[HN Gopher] Bluntly Stated: The Impacts of Lack of Sleep ___________________________________________________________________ Bluntly Stated: The Impacts of Lack of Sleep Author : belkarx Score : 21 points Date : 2022-02-02 22:10 UTC (50 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (belkarx.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (belkarx.github.io) | 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. | [deleted] | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-02-02 23:00 UTC)