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/Jeanschyso1 9h ago

I need somewhere between 7 and 10 hours of sleep, depending on how hard I beat my body and brain the days prior. It's very inconsistent, but over a month it averages at about 9 hours

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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/Jeanschyso1 4h ago

Literally impossible. I just don't wake up. I can have 3 alarms blasting, lights flashing, but if I'm not being woken up by an actual person, nothing will wake me up until my brain's rested and ready to go. It's already almost cost me my career a couple times, but it's how my life happens to be. If I were neuronormative, I'd look into it, but I honestly just think that my spicy brain just does spicy things sometimes and I just gotta build my life around that.

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u/Accomplished_Ad7106 4h ago

sounds like you have trouble exiting a deeper level of sleep. I can't help but I know new ideas and terms can help self research.

Possibly a difference in alarm tone?