How do you sleep? Do you just sleep the normal 6 - 10 hours per night in a single session or do you have more than one sleep during 24 hours?
I have had pretty messed up sleep patterns for about 10 years now. It's hard to explain but my body clock doesn't seem to be wired to a 24 hour day. I like to sleep for 10 hours at a time though often because of my lifestyle would only sleep for 4 hours or so. The trouble being that at any one session of being awake I naturally stayed awake for 18 - 20 hours at a time. During holidays this was always great
In the last year or so though I have been increasingly having naps, at very irregular intervals and I am noticing some odd things starting to happen. The first is that I need less sleep. The second is that I like 2 -3 very short naps in a days. I'm talking an hour or two at a time. This is interesting but I also seem to need to sleep more when I need to sleep. Over an extended period of being awake I am far more likely to crash. I seem to be able to manage a maximum of 14 hours with out a nap now unless fully immersed (such as working). I'm having no more than four hours sleep before going to work, working for 10 hours or so and then coming home and having another nap. I will then get on with my life and maybe have one more hour or 2 nap before having my sleep before work again.
The weird thing about this is I feel less tired than I ever have, it's just coming naturally and I often wake up before alarms I may set, something I have never been inclined to do.
Having said all this just last week I had one occasion where I slept for about 17 hours from 5am to 10.30pm the next night.
What's your story?
I have had pretty messed up sleep patterns for about 10 years now. It's hard to explain but my body clock doesn't seem to be wired to a 24 hour day. I like to sleep for 10 hours at a time though often because of my lifestyle would only sleep for 4 hours or so. The trouble being that at any one session of being awake I naturally stayed awake for 18 - 20 hours at a time. During holidays this was always great
In the last year or so though I have been increasingly having naps, at very irregular intervals and I am noticing some odd things starting to happen. The first is that I need less sleep. The second is that I like 2 -3 very short naps in a days. I'm talking an hour or two at a time. This is interesting but I also seem to need to sleep more when I need to sleep. Over an extended period of being awake I am far more likely to crash. I seem to be able to manage a maximum of 14 hours with out a nap now unless fully immersed (such as working). I'm having no more than four hours sleep before going to work, working for 10 hours or so and then coming home and having another nap. I will then get on with my life and maybe have one more hour or 2 nap before having my sleep before work again.
The weird thing about this is I feel less tired than I ever have, it's just coming naturally and I often wake up before alarms I may set, something I have never been inclined to do.
Having said all this just last week I had one occasion where I slept for about 17 hours from 5am to 10.30pm the next night.
What's your story?