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*From an article:
Mary, a young woman I know who is graduating from college this summer, was complaining to me recently that she sleeps way too much. Even her roommates call her lazy and tease her about always needing naps, even after a "full night's sleep."
I asked her about her sleep regimen. Four years ago when this same young woman had described frequently sleeping 16 hours at a stretch and still feeling exhausted, I had pressed her to get tested for mono.
Back then, as it happens, she had mono.
This time, though, the sleep pattern she described consisted of sleeping from midnight to 8:00 a.m. every day. She went to bed at the same time and got up at the same time quite regularly.
And yet, she lamented, she still had to have a nap when she got home from class each day.
"Has it occurred to you," I asked, "that you might be one of the many people who need more than 8 hours of sleep a night?"
"But that can't be normal!" she exclaimed.
But it is normal. I, for example, need 9 ½ hours of sleep per night. I can manage on less, and usually I am forced to get by on much less. But if I want to pop out of bed well-rested and ready to face the day with a full charge of energy, I need those 9 ½ hours.
I suspect one reason I need extra sleep is that my allergies cause my sleep to be less solid than it would be if I could breathe more comfortably while sleeping. A lot of people have their sleep quality undermined by breathing problems caused by allergies and, more seriously, sleep apnea. Whatever the reason, though, anything less than 9 ½ hours leaves me tired and in need of a double jolt of caffeine to help me get started in the morning.
After I told her that I need 9 ½ hours of sleep, Mary told me that 9-10 hours is what she requires, too, and she had always felt guilty about being so "lazy"--a feeling that has been reinforced by all the people who tease her about being lazy because she sleeps "too much." She was actually relieved when I told her she probably wasn't sleeping enough!
Some people do very well on 8 hours of sleep a night. Some lucky folks need only 7, and there have been documented cases of people whose sleep requirement was a mere 5 hours.
But the 8-hour standard that most people put such faith in is actually an average, which means that some people need more sleep than that, some less. And whatever your body's natural sleep requirement is, it is non-negotiable.
Every hour of sleep debt you accumulate must be paid off. A certain amount of sleep debt is necessary: after all, we must be awake part of the day in order to be able to sleep at all at night. But excess sleep debt, accumulated sleep debt that is not paid off, will drag you down, and the more of it you accumulate, the worse you will feel--and the less optimally you will perform on any task.
If you need, say, 9 hours a night but only permit yourself 8, then after a 5-day work week you will have accumulated 5 hours of excess sleep debt that you will have to repay. People usually do this by sleeping 2 or 3 hours late on Saturday and Sunday--that is, if they allow themselves to catch up on sleep at all.
If they don't, then their sleep debt will continue to accumulate, until at some point they simply crash and sleep for 12, 17, 20, or more hours at a stretch. We all know people who do this from time to time. Heck, most of us do this from time to time.
How much sleep do you need to wake up easily, without an alarm clock (or two or three, or four, as many of us require!), and eager to get up and face the day?
Most people actually don't even know their own body's sleep requirement, because for as long as they can remember, they have been dragging themselves out of bed before they are "slept out." Whether it is the pressure of school or a job, or whether they just can't stop playing video games, surfing the net, or watching TV, most people normally do not get enough sleep.
In order to find out how much sleep you need, you would have to allow yourself to sleep until you awaken naturally for several weeks. The first week or two, you would sleep a lot of extra hours, because you would be working off your sleep debt.
Then you'd need one or two weeks of normal sleep, to allow your body to find its natural sleeping pattern.
I never got to do this until I was 39 years old! That's when I found out that with 9 ½ hours of sleep I am a turbocharged dynamo. How wonderful it felt to leap out of bed without regret each morning and go about my work with all the energy I needed to get it done. For a while I even gave up my morning coffee.
The set of circumstances that allowed me to sleep as much as I needed for several months was an aberration in my life. It happened for the first time when I was 39, and it has not happened again in the 13 years since.
These days, even when I could sleep enough (as I could have during 5 weeks of last summer), I never do. Why? For the same reason no one else does, even when they can: because there are too many things I want to do, and I hate to "waste" my free time sleeping.
Usually I stay up late reading or writing. Different people have different fixations. But most of us have something we love to do and wish we had more time for, so when we do get free time, we are more likely to spend it on what we love to do than on paying off our sleep debt.
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So ladies and gentleman, pls take care of your health and sleep enough. Those late night partying will get back at you one day.

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*From an article:
Mary, a young woman I know who is graduating from college this summer, was complaining to me recently that she sleeps way too much. Even her roommates call her lazy and tease her about always needing naps, even after a "full night's sleep."
I asked her about her sleep regimen. Four years ago when this same young woman had described frequently sleeping 16 hours at a stretch and still feeling exhausted, I had pressed her to get tested for mono.
Back then, as it happens, she had mono.
This time, though, the sleep pattern she described consisted of sleeping from midnight to 8:00 a.m. every day. She went to bed at the same time and got up at the same time quite regularly.
And yet, she lamented, she still had to have a nap when she got home from class each day.
"Has it occurred to you," I asked, "that you might be one of the many people who need more than 8 hours of sleep a night?"
"But that can't be normal!" she exclaimed.
But it is normal. I, for example, need 9 ½ hours of sleep per night. I can manage on less, and usually I am forced to get by on much less. But if I want to pop out of bed well-rested and ready to face the day with a full charge of energy, I need those 9 ½ hours.
I suspect one reason I need extra sleep is that my allergies cause my sleep to be less solid than it would be if I could breathe more comfortably while sleeping. A lot of people have their sleep quality undermined by breathing problems caused by allergies and, more seriously, sleep apnea. Whatever the reason, though, anything less than 9 ½ hours leaves me tired and in need of a double jolt of caffeine to help me get started in the morning.
After I told her that I need 9 ½ hours of sleep, Mary told me that 9-10 hours is what she requires, too, and she had always felt guilty about being so "lazy"--a feeling that has been reinforced by all the people who tease her about being lazy because she sleeps "too much." She was actually relieved when I told her she probably wasn't sleeping enough!
Some people do very well on 8 hours of sleep a night. Some lucky folks need only 7, and there have been documented cases of people whose sleep requirement was a mere 5 hours.
But the 8-hour standard that most people put such faith in is actually an average, which means that some people need more sleep than that, some less. And whatever your body's natural sleep requirement is, it is non-negotiable.
Every hour of sleep debt you accumulate must be paid off. A certain amount of sleep debt is necessary: after all, we must be awake part of the day in order to be able to sleep at all at night. But excess sleep debt, accumulated sleep debt that is not paid off, will drag you down, and the more of it you accumulate, the worse you will feel--and the less optimally you will perform on any task.
If you need, say, 9 hours a night but only permit yourself 8, then after a 5-day work week you will have accumulated 5 hours of excess sleep debt that you will have to repay. People usually do this by sleeping 2 or 3 hours late on Saturday and Sunday--that is, if they allow themselves to catch up on sleep at all.
If they don't, then their sleep debt will continue to accumulate, until at some point they simply crash and sleep for 12, 17, 20, or more hours at a stretch. We all know people who do this from time to time. Heck, most of us do this from time to time.
How much sleep do you need to wake up easily, without an alarm clock (or two or three, or four, as many of us require!), and eager to get up and face the day?
Most people actually don't even know their own body's sleep requirement, because for as long as they can remember, they have been dragging themselves out of bed before they are "slept out." Whether it is the pressure of school or a job, or whether they just can't stop playing video games, surfing the net, or watching TV, most people normally do not get enough sleep.
In order to find out how much sleep you need, you would have to allow yourself to sleep until you awaken naturally for several weeks. The first week or two, you would sleep a lot of extra hours, because you would be working off your sleep debt.
Then you'd need one or two weeks of normal sleep, to allow your body to find its natural sleeping pattern.
I never got to do this until I was 39 years old! That's when I found out that with 9 ½ hours of sleep I am a turbocharged dynamo. How wonderful it felt to leap out of bed without regret each morning and go about my work with all the energy I needed to get it done. For a while I even gave up my morning coffee.
The set of circumstances that allowed me to sleep as much as I needed for several months was an aberration in my life. It happened for the first time when I was 39, and it has not happened again in the 13 years since.
These days, even when I could sleep enough (as I could have during 5 weeks of last summer), I never do. Why? For the same reason no one else does, even when they can: because there are too many things I want to do, and I hate to "waste" my free time sleeping.
Usually I stay up late reading or writing. Different people have different fixations. But most of us have something we love to do and wish we had more time for, so when we do get free time, we are more likely to spend it on what we love to do than on paying off our sleep debt.
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So ladies and gentleman, pls take care of your health and sleep enough. Those late night partying will get back at you one day.

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is there a way to check ur sleep time accurately?

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just sleep and dont set an alarm, let your own body alarm wake you up...
then you take note the number of hours you need everyday

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that's what i thought man, i don't think that's too accurate..

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i for one need 8-10hours of sleep. :/
hw i wish i am one of those few who need only 5hrs :/

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wish you could have more than 24hrs a day, perhaps?

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my body alarm is screwed..
Sometime, six hours..
Sometime, 14 hours...
Eh...

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u can sleep all u want when u're older (very very old .. grandma/pa status) or when u pass away =x

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*kicks D'Lite*
New Year havent passed, already say these kinda bad things..

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oppps.. ya hor. sorry sorry

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more time != more slp, more time can == more work

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yes i would wished i had that
but if i had a choice, only weekends would have 48hrs :X

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did you consider the activities you had that day?

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i dunnoe why but it seems that those old people around me tend to sleep lesser :/ the only exception is my grandpa -.-" he sure can sleep
and yes, you can sleep all you want when you are dead ^^

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The quality of the sleep far exceeds the quantity of the sleep. Create an environment which you can rest peacefully and you'll find you won't need so many hours.

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Hm...
I tends to sleep less when i did sports
and tends to sleep more when i laze at home? Gosh... Am i abnormal??

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i hope to work towards 5 hrs of sleep only
anyone knows how to work towards this?

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Get older.

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I sleep at 12midnight and wake up at 9am. Sometimes earlier so that I can go jogging. it's naturally.. even if i set the alarm, i would wake up before the alarm. like set 10am i wake up at 9am

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It could mean that your body had enough rest or it could mean that you didnt sleep well - anticipating the sound of the alarm.