Anyone having sleep problems?

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    Maybe it's my body clock, but in the last few years I've been waking up between 4 and 6 am every morning no matter what time I go to sleep. The secret is to try to close my eyes at no later than 11 pm, but with one thing and another, it never works out like that so I sometimes end up with only about four hours sleep.

    I need at least seven hours in order to function normally. If I don't get that, my battery meter reads about 45% charge and my brain starts to slow to a crawl and my eyes begin to shut.

    Recently I've been waking up at 5 am and then going back to bed at 8, a quick sleep (deep) for an hour or so and then when I wake up my battery meter is back up to around 90%.

    If I have a drink before bed, I sleep much better.:cheers: and it's not related to quarantine at all. This has been happening for ages.

    Anyone else having sleep problems?

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    I don't have sleep issues at all, but I have noticed that there are some life rhythms that don't work for me.

    I need to sleep 7 to 8 hours, but I don't like to get up too late in the morning and to stay up late at night. The reason is very simple: if I get up early, I can achieve much more than staying up late.

    For me, anything past 11 PM becomes late. I am happy if I can get up at 6 AM, although I must confess that lately I have been getting up at 8 AM or later, which is awfully late in my book.

    For my work, I sometimes go to bed at 2 AM. As I need to concentrate, the noise around me, the people awoken doing their stuff, talking, calling, emailing messaging me... they disrupt my work. At night, I am 'alone' and I can concentrate better. However, my performance hold only for a limited time, and definitely I can pull off a stunt like this once in a while, but not regularly.

    I was never the kind of person who can pull an all nighter, and I did it only once or twice in my life because I had to and not because I wanted to.

    I am also one of those lucky persons who recline their airplane seat and call it a day for several hours in a row. Last time I boarded a plane, I was asleep before they started distributing the food. 8|

    My sleep madness is waking up at precisely 3:37am many nights /mornings. The most wonderful thing is falling hard asleep at 5:30 or 6am for an hour or two. Sheer bliss!

    On average I sleep around 6 hours in bed which is what I've been used to doing for over 40 years. Never was one for having long sleeps even in my youth. If I have time I do nod off in my chair in the late afternoon/early evening for half an hour. My missus OTOH could win a gold medal for sleeping.

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    Maybe she sleeps harder because she has spent the day working harder, UK Man ?


    :th_giggle01:

    I used to work harder when we were in the UK and she still slept more!! :P

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    Seven to eight hours is a perfect amount of sleep.

    Everyone's different. For over 30 years I had to get up at 6am for the commute to work so I think my bodyclock just got so used to it. Even on my days off I was an early riser.

    Anyway, the dogs would soon let us know they wanted out if we both had a lie-in. ^^

    I'm still waking up between four and five am, make a cup of tea and scan the news on my phone or read a book. If I compare myself to a battery, I'd say that at that time and without sufficient sleep, I'm running on around 50% charge.

    What I do then is go back to bed and when I wake up after an hour or so, I'm at almost full charge. It's remarkable what an hour's deep sleep can do. I can then carry on with the day.

    What I don't like are mid-afternoon siestas because they completely disorientate me, with a headache and feeling irritable.

    I tend to sleep irregularly during summer, too. In part is the heat, in part the long hours to escape the hottest hours of the day.

    We have the new aircon ready to be installed but the guy that was supposed to come back from vacation last week has no time to come this week, either. We sleep with our windows open and this means the light comes in at dawn. I am very sensitive to light and I my sleep get much lighter is the room is not dark. Sometimes I wake up at 5 am thanks to the kitten busting my balls (to play and/or get breakfast). I try to go back to bad, but I can't fully get back to sleep. I just snooze for 30' and then I am up again.

    That said, getting up that early makes me happy because it feels I have much longer time in my day, and I can do chores before it becomes too hot. The only drawbacks is that I can't run errands as stores don't open until later in the day. I love the quietness on our terrace before traffic begins.

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    I tend to sleep irregularly during summer, too. In part is the heat, in part the long hours to escape the hottest hours of the day.

    We have the new aircon ready to be installed but the guy that was supposed to come back from vacation last week has no time to come this week, either. We sleep with our windows open and this means the light comes in at dawn. I am very sensitive to light and I my sleep get much lighter is the room is not dark. Sometimes I wake up at 5 am thanks to the kitten busting my balls (to play and/or get breakfast). I try to go back to bad, but I can't fully get back to sleep. I just snooze for 30' and then I am up again.

    That said, getting up that early makes me happy because it feels I have much longer time in my day, and I can do chores before it becomes too hot. The only drawbacks is that I can't run errands as stores don't open until later in the day. I love the quietness on our terrace before traffic begins.

    I need total dark to sleep, so I shut the blinds and the curtains, but it's still not enough. My wife on the other hand. could sleep through an earthquake in blinding light.

    As for cats, they can now open doors by swinging on the handle, so I lock them in the garage with a key. Being woken up by cats walking over me at 3 am can make me grumpy to say the least.

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    That said, getting up that early makes me happy because it feels I have much longer time in my day, and I can do chores before it becomes too hot. The only drawbacks is that I can't run errands as stores don't open until later in the day. I love the quietness on our terrace before traffic begins.

    Good idea to take advantage of the early morning. To be productive in some way, or to just relax in your outdoor space. Especially to beat the summer heat. I do not do it enough, since instead I am more likely to go outside and cool off under the 1am stars.