Are you getting enough?

[feral chile]

Sleep, that is?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201308/chasing-slumber?utm_source=FacebookPost&utm_medium=FBPost&utm_campaign=FBPost

For over a decade, insufficient sleep has been well established as a health-risk factor: A seminal 2002 study revealed a strong relationship between an individual's reported sleep and mortality. "People who slept less than seven hours a nightor more than ninewere at increased risk for all-cause mortality," says University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist Martica Hall. Other studies revealed a similar curvilinear relationship between sleep duration and conditions such as cardiovascular disease and obesity, although it remains relatively unclear just how disturbed sleep affects our health.

[russycarps]

I get about 6 hours usually, but wish I could get 8.

I hate going to bed though, I feel like sleeping is dead time. We only have short lives, I dont want to spend too much of it in a state of unconsciousness.

[feral chile]

I get about 6 hours usually, but wish I could get 8.

I hate going to bed though, I feel like sleeping is dead time. We only have short lives, I dont want to spend too much of it in a state of unconsciousness.

I'm the same, I'd get about 6 hours in theory, if I slept from the time I went t bed and the time I have to get up.

And for precisely the same reasons.

[russycarps]

I'm the same, I'd get about 6 hours in theory, if I slept from the time I went t bed and the time I have to get up.

And for precisely the same reasons.

we'll probably die a few years earlier than if we had 8 hours though if these reports are to be believed, thus negating all our saved time!

but then again I'd rather have a few extra hours while I am still relatively young and active, than a couple of extra years when I'm bed ridden and pissing in a bag...

[feral chile]

we'll probably die a few years earlier than if we had 8 hours though if these reports are to be believed, thus negating all our saved time!

but then again I'd rather have a few extra hours while I am still relatively young and active, than a couple of extra years when I'm bed ridden and pissing in a bag...

Quite.

I think I've already done irreparable damage to my brain, anyway. When I was a teenager, I used to stay out all night, and then go to work, thinking I could catch up on the weekend. I spent 3 weeks once in a kind of fugue, where I felt I wasn't quite conscious. It must have been similar to mild concussion.

I did the same as an adult, and got really ill.

Your brain has to sleep, it'll go offline if you persist in depriving yourself of rest.

[fred quimby]

In answer to your question. Yes I think I am

[atomised]

Quite.

I think I've already done irreparable damage to my brain, anyway. When I was a teenager, I used to stay out all night, and then go to work, thinking I could catch up on the weekend. I spent 3 weeks once in a kind of fugue, where I felt I wasn't quite conscious. It must have been similar to mild concussion.

I did the same as an adult, and got really ill.

Your brain has to sleep, it'll go offline if you persist in depriving yourself of rest.

Same kind of stories for me and I view sleep in much the same way. I've always been a 6 hours maximum sleeper. Just can't sleep longer. My daughter on the other hand could easily manage 14 hours a day of sleep given the chance

[feral chile]

tips on things to avoid if you want a good night's sleep

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/benjamin-spall/10-reasons-you-wont-sleep-tonight_b_6656714.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

[lost]

Following the efests theme of trying to Thatcher mentioned in every thread, its what happened to her that really bothers me the connection between not sleeping enough and Alzheimer's. I think I could cope with most of things but not loosing my marbles.

Anyway I nearly always get between 8 and 9 hours, if I've been out on a weekend I'll normally have a couple of hours in the afternoon as I believe the sleep you get after drinking isn't as much use. From what i've read your body can't enter stage 2 of sleep until your liver has processed all the alcohol.

[feral chile]

Following the efests theme of trying to Thatcher mentioned in every thread, its what happened to her that really bothers me the connection between not sleeping enough and Alzheimer's. I think I could cope with most of things but not loosing my marbles.

Anyway I nearly always get between 8 and 9 hours, if I've been out on a weekend I'll normally have a couple of hours in the afternoon as I believe the sleep you get after drinking isn't as much use. From what i've read your body can't enter stage 2 of sleep until your liver has processed all the alcohol.

yes, I can't remember why alcohol impairs sleep, but I remember reading that too.

[bunique]

In a world pre-children I could happily sleep on and off all day. I love sleep! My husband marvels at my ability to crash out, but I think it's something that runs through my dad's side of the family.

[LondonTom]

Nah, not really in the week but I seem to be like most on and do 5 and half to 6 hours a night. I do mean to be better, but by the time I've got in from work, had a bath and ate. If I went to bed on time, I'd feel like i've not really done anything with my day you know?/chilled out with what I want to do.

Normally end up "catching up" at weekends which just leads me to thinking I've wasted my day and staying up rediculously late to compensate.

Think its a hang over from uni, where I was very much one of those night owl types

1) We'll Hit the Snooze Button
Hitting the snooze button when we wake up tomorrow morning won't affect our sleep tonight, but it may disturb our wakeup phase enough to make a good night's sleep make us feel groggy upon waking.

Our body naturally prepares itself for the day ahead an hour before it expects us to wake up. Our sleep becomes lighter as cortisol and dopamine release and our body temperature rises. If we snooze our alarm the moment it wakes us we may fall back into deep sleep, making waking on our alarm's second, third, or fourth attempt even more painful.

Instead, we should set our alarm for the minute we need to get up, no earlier. And then we need to stick to it.

I am pretty bad for that actually and been getting worse! (And I know damn well that extra 15 minutes/half hour is shit sleep and just makes me late.)

[kaosmark2]

I'd like more, but I don't feel my lack of sleep is to damaging atm

[feral chile]

I thought I was being sensible enough, till I read that.

If I have a sleepness night, I worry about it, try to go into work later etc.

But I didn't realise I was still in enough deficit to cause problems.

problem is, lying awake worrying about insomnia is rather self defeating!

[gary1979666]

Insomnia's one of those problems where if you sleep on it, the next morning, it's not as bad as you first thought!

[krisskross]

Its rare that i get less than 7 hours. I just dont wake up if i havent.. Its so much harder to fall asleep if I've not done anything in the day though. My body needs some exercise to trip the sleep switch.

[kaosmark2]

I thought I was being sensible enough, till I read that.

If I have a sleepness night, I worry about it, try to go into work later etc.

But I didn't realise I was still in enough deficit to cause problems.

problem is, lying awake worrying about insomnia is rather self defeating!

I've known for years about what too little sleep can cause, sadly a lot of it first hand. I'm vastly improved now though, and when I have a bad night, I 'm better at not worryimg about it the next.

[whisty]

Try doing shift work and getting a regular pattern of hours slept. Knocks seven years off apparently!

[feral chile]

Try doing shift work and getting a regular pattern of hours slept. Knocks seven years off apparently!

I can imagine.

it's frustrating that we know this, and yet still expect people to do it.

[Katster]

Yes. Even with a four month old teething baby I get 6-8 hours a night and that's enough for me!

[feral chile]

I think what it is with me is that I work a compressed week, but I still don't want to compromise by just working and sleeping (pretty much) for 4 days a week.

Though I only have to get stressed, excited, have an interesting problem to work out, and that's me awake thinking all night.

[feral chile]

My husband used to work nights, I was always worried about him, he could never sleep, he used to have to get up to take our son back and forth school, and he just couldn't get to sleep in the daytime.

I'm not sure if it's just sleep deprivation that's bad, though, or the working at night itself.

Edited February 21, 2015 by feral chile

[midnight]

I'm obviously not not getting enough, and I largely blame these boards!

But seriously, I sometimes worked a day shift, followed by a meal and a shower, followed by a night shift, followed by a meal and shower, followed by a day shift..... the night was usually ok, but day after was always spooky. Different jobs, of course. I packed it in because I was too worried about being found out and getting the sack.

The guy I used to work these night shifts with had been working nights for years and kept on doing it until he suddenly died from a heart attack - in his late 40s. He was a heavy smoker too, but I often wondered whether the night shifts were a contributing factor.

[Spindles]

I've been working permanent nights the last 16 months. I'm pretty much obsessed with sleep these days. I work in batches of either 2 or 3 nights, so I sleep all day between shifts and barely sleep on days off.

People where I work were previously doing a night shift, leaving for 4 hours, coming back and doing a day shift, leaving for 4 hours and then back for another night shift twice a week. Thankfully a management change has meant that people aren't allowed to do stuff outside of working time regs now (apart from reasonable things like working more hours than the recommended maximum), Everyone I've seen do this sort of thing has basically crashed after a while and counteracted the money they made with time off sick.

[bunique]

Ouch Barry, don't say that, I'm deluding myself that it'll be better second time around!