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I am almost exactly typical in hours of sleep and mix of sleep type to the aggregate. What's hidden is all the volatility in my sleep... In my last week, there
by OrwellianChild 9y ago
I am almost exactly typical in hours of sleep and mix of sleep type to the aggregate. What's hidden is all the volatility in my sleep... In my last week, there is a range from 5.5 to 8.3 hours of sleep in a given night. The longest sleep nights don't necessarily follow the short sleep nights either, so it doesn't appear to be catch-up sleep. Weird body is weird.
Other interesting notes:
1. Women need an extra half hour?
2. People sleep less as they age?
3. "Generation Z" is what we're calling kids these days?
- pcunite 9y ago2. People sleep less as they age? In my experience a lot of older people seem to say this. Note sure why it's true.
- swift 9y agoIn the case of my own family members, this seems to stem from physical maladies that are correlated with age - back injuries, for example, or weight increases aggravating sleep apnea. I'm not sure how things look for old people who are extremely healthy, though.
- Someone 9y agohttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0031938487903210 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/00319384879...: "The mean sleep duration (from PAM) equaled 7.29±0.8 (S.D.) hr compared to 7.84±0.62 hr as estimated from the daily diaries. Neither parameter was correlated significantly with age (p>0.05)" (N=43, 9 days, age range 21-83)
- ProAm 9y ago> In my experience a lot of older people seem to say this. Note sure why it's true. Because after age 30 your body, more or less, starts to die. There is a lot of discomfort and pain that is usually associated with this and as a result affects the quality and duration of sleep.
- monksy 9y ago> Women need an extra half hour? Could be differences in daily stress and work life that interferes with sleep and the ability to fall asleep.
- carlob 9y agoI think on average in western countries women actually work more much more than men when you consider house chores and childcare as work.