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Saras:

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--- Quote from: Saras on July 17, 2011, 11:43:40 AM ---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.

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its also not uncommon for people to be fine on 3-5 hours of sleep.


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The number of people who are fully functional and productive with less, than 5 hours of sleep a night on a day to day basis is very low. There are some such cases, but chances are, you're not one of em and neither is anyone in the forums.

Normal people can technically live with around 4 hours of sleep a day, but if you keep it up, those days will likely be ones of lethargy. Also, in recent studies, a link between sleep deprivation and depression has been established and in a lot of cases, that is given as the reason for rise in the commonness of depression since the second half of the 20th century in the developed areas of the world.

ichigoTAN:

--- Quote from: Takeshi on July 16, 2011, 06:29:58 AM ---Hmm, I used to pull all-nighters, and then go to school, needless to say, I wasn't able to perform well, but it was necessary to get my homework done. I'd do one of the following things-

- sleep a few hours when I got back, and then wait until I was supposed to sleep
- sleep fully out although that forced me to stay in bed quite a long time while not being able to sleep
- go out and run 4km, it's enough to make you tired though you have to wait until you're supposed to sleep
- watch one movie before sleeping, put on a no-brainer movie like Transformers

what not to do-

- play a game
- drink coffee (you don't really realize it's late until you look at the time since you don't feel sleepy at all, but it's also hard to get sleepy once you decide to hit the sack)

ichigoTAN, that sounds really unhealthy, perhaps find a game that doesn't require you to miss out on sleep?

I've been sleeping somewhat normally since I finished studying, and I feel great. Then again, am almost 23 instead of 20 when I started studying...

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My rank of that game being on top is the result of those miss-out sleeps hahaha! 8)

Edit: *BUMP

If I may ask again... Will it be alright if I didn't sleep for 7-8 hours straight... Let's say 4 hours, is it alright if I sleep again for 3-4 hours just to accumulate 7-8 hours? Because my uncle said it is OK as long as I complete the normal hours regardless of waking up from time to time...

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