so ya gotta goto bed at 8 or 9 to be up by seven???special prayers for the hours in between sleeps.
Oh lord, let me go back to sleep.
I pretty much sleep like that.
It’s good to know it’s natural.
Why would this guy have to plunge people into darkness for 14 hours? Couldn’t he just interview a Swede in wintertime?
Interesting article. I worked night shifts for nearly 20 years, at the end of which time my whole internal clock was out of whack. I ended up sleeping in stages consisting of four hours’ sleep, three hours’ waking and another three hours’ sleep. My most productive time is the three hours between sleeps, although admittedly it takes me more than half an hour to get my equilibrium right following the first awakening.
I remember as a child, my head would hit the pillow after a rigorous day going full steam, and it seemed I’d wake to daylight 3 seconds later, fully rested.
I think that’s natural for small kids.
You a CPAP user? :) I saw this on cpaptalk.com earlier today....interesting read.
This is my default sleep pattern, when I have time for it.
Any correlation with the other primates, particularly the great apes?
8 hour sleep? What is that? Isn’t 4 the norm? (at least for me it is... out by 1, up by 5).
Oh, i'll just BET they did. divorces followed.
either that, or shots rang out.
:)
so ya gotta goto bed at 8 or 9 to be up by seven???Depends on how much I drank the night before. 8 hrs usually at a minimum.
I think sleep needs vary tremendously by individual. I have always been a light sleeper and also have always slept 9 to 10 hours a night. When I was a teen it was 10 now that I am 65 it is 9. If I only get 7, I can function but will feel awful.
My Father was really strange. He could lie down just about anywhere and immediately go soundly to sleep. I could never do that.
Very interesting.
Personally I wish I could figure out how not to sleep I would.
The sleep patterns people are talking about here are also interesting.
I go for about three weeks of sleeping about four hours, then one night I’ll sleep about ten hours. Weird, but it has been that way as long as I can remember.
Thanks for posting.
Whenever I have a sustained period of time off work, my pattern is 6-7 hours at night and 1-2 hours in the afternoon. I know for a lot of people, the early afternoon (2-4) is the low point of their day, energy-wise.
And they change over our lifetimes.........
Generally lot's when we are growing, then less when we are adults. But even then it waxes and wanes....from 6 to 10 hrs a day.
Of course there are variables....but that's close.
bfl