepy you are. But they aren't doing anything in the morning as you've just woken up (think of them as a counter of how long you've been awake). Any coffee before lunch is just a placebo really. From wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine > Caffeine's principal mode of actio…
>Any coffee before lunch is just a placebo really.
No.
I understand what you're trying to convey but calling coffee before lunch a placebo is definitely going too far.
It's true that caffeine binds to adenosine, but 1) there is always a non-trivial baseline of adenosine in your system (and for many, morning adenosine levels are high in spite of having just slept) and 2) there is more than just caffeine in coffee.
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#33Maybe co-sleeping is great for some families, maybe not for others. My kids (4 and 2) are impossible to sleep next to, they wriggle and kick and force me to the edge of the bed. In their own rooms they sleep just fine but they are still the primary cause of any bad sleep patterns I have.
I consider both my children to be fairly good sleepers but they still get up at 6am every day no matter what and when one of them is sick, or teething, or just too wired to sleep then multiple wake ups per night are possible, even if they go back to sleep without intervention I still wake up myself.
I could do any number of things to help improve my own sleep patterns but they are all moot until my kids get older.
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#34I've struggled with sleep issues since I was a small child; even after doing all the reasonable exercise/caffeine/no-bright-lights things people recommended, my brain sometimes just wouldn't shut down. After some introspection, I came to realize that my body seemed be on a 25 hour day, and it just wanted to stay awake an hour later each time. Then I read gwern's article on melatonin[1], and it changed everything. I d…
I've had a lot of success combining melatonin, low light before bedtime, drinking a moderate amount of water before bed, and f.lux (software). I use a heavier dose Friday+Saturday night to help me stay with a normal sleep schedule.
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#35A little bit of exercise is something many people are lacking. I have had a long commute (1.5h one way) for a little over a year now. Not long into it I noticed that I wasn't sleeping well. Not that I was sleeping that well to begin with but it got worse. My day was sit in the car, sit at a desk, sit in the car, sit at a desk at home. My weekends were basically sit at a desk at home with some various chores sprinkled…
1.5 hours each way, 3 hours a day, 15 hours a week, 750 hours a year. That's 31 days of commuting. My advice is either change jobs or move home, that commute isn't sustainable, you will end up ruining your health, relationships and work.
Indeed. See the Commuting Paradox: http://ideas.repec.org/p/zur/iewwpx/151.html
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#36"Alarm clocks are bad for learning!", but is there any good ways to avoid the alarm clocks? I even feel uncomfortable without the alarms.
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#37I and my wife co-sleep with my daughter that is now almost 4 months old, this worked very well for us, basically she sleeps the whole night, interrupting us just when she needs some milk. However because she is breastfed it is pretty natural because of co-sleeping so my wife just let she start getting the milk and fall asleep again after a few second.
Surely it does not work for everybody but when it works it means to have small children without having sleep depravation, so I suggest to try this approach of breastfeeding + co-sleeping for sure.
Btw we also don't use an alarm clock, but always go to bed around 00:00, and get up before 9:00 more or less automatically. When we don't sleep enough for some reason, the reality is that we lose a lot more time compared to the 9 hours of sleep as you are basically useless after noon because already too tired to really do great work (btw we actually sleep 8 hours, 1 hour is some pre-post bed time).
IMHO sleep depravation is very very linked to procrastination.
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#38I and my wife co-sleep with my daughter that is now almost 4 months old, this worked very well for us, basically she sleeps the whole night, interrupting us just when she needs some milk. However because she is breastfed it is pretty natural because of co-sleeping so my wife just let she start getting the milk and fall asleep again after a few second. Surely it does not work for everybody but when it works it means t…
We tried this (our daughter is almost 6 months old) but every bloody doctor, nurse, family member etc. that we discussed this with put the every living terror in us about accidentally killing her.
The baby slept well, we did not.
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#39A little bit of exercise is something many people are lacking. I have had a long commute (1.5h one way) for a little over a year now. Not long into it I noticed that I wasn't sleeping well. Not that I was sleeping that well to begin with but it got worse. My day was sit in the car, sit at a desk, sit in the car, sit at a desk at home. My weekends were basically sit at a desk at home with some various chores sprinkled…
Suddenly my 11 minute commute seems fantastic. Granted I'm in Bolivia, but still. Puts things into perspective when I hear people driving over an hour to get to work. I'll never curse at traffic here again because it "slowed me down to 20 minutes!"
Re: Good sleep, good learning, good life
#40Maybe co-sleeping is great for some families, maybe not for others. My kids (4 and 2) are impossible to sleep next to, they wriggle and kick and force me to the edge of the bed. In their own rooms they sleep just fine but they are still the primary cause of any bad sleep patterns I have. I consider both my children to be fairly good sleepers but they still get up at 6am every day no matter what and when one of them i…
In terms of getting up too early in the morning some friends of mine have had good success with a Gro-Clock which gives children a visual indicator of when it's ok to get up:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gro-Clock-HJ008-Gro-Clock-Trainer/dp...