• Night owls risk dying younger, should sleep in: study
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I hate sleep. Falling asleep takes forever and is boring as hell, waking up is extremely uncomfortable and sometimes painful.
I get occasional but extremely distressing night terrors. Because of that, sleep has picked up this subtext of fear/danger for me, resulting in me essentially avoiding it subconsciously. Horray for sleep disorders
It's a wonder you're still here. Honestly surprised you haven't left to Neogaf or something.
With some years now doing my activities around 6-8PM, I simply can't sleep at the intended time anymore, I feel it is too early. Sleeping has always been a chore for me when I try to keep the ideal cycle. Daily schedules aside, I'm quite slow to fall asleep since I was 9 years old and I always needed 40 minutes minimum to relax and keep my mind empty for the time required. Moving my free time near/after midnight is the perfect time to avoid all the noise around and relax before going to sleep. Not to mention my brother next to me snoring almost every night at almost unhealthy levels.
I don’t really subscribe to the idea that being awake at night is magically bad for you. Humans are insanely adaptable. i work graveyard (night) shifts, and have been for almost 2 years. I get my 8 hours of sleep during the morning instead of the night. It’s pretty natural for me. It seems that the article is moreso describing people with inconsistent rest/sleep patterns and people being overworked and staying up later and later as a result.
I've heard so many of these types of headlines that are obviously about creating fear to attract eyes, as a young lad i delivered papers and one of them in particular.. nearly everyday there would be a health related issue on at least one of the covers with a random statistic. I'm not going to protest the accuracy of the study at hand but if i spent every day worrying about what would shorten my life then i think it'd kill my enjoyment of alot of things. I feel like i'm stating the obvious but take what you want out of it and change yourself if you want to but don't let statistics rule your life because it's easy to get wrapped up in that culture.
I usually can't sleep more than 6 hours and I'm tired all the time. When I sleep more, I feel more tired. I really ought to go to a doctor.
I go to sleep at 4 am, thank god I go to class in the afternoon.
I used to be a night owl in my younger years. Now I worked so many different shifts with varying times that I don't have time for being up late anymore. 9-10, maybe 11 hours of sleep is fucking a m a z i n g
Going from a 9am-5 job to 3pm-11 or 4pm-12 shifts has been amazing for me. One of the best parts of my job is feeling like I get to sleep in every day.
If you sleep right, eat healthy, and exercise, you're still going to die.
That's basically why I love closing shifts at my job when they give them to me and absolutely LOATH opening shifts. I do not want to and struggle to get up at 4:30 in the fucking morning. I'm groggy, irritated, and don't want to deal with anyone.
I had my work schedule changed from 9-5 to 9.30-5.30 and honestly it makes such a difference.
Both jobs where I've had to start around 9 I have loathed the morning experience. I despise this early morning culture, but I guess that's how it works.
My solution: never go to sleep.
I have to wake up at 5am to open a shop at 6.30 even though no customers show up until 10am at the very earliest and I can feel my stress levels going through the roof.
Yeah, this has been a problem for me since forever. Everyone else in my family was a morning person who woke up at 6:00 even during weekends and started blasting music (6 people in the family) and they viewed me sleeping until ~10:00 (would have slept in more but they pretty much slapped me awake at that time) as a complete freak. I work 8:00 - 16:00 and have to wake up at 6:00 during weekdays. It's absolutely devastating every single time. I'm a genuine zombie even after I've arrived at work and usually start actually waking up at around 9:00 (after coffee). During weekends I go to bed after midnight and sleep in late (usually almost until 12:00). My wife wakes up early but thankfully she understands me and does stuff wearing headphones and silently reads the news etc. My wife has said she clearly notices how I deteriorate towards the end of the week and become refreshed by sunday. I expect genuine, terrible health problems when I'm 50 solely because of this.
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