10-15-2002, 04:24 PM | #1 |
Thoth - Egyptian God of Wisdom
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Statistics show that people sleep 1/3 of their time on Earth, but how, I wonder, do we we spend 20+ years sleeping? Also, around 4 years ago the recommended amount of sleep for the average American adult was 9 hours. Now it has reduced to 7. With so much going on in our lives, why do we even sleep?
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10-15-2002, 04:39 PM | #2 |
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You actually think that I could answer these questions on the amount of sleep I get ?? [img]smile.gif[/img] Ha I am a Daddy to two young beautiful girl's I dont have time to think about sleep let alone do it, except when I am at work
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10-15-2002, 04:52 PM | #3 |
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Sleep bad! Must not sleep, must not sleep.....
Personally I find that I can make do with 5 hours of sleep per day without too much loss of mental efficiency if I don't mind spending the first couple of hours after waking up in a zombified state. |
10-15-2002, 04:55 PM | #4 |
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I sleep much les than my wife - which is why I love BG games so much. I really run on about 5 hours through the work week.
I saw a special TV program a couple of years back. Subjects were deprived of all time-related info. They could only watch videos, they lived in a bunker, etc. No sun - no timeclocks - no TV to indicate time passing. On average, and I found this very hard to believe, the subjects fell into a sleep pattern that averaged 2-3 hours per 24-hour period. Interesting, no? For folks like me - who see every minute sleeping as one less spent living - this is inspirational. |
10-15-2002, 06:41 PM | #5 |
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The older you get the less sleep you need. I don´t need that much sleep 5-6 hours/night so by definition I´m old then [img]graemlins/crying.gif[/img] . I thought 7-8 hours was the recommended time to sleep. That at least matches the REM patterns...
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10-15-2002, 06:50 PM | #6 |
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Here's wishing I could get away with 3 hours sleep a night, 'specially over the weekends
We've just had daylight savings and it has fully screwed up my sleep patterns, doesn't usually but before it came into effect I was doing fine on 6 hours sleep. Since we put our clocks forward an hour though mI've been feeling like crap on anything less than 8??? Someone care to explain or am I just a freak?
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10-15-2002, 08:37 PM | #7 |
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Being the lazy unmotivated teen that i'm i sleep a bunch during the week like 35 hours plus. But when it comes to weekends man i'm lucky to sleep 5 hours the whole weekend.
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