To sleep or not sleep, that is my question?
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March 17th, 2011
Everyone has their sleep patterns, sleep faux pas and perhaps even sleep disorders: from sleep apnea to simple restlessness and sleep-walking.
What’s yours?
From the many studies out there and the numerous conclusions by scientists of every persuasion and expertise in these fields: we need sleep. Specifically, we need a good shluf – at night preferably – with REM.
We should dream, even for but a minute or two, and we should wake up refreshed, either remembering it or not, but if we did – it might seem like we’d dreamt all night long.
(Sorry, I couldn’t help myself: phonies (jellies on the phone) and those who are wary of links – it’s just a youtube to Lionel’s Ritchie’s now classic tune: ALL NIGHT LONG – plus a dangerous virus and worm for your computer – hahahahaha – your computer is now my aquarium and I can see you!)
However and notwithstanding this, perhaps they are just wrong. Perhaps there are some people that require only 3–4 hours of sleep.
The question is: is it possible that someone might require fewer hours of sleep, yet still function well during the following day/week/year? Will there be long term damage, i.e., will he wake up one day only to discover he is irreparably damaged, f@cked up beyond repair, and in need of a god nap – but – it’s now too late?
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I only get about 5 hours of sleep a night. But I’m sleepy all day. I can’t sleep during the night without waking up several times.
“god nap”? I could use a “god nap”.
Sorry, dear, having a glass of wine that I hope will help me sleep. I don’t do that very well. I have known people who do very well with 5 hours a night, but they sleep sooo soundly during that time that they’re almost comatose. I’m a very light sleeper, lucky if I get 7 broken hours, and I’m goony from sleep deprivation most of the time. I like to think it adds to my charm. ;-)
What are you doing up now, Zennie, isn’t it 3 AM where you are?
@JilltheTooth You are charming no matter if you are sleep deprived or not.
Aww, lurvin’ you, Sweetie!
I have an awful sleep pattern, right now. I have a bottle of Ambien in the medicine cabinet, but I prefer not to sleep eat or sleep cook. If I’m going to eat, I’m going to enjoy the food!
With me, I have to just ride out the odd pattern, it seems to correct itself within a week or so. I know this one was set off by a few issues in the house, my husband’s odd schedule and my son’s injury. (now he’s in the orange cast!)
If I’m just dragging during the day, I do take a quick nap. I can. I’m self-employed. I’m lucky. I do try to limit them to no more than 20 minutes.
Doesn’t Martha Stewart only get something like 4 hours of sleep? She scares me, though. If you start turning into Martha, please, I’ll send you the Ambien.
I sleep long hours. 9 or 10 per night. It’s just the way I’m built. One of my sisters is the same way.
By the way, I clicked the link and rerouted it so now I see you…and…what I’m seeing is scaring me. You really are on the Enterprise! I can see Jordy, and there’s Number One. It’s incredible.
Yes, I Freudian’d god-nap.
Yes, it was three a.m. when I wrote this.
But then, that’s the point of the q.
Thanks…
Right now, no matter how much sleep I get, I am not refreshed. My oxygen level fluctuates between 98 and 100 percent. My mind seems to go non-stop.
I suspect that my body doesn’t know what circadian rhythm means any longer.
I’ve read about those who sleep four hours, wake four and repeat. That would seem to be a difficult pattern to stay with in today’s world.
I can be a bit of an insomniac… and I hate it. It usually happens when I have something big coming up the next day and my brain goes into overdrive and I know I am going to be tired the next day. Not much I can do about it though. I usually get up, watch TV, read a book and try to shut my brain down.
Whether it is nobler to grab all the sheets or suffer the slaps & kicks of an outraged wife :¬(
I only sleep 5–6 hours a night (sometimes 7), but for the longest time I was not dreaming. I always used to dream, but then it became very rare, and I was concerned because I know that REM/dreaming is one sign of getting a good night’s sleep. I gave up soda for Lent (Diet Pepsi, being my most common beverage), and now I notice that I have started dreaming more again, although it took almost 7 weeks to get back into the rhythm…
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