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Agreed, misleading title. I know I've always functioned best at 9 hours. High school and early college, I remember my schedule: 9 hours. Mid-20s to mid-30s is v

by nilram 8y ago

Agreed, misleading title. I know I've always functioned best at 9 hours. High school and early college, I remember my schedule: 9 hours. Mid-20s to mid-30s is vague to me, but after that, my partner says I always slept about 9 hours, and I still do. So I read this article with interest, but it says nothing to my situation. Shrug.

sushid 8y ago
Not saying 9 hours isn't right for you, but if you track yourself using a device like Fitbit, you may be surprised by how much less you're actually sleeping. I used to equates 8 hours of in-bed time to roughly 8 hours in sleep but found that unless I prepare for an ideal sleeping condition beforehand, it was more like 7.25 hours. Now I try and set an in-bed goal of 8.5 hours so I can sleep roughly 8 hours.
- ekovarski 8y ago
  The Oura tracker provides a lot of insight into sleeping patters, for example, last night I only got 1.3hrs of deep sleep out of 5hrs as the kids kept waking up so it wrecked havoc on my deep sleep. But you are 100% correct, there is more to sleep than simply closing your eyes and preparing for a good nights rest starts as early as the time when you wake up.
- nilram 8y ago
  I've had sleep studies (both at home and in a lab, 2 of each iirc). Only one of them determined that I might benefit from a CPAP machine and I was barely above the criteria that determined such. The others did not indicate any significant sleep issue. By that measure I don't see why the clock hours wouldn't reasonably correspond to the rest I actually get and (presumably) require. Given that I didn't drill down to the study that this article (and other recent articles) are based on, my comment is as much a critique of the journalism as anything else. But by my reading of other studies, 9 hours is in the range of "normal" and this article leaves it in a grey area.

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Agreed, misleading title. I know I've always functioned best at 9 hours. High school and early college, I remember my schedule: 9 hours. Mid-20s to mid-30s is v

by nilram 8y ago

sushid 8y ago
Not saying 9 hours isn't right for you, but if you track yourself using a device like Fitbit, you may be surprised by how much less you're actually sleeping. I used to equates 8 hours of in-bed time to roughly 8 hours in sleep but found that unless I prepare for an ideal sleeping condition beforehand, it was more like 7.25 hours. Now I try and set an in-bed goal of 8.5 hours so I can sleep roughly 8 hours.
- ekovarski 8y ago
  The Oura tracker provides a lot of insight into sleeping patters, for example, last night I only got 1.3hrs of deep sleep out of 5hrs as the kids kept waking up so it wrecked havoc on my deep sleep. But you are 100% correct, there is more to sleep than simply closing your eyes and preparing for a good nights rest starts as early as the time when you wake up.
- nilram 8y ago
  I've had sleep studies (both at home and in a lab, 2 of each iirc). Only one of them determined that I might benefit from a CPAP machine and I was barely above the criteria that determined such. The others did not indicate any significant sleep issue. By that measure I don't see why the clock hours wouldn't reasonably correspond to the rest I actually get and (presumably) require. Given that I didn't drill down to the study that this article (and other recent articles) are based on, my comment is as much a critique of the journalism as anything else. But by my reading of other studies, 9 hours is in the range of "normal" and this article leaves it in a grey area.