[HN Gopher] Bluntly Stated: The Impacts of Lack of Sleep
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Bluntly Stated: The Impacts of Lack of Sleep
Author : belkarx
Score : 21 points
Date : 2022-02-02 22:10 UTC (50 minutes ago)
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| donkarma wrote:
| preaching to the choir, everyone wants sleep
| jsrcout wrote:
| I've had terrible sleep issues forever. Finally got my sleep
| apnea and insomnia sorted out some years back (CPAP and
| melatonin+magnesium took care of it for me) and the difference is
| just incredible. I mean I would worry on a daily basis that I was
| going to black out at work and hit my head on my desk. (While
| still putting out decent work most of the time - not completely
| sure how). I no longer take multi-hour naps several evenings a
| week after work. I can't overstate the difference it's made in my
| life.
|
| Anyway, if you suffer from sleep issues, I urge you to take it
| seriously and do anything in your power to mitigate them.
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| Melatonic wrote:
| I tried to finish the original article but I was just too
| tired...
| dvh wrote:
| Is 8h sleep from 22:00 to 6:00 qualitatively equivalent to 8h
| sleep from 00:00 to 8:00?
| jimt1234 wrote:
| This is a question I've had for years: Does time of day matter
| for sleep?
|
| If I go to sleep on a "normal" schedule (wake up, start day
| around 7am), I need 8 hours. However, I can totally survive,
| and even thrive, with just 5-ish hours of sleep, if I can wake
| up around 11am, going to sleep just before dawn.
|
| Not a doctor, so I don't know the answer. My assumption is that
| it depends on the person. I'm a night-person, so naturally the
| waking-at-11am schedule works best for me. But staying awake
| until 5:30am is unthinkable for most morning people.
| thret wrote:
| The end of your life is not guaranteed. Your life may be
| shortened any number of ways unrelated to how much sleep you have
| had.
|
| Let's say you live to be 90, sleeping 8 hours a day. That's 60
| years of actual living time, 20 of which occur between ages 60
| and 90. If you sleep 4 hours a day and live to be 90, that's 75
| years awake with those extra 15 years spread over your entire
| life - not just the last third which is likely to be less
| enjoyable and productive.
| WilTimSon wrote:
| I'm not sure how much this will do to change anyone. Sure, it's
| bluntly stated but, well, most people realize quite well that
| lack of sleep is awful and dangerous. People don't usually do it
| because they want to do it. Long hours at work, deadlines,
| stress, occasional bout of Netflix addiction. Out of all of
| those, there's only one that's easy to resolve and I'd wager that
| Netflix isn't usually the biggest contributor to chronic lack of
| sleep.
| brimble wrote:
| Imagine a medieval king who decided their castle should be lit
| up like day at nighttime, hundreds of candles in mirror-walled
| rooms, 365 days a year, and also that the entire castle save
| only the bed chamber would host the finest entertainers and all
| the most interesting friends and strangers in the world, party
| games and amusements in a hundred palace rooms, and a mage who
| could show the king any wonder of the world in his crystal
| ball, and a bazaar with the finest goods on display, the best
| academics, et c., et c., basically on tap, and this wild best-
| the-world's-ever-seen carnival would _never_. _Close_. So that
| all the king must do is open his bed chamber door, any hour,
| any day, to be enthusiastically welcomed into a veritable (and
| sometimes literal) orgy of entertainment. 24. 7. Year-round.
|
| Think that king might have a rather _disrupted_ sleep schedule?
| It seems _obviously_ insane to live like that, no? Instant
| reaction is "my god, why would you do that", right?
|
| Consider that a totally ordinary middle class house in the West
| is arguably _worse_ than that.
|
| No wonder everyone "can't" sleep or "is just a night owl"
| (sure, some may actually be, not saying zero people are).
|
| Frankly it's a miracle we get anydamnthing done, and sleep at
| all.
|
| I'd encourage everyone to try candle-only lighting after
| sundown (or maybe _extremely_ dim candle-temp electric
| lighting, though if you 're just trying it briefly consider the
| candles, they're a bad idea for a bunch of reasons long-term
| but fine for a few days--you'd be surprised how little you
| need, I found two beeswax tapers were the minimum to read by
| without discomfort, but my eyes are still young-ish), no
| electric devices whatsoever (there's actually still a ton you
| can do--card games, board games, play music, read, draw, write,
| et c.), no whole-room lighting, just for a week or so. See if
| you're still a "night person" by day 7.
| cassianoleal wrote:
| Also being a night person on a day people's world.
| WilTimSon wrote:
| Yup. Even being a day person and maintaining a solid schedule
| is hard. Oh, you'd like to go to bed on time but the
| two/three friends you still retain as an adult want to have a
| drink because today's the only day of the week they're free.
| And then tomorrow you want to go to sleep early but it's
| cleaning day and you need to do it cause then it'll be a
| tough day at work and so on, forever and ever.
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