So I have a theory that I was holding myself back, by telling myself that I needed 6-8 hours of sleep a night.
Figuring that I would have to maximize every hour in the day to cover my bills, and then also explore my passions in the community. However feeling obligated to sleep a certain number of hours in the night was getting in the way, I started training myself to meditate periodically through the day to recharge my battery, with just an hour or maybe three of sleep, a night I found increased energy. I know it could be a short-term placebo effect. I would love to hear the thoughts a you people
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My wife is a doctor. She gets by with as little as 3-4 hours a night and seems irritatingly chipper. I don't fare so well. I go to bed with her at midnight, get up at 3 or 4 and by late afternoon, I need a nap.
As for naps, I think they are under-appreciated. Haha.
Rockhound7657
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Mar 26, 2019
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You’re charting into dangerous waters by not getting enough sleep. It’ll impact your higher level brain functions first, then the lower ones later. I spent years getting 4 hours a night, but that’s supposedly about the lowest you can go without doing serious damage. That also being said, I have gone well over 96 hours without sleep before, so I’m being a little hypocritical here.
StrykerWolfe
Level 5
Mar 18, 2019
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One example of this is Vince McMahon, I'm not sure he's slept since the 80's
Rus-T-Balls
Level 7
Mar 9, 2019
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Whatever works for you, my dear. Personally, I go to bed at ~8:30 pm and get up around 5:30 am or earlier. That's nine hours. Just right!
Bumpkin111
Level 5
Mar 9, 2019
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Meditation can help, long term sleep deprivation will back fire. If you have any mental health issues in your family I would be cairful about a very sporadic sleep schedule as it can very much aggravate or bring up some problems.
That being said, biologically your body can function on high capacity when sleep and food deprivation kick in. The problem is that it comes on slow and looks good, like a drug with no come down. But the deeper you get into feeling good about it the more it starts to wear away at you.
I wouldn't call it a placebo, more like your body burning energy more efficiently because it has to. If you take good care of your diet and water intake you are pretty safe playing around with your sleep schedule as long as your cairful and listen to your body from day to day, rather than deciding to stick to a certain amount of hours.
Look up some different theories on what you can play with. Some people take small naps through out the day. And when you take too long depriving yourself of sleep you may need to catch up on it if your body gets too exhausted.
I know there has been some debate over the legitimacy of some of this information, I go off personal experience more than information I've found since it seems so hard to get a strait answer.
Oxfret
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Mar 9, 2019
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One thing I noticed I was forcing myself to go to sleep and now I started to go to sleep when I'm tired instead I don't consume a lot of caffeine, I've just read a lot of books by a lot of people I respect and they don't sleep a lot
@Rus-T-Balls nothing wrong with sleeping when your tired. You body has an idea of how much sleep it needs but your mind can trick you into thinking you need less and avoiding it because you don't feel tired. Eventually if you go down that path for long enough you can fall into insomnia and it might be hard to retrain your body to respond to getting tired.
Best advice I found when researching several years back was to pick the time you want to wake up, make sure you get your body used to that time and let yourself get tired to figure out how much sleep you do need. Different people need different amounts.
To avoid loosing sleep if you for instance keep yourself up late at night working on projects or playing video games can be dangerous because these things shift your perspective of time and give you reserves of energy to spend that could back fire if done too often.
Meditation would be a great way to check in and decide if your body might be tired on a night where you feel like staying up late. This way you can make adjustments on a day to day basis and avoid burn out. To me that looks like getting yourself away from screens and lights and giving your body a chance to respond with sleep before you decide to keep going.
A lot of high functioning people do have chaotic sleep, it can be very beneficial for creativity for sure. But try to keep a reasonable balance in your life, as it does come at a cost.
I often get by on five hours of sleep, and I meditate as well, so I understand where you're coming from on that.
SpikeTalon
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Mar 9, 2019
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