#sleep cycles

[whatcha-thinkin]

How is your sleep messed up?

up too late, then sleep too late

up too late, then up too early too

sleep early, then awake in the night, then sleep again in early morning

drifting sleep where I constantly check the clock

can't sleep due to factors beyond my control

my drug regimen fucks up my sleep cycles every which way

sleep long and well but always wake up tired anyway

sleep early, then up at an inhuman hour and tired the rest of the day

insufficient sleep overnight, then constantly falling asleep during the day

wild swings between not enough sleep and way too much

straight up insomnia

I sleep fine, I don't know what's wrong with all these other people

Voting ended onOct 2, 2024

[stillfuckingtired]

Has anyone else with conditions that affect their sleep noticed an increase in lucid dreaming and remembering dreams? Specifically if the issue with sleep is that you can’t stay asleep for long, and that you rarely reach the deepest cycles of restorative sleep?

Because I lucid dream like all the time, and remember dreaming more often than not, and I have a theory it’s because of my poor sleep. Like, I rarely fall asleep deeply enough for long enough to dream and not remember it, like with most people. Instead, I’m waking up partially as I’m dreaming, and gaining enough awareness to know I’m dreaming and direct my thoughts to some degree. It’s like, the only cool thing that comes with being shit at sleeping.

[pseuddamntired]

I promise I’m awake and posting on tumblr.com because I woke up in the middle of the night for nonconcerning reasons and not because I was staying up until the early hours of the morning, don’t worry, I would never do that

[marzipanandminutiae]

Has anyone like...gone back over that “first and second sleep” historian’s research to make sure it really implies what he says it implies? 

I mean he’s a Real Historian(TM) and I’m not, but the whole idea just seems very “try this one weird old trick for better sleep!!!” At least in the way it’s being presented 

I believe there ARE historical references to segmented sleep. I’m just not convinced that means that sleeping in two distinct phases was a universal norm, or that it’s how humans are meant to function forever and ever amen 

(Also I can’t help being reminded of how everyone got onboard with the whole “orgasms were hysteria treatment!” thing based on one 1990s book and then it came out that none of the author’s sources actually supported her conclusion)

[stabbyapologist]

Night owl here—Who are you?

[wayti-blog]

We all need to be mindful of how the environment affects our biological clocks. Specifically, hospitals need to be sensitive to the timing of lights and darkness in patients' rooms. "We need to pay attention to the temporal relationship between organs and between the master clock and the brain, and how it regulates the clock in the brain, as well as in the peripheral organs, and be sensitive to the light/dark environment."

Eric Bittman, neurobiologist, Professor Emeritus of Biology (X)

[whoneedssexed]

If you love staying up late and sleeping in, doing otherwise might actually hurt your health

Night owls might get a rap for staying up too late watching Netflix or getting lost in meme spirals on the web, but it’s not all fun and games. Study after study shows the later you sleep and rise, the more likely you are to develop some serious health complications.

[alpha-beta-gamer]

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