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>A professor I collaborate with at Penn State named Orfeu Buxton says that 8.5 hours of sleep is the new eight hours. In order to get a healthy eight hours of s
by rosstex 8y ago
>A professor I collaborate with at Penn State named Orfeu Buxton says that 8.5 hours of sleep is the new eight hours. In order to get a healthy eight hours of sleep, which is the amount that many people need, you need to be in bed for 8.5 hours.
So, the title is misleading. It means you should lie in bed for 8.5 hours in order to actually be asleep for 8 hours.
That said, this article has plenty of good insight and is well-written.
- coldtea 8y ago>So, the title is misleading. It means you should lie in bed for 8.5 hours in order to actually be asleep for 8 hours. No, the title is not misleading. Sleep is not just the time you're actually asleep. It's the whole time that you're in bed. If you are in bed for only 8 hours a night, do you account for the times you woke up mid-sleep and went to have a piss, for example?
- rosstex 8y agoAh, I assumed that was obvious.