Kip
Jimster
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How much do Strutteurs kip? Me, 6 ish hours.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11765723/Sleep-deprivation-as-bad-as-smoking.html
I am up at half five most mornings so try and get my noggin on the pillow for 11 bells, sometimes 11:15.
I am out :snaps fingers: like that.
I did try and squeeze an extra hour awake, but I found I was nodding off at work and sometimes, fleetingly, whilst driving 60 miles home. Which isn't a good thing.
Thatcher did 4 hours. She was mad as a wasp though.
But it's also bad to get too much kip. Although I wonder at what point in my life this has ever been, or will be, an option.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/11765723/Sleep-deprivation-as-bad-as-smoking.html
I am up at half five most mornings so try and get my noggin on the pillow for 11 bells, sometimes 11:15.
I am out :snaps fingers: like that.
I did try and squeeze an extra hour awake, but I found I was nodding off at work and sometimes, fleetingly, whilst driving 60 miles home. Which isn't a good thing.
Thatcher did 4 hours. She was mad as a wasp though.
But it's also bad to get too much kip. Although I wonder at what point in my life this has ever been, or will be, an option.
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get up at 5.22, usually, asleep between 10.30 and the witching hour dependent on bar frolics, so between 5 and 7 hours.
Never sweat it though, your body makes sure you get what you need.
Plenty times stayed up through the night (no AYO, no substances) and pottered around with writing or planning or some other creative activity. Good for the psyche.
My daughter (3) is up at 7am like clockwork, and I am a stay at home dad so I need to be rested as well as poss. trying to balance that with music production and part time freelancing (design) makes for some weird hours and often racing brain before bed.
I use a white noise app to help me un-focus and drown out my shitty tinnitus.
a few years ago I had pretty bad insomnia, so I kinda trained myself to tune out and relax.
I can pretty much go to sleep anywhere, anytime... much to my wifes disdain!
He's fine now, kips through like a log.
THANK F*CK.
YOU WILL SLEEP WITH THE FISHES BEFORE YOU SLEEP IN MY BED AGAIN, SON. REAL TALK.
Night owl. Never asleep before midnight. Normally drop off around 1:30am. I go through cycles of good sleep and bad sleep depending on how relaxed I am. When I'm in a bad patch I will wake around 4am, and try to function on 3 hours sleep. This might happen for a couple of nights in a row before my body says fuck it, and I'll go to bed early and re-set my sleep pattern.
At the moment, as teaching work is winding-down for the summer, I'm going to sleep around 1 or 2am, wake around 8:30am, and either go straight back to sleep until 11:30am, or get up, make scrambled eggs, and then go back to bed and sleep until 11:30am or noon.
One thing I've learnt is that if I get really persistent insomnia, it's because I'm not happy with something in my life (bored with my job etc), and until I address it and make positive changes, I can drink a bottle of whisky and I won't go to sleep properly. I think 4 days without sleep was my record. Changed my job, slept like a baby.
BUT it has taken it's toll and my productivity (during the day) has been noticeably impacted by it. This has hit really hard in the last 1-2 years. Unfortunately, it's difficult to kick habits and change your routine....
The story Jimster posted at the beginning of the thread was THE subject yesterday in our house. My wife is a doctor with on calls and shift work and has suffered from this for decades.
PS: I notice how many comments here make reference to your kids curtailing the your sleep (or extending it by coming into your bed). I remember a thread we had 10 years ago with pictures of our offspring. I think it's long gone with one of Raj's old servers.... Would be fun to repeat ;-)
Sleep is important, and for years, I was having terrible sleep because my wife, despite being in shape, snores like a fucking chainsaw and I'm a light sleeper. The woman is also a fucking blanket thief!
But I'm guilty of sleep-time crimes, too.
I drove her insane because I'm a roller and a kicker. I've slapped, elbowed, kneed, even punched my wife in the head once while completely asleep because I sometimes twist with the swiftness and she often gets biffed as a result. Woman was not impressed and would wake me with the death stare and that fucking bedhead, which made it hard to supress laughter.
So I made the initially awkward decision of sleeping in the spare room almost 2 years ago. Been sleeping great since, and it probably saved our marriage and sanity.
Up at Noon.
Eat lunch.
Siesta.
Eat dinner.
Drink.
Time for bed.
I need to get back to Barcelona.
I feel knackered just reading that.
You got the jimmy legs
I've had terrible sleep habits all my adult life and I've always been able to function without much sleep so I don't worry about it. I may be taking some years off my life but they're the diaper wearing dementia years anyway so eff it.
http://www.soulstrut.com/forums/viewthread/14277/
My 5-day-a-week workout schedule has made my sleeping habits very consistent. I generally get 7-8 hours of sleep a night because I go to sleep at a very consistent time each night. I need the rest to get through the 1 hour workouts. Plus, owing to the vigorous workouts, I go to sleep quickly and deeply through the entire night.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak