A Sleep Revolution Will Allow Us to Better Solve the World's Problems

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So here's the big idea I think will shape 2016: sleep. That's right, sleep! How much and how well we sleep in the coming year -- and the years to follow -- will determine, in no small measure, our ability to address and solve the problems we're facing as individuals and as a society.
While our need for sleep has been a constant throughout human history, our relationship to sleep has changed throughout the centuries. And right now we're in the middle of a sleep deprivation crisis, with devastating effects on our health, our job performance, our relationships, and our happiness.
 

For police officers, firemen, medical staff and others that work swing shifts, sleep is usually a luxury. We never really get into a sleep habit of sleeping 10-6. You sleep when you can and sleep deprivation becomes a way of life.
 
I have no doubt that if we all got enough sleep the world would be a better place. I know how useless I am when I've been awake half the night repeatedly.
 

Long 12 hour shifts have become the norm for many workers.
Working 12 hour nights one week and 12 hour days the next takes a toll on one's eating habits.
That mixed up life style can't be good for anyone's health.
By the time an employee has worked 12 hours they must be very tired and not very alert.
 
Shalimar said:
For a variety of reasons, I have learned to sleep in segments. I doubt I could sleep eight hours without either being ill, or taking meds.
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Polyphasic sleeping - I do the same thing. An hour or two at a time, several times during a 24-hour period.

It seems bizarre to some and of course many people cannot do it because of job or family responsibilities, but if they can I highly advise people to at least try it. Deep (REM) sleep is what restores the body and mind, and by practicing polyphasic sleep patterns you get more REM cycles than you do with a single 8-hour snooze.
 
So far so good in all the 50+ years, to bed at 10:30-11:00 pm and up at 7:45am-8 am like clockwork...maybe I'm
the oddball.
If I wasn't taking the kids to school, I think I could go to 9 AM like I do on Sat/Sun.
 
Nah, not an oddball.

Consider that, in the old farming days, they'd go to bed soon after sunset and rose before the sun.

And they were as healthy as their horses.

Your "hours" aren't all that different, except you seem to stay up later.
 
Okay my grief concerning sleep...
I have a special needs kid who will sing and talk to herself an hour or three after her bed time.
Two dogs roughly a hundred pounds together claiming blanket space once I get kid to bed.
Hubby who comes in at sometimes 4am from work and needs the TV to sleep.

There were mornings in my last job where I would bump the curb to the highway entrance. That wakes you up pretty well. But I agree, for any number of reasons we are a sleep deprived society.:confused:
 
You must feel a bit of a wreck quite a lot eh fureverywhere? How do you manage to get through your days?
 

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