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Sleep poll.

How much sleep do you need to function?

  • Solid routine schedule.

    Votes: 4 14.3%

  • Random schedule.

    Votes: 5 17.9%

  • 3-5 hours.

    Votes: 4 14.3%

  • 6-8 hours.

    Votes: 15 53.6%

  • 9-12 hours.

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Random numbers of hours.

    Votes: 4 14.3%

  • Awake for long stretches, sleep for long stretches.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I have trouble with my sleep.

    Votes: 8 28.6%

  • I sleep perfectly fine.

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Other (please specify)

    Votes: 1 3.6%
  • Total voters
    28
I don't understand how people take naps. Pretty sure there is some residual hyper-vigilance and unfound guilt of being deemed 'lazy' going on behind that...
 
Darkkin said:
I don't understand how people take naps. Pretty sure there is some residual hyper-vigilance and unfound guilt of being deemed 'lazy' going on behind that...
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Well, I'll pass on a siesta. But pass the tapas please !
 
@Judge , my mum naps, and she is 98. She probably wouldn't like to be described as elderly though, still! Maybe it starts around 110?
 
I have always had unusual sleep habits, but now, getting enough is what rules my life. After the last sleep-related PTSD catalyst, I was having semi-random naps, to total about five hours per day. I was satisfied if I could drive without nodding. After several years, I learned that if I could get seven hours, I could enjoy life, make small talk, notice significant facts about my house, and so on. Almost anything, such as a mild manic episode, can make me forget how to fall asleep, which is why I'm up now.
 
I think that a successful tribe of humans has a large majority of people active during the day, but also requires a few natural-born night watchmen. I think I'm one of those, but I can'f follow that schedule here.
 
Thinx said:
@Judge , my mum naps, and she is 98. She probably wouldn't like to be described as elderly though, still! Maybe it starts around 110?
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My mother napped my entire life. She lived to be 81. But clearly it wasn't hereditary.

Naps just wreck me. Go figure...
 
Thinx said:
@Judge , my mum naps, and she is 98. She probably wouldn't like to be described as elderly though, still! Maybe it starts around 110?
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I am 44 and I feel ancient. I could tell I was ancient when they started playing Alice in Chains on the classic rock stations around here. I should be too young for the music of my childhood to be considered "classic rock". Add in a decade ago, I was playing Depeche Mode at my job, and a younger woman there complained that she did not want to listen to "oldies" like that. WTH?
 
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