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Ixarku:
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--- Quote from: Ixarku on July 15, 2011, 09:09:02 PM ---
I also try to avoid drinking anything an hour or two before bed; if I don’t go to the bathroom right before going to sleep, sometimes the need to go will either wake me up during the night, or it won’t, and I’ll sleep more uncomfortably during the night.
That’s pretty much everything I can think of at the moment.
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Did you have an accident or something?
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No, are you stupid or do you just not know how to read?
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: Ixarku on July 17, 2011, 03:33:11 AM ---
--- Quote from: apriuschan on July 17, 2011, 03:02:50 AM ---
--- Quote from: Ixarku on July 15, 2011, 09:09:02 PM ---
I also try to avoid drinking anything an hour or two before bed; if I don’t go to the bathroom right before going to sleep, sometimes the need to go will either wake me up during the night, or it won’t, and I’ll sleep more uncomfortably during the night.
That’s pretty much everything I can think of at the moment.
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Did you have an accident or something?
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No, are you stupid or do you just not know how to read?
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Probably posted without reading OP
Ixarku:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on July 17, 2011, 03:33:41 AM ---Probably posted without reading OP
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More likely, he/she just read something into my original statement instead of reading my post literally, and jumped to an incorrect conclusion. That's a pet peeve of mine -- I normally say exactly what I mean, so I get irritated when people try to read between the lines for something that isn't there.
Saras:
First thing first, 8 hours is not the de facto time every human needs to sleep. Generally, if you get more than ~5-6 hours, you're fine if you feel fine, if not, then sleep some more. Especially if you lead a sedentary life, a.k.a. your body doesn't need to fix muscle/bone tears or just general physical trauma on a day to day basis. No, wankers cramp does not count. Also, I remember reading a study that people who get ~6 hours of sleep a day tend to live longer than the lot doing 8.
Next, there is a distinction between a sleeping drugs and sedatives. Avoid sleeping drugs if they are not vital to your sleep. Sleeping drugs knock you out, they do not get you to actually sleep. A little alcohol works as a sedative, which helps one reduce the amount of time to fall to sleep. However, anything beyond the little, and your body has to kick itself into overdrive to balance your bodies chemical composition, which makes for quite a shitty night of sleep.
Now then, to actual things that will help you. The human body is a slave of habit, so learn to make use of that.
As mentioned, consistency is a good start. If you go to bed every day at 11pm, your body will memorize it and it will become easier to go sleep. Hell I don't even use an alarm clock, I always wake up at 5.55-6.00am. Why? Because I've been doing it for years and my body knows it.
Second, make sure that the bed or the bedroom (optionally, I know some people are basically stuck in a single room) only function is that of sleeping or sex, nothing else. Do not use your as a place to lie down, do not use it to read books, watch movies on your laptop... ect. If you can make your body memorize that the bed = sleep. It'll help a lot in the long run.
Whether exercise or caffeine, tea or warm milk will affect your sleep is very individual and the amount of the effect can range from a mild sedative or disturbance that can be ignored to a "you will not sleep" drug.
Also, if you do indeed sleep for ~8+ hours a night. It is not rare to wake up in the middle of the night after a few hours sleep. It is a natural adaptation to the long nights of the winter cycle. It's not a problem or an issue, just stay still for a few minutes and you'll fall asleep again.
For the blue light problem, there's a free program called F.lux, which adjust the "coldness" of the display based on the position of the sun. I'd recommend it if you use the computer throughout the day.
kitamesume:
actually what sleeping fixes is your brain plus some of the stuffs you mentioned, but most of the wounds will heal even while awake.
what your brain does during your sleep is that it relocates your memories on newer cells and replace the old cells with newer ones. memories cannot relocate while awake because your brain is currently using it and/or processing it(most likely overwrite or recollecting), memories stored on brain cells thats damaged would be lost obviously and cannot be relocated to a more stable cell.
to make it simpler, think about the brain cells as harddrives that lasts a week or two, you`ll have to relocate the contents to a newer harddrive and replace the almost dead harddrives with a newer one. good thing our brain cells isnt working like a raid-0 right? you`d forget everything even if a single cell dies, though i think it works like a raid-10 or raid-5 "if a chunk of it fails all at once then the whole raid dies" which then applies to amnesia. *chuckles*
so in conclusion, forcing your self to stay awake is bad, its either the newer memories would be written on failing cells and be forgotten after a while, or the older memories will be forgotten.
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