Do you guys ever sleep?

jazmunda · November 10, 2013, 04:11:52 AM

Why are you all awake?

This is my time to cruise the board in relative peace.

So what's keeping you up? What's waking you up so early?

Insomniacs? Night Owls? Early Birds?

area51drone · November 10, 2013, 04:30:26 AM

I am almost always up... I get maybe 3 hours of sleep a night.

jazmunda · November 10, 2013, 04:35:55 AM

Quote from: area51drone on November 10, 2013, 04:30:26 AM
I am almost always up... I get maybe 3 hours of sleep a night.

Wow! Can you function normally with such little sleep? I'm a mess if I don't get 6 or 7 hours a night.

area51drone · November 10, 2013, 05:33:46 AM

Quote from: jazmunda on November 10, 2013, 04:35:55 AM
Wow! Can you function normally with such little sleep? I'm a mess if I don't get 6 or 7 hours a night.

I don't know. Occasionally I nap. Usually on a weekend night I will crash for longer. Just a shitty sleep schedule I guess.

onan · November 10, 2013, 06:02:28 AM

A couple of Docs I work with have told me they trained themselves to falll into a REM sleep more quickly than normal sleep. And in doing so have cut the amount of time they sleep. They have been doing it for years... I don't notice any odd behaviors. Who knows perhaps they play catch up sleep on the weekends.

Mind Flayer Monk · November 10, 2013, 06:19:43 AM

As a weird side note, a few years back I read some book on using your dreams (sleeping dreams) as inspiration for the explicit purpose of being able to work more. So I could turn that 5 hours into something useful.

analog kid · November 10, 2013, 07:12:31 AM

Quote from: area51drone on November 10, 2013, 04:30:26 AM
I am almost always up... I get maybe 3 hours of sleep a night.

I can get four hours normally, with occasional bouts of insomnia where I'm lucky to get two. And I normally have to induce sleep with benadryl.

BobGrau · November 10, 2013, 07:26:35 AM

Since my first night shift job in 2004 I've tended to get a proper sleep only every second night. But I'm a writhing shambles of pot, coffee and SSRIs, so who can say what's normal? Clearly not me.

analog kid · November 10, 2013, 08:36:24 AM

Quote from: BobGrau on November 10, 2013, 07:26:35 AM
Since my first night shift job in 2004 I've tended to get a proper sleep only every second night. But I'm a writhing shambles of pot, coffee and SSRIs, so who can say what's normal? Clearly not me.

SSRIs fix me right up. I can sleep like a baby and pop out of bed in the morning feeling like a million bucks. As soon as I got off of them my health tanked. Probably stress related.