How many people get the required hours of sleep? We need sleep to recharge. The heart needs to rest so that the furnace isn’t burning 24/7. Sleeping really is the third leg in the healthiness tripod. Nutrition. Exercise. Sleep. It does require effort though just like the other legs. Once you get in a sleeping pattern it seems tough to break that.
Going to bed earlier is the easy part of the equation. Sleeping in later would be much harder. Especially if kids are part of your equation. Every time I consciously try to go bed early my wife gets suspicious. She goes to bed early. When I go to bed early, she thinks I am coming upstairs for more than sleep. For the most part, I am. If it works out I will be sleep soon enough. The act is like the greatest sleeping pill ever invented. One night my wife said to me, “I have a new move I want to try called STM.”
I was obviously intrigued. What could this mean?
“Sleep Til Morning.”
Snap. Good one. It was so great a zinger that I almost forgot my hopes were dashed.
Sleeping more isn’t always the key. You can oversleep. I never feel refreshed if I sleep for a long time. I think eight hours is my optimal. I know a guy who tried to get six full awake days out of a week. He couldn’t sustain it. Sometimes I feel like I could be doing so much more with a few extra hours but it probably isn’t worth it.
Napping. I can never sleep at night if I nap during the day. I have been getting at least seven hours a night. For awhile, I had a shitty relationship with sleep because my back would hurt if I slept too long. Its been getting better. I guess I have to think as much about down time as I do up time.
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