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I consider myself one of those short-sleepers. Ever since I was a kid I averaged 5-6h of sleep a day. While the differences perceived (which can always be misl
by ziglef 9y ago
I consider myself one of those short-sleepers. Ever since I was a kid I averaged 5-6h of sleep a day.
While the differences perceived (which can always be misleading) from sleeping 6 or 8 hours weren't noticeable, if I slept 4-5 for a week my short term memory would suffer, reflexes and split second decision making (think fast passed multiplayer shooters) would also suffer.
But what I noticed was that although the split second decision process would come back after a good night sleep, short memory would take me a whole 3-4 days to come back at its finest.
Obviously this is all what I observed and not to be taken seriously, because as we know observing and understanding oneself is one of the hardest tasks out there.
Just my 2c
- chippy 9y agoInteresting 2c about observations - because according the article, people who have less sleep may perform worse objectively, but to themselves they report no noticeable difference.
- chatmasta 9y agoShort term memory variation is very obvious to me when coding. And as the GP mentioned, reflex variation can be obvious when playing FPS games.
- chippy 9y agoI wonder what tasks the subjects were given in the studies. slightly related - I seem to remember a study on the performance of hungover people. Hungover people self-reported that they performed worse, but objectively there was no negative change! (edits...or thinking about it some more, maybe the thing was that they had Common Colds)