I have an ok sleep schedule, I still wake up tired at times.
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I unfortunately drink too much and smoke so rem sleep doesn’t happen a lot. Falling asleep is never really an issue but it’s just never good sleep. That turns into drinking half a pot of coffee to get going in the morning. Then repeat, I’m always tired
It depends. I usually sleep pretty well, but I have a bizarre tendency towards lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, false awakenings, and even “involuntary astral projection” where I have the sensation of leaving my body. I figured out that CBD and cannabis help stop this, so lately I’ve been free of most sleep disturbances.
If your sleeping 7 plus hours a night and still feeling knackered it’s worth talking to a doctor and having some tests done, there’s loads of reasons for feeling tired all the time.
In terms of improving sleep having a consistent sleep and wake time is super important and having a wind down routine is helpful.
If you struggle to get to sleep a good technique is to get up after 15-20 minutes (not timing but when it feels like you’ve been trying to sleep that long) and do something with a low thinking requirement like reading a book or watching bad TV.
Also, most modern sleep studies are now done at home. As such, it’s a Mitch less big deal to get your sleep checked out, and insurance is more likely to cover it.
7 hours isn’t actually that many hours of sleep. It’s like the minimum recommended. I’d still recommend most people to aim for more than that if possible. It also depends on your lifestyle, like if you workout often you should probably sleep more for recovery reasons.
According to my smartwatch’s app, around 7:30 hours on weekdays and 8:15 hours on weekends.
I don’t wake up tired often, only when I sleep <6 hours for two nights in a row.
Mostly ok. Go to bed at around 22 and get up at 6:30 on weekdays. Weekends I shift it an hour. No alcohol on “school nights”.
There’s some revenge bedtime procrastination going on sometimes that affects my sleep schedule so I guess I could sleep a bit more
I’d say I usually sleep ok but sometimes I have episodes of four days or so where I have troubles falling asleep for no apparent reason. Melatonin helps though. Alcohol also has a terrible effect on sleep quality for me so my sleep has gotten better recently as I can’t drink much anymore due to my new medication.
Pretty good, actually. I use a sleep timer that calculates a wake up time in 90 minute increments, which matches most people’s sleep cycles.
This ensures that I’m waking up at a time when my sleep is the lightest.
No schedule possible, always tired.
I struggle keeping to a sleep schedule, to the point that I suspect I have a non-24 hour sleep wake disorder.
On some days, I may be asleep during the day, and yet on some days, I operate on a “normal” sleep cycle, only for it to be broken in a few days. Trying to do “normal person” things requires me to plan things ahead, usually through extending my wakefulness such that I’d be asleep the night before I need to be on a “normal person schedule.”
However, when I do fall asleep, I’m dead to the world for a while, sometimes exceeding twelve hours. Upon waking up, even if I’ve only managed to sleep for a couple of hours, I find it hard to sleep for until more than eighteen hours later.
It’s weird, but since I quit vaping over a year ago I sleep pretty amazingly. Used to wake up ~8PM exhausted, or not until 11 PM and groggy.
Like garbage, I don’t usually fall asleep till around 3:00 am then I have to wake at 7 for work.
Depends entirely on how many critters decide to pile onto me that night. A 40 pound pup draped over you isn’t conducive to getting comfortable enough to sleep.
I got mono and COVID in 2020 and since then I’m just constantly tired and also not particularly sleeping well. I had all kinds of specialists looking at it, but unfortunately nothing really worked or gave us a lead. Having a 25-30 min power nap just before lunch is a good strategy to counter a large part of the fatigue tho. As long as I do that most of the days and sleep 8 hours it’s pretty okay and I can kinda deal with a full work week. And those power naps are the best. Usually I’m asleep within a few minutes and then I’m completely KO for the 25-30 minutes the nap takes.
