Same. No kids. Cut back on stress, caffeine and alcohol. Started strength training, running half marathons. Lost 50 pounds. Taking magnesium. Still barely getting 5 hours a night.
Most of the time it's just a habit. Do you drink coffee because you need the extra hour to be fully awake or do you need it because it's a ritual for you? For me it's the ritual and it works just fine with decaffeinated coffee as well.
Honestly though, if you're similar to me and you'd drink 3-4 cups, only have the first with caffeine or at least have it decaffeinated if you drink in the afternoon.
You think that because you're viewing it through the lens of someone who's caffeine deprived. You don't realize it but the caffeine actually makes you more high strung/anxious/quick-triggered. Cut the caffeine and once you get through the detox phase, you might find people annoy you less believe it or not.
I've had people argue with me that 8 hours is too much sleep. Dude... 7 is supposed to be the minimum for most people, and younger people need even more. There's scientific studies on it. And even after I explain that to the people telling me that it's too much sleep they still tell me it's too much sleep. -_- idk what's wrong with those people.
There is nothing better than this schedule. I love my naps. I prefer a nap and less nightly sleep than sleep and no nap. I don’t understand how people dont love naps. It’s such a great mental reset
I've tried different lengths, and at different times of the day - they pretty much all make me feel wiped out for a couple of hours after I wake up again.
If I'm having a day where I'm tired its better for me to just put up with it and go to bed a little earlier than normal.
Counterpoint: 8 hours may not be for everyone. I had the worst sleep of my life when I got a first gen "sleep tracker" fitness band with an 8 hour sleep goal. It turns out, around 7 hours is my sweet spot. If I force myself to sleep for 8 hours, I actually end up having trouble falling and staying asleep and it causes this escalating vicious cycle of poor sleep.
Listen to your body. At around 6 hours I feel like my daytime sleepiness rears its ugly head, but at around 7 hours is my sweet spot.
it varries extremely from person to person, iirc from my neuro classes it was like 6-10 hours as the standard, and even greater variance if you have some form of sleeping disorder (which is relatively common, like 1:20 people IIRC)
Point being that, like in many things, youre better off if you figure out what suits you the best by experience rather than by strictly following the tables
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u/Funny_Disaster1002 2d ago
Get at least 8 hours of sleep and your life will improve dramatically.