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As someone who is getting 5 hours of sleep and travelling to work/working/travelling home every day at the moment (short staffed and busy period), I can guarant

As someone who is getting 5 hours of sleep and travelling to work/working/travelling home every day at the moment (short staffed and busy period), I can guarantee that it is not qualify time. Even if I had a day off, doing anything meaningful with that time would be impossible. Sleeping 5 hours a night for a few days is doable, but you're going to be a zombie while awake. Doing this permanetly? No idea how ops father did it, but I imagine I'll have a serious health problem before the weeks out at this rate (only half joking here, actually a little concerned).

Barrin92 9y ago
>Doing this permanently? No idea how ops father did it, but I imagine I'll have a serious health problem before the weeks out at this rate (only half joking here, actually a little concerned). I get about 5 to 6 hours per night as well on average and I'm feeling fine. I workout regularly and don't smoke and rarely drink, physically fine as well and don't feel tired. Your mileage may vary obviously but I think a lot of association of health risk with reduced sleep is probably attributable to unhealthy lifestyles overall (interestingly enough there's also higher associated mortality with excess sleeping)
- marak830 9y ago
  Interesting. Howany hours are you working per day? I'm doing 12+ so that's probably adding to the exhaustion factor a lot. Might be interesting to try this without working insane hours haha.
  - Barrin92 9y ago
    Yes, definitely less than 12 on average. Probably eight or nine. I think that'd burn me out as well.
  - meddlepal 9y ago
    I sleep terrible during the work week but get good rest on the weekends. Usually only 4-5 hours during the week and work ~10 hours / day. I don't usually feel like a Zombie. Weekends I get anywhere from 8 to 12+ hours of sleep.
- brandonmenc 9y ago
  > I think a lot of association of health risk with reduced sleep is probably attributable to unhealthy lifestyles overall Even the experts don't really know why, so you're just guessing, and taking a huge risk. However, the evidence seems to be pointing to physiological damage directly caused by the lack of sleep, and that 7-8 hours is ideal for nearly everyone. Again, ymmv and my account is anecdotal, but my father was (and is, aside from the diabetes) an extremely healthy person, both in habit and on paper (cholesterol numbers, etc.) That's why his diabetes was such a mystery. It doesn't seem like you can out-health a lack of sleep any more than you can out-health radiation exposure. And like radiation, the effects may be cumulative.

Barrin92 9y ago

>Doing this permanently? No idea how ops father did it, but I imagine I'll have a serious health problem before the weeks out at this rate (only half joking here, actually a little concerned). I get about 5 to 6 hours per night as well on average and I'm feeling fine. I workout regularly and don't smoke and rarely drink, physically fine as well and don't feel tired. Your mileage may vary obviously but I think a lot of association of health risk with reduced sleep is probably attributable to unhealthy lifestyles overall (interestingly enough there's also higher associated mortality with excess sleeping)

marak830 9y ago
Interesting. Howany hours are you working per day? I'm doing 12+ so that's probably adding to the exhaustion factor a lot. Might be interesting to try this without working insane hours haha.
- Barrin92 9y ago
  Yes, definitely less than 12 on average. Probably eight or nine. I think that'd burn me out as well.
- meddlepal 9y ago
  I sleep terrible during the work week but get good rest on the weekends. Usually only 4-5 hours during the week and work ~10 hours / day. I don't usually feel like a Zombie. Weekends I get anywhere from 8 to 12+ hours of sleep.
brandonmenc 9y ago
> I think a lot of association of health risk with reduced sleep is probably attributable to unhealthy lifestyles overall Even the experts don't really know why, so you're just guessing, and taking a huge risk. However, the evidence seems to be pointing to physiological damage directly caused by the lack of sleep, and that 7-8 hours is ideal for nearly everyone. Again, ymmv and my account is anecdotal, but my father was (and is, aside from the diabetes) an extremely healthy person, both in habit and on paper (cholesterol numbers, etc.) That's why his diabetes was such a mystery. It doesn't seem like you can out-health a lack of sleep any more than you can out-health radiation exposure. And like radiation, the effects may be cumulative.