too little sleep

I'm getting 5-6 hours' sleep a night (work, travel, dissertation) and it's killing me day by day. I need 8 (EIGHT), or maybe I'm just brainwashed by others telling me I need eight. I damn well seem to.

you need 7-8

i haven't gotten 7-8 in a few weeks (yep, work, thesis, freelance, etc) and it is freakin WRONG
going to get 8 tonight though yes

it is really bad for health and longevity apparently, generally (tho everyone is different) to not get enough sleep all the time

So is too much sleep apparently. People who sleep an average of 9 (or more) will live shorter than people who sleep 7/8 hrs. Seven is actually perfect according to research.

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/science/index.html

Or, you could follow my boss's motto: Warriors don't worry about sleep.

What about underpaid law clerks, asshole?

warriors also go to war to die!

also interesting:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/episodes/2007/05/25

^ these guys have crazy car talk laughs btw

Eight is v. nec., but I do not care if I have a shorter life (lifespan and time awake) if 8+ hours means such. Oh 10 hours of sleep is a wonderful pleasure. O 10!

i'm pretty happy that 7 has become the new norm as proven by science
but i think i'm going to aim for 7.5 just in case

7.5 is golden

7.5 hrs = 5 complete REM/NREM cycles - they are generally 90 minutes each for most people.

thing i have learned from that radio show:

- most animals sleep with half a brain still on (srsly, one eye open). but we do not.
issue of "predation risk"
but some people who have trouble with sleeping have trouble bc parts of their brain that should be off during sleep stay on! and then freaky stuff happens, e.g., "parasomnia", y'know, when people wake up and they are in the middle of a street blocks from home

"sleep is the annihilation of consciousness"

I wonder if anyone's ever posted on ILX in their sleep?

I wonder how my poor goldfish sleep.

you should put them in a little bed with a little pillow and see what happens

I had a dream the other night that I took them out of their tank and sealed them in an envelope, and woke up gasping with guilt. Fortunately they were still in their tank.

I seem to be having my best days on 4 hours lately
anything less and I wind up sleeping more (bad)
anything more and I'm completely sluggish and depressed all day (worse)

i think you should change your sleeping habits and you will be happier

ok tony little

yeah but I'm at a point where trying to go to bed at a reasonable time before my mind and eyelids are both strongly suggesting that waking hours be discontinued is a one-way ticket to a dark, introspective sheet-strangling hell all its own

http://www.homeellipticalmachines.com/images/products/tony_little_gazelle_freestyle_1.jpg the jumbo micropedic pillow is one-way ticket to a light airy sleep heaven, baby

^^^raggett head photoshop plz

unnecessary

Washington Post on sleep but also on Daylight Savings and artificial vs. natural clocks and etc. A catch-all general article but some points of interest.

trying to go to bed at a reasonable time before my mind and eyelids are both strongly suggesting that waking hours be discontinued is a one-way ticket to a dark, introspective sheet-strangling hell all its own

VERY HIGH TRUENESS QUOTIENT

the clocks change twice a year for no reason other than to annoy me.

holy shit i own that thing xxxxxp

I've been hitting snooze for AN HOUR lately, b/c I think I'm going to bed too late and I need the extra "sleep". Except trying to go back to sleep and "snooze" actually makes me groggier, sleep cycle-wise. Just getting up with the first alarm makes me much clearer-headed, even if it's only 6 hours' sleep time. Lesson learned.

only nabisco could figure out how to stretch OTM into 24 letters

I know something is wrong with my life and/or my attitude towards it when I do the repeat snooze thing. It's either a) I'm not getting enough sleep, b) I'm getting sick, or c) work is kicking my ass and I don't want to go anymore.

ha, I have never not hit snooze at least twice, unless there's some serious business afoot like catching an early airplane.

(I oversnoozed this morning, and I was a little late. For reason A, mainly.)

a) and c) was me

also that my alarm/phone stops ringing too soon.

move your alarm out of arms reach, and you will wake up.

I'm going through a period where I'm ready for sleep at 10pm (and frequently waking between 3 and 5am), so this is a bad time for clock-shifting. I never oversleep, but it sucks.

What finally got me up was when the alarm went off for the third time, and "What a Fool Believes" was on the radio. And I was like, "Ok, this day can't be all bad."

guy at work always falls asreep at his desk. i catch him doing it all the time. i wish i could do this

For some reason I read that as "What a Girl Wants" which also kinda made sense.

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guy at work always falls asreep at his desk. i catch him doing it all the time. i wish i could do this

-- carne asada, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:52 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

~50yo guy next to me does this. i am glad i dont do this because it looks awful, in fact he wasn't given an annual raise and one of the main reasons was that he had been seen snoozing a few times.

funny part is when i catch him,he denies it.

Several nights of 2-4 hours' sleep in last two weeks + jetlag = wheeeeeeeeeee, I have no idea where or who I am

God shoot me:

1) Slept on my uncomfortable couch 3 nights straight
2) Woke up yesterday morning @ 8 AM (when I shd be at / on my way to work) and felt shitty (in a run-down fashion), so took a sick day
3) Retired to bed, slept until 3 PM
4) Been up ever since

dude, stfu. i haven't had a good night's rest for about seven fucking months now.

Newborn schmewborn :p

dude, stfu. i haven't had a good night's rest for about seven fucking months now.

And you won't for quite a bit longer. Ta!

My average sleep is bed at 2am, rise at 7:30am. Every day other than weekends in which I go to bed about 6:30am and get up at 1am.

That's not good is it?