Is getting 6 hours of sleep one night and 10 hours the next equivalent to sleeping 8 hours and 8 hours?
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Also, most people tend to have a hour and a half sleeping cycle so six hours of sleep is equivalent to four sleep cycles. Ideally, the next level is having 7 1/2 hours of sleep which is five full sleep cycles.
What about if I sleep 2 hours then 6 later on? I like having naps
Is sleeping 0 hours one night then 16 hours the next day the same? Is a bit more of an obvious answer if you spread it like that. Under sleep AND over sleep are bad so balancing a bad thing with a different bad thing isn’t going to help.
Idk. But when I’m on break I tend to bank sleep. I fall asleep in the wee hours and wake up when I feel like it. Sometimes I sleep 6 hours, sometimes 7 and sometimes 5. Haha
Eventually I get a good 12 hours sleep
ADHD will do that to you. I need the structure of a work week, but I also need to break the monotony of such. It’s a paradox, really
Rn one of these times I’m answering comments when I should be getting ready for bed. But for what?
No work tomorrow
It’s summer break rn
I’ll sleep 6 hour nights as long as I can.
Because I can sleep however lo
Be me
“Yall feel well rested after 8 hours of sleep?”
For most people the answer is no.
If you are a person who needs 8 hours of sleep you can’t make up a 2 hour sleep deficit in one night. Over a few days you can make up a small sleep deficit by sleeping a little bit extra for several days in a row. It is possible to make up a large sleep deficit but it’s not as efficient as a 1 for 1 or even a 1 for 2 hour trade. You definitely can’t bank sleep by sleeping for 10+ hours the day before you pull an all-nighter.
However not everyone needs 8 hours of sleep each evening. Sleep requirements are a bell curve with 8 hours being the statistically most likely amount needed for the majority of the adult population. However, age and genetics can alter your sleep needs.
– Newborns: 14–17 hours
– Infants: 12–15 hours
– Toddlers: 11–14 hours
– Preschoolers: 10–13 hours
– School-aged children: 9–11 hours
– Teenagers: 8–10 hours
– Young adults and adults: 7–9 hours
– Older adults: 7–8 hours
Even these numbers are just guides there are people within these age ranges that need both more and less sleep. It also seems likely that genetics plays a role as statistically different sleep needs have been seen in some family’s.
However, most adults who think they don’t need an average of 8 hours of sleep are just chronically sleep deprived.
While t he prevalent logic has been that you can’t make up, apparently research is finding that you can. Granted it’s not a one for one exchange. and you could still have impact on yourself during the deprived times. So it may require more time to make up for that shorter period. Like if I get 6 I could end up sleeping 12 the next night.
Sleep is like tidying up your room. You can go to sleep in an untidy room, and if you tidy up the next day with more effort, it will be tidy again, but once all toys and pens are in the drawer and cloth are in the wardrobe and the bed is made, you can’t tidy up the room more so you won’t have to do any tidying the next day.
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