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I find 8 hours of sleep excessive. I'm always battling myself to sleep less than 6-7 hours every night but my body always manages to get better hold of me. Sl
by mattfrommars 8y ago
I find 8 hours of sleep excessive.
I'm always battling myself to sleep less than 6-7 hours every night but my body always manages to get better hold of me.
Sleeping more than eight hours gives me a headache and getting fewer than 6 hours sleep makes my entire day feel drowsy.
But I'll take feeling drowsy than a headache as it's been shown that working in sleep deprived state improves 'creativity'.
- shin_lao 8y agoHeadaches may come from poor sleep position or lack of caffeine. If you get your sleep in order, you should sleep the same amount every day and wake up without an alarm clock.
- gnulinux 8y agoSee this doesn't work me. Even when I sleep 7 to 8 hours every night with alarm, when I put off alarm (say, in long holidays) I naturally sleep 7 to 8 hours a few days then suddenly I sleep very long (>= 10 hours) which completely screws my Circadian rhythm since it makes me harder to fall asleep.
- BigJono 8y agoSame thing happens to me, if I have so much as a day or two without an alarm I just careen off into ridiculous sleeping patterns. I have to set alarms during the weekend just to keep on course. If I have a week or more off I start to run off 25 hour days with ~9-10 hours sleep a night, and turn completely nocturnal in a couple of weeks.
- gnulinux 8y agoSame, but I also need to note that I have a life-long insomnia that attacks every now and then which might be affecting this pattern.
- BigJono 8y agoInteresting. I've got the opposite problem. I can't even remember the last time I woke up in the middle of the night without an extremely loud alarm clock, and I feel like absolute death if I try and get up with less than 8-9 hours sleep.
- mantas 8y agoAre a pillow and a mattress fitting you well?