RCBH928 wrote:I wish 5 hours of sleep was enough for me too. I usually need 8-9 at least...
5 hours probably isn't enough for me. I used to think I had some insomnia issues or something, but basically I've come to the realization I am terrible at sleeping. I can get to sleep okay, it's actually staying asleep that's my problem. For the most part even the slightest noise or movement will wake me up (having a dog, a cat, and another person in the bed, you can imagine this happens a lot). After that happens, once 20 minutes or so passes I'm just too restless to stay put and have to get up and do something. Then I'm up for the rest of the day. Some nights are fine and I get a normal amount of rest, but more often than not it's just a few hours. Like I said though I'm on the internet for like 10 hours a day sometimes just sitting here, so maybe I don't need that much sleep?
I'm hoping as I get older this will stop happening.
RCBH928 wrote:I wish 5 hours of sleep was enough for me too. I usually need 8-9 at least...
Same here. I'd like more time to do stuff but if I don't get at least 8 hours then I'll feel mediocre all day.
Everyone I've known who only needed 5 hours of sleep per night was either talented or really smart. I don't know if that's a coincidence or if smart people tend to need less sleep. Sleep is one of those things scientists don't fully understand so who knows.
prfsnl_gmr wrote:There is nothing feigned about it. What I wrote is a display of actual moral superiority.
BoringSupreez wrote:
Everyone I've known who only needed 5 hours of sleep per night was either talented or really smart. I don't know if that's a coincidence or if smart people tend to need less sleep. Sleep is one of those things scientists don't fully understand so who knows.
That's really strange to me, as some of my brightest friends require up around 10 hours to function normally. I feel the same way. Any less than 8 and I feel like crap. I didn't realize how much I needed my sleep until I started using melatonin and ya know, was actually able to sleep that long.
If I'm left alone (ie: no alarm clock and wife & baby are out of the house) I will sleep for 10-11 hours a night.
Generally though, I'm about 7 hours on weekdays, 9 on weekends.
5 hours a night and I would feel like absolute shit (probably look like it too).
In college I generally only slept about 6 hours a night, but would take a 2 hour afternoon nap every day after work. I really liked that schedule. Impossible to emulate as an adult however.
I run the best- feel most alert, react the best, am in the best mood- when I sleep 5 hours or less at a time, but when I do fall asleep sunlight and such does NOT wake me up, so I'm really dependent on other people or alarms and such to wake up, but even then I tend to ignore them and go back to sleep. Its horrible.
My problem is that I can not wake up from sleep. Once I am asleep I have to continue sleeping as much as my body needs to. If I wake up myself by force (alarm) , I feel tired and restless all day making the idea of waking up early pointless in the first place.
On work nights I typically get 3ish hours of sleep. I sometimes take a 2 hour nap after work. On weekends I will sleep 7-9 hours. I have always run on low amounts of sleep. I can also sit on a computer all day and feel no ill or dizzying effects.
I would like to get approximately 8 hours of sleep in a given night. Being that I have a habit of working 16 hour shifts, this isn't always possible. If I get less than about 5-5.5 hours, I'm damn near worthless. Even at the 5.5 or so that I get when I leave work at 0800 and need to be back at 1600, I'm pretty dead. But as long as I GET my sleep, it doesn't particularly matter WHEN I get it. Sometimes I sleep from 0830 till 1700 and I'm fine, sometimes I sleep from 1300 to 2100 and I'm fine, sometimes I sleep 0830 till 1300 and then 1830 till 2230 and I'm fine. I just need to GET it.
Heck, on my friday I'll typically wake up around 2200, go to work 0000-0800, then stay up until about 2200 or so before going to sleep again and holding "Normal people" sleep times on my weekends. That's how I end up with the weird split-sleeping on my Sunday to reset back to my weird schedule.
I am not a doctor but I think sleeping less than you wish could cause serious health issues on the long run. I doubt that after 5-10 years of sleeping 4-5 hours daily, forcing yourself to wake up, will not take a toll on your body. I read somewhere sleep is the time where the body kind of perform maintenance on itself , so if that maintenance does not take its full cycle, maybe the body will break down!?
