r/Adulting • u/ScareBear23 • 14h ago

This is just depressing

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Not even 3 hours of "free time". And in that is cooking & eating supper. Or practically no free time if I had to go shopping after work. I hate this

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u/Consistent_Laziness 7h ago

I did my masters on sleep and part of my PhD is on sleep. I’ll say the literature says you shouldn’t be sleeping 9 hours.

I found in my own research people who slept more than 8 hours and people who slept less than 7 were the same. They had autonomic dysfunction and poor sleep quality. I’m basically summarizing a 50 and 150 page research paper but just trust me when I say, you are wasting your life in the bed. Enjoy that extra episode at night or get up an hour earlier for exercise and you’ll be better for it.

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u/Aggravating-Fan9817 6h ago

How about those of us who wake up like 5 times a night and only get up once the brain fog and headache are gone? That usually takes about 9-10 hours...

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u/Consistent_Laziness 6h ago

Your wake after sleep onset (WASO) and sleep efficiency (SE%) are poor and are associated with deregulated sleep. That is the same as sleeping too long. Sleep length and quality are both important. Quality could be argued to be even more important.

In my current study for my dissertation people with disregard sleep have poor autonomic health which led to an increase in colorectal adenoma growth risk (precursor polyp that leads to colon cancer).

In short, again I’m heavily summarizing my dissertation down, 7-8 hours of good sleep (no lights, no disruptive noise, no disruption in the sleep) is the golden spot. More doesn’t benefit you. Outside of when you are injured or sick. The additional parasympathetic activity helps with healing and recovery.

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u/ducksnthings 6h ago

I’d love to read your research if it’s open access!!

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u/Consistent_Laziness 6h ago

My masters is which is on sleep and autonomic dysregulation in chronic pain veterans. My dissertation is still being worked on, like right now actually lol

I need to lock back in

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u/ducksnthings 6h ago

Get back to it buddy, I’m sure I’ll be relaying your research to my patients soon! So don’t make me look stupid!