Hi Geoff, Leon & All,
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Originally Posted by leon
If It were possible I would not sleep at all ...
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Agree! It seems a waste to me too. As I've been progressing through my 40's I find that I need less than I used to.
My biggest two problems are (1) getting to sleep in the first place -- it takes me at least a 1/2 hour and (2) actually waking up when the alarm goes off -- when I am asleep, I sleep very deeply and nothing short of a war will wake me up. It doesn't seem to matter if it's 5am or 10am, whether I've had 3 hrs or 13, I just never hear the alarm and almost always need someone else (thanks darling -- though I rarely say it at the time) to wake me up by putting the lights on and/or pulling the covers off.
If I get one good 8 hrs night, preferably with a morning sleep-in on one night a week, I can get by for the rest of the week comfortably on 4-5 hrs per night. This doesn't seem to make any real sense to me because science has concluded you can't catch-up on sleep -- but it seems to work for me.
Best,
Les D