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01:52 / 19.02.04

How sleep do people get? How does it affect you? Personally, on days when I do not have to go into work, I often stay up till 3 or 4 and sleep till noon or 2pm. When I do have to go into the office, I'll often turn in at midnight, 1am or 2am and get up at 7am (although I usally hit the snooze button 3 or 4 times). If I do not get enough sleep, like staying up till 3 while playing Morrowind and then getting up at 7, several nights in a run I feel terrible weird and eventually hallunicate mildly. I never seem to get enough sleep, even when I stay in bed till past noon several days in a row.

What are other ppl's experiences with sleep?

02:07 / 19.02.04

I have a love/hate relationship with sleep. Really If I did not ever have to sleep that would be great. I am usually so busy with work and spending time with "the other half" that I never seem to have enough for myslef. Now if I coukd take that 8 hour chunk of the day for myself, bwahhh hahaha, bwahhh hahahaha. Oh the things I would do, but by 12 AM, i'm crashin' and hittin' the snooze a few times come 6 in the morning.
I had a bout of insomnia for 2 weeks once, where I only slept about 1-2 hours a day. I was OK for the first couple of days, then the hallucinations, paranoia, etc set in, aftar about 11 days or so, I could not move from my bed, I was sitting there crying, could not think / function. Good ole' pills to the rescue. had to go to the doctor to get fixed up. A very ugly part of my life indeed.

02:11 / 19.02.04

I thought about this today. Most people I know who are wasters like myself, and neednt get up early for anything, say that they go noctural.

Likewise, my natural sleep pattern is around 5am-3pm. Which makes me wonder. Because supposedly there are chemicals realeased in daylight to keep us awake, and sleep when its dark. Are these screwed up by artificial lights, or have they been missed out in our generation? And there are health risks to nightshift workers. Are they the same as to norcturnal non-workers?

But 10 hours a day is good. I went on about half that for 10 years. And stunted my growth. But thats what happens when they make school co-incide with growing time.

03:08 / 19.02.04

I'm with lukabeast. I would go without sleep if I could.. I usually get 6-8 hours a night, and lately it seems I'm unable to wake myself up and be coherent enough to get up until almost exactly 8 hours have passed... I'm sure once Spring returns I can happily go back to 6 hours max...

06:46 / 19.02.04

My sleeping patterns way mad. Not trying to be the 'maddest' or anything, just saying that almost every 24hr period lately i've been staying up until about 8am-2pm after being up right through the night, and then getting up at about 1-5pm.

Sleep is not in my meme's at the moment, sleep is an illusion!!!

I've either been up all night reality hacking, up all night learning PC hacking, (hacking, not cracking) or just up all night being an internet forum obsessive in-between reading/learning bits of magic here and there.

No job : night-time : no sleep! I do seriously worry about what it does to my health though, and also the sunlight factor, or lack of it that has already been mentioned further up by gingerbop. I just love staying up all night, something i never grew out of right from being a kid. Back on a course soon though so i'm a bit gutted, no more nocturnal madness for me.

Should be good to get out into the 'real world', whatever the fuck that is.

Hmff.

How come i just got so talkative all of a sudden? Do any of you people also make a really short post sometimes and then when you check through it, start adding more and more until it becomes a lot, lot, longer?

07:12 / 19.02.04

Eon: Yep.

I'm regulated by a 9-5 job, so I do have regular sleeping patterns. I actually think the lethargy of the job tires me out, sitting in front of the computer all day - it's not a good tired though, like when your physically exhausted, it's a sluggish tired. Exercise at luchtimes helps get round this but not as much as doing a job where I like, actually used my body would - I do think current working practices are bad for our long term health, but then if I had a physical job I wouldn't post on here all the time. Hey hey.

Erm, where was I? Oh, sleep.. I get about 6 and a half to seven hours a night which is fine, I do sleep in at weekends though and it's like the extra sleep gives me a few spare hours - if I've laid in on both mornings, till about 9-10, I find I can stay up till 1-2 Sunday night with no ill effects. At the moment, I've got bonus "sleep hours" c'cos I had an early night and a lie in sometime in the week. Feel like I could stay up late tonight without ill effectts. Do need that 5 minute power kip on the tube on the way home though - feels like it resets my system.

07:16 / 19.02.04

Put it this way: I had my last exam last week, and apart from writing my dissertation in the next couple of months, I have no plans or commitments. I have no particular plans for today.

I still set my alarm for 9am. And I actually woke up at about 8.15.

Whenever I have to get up for stuff, I groan and wish I could sleep in. But whenever I have the chance to sleep in, I don't. I think my approach to sleep is quite conventional. I like to get a decent nights sleep from between 10 and 12 to between 8 and 9. Although I do find it hard to get myself to bed that early sometimes, cos I'm quite restless and I tend to put it off.

I really don't think I enjoy sleep as much as I could. I think sleep is a great thing, but you need to have the capacity to really let go of yourself in order to enjoy it. Wierd as it probably sounds, I deliberately try to think about stuff so as to make the time just before sleeping productive. I feel lazy if I just lie there. I'm not very good at relaxing, which is why I probably feel tired quite a lot of the time.

07:27 / 19.02.04

I have 5 week old twins and will come round and flens the next person who uses the term "lie-in" or the words "sleep" and "pattern" in the same sentence.

07:47 / 19.02.04

Cash: Sorry.

07:51 / 19.02.04

Actually, what does "flens" mean? Does it mean you'll come round and clean my teeth with a piece of string?

07:58 / 19.02.04

Er, I meant flense - to strip the skin from or flay. Sleep deprivation is a funny thing though, and it wouldn't surprise me if I went round threatening to floss people though.

10:32 / 19.02.04

At university, I mainly slept when I actually felt tired, which would usually be about 4am, or later (often found the 25 hour pattern seemed to happen), and then slept for about 8 hours or so, and most of the time got enough sleep. Now I work, I have to be awake at 7.30am, so to get 8 hours means going to bed ridiculously early, and I try, but I never feel tired at the time I'm supposed to sleep. It's been a few years now since I left university, but I still haven't properly adapted to sleeping at 'normal' times. Sometimes I contemplate trying to sleep when I get home from work, and then being awake for a few hours, and then going to work after that. Never actually tried that though.

18:02 / 19.02.04

Anthropologists who study this kind of thing find that people who work less end up using their free time to sleep more. When I was on the dole, I certainly found that to be the case.

Huh, I went to be bed before midnight, I think, last night. I still feel totally weird. Maybe I am getting a cold.

-Jesse

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

19:21 / 19.02.04

I average 5-6 hours per night. If I don't get that, I am pretty sluggish during the day. I work from 7:30 am to 4:30 pm, so I usualy get to sleep at midnight or shortly thereafter and get up at 6 am. I used to run for months on 3-4 hours per night. I hate getting older.

01:00 / 20.02.04

I love sleep. I'd probably sleep twelve to fourteen hours a day if allowed, as it stands, I'm useless with less than seven. I've been like this ever since I had mono and lyme disease. I can fall asleep almost anywhere, at any time of day.

Unfortunately, it's kind of a waste of time, although dreams and nightmares are certainly interesting. I do miss the days in my youth when I could get by on two or three hours for days at a time; I just got so much more done.

On the other hand, though, my blood pressure rarely gets over 100/70, and is usually closer to 85/60, which may or may not be related to the amount of sleep I get. I'm kinda like a sloth- I don't have to eat a whole lot, I sleep a lot, but so far I haven't managed to grow my own moss.