Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind 277
Hugh Pickens writes "BBC reports that a growing body of evidence from both science and history suggests that eight-hours of uninterrupted sleep may be unnatural as a wealth of historical evidence reveals that humans used to sleep in two distinct chunks called first and second sleep. A book by historian Roger Ekirch, At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, unearths more than 500 references to a segmented sleeping pattern — in diaries, court records, medical books and literature, from Homer's Odyssey to an anthropological account of modern tribes in Nigeria. 'It's not just the number of references — it is the way they refer to it, as if it was common knowledge,' says Ekirch. References to the first and second sleep started to disappear during the late 17th Century with improvements in street lighting, domestic lighting and a surge in coffee houses — which were sometimes open all night. Today most people seem to have adapted quite well to the eight-hour sleep, but Ekirch believes many sleeping problems may have roots in the human body's natural preference for segmented sleep which could be the root of a condition called sleep maintenance insomnia, where people wake during the night and have trouble getting back to sleep. 'Our pattern of consolidated sleep has been a relatively recent development, another product of the industrial age, while segmented sleep was long the natural form of our slumber, having a provenance as old as humankind,' says Ekrich, adding that we may 'choose to emulate our ancestors, for whom the dead of night, rather than being a source of dread, often afforded a welcome refuge from the regimen of daily life.'"
Still do (Score:5, Funny)
I still sleep in two chunks, only I call the second one "work"
Re:Still do (Score:5, Funny)
I still sleep in two chunks, only I call the second one "work"
I've met people who do it in three, the third one is driving.
I Believe It (Score:5, Informative)
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I'm the same way. TFA refers to it as "sleep maintenance insomnia". Doesn't really help giving it a name except to know that it may be more common than you may have thought.
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Re:I Believe It (Score:5, Interesting)
Cannot say if this works for everyone, when I get up in the middle of the night and cant sleep, I use the trick I stole from the lucid dreamers, stare at a point constantly, preferably (for me that is) a low lit corner of the room and before I know it I fell a sleep.
This is also one of the quickest ways of learning self hypnosis.
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Re:I Believe It (Score:4, Funny)
>Indeed, I found that opening my eyes and looking at something makes me tired. If I lie there awake with my eyes closed I will stay awake for hours.
If I take 5000 IU of D3 first thing in the morning, chased with 1/2 pint of heavy cream, I never fail to sleep at night.
Each to their own.
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Re:I Believe It (Score:5, Informative)
I don't even try to get back to sleep any more. I just accept the fact that 3-4 hours at a stretch is all I'm comfortable sleeping. So I get up at 1-2 AM most nights and work until around 7, then sleep another 3-4 hours until 11-12. I get in my eight hours total, I feel fully rested, and I find those wee morning hour coding sessions are incredibly productive for some reason. (It's not like it's due to the peace and quiet -- I don't have family and neighbours making much noise during most days in the first place.)
A "full night's sleep" in the sense of an 8-9 hour stretch in bed is extremely rare for me nowadays.
It still freaks my Mom out when I call her and say something like "I was working on blah-blah at about 6 this morning..." because she KNOWS I'm not a "morning person" and never have been. But while I'm not exactly "chipper" without a couple cups of coffee when I get up, I find that with a split sleep shift, I'm at least not an outright grouch when I get up.
Re:split sleep shift (Score:3)
I get tired rather fast after work, so I've have done a lot of split sleep shifts. The only trick is when you have to still keep an 8-5 office schedule the next day, the WHOLE split sleep takes some 13 hours for me, including the block in the middle, so that I can't "dawdle after work" and start the pattern much later than about 6PM to really do it right.
This is a topic I've had an amateur interest in for years, so I may get The Book mentioned in The Article.
The key "potential drawback" is that they used to
Polyphasic sleep (Score:5, Interesting)
This is similar to what I did in university. I called it short-cycling back then and lived on a 12hour day (2-4 hours sleep). Usually sleeping some time between 6-10pm and 4am-8am which was just fine for a social life (although not so great for the 7:30am lecture class skipped every tuesday my sophomore year)...
I found the so-called biphasic sleep schedule to be very productive (and very helpful as I was taking lots of coursework and was editing the school newspaper at night). Being awake between lunch and dinner was good for school and between 10pm and 4am was great for studying and socialization.
My motivation for this was after researching Leonardo Davinci and Buckminster Fuller and how they allegedly slept only a few hours a night and took lots of catnaps to become more productive.
I fell back to the typical 6-8 hours at night after university (dinner got later after work and there wasn't much to do between 1am and 4am, but was amused to see that this whole thing was mentioned during an episode of Seinfield a few years after I graduated (didn't really work out for Kramer in the sitcom, though)
Unfortunatly, I have an infant to care for, it's sorta been forced back on me now and kinda works... With my current experience, my take away is that if humans weren't adapted to polyphasic sleep, the species would fail to survive.
Re:I Believe It Too (Score:4, Interesting)
These comments all make me feel much better. I sleep for around 3 hours after work (5pm-8pm) and then 3-4 hours before work (3:30am-7:30am). Obviously I don't have kids. I find that when I skip my post-work sleep I have to be doing something active to avoid being completely exhausted and useless. After my long nap/short sleep I am much more rested and can read and write more complicated things much more easily.
Everyone I know thinks these hours are weird, but it works so well for me that I intend to keep doing it as long as I can. These comments all serve to make me feel like a little bit less of an outsider. Thanks! :-)
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Now we have Peruvian Hairless dogs (calatos) that sleep in the bed with us. They get in and out of the bed several times each night, and that little bit of interruption opening up the blankets to let them back in seems to make a big difference. I can sleep 7
Re:I Believe It (Score:4, Insightful)
When I have someone to cuddle with, I always feel well rested, even if I didn't get much sleep.
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Re:I Believe It (Score:5, Interesting)
There seem to be some cultural aspects to this, when I expected to (when I was younger/late1960's/working) go to bed at 9PM and rise at 5AM and I expected that (naively) others in the vicinity (Chicago) would also sleep at night, I found that American Hispanics (I'm not a racist/I married one) (in particular/not exclusively) to stay up and not to even attempt nocturnal quietness until the wee hours, every night! I eventually moved and moved until I lucked out and rented what had been a garage in a very old industrial area where nobody else lived and was finally able to get some sleep.
Re:I Believe It (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not a racist/I married one
Did you know she was a racist when you married her, or did you only find out later?
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Re:Camping (Score:5, Interesting)
When I backpack I rarely sleep uninterrupted. Around 2-3am I'll wake partially and then sleep lightly from then on. I feel fine the next day.
I wonder if the outdoors experience in our ancestral past is the source of the two-sleep periods TFA mentions.
After all, somebody had to get up and feed the fire, and maybe re-heat another chunk of the prior-day's catch for a snack, take a pee in the bushes, throw rocks at the Hyaenas, and before you know it the whole camp is awake. Military traditions from the first organized armies carried this forward with the changing of the guard, more peeing in more bushes, fire tending, debauching the POWs, and checking the horses. Flock tending, crop guarding, bush watering, and debauchery over the ages tend to train our brain to this two-sleep pattern.
The history and quality of beds over the ages suggests some of this waking up and walking around was just to shake off a few bugs that were feasting, or re-arrange the straw for more comfort.
Now as for backpacking, sleeping on the hard ground after a day schlepping a pack up hill and over dale might just cause a lot of sore muscles and compressed flesh due to that rock underneath the foam pad. Not big enough to get up and move it, but just big enough to keep you awake. And that bladder which, while filling, has not yet reached emergency stage yet also keeps the bushes coming to mind.
You could get up, water the bushes, move the rock, and take a ibuprofen, but then you would sleep so soundly that you would be eaten by wolves before you awoke again.
interrupted sleep (Score:5, Informative)
As one who had his sleep interrupted during 40 years of medical practice, and now can sleep through the night, a full night of uninterrupted sleep feels wonderful- far better than interrupted sleep.
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Don't you think it might depend on whether the interruption is caused by outside forces or not? I doubt too many of our ancestors had beepers (or whatever you use now).
Re:interrupted sleep (Score:4, Informative)
Don't you think it might depend on whether the interruption is caused by outside forces or not? I doubt too many of our ancestors had beepers (or whatever you use now).
All of our ancestors had bladders.
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True, but I think it's a much more gradual process, where as you accumulate more sleep, and are more rested, then by the time the bladder urge is high enough to wake you, then you are already fairly rested.
Maybe if he had a beeper that started ringing silently, and over a few hours very gradually got louder, then the interruption would not cause you to awake until you were sufficiently rested. The guy waiting for his emergency surgery may not appreciate this though.
Re:interrupted sleep (Score:5, Insightful)
And that, Mr. A.C., is the difference between waking up and being woken up.
Re:interrupted sleep (Score:5, Funny)
That's Dr. A.C. Show some respect!
Re:interrupted sleep (Score:5, Funny)
It depends on if you mind changing bedsheets.
Re:interrupted sleep (Score:4, Informative)
It's the difference between seeing a prostitute and seeing a doctor? :D
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Re:Napping (Score:5, Insightful)
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I can't nap. I feel groggy and heavy afterward, much worse than I do when I wake up in the morning. I don't like that feeling at all, so when I'm tired enough to drift off in the afternoon or evening at home I try my best to resist.
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I have the same problem. I have found that if I'm so bad I don't feel i can stay awake I set my phone timer for 15 mins and let me dose off for just that short time. The grogginess is very short and often I feel much better afterwards. Any longer and it puts me in pretty bad shape. Irritable and sleepier than if I had just stayed awake.
Re:Napping (Score:4, Interesting)
Try napping for shorter periods of time - 20 to 30 minutes in order to not drop into deeper REM sleep. Works for some people. It's the 'power nap' idea. YMMV, of course.
I think one aspect that many of these studies overlook is that there is absolutely no teleologic / social / evolutionary reason for the population to have the same requirements in many aspects of our lives, sleeping being one. Some people really do well with prolonged, constant sleep. Others can get by on much less. I've been jealous of the latter for many years because if I don't get enough sleep, I really pay for it for days.
But I can do pretty well with short naps for a couple of days, then things catch up. It also depends on what you're doing. It's OK to be a bit tired when you are washing your car or taking a walk. Running the chain saw, not so much.
Re:Napping (Score:5, Informative)
This is simply a bad recommendation. You should nap a full sleep cycle, which is 90 minutes on average (usually the first one is a bit longer, around two hours). Please see the average somnogram here: http://www.lakesidepress.com/pulmonary/Sleep/hypnogram.png [lakesidepress.com]
There's a reason the Spanish siesta is about two hours. It's been shown that interrupting a sleep cycle during the deeper parts is extremely counter-productive, and can leave you even worse off than if you had stayed awake (or woken up at the previous point of light sleep, i.e. REM portion).
Another reason it doesn't make sense to sleep for 20 minutes is that BY FAR the most restorative action of sleep happens during the deep parts of the cycle, to the extent that there is research into drugs that increase the portion of sleep spend in those parts so that, say, soldiers etc. can sleep a smaller number of cycles for the same rest.
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It was probably evolutionarily advantageous for people to sleep at different times, in different patterns and for different lengths of time. Better coverage of watching for predators, certain game my be easier to hunt at different times, etc.
Right Tune...wrong lyrics... (Score:4, Interesting)
Again, it's not that we don't need to "sleep" twice in a day, more than likely we do. there is evidence [go.com] that points to its benefits, however as we are finding out with medicine today, it would be and should be tailored to the individual and their schedule.
Re:Right Tune...wrong lyrics... (Score:5, Interesting)
IF you want to torture people make them work the "swing shift" 1st shift for 1 week, 2nd Shift for the next week, and 3rd shift the third week, rotate back to 1st.
Within 2 months you will become highly cranky, want to kill everyone and you enjoy a constant mental fog of never feeling awake.
Re:Napping (Score:5, Informative)
That is called a Siesta, and civilized cultures have been doing it for thousands of years. and early afternoon nap typically after lunch or a couple hours after lunch works wonders.
My body actually get's "sleepy" around 3:00-4:00pm every day and it's common with others as well. your body WANTS a nap.
Re:Napping (Score:5, Insightful)
That was me before I got married/kids. It was fantastic..
I would get up and have another 4-6 hours of _VERY_ productive time. I would go running, go to the gym, write code, go to the local bar and hit on women, remodel the house, etc. This was when I was the most effective.
Now I just walk around like a zombie all day, until I hit the bed. Nothing really gets done unless I drink massive quantities of caffeine.
Re:Napping (Score:5, Funny)
Have you looked in a mirror recently? Any funny markings around your face?
Are you hard to kill?
Just a thought. Maybe you're more correct than you think you are.
This is very interesting (Score:2)
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I mentioned above, TFA refers to it as "sleep maintenance insomnia". I ran into this article yesterday at work and was interested that maybe I'm not as weird as I thought. To make it through the night, my doc gave me a mild sleep-aid that helps some.
move along humanoids... (Score:2, Interesting)
The Uberman (Score:4, Interesting)
Always wanted to try the Uberman http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720 [kuro5hin.org]
Unfortunately, other people that I have to work with did not approve.
Re:The Uberman (Score:5, Informative)
In Germany they did a documentary on the Uberman and they mocked it. They thought crazy idea. So the "victim" gave his fullest and something strange happened.
1) Getting used to the schedule was hard.
2) Once used to the schedule it actually worked very well. The doctors who inspected him thought the experiment would fail, were also surprised. They did reaction tests, brain scans, and a battery of other tests such as blood pressure. He passed with amazing colours.
After the test was done the volunteer said he would go back to the original sleeping habits. Not because he did not like it, but because it is out of tune with the rest of society. For the the uberman to work he had to take naps and at the wrong time it was a bit wierd. And then with all of the free time he had he did not know what to do. He ran out of things to do.
So end conclusion yeah it works, but it is a major lifestyle change.
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Always wanted to try the Uberman http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720 [kuro5hin.org]
Unfortunately, other people that I have to work with did not approve.
I've tried as well. The highly fragmented sleep posed a serious detriment to my ability to function, and also the scheduling would be very conflicting with much of my daily activities. Even for moments of my life when I had next to nothing to do it would still cause issues.
The best way to perform it is with larger fragments of sleep, with 2 I've found (as well as discovered in research) as being the most expedient. This article here is especially intriguing to me, because it correlates with my previous rese
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Is because tiny bladder (Score:2)
And too much soup, beer, whatever, before go sleep.
Over-efficient kidneys, too.
I call bullshit (Score:4, Insightful)
As a parent of two small children, I've been forced to do "segmented sleep" for extended periods (our babies were not good eaters so we had to wake them up in the middle of the night for a feeding). It sucks, and I'm positive that I'm not the only parent to have experienced this.
Just going to sleep in the evening and waking up in the morning feels a lot better and more natural to me.
-- 77IM
Re:I call bullshit (Score:4, Insightful)
Your situation might be different, but I figured out you just let them sleep. They'll come around on the eating. It's easy to get caught up in the science and numbers and forget they're critters, not machines.
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Your situation might be different, but I figured out you just let them sleep. They'll come around on the eating. It's easy to get caught up in the science and numbers and forget they're critters, not machines.
This is true in my experience for older children, but, for the first month or two of life, you really do need to make sure they're getting milk every 3-4 hours. But now that our kids are 5 and 2, if they don't eat, it's their choice (especially the five year-old).
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Re:I call bullshit (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been forced to do "segmented sleep"
If it's forced, then you're not actually doing it... The story is about waking naturally between sleeps, not waking yourself up on a schedule. It also seems based on going to bed shortly after dusk which, at least for me, is hours before I've trained myself to go to bed.
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Taking care of young children really was the most stressful thing I ever went through. I would be cautious about making inferences about sleep patterns or anything else based on that wonderful-yet-frequently-hellish period of my life :)
PS: It got better.
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I was never more miserable than when our son needed to be fed in the middle of the night (it was demand feeding, not scheduled). Very tired in the morning and low energy during the day.
I still feel that way if I have to get up in the middle of the night. I'm only 44 but I can't even tolerate staying up past midnight anymore -- I still wake at my usual time but feel awful from lack of sleep.
That being said, the problem with "Segmented Sleep" is making it work with the normal chronological rhythms of mode
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The NYT article is better than the BBC one, imo. I think the idea here is (or should be) that not eve
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1. All the difference is the difference is in waking up normally, at light stages in a sleep cycle, as opposed to being woken up forcefully when you're likely to be into a deeper stage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep#Sleep_stages [wikipedia.org] Referring to the sleep diagram there, if you're woken up at any point where you're deeper than stage 1, it has a very stressful effect on the brain. If you're woken up from stage 3 or 4 of a cycle, you'd be worse off than
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Re:I call bullshit (Score:4, Informative)
This is actually not uncommon, especially with younger infants. If they have issue breastfeeding and you have to use formula; the first few weeks you typically have to feed them every 3-4 hours since they taking in smaller amounts more frequently. As they begin to put on a small amount of weight their appetite increases so they can eat more in one feeding but need fewer feedings. But yes that first 1-2 months can be like this. It was for both of my boys.
Re:I call bullshit (Score:5, Informative)
You wake your kids up to feed them? Seriously? Whatever ever happened to feeding the kid when it wakes up hungry and demands it? I'm no expert, but waking the kid up to feed it sounds like a bad pattern to get into for the kid.
You're right. You're not an expert. For newborns, making sure they stay nourished is extremely important especially in the first month or so. So if you have a fussy eater or the mom has trouble nursing and wants to be sure the child is getting her milk (better in many ways than any formula out there - especially early on), then yes you might have to wake the baby up every couple of hours.
Pre-industrial? (Score:4, Insightful)
There's countless millions of pre-industrial people alive today. Do they commonly exhibit this behavior? You don't need to dig through medieval diaries when there are humans alive now who exist at varied levels of social and technological development. I'm more interested how agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies treat sleep today than urban Europeans a few hundred years ago. Urban Europeans have always engaged in bizarre activities.
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There's countless millions of pre-industrial people alive today. Do they commonly exhibit this behavior?
That's an interesting question, but we may be unable to answer it. Even in supposedly pre-industrial segments of the world population, artificial light at night is more common than it was back in the 17th century. So it might be difficult, if not impossible, to find a truly pre-industrial population to study.
Also, from TFA:
"In the early 1990s, psychiatrist Thomas Wehr conducted an experiment in which a group of people were plunged into darkness for 14 hours every day for a month. It took some time for their
Re:Pre-industrial? (Score:5, Informative)
Yes modern pre-industrial societies have segmented sleep. Their sleeping pattern in more fluid with daytime napping as an option. They keep their infants near when sleeping. Chimps also have segmented sleep.
Your sleep needs reflect the prior two weeks of accumulated debt. It can easily take more than a week to catch up on what you have been missing. The early stages don't feel great. In human studies where subjects live without time cues (free running experiments) they initially sleep up to eleven hours at a time then shift to segmented sleep. Long interrupted sleep feels great when you are sleep deprived. It is actually a good gauge of your sleep deprivation.
Sleep restricted people (e.g. getting 6 hours every night) have the same impairment as those who have pulled an all nighter but lack the insight into their cognitive impairment. There is also a loss of effective self monitoring and the ability to learn effectively from mistakes (especially negative input). That probably applies to most slashdotters.
Doctors and new parents have interrupted sleep inflicted on them when trying to fit in with the industrial modern work week (9 AM to 5 PM; 40 hours a week). This is not compatible. Those of you who call BS based on those experiences are feeling tired due to accumulated sleep debt.
The long term consequences of sleep deprivation or restriction: obesity, hypertension, diabetes , cardiovascular disease (MI Stroke), impaired immune function and cognitive emotional impairment (ADD, depression etc). There is an overall higher mortality rate due to these problems.
Siesta (Score:5, Informative)
Plenty of the Latin countries still adhere to a segmented sleep pattern.
In my personal case, the period between 1 and 4 pm is useless for getting anything creative accomplished and my emotional state and creativity peaks in the hours beginning at dusk and for many hours after.
The pattern of siesta and staying up late for dinner, etc. seems to fit this pattern quite nicely.
Finally, some vindication (Score:5, Funny)
And my wife keeps asking why I insist on waking every 10 minutes to search the house...and also sleep propped up in a chair with a loaded gun beside me.
See, honey, THIS IS WHY!
Does this mean I get first and second breakfast to (Score:2)
Does this mean I get first and second breakfast too? Those hobbits were on to something!!
Other primates? (Score:5, Interesting)
I wonder, does anybody know how other primates handle sleep? If it's ingrained as they say, one would think our ancestors would also display the same tendencies.
Life Expectancy (Score:2, Insightful)
Also, people used to have shorter lives. Perhaps due to not enough sleep.
Night is no refuge (Score:2)
With all the glowing screens and communication devices we have, it's easy to fill every hour at night as full as you would during the day.
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The next best kind would be (Score:5, Funny)
Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind.
The next best kind would perhaps be the coitus one?
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Interrupted Sleep Might Be the Best Kind.
The next best kind would perhaps be the coitus one?
You mean when you're fucking tired?
I can agree with this. (Score:3)
Some of my best/most productive days have been on 3-4 hours of sleep.
No. (Score:2)
I can't agree with this. Sometimes I take a nap after work, then am up way too late, and then get about half a night's sleep. I definitely feel worse than I would if I slept uninterrupted for 9 hours, even if that might be the total of the two halves.
Apples and oranges? (Score:2)
the naval author Nicholas Montsarrat did this (Score:3, Informative)
He was noted for having maintained, by preference, the split-shift sleeping schedule which he'd become accustomed to while serving in the Navy even after the war --- this was noted in the biographical notes section of at least one printing of his unfinished book _The Master Mariner_.
Not interrupted, but segmented! (Score:2)
Those that complain that they have experienced interrupted sleep (e.g. with kids, medical profession, etc.) and prefer uninterrupted sleep are missing the point.
The article talks about "segmented sleep", let's say you sleep 4 hours at night and 4 hours in the day.
In other words, you go to sleep and naturally wake up whenever your body feels like (nothing interrupted the sleep), then get active, the go to sleep again and naturally wake up again (nothing interrupted the sleep), then get active again. Rinse a
Naps (Score:5, Funny)
Or as they are commonly known in the post-industrial world: meetings.
Snooze (Score:2)
On call from hell (Score:3)
I had an "on-call" week from hell before Christmas last year. Didn't get more than 3 hours of contiguous sleep that week. I caught strep throat and was sick my entire Christmas vacation (both days). No, I didn't RTFA, but I think their study must have not taken into account sleep interrupted by external stimuli. I need at least 8 hours in my bed. Asleep or otherwise :D
Cats (Score:5, Funny)
I've noticed my cats also practice interrupted sleep.
They sleep for 11 hours- wake for an hour to eat/use litter box/scratch up the furniture. Then they sleep for 12 more hours.
The cats seem very rested and happy- I think I need to follow the cat model for success.
Re:Cats (Score:4, Funny)
The cats seem very rested and happy- I think I need to follow the cat model for success.
Don't forget, the trick is to rub around other people and meow loudly until you get what you want!
Please report back on your results, though. For some reason, it isn't quite working out for me...
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I think that is how most harrassment cases get started.
Every Year (Score:3)
This story pops up every year, and they always talk about how Ben Franklin would have 2 or 3 one hour stretches of "wakeful sleep" every night. I mean, just imagine that fucker in his old timey pajamas, holding a candle! Haha wow! Maybe we should all sleep like him.
Nope. Fuck you. Interrupted sleep is terrible. If it was good for you, parents of newborns would be so alive, cheerful, youthful, energetic, productive, etc.
The reality is, of course, that they are grumpy, zombies.
Classic fallacy (Score:4, Insightful)
It was done by our 'ancestor' therefor it's the best way to do things.
Studies done with scientific rigor are the only way to determine if breaking up your sleep is optimal.
What makes it better? (Score:3)
Just because humans had to operate under those conditions in the past does not mean that sleeping in that manner was better for health in the long run. Not getting chased by wooly mammoths and saber tooth tigers is another thing we seem to be doing better without.
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Same here. I was utterly miserable for 3 months being woken by a puppy in the night. I never resented my girlfriend so much as when she convinced me a puppy was a good idea. Now the dog is older and fixed and sleeps throughout the night, which makes it high energy by the time we get home, which is its own sorry source of stress before bedtime. I am seriously reconsidering my interest to have kids later in life.
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my guess is that you arent going to sleep at dusk. I have to force myself to stay up until after 10pm to make sure that I dont wake after just a few hours. My natural schedule is to wake around 1 if I go to sleep near 9, and then stay awake several hours, sleeping from 4-5 am until around 8. This does not work with a wife/kids/job etc, so I no longer follow this. It used to drive people crazy that I could get so much done while they were asleep.
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I've got a new puppy waking me up...
The difference is that you're being woken up forcefully, and not waking up naturally. If you wake up during the wrong part of sleep, you often feel worse off than you were when you went to bed.
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yikes! That must be a real bitch.
(sorry)
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Having two children is the hardest thing in the world by leaps and bounds.
I'm sure people with 3 kids would disagree :-P
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Exactly, this theory seems to go against everything they try and tell you when you are diagnosed with apnea...
Re:Or simply, sleep when you're tired (Score:4, Insightful)
Especially active at the equator?
At the equator there are 3 simple rules in life:
1. Dress light but keep your legs covered
2. Be as inactive as possible
3. Avoid the sun.
Re:Or simply, sleep when you're tired (Score:5, Funny)
At the equator there are 3 simple rules in life:
1. Dress light but keep your legs covered
2. Be as inactive as possible
3. Avoid the sun.
Who would have thought the same rules for living at the equator would apply to working in IT.