I get ten hours of sleep. I wake up feeling tired and have to go to work. I get three hours of sleep. I wake up feeling tired and have to go to work, but I got an additional 7 hours of gaming in and extended my free time. Win.
I’d rather stay up anyway
Submitted 8 months ago by nifty@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably not a win in the long run though. But I’ll take it too.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
The “long run” sounds like a future me problem, not a right-now me problem. Therefore, no problem!
MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And then people complain that “you’re not healthy”. I feel way healthier and happier with more free time thank you very much.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I mean, I still average out to 7-8hrs of sleep over the entire week… I just make it up on Friday thru Sunday nights.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I know right? I feel better when im drunk but when I try to stay up all night drinking I get lip from everyone!!
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
The trick is a consistent sleep schedule. Consistently getting sunlight within the first hour of waking up helps a lot too, and taking time to wind down, dim lights, like an hour before bed
Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
How am I supposed to get sunlight when I start work at 6:00 but sunrise isn’t until 8:00
LemmyN@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Get a sunrise alarm, I bought one half a year ago and it works wonders, waking up is so much easier. (I also have to wake up before 6)
x4740N@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also have a bottle of water in your bedroom near you that you can drink in the morning, it helps you wake up
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And another bottle you can heat up so you can sit on a hot water bottle. There are few pleasures like a warm butt. Also another bottle for pissin.
IR8@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Try telling that to my cats
ExceedinglyPanWoofer@yiffit.net 8 months ago
Graveyard shift let’s go woohoo!
NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 8 months ago
I don’t get to see sunlight before work maybe this summer though
THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Why ia this a thing can anyone sciency answer ?
vithigar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It’s a matter of timing your waking up with the right part of your sleep cycle. If you sleep through the “wake up window”, which I think is right after REM sleep, then your reenter deeper sleep which is harder to wake up from.
Sekrayray@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, it’s about getting enough REM and SWS cycles. The effect decays over time, though. If you time your wake up to a full sleep cycle (around 2.5-3 hours) one night, you may wake up feeling fine. If you do this multiple nights in a row, however, you will build up a REM/SWS debt. So on day one it feels fine, on day two it feels less fine, and on day three you’re dragging.
THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 8 months ago
I have no idea what you are talking about can you ELI5 it a bit
fadingembers@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
[deleted]THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch 8 months ago
Could you explain a little more ?
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s what happens to me when I don’t stick enough water before bedtime. Your body flushes all the bad stuff out and he as no water left in the morning. You can either stop eating salty foods before bedtime, or split your sleep into several parts.
Pika@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I have a window of perfection. If I sleep less the 4 hours I’m dead tired in the morning, if I sleep more then 7 hours I am dead in the morning, but for some reason if I get 5, 6 or 7 I’ll be up and at em no issue at all
MightyGalhupo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Finally someone else who acknowledges this
kudu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, for me it’s 6 the perfect amount (altho i sleep more on the weekends)
jerrythegenius@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Have you tried 12 hours?
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I did 18
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeh but if I wake up tired after 2h sleep, I have limited energy and an more quickly exhausted. And I’ll likely suffer the more for it the following day.
If I wake up tired after 10h sleep I actually have more reserves of strength, and can do better that day - or more (I think), can do better the next day.
jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 8 months ago
The only time I get 10 hours and wake up tired is after a lot of drinking, so maybe you have other issues.
mo_lave@reddthat.com 8 months ago
The illusion of choice
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I do pretty much always wake up tired, but I also can’t make myself stay awake past 9 most of the time any longer. Not since I hit 40 or so (46 now). I used to be able to stay up all night if I wanted to. This is the first year in a while I was able to stay up until midnight to see in the new year. And just barely.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
10 hours is too much. I find 7 is the sweet spot for me.
BeerMedic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
My sweet spot really seems to be 6hrs. I feel most alert and functional. At least for the past 5 years or so.
Prior to that I worked 2 x 24hr shifts, many times 3 x 24hrs, per week. My sleep was a significantly different pattern.
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You have to wake up at the end of a REM cycle, or you’ll wake up feeling groggy and tired.
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
I’ve given up giving people sleep tips on Lemmy. You go into any detail or suggest they have to change their habits, and they react like you killed their dog.
Rodeo@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
It’s like giving people depression tips.
“Oh you’re depressed? Haven’t you tried eating healthy and exercising?”
Or do you think your words are so profound you actually expect people to change their lives over your internet comment?
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Nothing I ever did made me feel rested if I went to sleep before 12PM. The only way is to take naps and sleep from 1AM to 7AM. Nobody suggests doing that though, for some reason…
Gotta acknowledge that these tips work for people who have average sleep habits, therefore ones who are the least likely to have bad sleep quality.
idunnololz@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You monster
Maalus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
She was 5 days from retirement…
SilverFlame@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What have you done to my boy Fido!?
mhz@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This is it, with a REM during about 90min, I find 7 REMs (7h30m~ 8H) to be the perfect lenght especially if I went to bed at 23h00.