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This experiment is ridiculous. Of course you're going to be tired if someone jolts you awake every hour on the hour. What would be way more interesting is to
by sixQuarks 11y ago
This experiment is ridiculous. Of course you're going to be tired if someone jolts you awake every hour on the hour.
What would be way more interesting is to study people who wake up naturally multiple times per night to toss and turn. I do this at least 5-10 times per night due to muscle aches and pains. I fall back asleep very quickly. I've been doing this for years, but do remember rare times when I've slept through the night and felt so fresh in the morning.
- Majestic121 11y agoYou might want to check about why you have muscle aches and pains so bad that it wakes you up multiple times a night. That is definitely not "waking up naturally"
- sixQuarks 11y agoI know, I'm working on range of motion and flexibility exercises right now. It's gotten to the point where it effects my day-to-day, so now I'm focusing on it.
- wpietri 11y agoYeah, I agree. In the winter, I'm more inclined to go to bed early, be up for a bit in the middle of the night, and then sleep until dawn. So my sleep isn't continuous, but neither is it disrupted externally. I suspect the original experiment was reasonable if you're looking to measure the effects of extreme disruption. But the WSJ article suggesting it applies to other sorts of non-continuous sleep strikes me as bunk. Up until the invention of the electric light, non-continuous sleep was the norm. But anxiety sells papers, and people are certainly inclined to be anxious about sleep lately.