Sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by reduced or absent consciousness, relatively suspended sensory activity, and inactivity of nearly all voluntary muscles. It is distinguished from wakefulness by a decreased ability to react to stimuli, and is more easily reversible than being in hibernation or a coma. Sleep is a heightened anabolic state, accentuating the growth and rejuvenation of the immune, nervous, skeletal and muscular systems. It is observed in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, and in some form also in insects and even simpler animals such as nematodes (see the related article Sleep (non-human)). The purposes and mechanisms of sleep are only partially clear and the subject of substantial ongoing research. Sleep is sometimes thought to help conserve energy, though this theory is not fully adequate as it only decreases metabolism by about 5–10%. Additionally it is observed that mammals require sleep even during the hypometabolic state of hibernatio.. …
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Saved!I'm averaging 7h 46m sleep per night, and I'm getting about 2h each of deep sleep and REM sleep.
Apparently my sleep is better than 82% of people. I don't know what you need to do to get 100% perfect sleep, I'm surely getting enough? My app does keep moaning that I get up too early but if I start work at 5am I have to get up early, I think this is why I don't have a better score.-
Saved!SudertumEditing … Around 5h 45m per night should be mine
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … "Around 5h 45m per night should be mine" that sounds rough. D-:
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … I think the app might be right about getting up too early. Your body has a preferred absolute time it likes to be asleep, just because it's not convenient for you and your boss, does not change biology. Still sounds fine compared to lots of people. I have no Idea how I sleep. It's usually around 8 hours unless I stay up late, then I get less because I still wake up at the same time regardless. I should stop doing that. I'm not good at staying up late.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … If I don't set an alarm I'll sleep for ten hours, but then I won't be able to sleep until I'm up for like eighteen hours.
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Saved!Silent GamerEditing … I have between 4-6 on average. I am not a sensible man. Between 7-9 is apparently the goal, so I'd say you are doing pretty well.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … When I do set an alarm, I have to set like a dozen alarms, because I'll sleep straight through them. I have my phone set to go off every fifteen minutes over the course of three hours (and each time I snooze an alarm, it goes off ten minutes later, so I have alarms stacking up and telling me to wake up). If I sleep through an alarm entirely, it just stops going off, so I need all the backup alarms. My volume buttons are also disabled whenever an alarm goes off.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Husky, you sound like teen me. No way would I just wake up after one alarm. Does anybody have a wake-up light? I love those things. They don't shock you awake but gradually increase the brightness in the room so you naturally wake up without feeling groggy. It works great for me. Not sure how to would work for teen me though. I'd probably just block out the light with my cushion so I could sleep more.
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Saved!SudertumEditing … Do not need to set an alarm in the morning, make up around 6 am by default, even weekends barely a difference.
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Saved!Husky WingEditing … I don't think I ever stopped being a teenager. Light just doesn't even impede my sleep.
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Saved!Silent GamerEditing … Nothing impedes my sleep. I can sleep through pretty much anything. It'll probably be the end of me one day, but at least I will go in my sleep.
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Saved!Husky can't sleep. What a cliche. Such a tired trope.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … I know full well I woke up because I drank beer in the restaurant yesterday, it always happens. When the alcohol wears off in my system my blood pressure changes or something, I read about it somewhere, and it always wakes me up.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … People can measure that your brain does not sleep as well when you have alcohol. Even just one drink can fuck it up. coffee 8 hours before bed as well. I found that as long as I don't eat and drink just before bed and go to bed on time, sleep is easy. (who would have thunk?) I only have trouble sleeping when something shitty or stressful is going on in my life and I ruminate for hours, or if my shitty neighbor wakes me up.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … But yeah sleep is weird. A lot of people struggle with it and it sucks hard if you can't sleep but really need to.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Does anyone else "pas out" or fall asleep really quickly when they watch movies in the evening? If I start watching a movie past 20:30 hours, it's usually already too late for me and I don't get to see the ending. It's like I go into some sort of sleep hypnosis. I even have it when I game in the evening. I'll still be "trying" to move the character on screen but my eyes are already closed. If you would ask me if I was asleep I would say no but in reality I don't know if there is not much of a difference between sleep and that state of mind. Just give it 10 more minutes and I'll be fast asleep.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … I don't know exactly but I think I get about 8 hours of sleep. I go to bed at 10 or 11 ish and wake up at 6 or 7 ish. Maybe it does make sense that I would fall asleep past my bedtime since I'm used to getting 8 hours.
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Saved!Iz climbed in our bed again and kicked me all night in the 3cm of space she left me. Maybe I should build a big cot, with a roof above the bars like a full on cage. But then she couldn't go to toilet. Maybe I'll leave a bucket in her cage.
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Saved!I got 12 hours in last night. The mrs and Iz stayed at the inlaws so I got an empty bed and no distractions. I can see why people like living alone.
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Saved!Damn I need to sleep, but I don't want to go too early.
Last 2 days I've been given early starts. Thursday was an 0345. I wasn't tired after 2 days of doing nothing and couldn't sleep until about midnight. No bother, I'm used to it, I can manage for a day easy. But then I got a 0145 start the next day, I had to be in Wrexham, Wales for 0600. But I can't sleep properly when I know I have to be up really early, I keep waking up to check the time. So after about 5 hours sleep over 2 nights I'm hanging on. If I go now I'll be out like a light but be awake after 8 hours or less at 2-3am which sucks like OoT.
Somebody needs to invent a sleeping pill where you decide your go to sleep and wake up times. I'm usually better than most at sleeping, but when I get an 0145 it's like my brain just won't let me be late no matter what and refuses to shut down.-
Saved!Husky WingEditing … I have a rule that I can't turn off my alarm until I'm sitting up, but while I'm half-dreaming I keep coming up with weird reasons for why I don't need to wake up. Like when I was reading Skippy Dies, multiple times I woke up and thought "Skippy's dead, nothing matters anymore" and turned it off to go back to sleep. One time I thought it was a "snooze 1 hour" button.
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Saved!We argue all day about meat vs vegetables, but I don't think I've ever heard sleep mentioned in a health debate yet.
From my own personal experience sleep is much more important, at least in the short term, for happiness. If I sleep bad I start getting sleep paralysis which keeps me up all night again and it's like a snowball effect, it just goes downhill all the way until you hit the bottom. And when you're tired you don't eat properly either.
Long term diet is important too, but sleep quality needs to be spoken about more. I can't usually get 8 hours my body wakes naturally before that, 6 to 7 hours is enough for me. But any less and I'm a different person, just like I am when I'm hangry and not eaten.-
Saved!KlemoibEditing … I thought it was pretty self-evident that sleep is good and no sleep is bad from the fact that you feel shit if you miss an hour and you die if you stay awake for 5 days or so. I always hear people say they sleep badly and they can't figure out that blasting your eyes by watching screens at night fuckes up their sleep hormones. It’s simple. We live in an unnatural environment but our bodies have been sculpted by the natural world. If you want to care for your body you need to be aware of your body’s natural habitat…. Which is not inside McDonald’s at 2 am. Best is to include the hours from 10 pm to 2 am in your sleep because if I remember correctly those hours are unique in some special hormone secretion for regeneration of the body. It’s built into your body’s rhythm. There is no fooling it. Your body can count time really good.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … I have a Philips sleep wake light. I turned the sound off so it wakes me up with light cues. I go to sleep with a simulated red sunset too. It’s nice it works pretty well and I don’t wake up in shock either which is really nice. I think everyone should have this wakeup light. It’s inhuman to be shocked awake.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … In the morning and evening there are more red wavelengths in the light of the sun. That is very important for your body. Not only for your sleep cues but scientists are now finding out yet again that they still known very little about the body. Near infra-red light and red light turn out to be very beneficial to your health. Red and near infrared penetrate deeper in the skin and activate certain pathways in the cells. They tell the cells to produce massive amounts of melatonin locally in the cell. We never knew this, we thought the pineal gland only did this but the pineal gland is only produces 5 % in comparison with what your cells produce. It has a very strong antioxidant effect and protects you from cell damage (and so also cancer probably). If you don’t get a lot of red light waves, you don’t get that benefit (or basic human function if you look at it from an evolutionary point of view). Red light exposure also protects from sunburn. So many good things. Our new led lights are very energy efficient but they have very little red and rear infra-red light whereas old lights still had that. So if you are a troglodyte that does not get a lot of sunlight morning and evening walks can be very good for you. Those red wavelengths should pass through your clothes and bounce off of foliage so you can just go for walks in the woods and get benefits and you don’t even have to be naked.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … See, this is why nobody is healthy. If you do everything you need to do to be healthy you'll have no time or money left in your day. I just wanna eat nice food and get a good kip.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Wot? The sun is free and getting outside is not hard and it does not take that long. I know modern people have low standards but.... getting out of the house atleast once a day is acheivable by anyone that can fit through the door hole. If you have time to watch netflix you have time to go for a walk. or you could just watch netflix outside and get your sun that way. You can have both. Does not matter really at what time you get sun, but to improve your sleep, morning and evening walks are a great way to set your body clock. I love morning walks the best though. The birds make nice sounds then.
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Saved!NodleyEditing … What maniac goes for a morning walk? If I was unemployed I might consider it.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … Then what are all those dog owners doing every day 3 times a day? Are they not going for walks? Are they all maniacs? I always find it funny that people are willing to walk dogs but not themselves. That makes you worth less than a dog in a way. :-P It’s really nice to walk I think. It gets all the shit out of your head and wakes you up real good. No coffee needed (but defiantly optional). I don't always go for a morning walk. Only when I feel like it. There are weeks when I don't go at all, but I find that I feel better doing it than not doing it. I wish I had something to force me to go for walks other than a dog. I just really don't want a dog.
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Saved!KlemoibEditing … I can't picture you as a dog person either. I can picture you on a leash though. :-P But if you can't get the energy to go for a walk how did you manage work out then?
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Saved!Dammit, whenever my brother comes back to the States, I get no sleep. Not fair. He says I need to work out, but regardless of that, I'm still tired...
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Saved!Caught no sleep at all last night, I'm going to stay up for like 35 hours again
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Saved!...Fluid dynamics...zzz...
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Saved!Every minute I procrastinate bedtime makes me stronger
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