[brains, PSA] Sleep

[wispfox]

Random thing that I _CANNOT_ comprehend:

People for whom insufficient sleep means that they are more likely to be able to fall asleep, even if they are awakened by external sources.


For me, insufficient sleep means my ability to sleep gets really badly fucked up and it's far, far, _far_ more difficult for me to get to sleep. A large part of my ability to sleep anything close to a sufficient amount - as vs. enough that I'm actually feeling rested and alert - is a regular sleep schedule. If I've gotten too little sleep, especially if it's a long-term problem, I seem to move between 'exhausted' and 'alert' too quickly for the exhausted part to win out and let me sleep (or stay there reasonable restfully).

Eventually, however, it tends to get to a point where I am COMPLETELY USELESS, and then I might just pass out even through lack of sleep schedule goodness. This may or may not be very good sleep, but it is often enough for me to be able to get back to a sane schedule _IF_ I'm very careful about it for a few days, and things don't get stupid again.


Sure, the former makes _sense_, but it's so very far outside the realm of my own experience that I just cannot keep it in my head for practical purposes.

Comments

[brynndragon.livejournal.com]

I have much worse problems when I oversleep than when I undersleep. When I oversleep I fall into a cycle of being tired more easily/earlier in the day and thus tending to sleep even more, which can spiral badly if I'm not careful to not sleep too much. I also fall asleep pretty easily, and wake up just as easily. Insufficient sleep means I am more tired throughout the day (with a peak of tiredness right around 2PM), rather than making it more difficult to drag myself out of bed (or making it hard for me to sleep), most of the time.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I also fall asleep pretty easily, and wake up just as easily.

Sheesh. You, australian_joe, and ladytabitha _all_ have this ability. :)

And I know that ladytabitha has trouble if she oversleeps.

*amused*

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

You clearly select for this with your harem!

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Only if you stay with a more strict definition than the one you were proposing! ;)

[rosefox]

I don't know why ladytabitha thinks I'd weigh in on the side of those with sleeping difficulties. I don't have sleeping problems. It's just that the rest of the world refuses to conform to my preferred semi-nocturnal schedule. *)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

That is not a sleeping difficulty of the same class as my own. You just prefer to sleep different hours than most people, right?

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

Given we all seem to simultaneously be working with many definitions, I don't see this as a problem. 8->

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I'm only comfortable with the one including only three people. :)

[australian-joe.livejournal.com]

But of those three, we all have more than our fare share of sleep, apparently...

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

True! I think y'all are stealing mine. ;)