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A big part of our lives.

Your thoughts/experience on the subject of sleep....
 
imoldernu said:
A big part of our lives.

Your thoughts/experience on the subject of sleep....
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I think it’s habit forming, I fall asleep and wake up the same time every day, I don’t sleep in the day time. my mom sleeps every afternoon, she can’t break that and she sleeps very good at night from around 11 or 12 to 8 in the morning.
 
Sleep is hard for me. I need to use zzzzzzquil or some other sleep aid to get through the night. If I don’t get eight hours I’m worthless.
 
I am blessed with the ability to fall asleep the minute my head hits the pillow. Until the past couple years I would sleep soundly for 7+ hours. Now I tend to wake up a couple times each night due to body pressure points getting sore.
DW not so good. She has always struggled to get adequate sleep. She has trouble falling asleep and wakes up frequently and usually does a walk around the house in the middle of the night for an hour to avoid getting frustrated from just laying there counting sheep. And she takes Lunesta, which offers a small degree of help.
 
9 (8-10) hours average every night since college. Very active during the day.
I *LOVE* my sleep.
 
we are in our 70's

I manage 7 to 8 hours a night with no drugs to aid. Usually get up once per night to whizz.

DW can't sleep more than a few hours at a time due to COPD and having O2 hoses attached at all times.:(
 
I don't get nearly enough, and I'm almost always tired. (Working long hours.) It feels so good when I can sleep in. That may be one of the things I am most looking forward to in retirement.
 
imoldernu said:
A big part of our lives.

Your thoughts/experience on the subject of sleep....
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On the strong advice of my doctor, I started being much more careful about sleep - mainly making sure that I got a full 8 hours. His advice was to go for at least 8 (if not more!!), even if part of that time I was lying there staring at the ceiling. Well fortunately, that staring at the ceiling part I haven't had to do, although I am occasionally laying there with my eye closed.

So this means I work hard to get in bed and going to sleep by 10:30pm so that I can waken at 6:30 am to get in an early morning walk or cycle before the weather gets super hot.

So, I have followed his advice, and I have definitely been feeling more rested. He turned me into a believer.
 
I've had trouble sleeping since childhood. Meds help. I tend to be a night owl, and I recently started working 3 days/week at a job where they start too early. I have to get up before 6! It's been a long transition with plenty of caffeine.

I want to sleep late in retirement, too!
 
Fall asleep in a second, but never sleep through the night. Overall, I wish I could get more sleep.
 
I have wonderful and interesting dreams almost every night.
 
Doctor said to develop good sleep habits and we have followed his advice and if we awake and cannot get back to sleep after half hour, we take Trazadone.
 
During my w*rk life I usually got about 4-5 hours. Bed at midnight, up no later than 5AM. Jet lag also made things worse. Then, nights where I'd just wake up after an hour or so and not get back to sleep at all.
Went for a sleep study and they found that I woke up about 30 times during a 6 hour period and 'almost' woke up twice that amount. Doctors thought it could be some form of epilepsy.

Even as a kid, unless I was sick I have never, ever slept beyond 7AM. Not once.

THEN......I RE'd.

Now I can get to bed around 9:30/10 and sleep (if I don't have to get up to pee) till about 5; I might even roll over and sleep until 6:30! Some days I wake up feeling so good I ask myself if this is how most people feel all the time. A good nap in the afternoon also helps.
 
I've always been a bad sleeper. Then I took 6 months leave for a new baby--once I got beyond the baby sleep deprivation, I experienced the best sleep of my life. I started back at work a month ago and haven't had a good night since. Really helped me to realize the impact work stress had on my life
 
My fitbit says I get between 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours of sleep day after day... but even then if you look at that it is broken into a number of less than 1 hour sleep and then restless time periods... I am always tired...


When I was young I could sleep through anything... even a hurricane...


Have not tried any kind of med or OTC, but might try something...
 
Sleep seldom comes easy for me. Even as a little kid my ability to fall asleep was suspect.

Good sleep habits help and other things hurt.

I don't dream much, oddly last night I dreamt a cat was in my face and in my dream, I threw it away before it bit me! A little later I woke up and wondered why the little dog that sleeps by my head was on the floor. She's looking funny at me, like I broke her trust.
 
I can fall asleep as soon as I t lay my head down. I go to bed about 930 and wake up at 5. I don't believe I will ever break that 5 o'clock wake up I did for 40 plus years. I don't like to fall asleep during the day but sometimes that happens. LOL
 
My key (my belief) to my realizing a good night's sleep on a constant basis, is the fact that I don't nap during the day. It doesn't matter what I do every day, whether it's a lot of activity, or just poking along, I just don't subscribe to a nap.

The times I accidentally fell asleep during the day (long flight, watching the tube (a rarity), etc), I could not get to sleep easily that night and suffered the next day.
 
I posted earlier today about a book about sleep in the "What have you read recently?" thread. I just finished reading "Why We Sleep", subtitled Unlocking the power of sleep and dreams, by Matthew Walker, a sleep researcher at UC Berkeley. I highly recommend the book.

It's an account of what has been discovered in recent decades about sleep, not just in humans but in all animals, even insects. The difference between NREM (Non-Rapid Eye Movement) sleep and REM sleep, and the manner in which they change during during the course of a night's sleep, is absolutely fascinating, as is what is happening inside our brains during each type of sleep.

There are numerous intriguing factoids presented in the book. For example, the amount of sleep each species typically gets varies enormously, even within the same animal family, and it's not yet known why. The mammal thought to sleep the most is the brown bat, which averages 19 hours/day. Elephants need only 4 hours of sleep, whereas tigers and lions each sleep for 15 hours daily. The two halves of the brains of dolphins can de-couple, with one side sleeping while the other remains awake.

He also talks about the effects of different sleeping pills, as well as caffeine and alcohol. The biggest takeaway is the importance of getting at least 7 hours of sleep daily, and the effects of insufficient sleep.
 
That's the one thing I miss about working. Now I have to sleep on my own time.
 
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My fitbit says I get between 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours of sleep day after day... but even then if you look at that it is broken into a number of less than 1 hour sleep and then restless time periods... I am always tired...


When I was young I could sleep through anything... even a hurricane...


Have not tried any kind of med or OTC, but might try something...
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+1
describes me now as well
as a child and up through my late forties I slept well and consistently 8 or 9 hours

at least retirement means I have not had to go to work tired day after day as I once did
tried Lunesta for a while it helped about 50% of the time but came with unpleasant side effects so stopped it altogether when I RE
hoping once I hit my early sixties it may get better as that will be ten yrs past the onset of menopause and my mother's symptoms whcih included sleeplessness lasted for about ten yrs
 
I love sleeping! Always have been a good sleeper. When I was working, I had to get up around 5:30-6 so I tried to go to sleep by 10:30 or so. Now that I have more flexibility, I stay up later, usually till around midnight or later, but then wake up whenever I want. I average between 7-8 hours but sometimes will sleep 9-10 hours. I wear an eyeshade so that the morning sun won’t wake me up. The eyeshade helps a lot.
 
I usually seem to need/get about 7 hours a night. I usually go to sleep OK, but especially while working would wake up in the middle of the night and not be able to go back to sleep. I would rotate between several OTC aids plus lorazepam so as not to get resistant/dependent on any one of them. Before RE I needed to take something most nights. Now it is more like once per week or less, so much better.
 
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