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That's a good question. My social life is mostly daily (e.g. rock climbing etc). I don't drink alcohol, I don't go to bars/nightclubs. But sometimes I have to

That's a good question. My social life is mostly daily (e.g. rock climbing etc). I don't drink alcohol, I don't go to bars/nightclubs. But sometimes I have to brake my sleep schedule. For example, two weeks ago I had to fly to another country for a job interview. Unfortunately, I had no better flights, so I had to go to the airport at late evening. I finally got home (from airport) at 3 am. I felt very tired during next 4 days. My sleep schedule was: Day 1: 3:30 am - 8:30 am Day 2,3,4: 21:30 - 06:00 (applied sleep restriction!) If I didn't apply sleep restriction in the following days I would mess up my sleep at lest next two weeks. In my case, one night with broken sleep schedule costs me 4 days. I think it's possible to brake your sleep schedule once in 3 weeks but if you do it frequently it would be bad for your sleep hygiene. So frequent alcohol and night-life is not compatible with healthy life style (at least for me, it's 100% truth). So it's probably question of priorities.

aluhut 11y ago
This sounds to me like a huge disadvantage. I have what I thought of a terrible sleep hygiene too but after several years of watching collegues adapting "new ways to sleep", I realized it's not that bad at all. So me (and my girlfriend) usually stay up long. Midnight to 1am is normal for a weekday. 1-2am is the time when we say: we should have been in bed already but it happens more often then I thought. We get up at 7:30 on 3 of 5 days and 6:30 on the others. Obviously this shouldn't be enough sleep and it isn't. We both get tired sometimes somewhere around 6-7pm where we sometimes take a nap (usually on the 6:30-days) of max 1h. Sometimes we break it up early. On Friday we stay up as long as we can and sleep as long as we can and want on Saturday. Same goes for Sunday where we stay up to ~2am until the late NFL game is finished. It works pretty good I must say. I don't drink coffee or take any pills, energy drinks, whatever. I can sleep pretty good on the train or plane for some bonus hours and fall asleep instantly when I get into bed. I can even go to sleep early or sleep through a whole day if I'm sick and I think there is nothing better to do (but being sick is very rare for me. I was sick one day some weeks ago. Slept through it almost completely. Got up just to eat and pee). I would never want to miss the flexibility even if it's unhealthy or whatever.
- olau 11y ago
  If you fall asleep almost immediately after going to bed, it's a sign that you need to sleep more. According to a lecture by a professor in sleep I watched many years ago when Google Video was still alive.
- spuz 11y ago
  Some people obviously need better sleep hygiene than others. It's not a question of social life vs health. Both those things are factors that affect quality of life in general. If your body simply couldn't cope with poor sleep you would change your opinion on the relative importance of your sleep vs your waking life.
Namrog84 11y ago
I normally never do this. But since your grammar, punctuation, and spelling was quite good and you used the word "brake" in more than 1 post. I think you should be using the word break instead for these use cases. My apologies for being that person today. Otherwise great responses! Thanks!

aluhut 11y ago

This sounds to me like a huge disadvantage. I have what I thought of a terrible sleep hygiene too but after several years of watching collegues adapting "new ways to sleep", I realized it's not that bad at all. So me (and my girlfriend) usually stay up long. Midnight to 1am is normal for a weekday. 1-2am is the time when we say: we should have been in bed already but it happens more often then I thought. We get up at 7:30 on 3 of 5 days and 6:30 on the others. Obviously this shouldn't be enough sleep and it isn't. We both get tired sometimes somewhere around 6-7pm where we sometimes take a nap (usually on the 6:30-days) of max 1h. Sometimes we break it up early. On Friday we stay up as long as we can and sleep as long as we can and want on Saturday. Same goes for Sunday where we stay up to ~2am until the late NFL game is finished. It works pretty good I must say. I don't drink coffee or take any pills, energy drinks, whatever. I can sleep pretty good on the train or plane for some bonus hours and fall asleep instantly when I get into bed. I can even go to sleep early or sleep through a whole day if I'm sick and I think there is nothing better to do (but being sick is very rare for me. I was sick one day some weeks ago. Slept through it almost completely. Got up just to eat and pee). I would never want to miss the flexibility even if it's unhealthy or whatever.

olau 11y ago
If you fall asleep almost immediately after going to bed, it's a sign that you need to sleep more. According to a lecture by a professor in sleep I watched many years ago when Google Video was still alive.
spuz 11y ago
Some people obviously need better sleep hygiene than others. It's not a question of social life vs health. Both those things are factors that affect quality of life in general. If your body simply couldn't cope with poor sleep you would change your opinion on the relative importance of your sleep vs your waking life.

Namrog84 11y ago

I normally never do this. But since your grammar, punctuation, and spelling was quite good and you used the word "brake" in more than 1 post. I think you should be using the word break instead for these use cases. My apologies for being that person today. Otherwise great responses! Thanks!