Sleep

[Nysuatro]

 

 

It's funny everytime I think of Nysuatro I think a guy strolling around the office with his bare hands instead of his feet and doing push-ups while working at his desk shouting "Aint nobody got time to sit still!!!"

 

That's actually what working with him is like. Add to that spinning on his head whilst simultaneous solving usability issues and you've got Robb.

 

 

This. 

 

He's a crazy son of a bitch xD

 

 

These are the most beautiful things you every told me guy!

 

Respect and muchos lovos!

 

Btw, we might need another stress topic!

 

http://blog.bufferapp.com/how-i-experimented-on-myself-here-are-4-things-that-helped-me-sleep

Edited August 21, 2013 by Nysuatro

[Thrik]

interseting

 

Your Ancestors Didn't Sleep Like You

 

We didn’t always sleep in one eight hour chunk. We used to sleep in two shorter periods, over a longer range of night. This range was about 12 hours long, and began with a sleep of three to four hours, wakefulness of two to three hours, then sleep again until morning.

 

But just what did people do with these extra twilight hours? Pretty much what you might expect.

 

Most stayed in their beds and bedrooms, sometimes reading, and often they would use the time to pray. Religious manuals included special prayers to be said in the mid-sleep hours.

 

Others might smoke, talk with co-sleepers, or have sex. Some were more active and would leave to visit with neighbours.

[AlexM]

I'm now going to school fulltime, working parttime and trying to get a small business going. It got to the point where there werent enough hours in the day and I was so low on energy halfway through the day I might as well not be working. 

 

In the last month I've been waking up at 4:45am every day, have had vastly improved brain function and am rarely tired. I've actually sometimes so focused I feel like I'm on amphetamines or something. I've also lost about 5lb a week (when I came back from Japan I had gained about 30lb) for the last few weeks.

 

Anyways these are the changes I made to my lifestyle

 

• No soda or juice, usually just filtered water
• One coffee a day at 5am that is blended with coconut oil 
• Breakfast consists of almonds and some protein around 8am when I arrive at school as well as around 6000 IU of Vitamin d3
• throughout the day I have water and almonds
• lunch consists of complex carbs and protein. Something like a really dark rye with salami or tuna
• 20 mins cardio a day at least
• 7 min workout about once every other day http://www.7-min.com/
• Dinners consist of protein and fiber but few carbs (say wild salmon, broccoli and spinach)
• Magnesium supplement at night
• I switched from using regular butter and mayo to grassfed butter (nutritionally completely different from regular butter)

Like I said one of the best benefits is that throughout the day my mind feels focused and I can work fairly steadily. The reduction in shitty carbs and increase in good fat consumption (coconut oil, salmon) really makes a huge difference. Good fats seem to make all the difference.

 

During the times where I worked on contracts from home I would do a form of polyphasic sleeping where I would sleep at night for about 4 hours then take 2 1 hour naps during the day. Once you get into the cycle it really helps get you into the good sleep quickly. My programming output goes up like 200-300% and the code quality is way higher. The downside is I will pretty much get knocked out when it's time to sleep so it kills my social life.

[D3ads]

 
Me.. often :/

Edited January 17, 2015 by D3ads

[Taylor Swift]

my sleeping pattern is fucked up

[Squeebo]

Well I can relate to a lot of the people in this thread, I've always had trouble getting to sleep.  Nice to see I'm not alone! Hopefully some of the advice in this thread will help.

[Skjalg]

I was always a night owl myself. I would literally spend hours upon hours at my desk building maps, watching series/movies or browsing mapcore But if I stayed up intil 3am, I would usually sleep until 12-2pm. Often missing school because there was no way in hell I'd wake up at 8am. After graduating college (no idea how I managed to do that), and started at my first job, I started noticing that everyone else got up at 6-8am fine, while also having done stuff at home after 10pm. After a few months of having to go to bed at 7-8pm in order to get up at 8am, I started wanting to do more shit in the after noons. Like working on Pirates of New Horizons with warby. But then I overslept at work, because sitting up until midnight fucked me hard the next day.

 

So, I felt so bad about how much I slept I ended up going to the doctor. My symptoms at the time were;

I slept way too much.

Always tired (but I thought it was just how life was).

Snored loudly.

 

The first thing my doctor told me to do was to pen down the hours I slept. If you are having trouble sleeping, in any way or form, this should be your first step towards fixing that problem. Because without knowing exactly how little/much you sleep and at what times, you can't really figure out what to do about it.

 

On an average day I was sleeping about 12 hours. Now Furyo probably already know whats wrong
The doctor scheduled me for a sleeping analysis. I went to bed with something looking like an oxygen mask as well as numerous sensors attached to various places on my chest and arms. The results were conclusive, I was not breathing properly during the night, and as such I was never reaching REM sleep (deep sleep). This is called Sleep Apnea. Research I've read indicate that as many as >10% suffers from it. My mother always told me I have a "tungt sovehjerte" (heavy sleeping heart). Which means that I just sleep really well or like to sleep really weel. Neither was the actual case, its just so normal that people dont think that theres actually something wrong.

 

Because what happens is that my muscles relax so much that they close the airways. Then my brain stops receiving oxygen so it panics, "wakes me up" without me noticing it, so that the muscles in my throat opens up the airways again. Then this happens like every other minute. And as you might know, reaching REM sleep usually takes 30 minutes or so.

 

So I was referred to surgery. They took out my toncils, which hurt like a mother fucker for 2-4 weeks, but all of a sudden I could sleep 6-8 hours and feel fucking fantastic!

tl;dr if you sleep too much, get checked for sleep apnea.

[Sprony]

Not trying to be funny or trying to be 'cool' with movie references but for me the below really applies and is a huge issue so I'm with you guys:

 

[clankill3r]

They tested on rats how long they could go without sleep and after 3 weeks being awake they will die.

[Sentura]

Another way of correcting sleep rhythms is to wake up at the same time every day. If you do it for a few days your body will automatically accustom itself to it.

[El_Exodus]

Haven't slept a single minute tonight. Well, i might fix my rhythm today. Left my bed yesterday at 5pm^^

[El_Exodus]

Body pls... Woke up at 5 am after not even 5h of sleep. Enough time to be productive today, i guess.

[laminutederire]

Hey, as horrible as it might be, it seems that 7 hours of sleep max per night is causing heart trouble and reduces drastically health expectancy!

Thankfully, studies have shown that a part of the population is born with an issue when producing the hormone created during sleep, this is why some doctors can prescribe these hormones for those who need it. I'm one of them and it does wonders! Hope it could help someone here as well, it's called melatonin, and I heard it is becoming renowned

[Thrik]

I don't really have problems sleeping, I'm just an idiot and keep going to bed late because I'm working on something. Almost every damn night I see it get to about 11pm and thnk better 'better wrap up and go to bed in a moment'. Then it's suddenly 2am and FFS.

Interestingly, being single seems to have made it a lot easier to fall into stupid sleeping patterns because who cares if I'm up until late making funny sounds with a synth. I wonder what the statistics would be if single/partnered peoples' sleeping habits were confirmed.

[ElectroSheep]

Hey, as horrible as it might be, it seems that 7 hours of sleep max per night is causing heart trouble and reduces drastically health expectancy!

Thankfully, studies have shown that a part of the population is born with an issue when producing the hormone created during sleep, this is why some doctors can prescribe these hormones for those who need it. I'm one of them and it does wonders! Hope it could help someone here as well, it's called melatonin, and I heard it is becoming renowned

 

Don't say that ! I have 6-8 hours per night during the week can increase to 9-12 during week end.