[Excerpt from CNN]
Daniel Kripke, co-director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, California:
Studies show that people who sleep between 6.5 hr. and 7.5 hr. a night, as they report, live the longest. And people who sleep 8 hr. or more, or less than 6.5 hr., they don't live quite as long. There is just as much risk associated with sleeping too long as with sleeping too short. The big surprise is that long sleep seems to start at 8 hr. Sleeping 8.5 hr. might really be a little worse than sleeping 5 hr.
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"I think we can prevent a lot of insomnia and distress just by telling people that short sleep is O.K" This article and specially the paragraph above is perfect for me. I struggled to understand that short sleep is also fine, that I don't have to sleep eight hours a day just because I should. Everybody is different and I just can't take a nap (to the utter distress of my parents when I was a kid LOL) or sleep over eight hours. If I sleep ten hours for instance the next day I can't sleep! :)
Good post.
I go to sleep at midnight (or a bit later) and have been doing so for the last 8 years. So many people go to sleep 2 hours before that...
Think about all the books I read, movies I watched, songs I discovered in those 2 extra hours every day for 8 years!
If you come back from work at 6pm, have dinner, watch an hour or two of TV and go to sleep, you are losing half your life.
That's exactly what Red tells me everyday. We are going to bed at 11 pm now so that we can enjoy more of our time together at home.
You are so right. If I come back home at 6 pm and I start cooking and doing house work I feel like I am only a "work machine" and I am just getting ready to go to work the following day, you know, washing clothes, ironing, cooking, it's almost like all my activities after work are for the sole benefit of being able to work the following day and so on.
If we watch a movie for instance I can immediately see its effect on our daily routine but then I want to feel that I am enjoying my time for myself as well...Oh, well, our lifestyles right? Nowadyas I must say, we are more organized but still going to bed a bit later is kind of imperative to enjoy our flat and our time :)
With what it costs to rent a flat in this country, using it solely as a place to sleep and eat is a waste.
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