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I was once like you! In high school, college, and medical school I slept at most 4 hours a night. I was even a Division I varsity athlete. Never tired. No probl
by exexex 11y ago
I was once like you! In high school, college, and medical school I slept at most 4 hours a night. I was even a Division I varsity athlete. Never tired. No problems studying, drinking, exercising.
Then something changed a few years ago...I'm 42 now, so I think it started when I was 38...I now sleep 6 hours a night, sometimes even 7! It has seriously cut into might reading-for-fun time. I really wish I could go back to 4 hours.
- darkmighty 11y agoA curiosity: do you guys that need so little sleep perform a lot of creative activities? I feel when I don't have anything too creative (or extremely intelectually demanding) to perform I can go sleep deprived and do fine at everything, but I lose the ability to solve one of those problems you have to think for hours, or come up with good ideas. If I'm in the process of learning something complex, I get the distinct feeling of absorbing "fully" the content when I sleep well; whereas if I don't sleep well it doesn't seem fully "processed" yet. So my optimal sleep schedule varies by what kind of work I want to do. Do you just perform nominally at everything sleeping 4 hours?