How many hours of sleep
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Good sleep feels great but after a few hours I wake up hourly and my hands are in severe pain. My hips and legs too. I also have to use the bathroom during the night/morning.I like to take naps, too. I love to sleep.
I think you have an othoritis (sp).
No, she has had normal difficulty, while I have never been able to fall asleep easy. Once I am asleep, it is easy, but falling to sleep scares me!
Let's get some more polls votes please.
You would be the medical ideal. :thumb:
At night, I usually sleep anywhere between 5 to 8 hours, depending on how active my mind is. I usually have to read to get to sleep. And, I take short naps throughout the day. I've always had problems sleeping.
Turns out, it's normal for humans to sleep for a few hours, wake up and putter around a bit, and then sleep again.
Before the industrial revolution, it was a common pattern. It was called "second sleep."
Interestingly, the appearance of sleep maintenance insomnia in the literature in the late 19th century coincides with the period where accounts of split sleep start to disappear. Thus, modern society may place unnecessary pressure on individuals that they must obtain a night of continuous consolidated sleep every night, adding to the anxiety about sleep and perpetuating the problem.
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shifts-and-maybe-we-should-start-to-again
Freed from work schedules by retirement, I've been experimenting with this, and I frequently wake up about 2:00 or so. Rather than lie there, I spend about an hour writing in the journal, processing pictures or putzing about on the net.
Then I go back to sleep until 6:30 or so, when the dog thinks she must have a walk.
Works for me.
Before the industrial revolution, it was a common pattern. It was called "second sleep."
Interestingly, the appearance of sleep maintenance insomnia in the literature in the late 19th century coincides with the period where accounts of split sleep start to disappear. Thus, modern society may place unnecessary pressure on individuals that they must obtain a night of continuous consolidated sleep every night, adding to the anxiety about sleep and perpetuating the problem.
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-used-to-sleep-in-two-shifts-and-maybe-we-should-start-to-again
Freed from work schedules by retirement, I've been experimenting with this, and I frequently wake up about 2:00 or so. Rather than lie there, I spend about an hour writing in the journal, processing pictures or putzing about on the net.
Then I go back to sleep until 6:30 or so, when the dog thinks she must have a walk.
Works for me.
genuineoriginal
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I get about the same amount of sleep every night.
If I go to bed early enough to get the recommended amount of sleep, I wake up so early it throws off my entire morning.
If I go to bed early enough to get the recommended amount of sleep, I wake up so early it throws off my entire morning.