How Much Sleep Should You Get?

PreciousDove

PreciousDove

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Of course we all know that adults are to get 6-8 hours of sleep. Do you get that much or less?
If you get a lot less what do you do to sleep more? Do you know why you have insomnia?
 

mike4lorie said:
I sleep anywhere from 3 to 5 hours, if I am really really lucky I may get 7 hours... I don't sleep much since the car accident years ago...Chronic pain is pretty much controlled... Now it's my leg that gets very restless since I broke that in 5 places, 5 years ago now...

If I get a really bad sugar high, then I can sleep throughout the day...
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Right now, I have issues with sleeping due to the loss of a very close friend. I can fall to sleep easy enough, but can't stay asleep. Normally, I get about 6 hours of sleep. I don't take any naps or even doze off during the time I am up and about. I have a little PTSD from the military, but that seldom effects my sleep.
 
At best I sleep in two hour cycles. For many years I suffered with insomnia, probably slept three hours a night in total. Now that my life is stress free I still wake up often but am able to fall back asleep where in the past I would be awake for hours. I can only recall a couple of times in my life that I slept thru the night.

These days I am typically in bed for seven hours, not sure how much of that is actual sleep.
 
PreciousDove said:
Of course we all know that adults are to get 6-8 hours of sleep. Do you get that much or less?
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I never keep track
Not since retirement
No need
If it's nap time, it's nap time
THAT's what time it is, no matter what the clock sez
Same with bedtime
For me, La-Z-Boys are for naps
The pillowtop beckons whenever a deep REM is unavoidable

Before retirement, it was git up at 3:30am
Swill a pot of coffee
And go
Crash and burn before or at 9p

But
Since I retired, I discovered a conscious sleep
Quite by accident
First few days after retirement, I'd set the alarm, as usual
Just to hear the neighbors warm their cars
and drive off to work
Then fall back asleep, giggling my hind end off
I call it The Second Sleep

Wrote about it (posted here several times, but the subject keeps coming up when new geezers join)

So, here it is again;

The Second Sleep

no set time
whenever

then

I have what I call 'the 2nd sleep'

It rocks so hard, I seldom miss it

Whenever I get up, (of which is usually abnormally early)
I make coffee
Get on the web (here alot)
Fuss a bit with the budget
Do some writing (I'm a word butcher)

get re-sleepy

then

stumble back to bed.....sweet beddy bye

It's the only sleep that comes calling with complete consciousness
softly drifting...drifting into sweet sweet slumber
snort myself awake.....open one eye.....turn the pillow to the cool side
drift back....waaaay back

......drooling a river

2nd sleep.jpg

I highly recommend it

Wait.....

here it comes again

lay-Z-boy is tilted back

I've been fed

lights are off

TV is on (who cares)

moi..thinking.jpg
 
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I sleep 6 or 7 hours most nights. Am an unusual sleeper as I almost never move at all, and dream 100% of the time, not just during eye REM periods. Would be safe without restraints sleeping on a cliff ledge. I do wake up frequently, rotating to new positions, and never snore. Oddly during mid days can easily fall asleep reading technical books but during nights if I'm having issues falling asleep, reading has no effect.

The most important facet of sleep cycles for avoiding insomnia is our biological 24 hour circadian clocks that work by affecting complex hourly body chemistry. The most important way for a person to benefit from a circadian rhythm is to begin and end sleeping at consistent times of day. The second most important issue with modern humans that disrupts that chemistry are avoiding nervous system affecting drugs with caffeine and alcohol most common. Instead of regularly taking sleeping and waking drugs that pharmaceutical companies push, the wiser strategy should be to live a drug free life where the body stabilizes its homeostactic levels.

https://www.healthline.com/health/biological-rhythms#risk-factors
 
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