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- kazem, on 10/20/2008, -5/+91dugg for the girl in the photo
- 9bpm9, on 10/20/2008, -3/+664 or 5 hours a night on weekdays and then 12-14 on Saturday.
- Acqua206, on 10/20/2008, -4/+52This is a BS article meant to make us feel guilty for getting 7-8 hrs of sleep so they can get a few more work hours out of us peasants.
- FriedTurkey, on 10/20/2008, -0/+46How come if I only get 5 hours of sleep I feel like *****?
- perrysalyer, on 10/20/2008, -2/+38it wouldn't matter as long as i could sleep with her
- Fryth, on 10/20/2008, -1/+37Frankly, because your body is right... and this guy is wrong.
- iLEZ, on 10/20/2008, -1/+32Bill Hicks:
"I need my sleep, I really do. About 8 hours a day......
.....and 10 at night and I'm good" - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+29I don't really care. I love sleeping and I'll do as much of it as I damn well please! :-]
- DirectTulip, on 10/18/2008, -0/+27A lot :)
- zephyrnug, on 10/20/2008, -0/+16sounds about right to me.
- Psicho, on 10/20/2008, -0/+14Every couple of weeks a new research comes out stating that we either sleep too much, and therefore should be sleeping 6 hours a night, or that we sleep too little, and we should sleep at least 9 hours a day.
I personally stopped reading them because clearly it's a wildly misunderstood issue at the current stage and one must stick to what make one feel functional. If I sleep less than 8 hours a day, I feel crappy. If I sleep 9 hours a day, I feel pretty good and can function rather well. That works for me. - inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+14The non-peasants. a.k.a. well lubed propoganda machine.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+13Varies with person. There is no one right answer.
It depends on your genetic make-up, your environment, your stress levels, your overall health, your diet... just to name just a few variables. - tallguyg, on 10/20/2008, -2/+14that is an unhealthy sleep schedule.
- shinpoe, on 10/20/2008, -0/+12in college and that sounds about right
- indiancompanion, on 10/20/2008, -0/+12worst thing to do is get 2-3 hours of sleep, tried it once, found it better to just stay awake and go to sleep the next day early and enjoy it
- jamauss, on 10/20/2008, -2/+13I don't know why this kind of stuff crops up every few months or so.
Listen - you need *approximately* 8 hours of sleep. It's doesn't really take sleep experts or science to prove this out. Just start getting lesson than 8 and watch how tired you become. wow. - aobtd, on 10/20/2008, -0/+11yup
- ligyron, on 10/20/2008, -0/+10Someone should invent an alarm that detects REM patterns while you sleep and wake you up when one has ended. So if you set your alarm for 5:30 and your latest REM state ended at 5:05 (you go through several REM "sessions" during the night), it'll wake you up before a new one starts. I rather get up 30 minutes early if it means I feel refreshed and ready to go about my day than get an extra 30 minutes of sleep and feel like *****
- Quake120, on 10/20/2008, -1/+11I think I saw something on Digg once about some pill or medicine that removes the need for sleep for up to a week and supposedly has no ill effects. If I could stay awake for a week at a time, I'd get an insane amount of stuff accomplished.
- Dathadorne, on 10/20/2008, -1/+10Very poorly written article. Uses words like "most" and "rarely" with no statistical evidence; regardless of what doctorate he has, this is an opinion article.
- GodCast, on 10/20/2008, -1/+10They already have: http://www.sleeptracker.com
- Quake120, on 10/20/2008, -3/+12I've always heard that if you wake up right at the end of the 1 hour, 30 minute sleep cycle, you'll feel refreshed even if you only took a 90 minute nap. I tried it out once and it definitely worked. If you've ever woken from a nap and felt more tired than when you fell asleep, try setting an alarm for 90 minutes later than the time you are laying down to take a nap.
I think you could apply the same theory to sleeping at night. Just set your alarm to go off at the end of some number of 90 minute cycles.
Oh and by the way, I'd hit that...The girl on that page is pretty cute. - PandaChi, on 10/20/2008, -1/+9"Your bed: Don't scrimp - this is where you will spend 25 years of your life."
Wow, this makes me sad - imagine all the productivity to be had if we didn't need to sleep or had a machine which could drastically reduce the amount of sleep we needed! It's like living an extra half-life... - d33213, on 10/20/2008, -7/+14I am sleeping right now..
- Tsumuji, on 10/20/2008, -0/+7The man.
- kihadat, on 10/20/2008, -1/+8I've slept four hours a night since I was a teenager, and I always feel great. Plus, I add about 10 or 15 years to my life just by sleeping that much less! I'm awesome.
- ripple123, on 10/20/2008, -1/+7"You could sprinkle a tiny amount of lavender oil on your pillow or spray some in the air." Hmmm. Well I would, but I don't have a vagina.
- iLEZ, on 10/20/2008, -0/+6Not WITH people.
- EntangledPhysx, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5That's weird. If i sleep more than 8 hours a day, my back starts to hurt. Probably from the tossing and turning and sleeping at awkward angles.
- dbug, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5Sleep deprivation is sexy!
- bootlegapparel, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5I need 8, at LEAST.
This sounds like it came from some corporate sponsored *****, some company wants to increase the standing working hours. - MasterRaistlin, on 10/20/2008, -1/+6yup...90 min works....also 45 min intervals I read somewhere.
- richthomas, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5Summary:
- We tend to sleep more than our ancestors as we have comfy beds, work less, hustle and bustle world with internets therefore making us more tired. (ever over slept?)
- Mid and Hind brain dont need sleep.
- Cortex that controls motor fucntions needs sleep.
- Study done on man not sleeping for 4 days straight, was grumpy, could not percive what was going on around him and hallucinating but could play ping pong remarkably well? - spyd3rweb, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5Yeah the corporations have a hard on for a 18hr work day. Sleep is the only thing standing in their way of that.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -1/+6That's why I dream awesomely and occasionally lucid dream. It makes sleep way more awesome.
- zephyrnug, on 10/20/2008, -0/+5I'll spend the extra awake time with her, that's what I'd do.
- shiftB, on 10/20/2008, -2/+6sleep = fail
i can sleep when I'm dead - KMartSheriff, on 10/20/2008, -0/+4Is that even possible? A pill? Sleeping does a number of things that (I doubt) a pill could ever do. I'm probably wrong somehow, but still. I've read we're still not even 100% sure what sleeping entirely does.
- Dathadorne, on 10/20/2008, -1/+5Your cognitive and memory abilities are likely much lower than they would be if you were sleeping from midnight to 8am each day.
- LordVoldemort, on 10/20/2008, -1/+5Maybe people today require more sleep, because they think more. There are a lot more white-collar jobs today than there were a century ago.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3$150+... *****.... I'm cheap.
- inactive, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3Exactly. I don't know why EVERY goddamn year we have this kind of reports. Everybody is different in that respect.
- ripple123, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3In other news, a leading sleep expert is wrong.
- RobotBuddha, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3I gave that a try when it first hit the net. Turns out my cats always wanted to go to sleep if I did, and also took almost 15 minutes to decide where they wanted to sleep. So pretty much the entire sleep period would be them waking me up while trying to get a good spot. A desk at the school library was actually a lot better.
- Cherubim, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3Digg users sleep ?
- Garmr, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3It's the war against sleep...
- Vorphlack, on 10/20/2008, -3/+6I call BS as well - I keep running across that bit of trivia that says: before the electric light everyone slept for 10 hours a night, and that's pretty much what I need to feel good.
- ChaSchva, on 10/20/2008, -1/+4Excellent. My coffee IV may still be marketable...
- nowhereelse, on 10/20/2008, -0/+3A circadian rhythm cycles at about 1 day ('circa diem' is latin for 'about a day'). If yours is much longer you're probably an alien.
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