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usernamenumberFor the last year I've been keeping a log of when I sleep. It hasn't been perfect, but I've managed to note roughly when I went to bed (by which I mean was about to lose conciousness) and when I got up, including any fits of insomnia in between for 302 of the last 365 days, and have cobbled together some scripting that allows me to graph the results.
One need only look at the records of when I go to sleep to infer that I have problems winding down at the end of the day. I figure it would be healthier by most estimates if the majority of the dots were at the top, in the 10p-12a range, but alas, my tendency to go to bed after midnight is even more pronounced than I thought it was.
This might not be a big problem if my waking times were as erratic as my bedtimes, but as you can see I sleep past 10am just a few times a year, and since I started teaching regularly, the majority of my wakup times are clustered around 7:30, and rarely later than 9 even on weekends, regardless of when I went to bed. It's just how my body works: past a certain point something just starts whispering in my ear "Hey! Get up! There's stuff you could be doing!! Sleep is not stuff, so you should stop it!"
But the real kicker is when I graph the number of hours actually slept. It's more erratic than a comparison of the bed/wake graphs might suggest because sometimes I'll wake up and have stretches of insomnia, which aren't reflected there. In any case, I can't help but laugh to look at this graph. Man, it's like a beautiful, starry sky it's so all over the place. Also, I have to say I suspect there are some errors in the interpretation of the data, because while it has happened, I don't think there have been that many days with 2 or fewer hours of sleep.
Turns out I average 6.7 hours of sleep per night. Awesome.
The thing is, I don't see this changing my lifestyle much. The dilemma has always been that in order to get more sleep, I'd have to either drop something else from my life, which I'm not really willing to do, or have greater control than I've historically had over things like like insomnia/hyperactivity.
That said, I've noticed that with the decrease in stress at my job, I've needed less cope to get by. Whaddayaknow. Will try to do a more comprehensive State of The Me soon. For now: Life is pretty good on the whole, though I'm sick and tired (literally, not figuratively) at the moment. If me from just five years ago could have seen me now... wow, it would be a trip, I think. Things are different. Sometimes scary, but mostly I'm enjoying the ride.
One need only look at the records of when I go to sleep to infer that I have problems winding down at the end of the day. I figure it would be healthier by most estimates if the majority of the dots were at the top, in the 10p-12a range, but alas, my tendency to go to bed after midnight is even more pronounced than I thought it was.
This might not be a big problem if my waking times were as erratic as my bedtimes, but as you can see I sleep past 10am just a few times a year, and since I started teaching regularly, the majority of my wakup times are clustered around 7:30, and rarely later than 9 even on weekends, regardless of when I went to bed. It's just how my body works: past a certain point something just starts whispering in my ear "Hey! Get up! There's stuff you could be doing!! Sleep is not stuff, so you should stop it!"
But the real kicker is when I graph the number of hours actually slept. It's more erratic than a comparison of the bed/wake graphs might suggest because sometimes I'll wake up and have stretches of insomnia, which aren't reflected there. In any case, I can't help but laugh to look at this graph. Man, it's like a beautiful, starry sky it's so all over the place. Also, I have to say I suspect there are some errors in the interpretation of the data, because while it has happened, I don't think there have been that many days with 2 or fewer hours of sleep.
Turns out I average 6.7 hours of sleep per night. Awesome.
The thing is, I don't see this changing my lifestyle much. The dilemma has always been that in order to get more sleep, I'd have to either drop something else from my life, which I'm not really willing to do, or have greater control than I've historically had over things like like insomnia/hyperactivity.
That said, I've noticed that with the decrease in stress at my job, I've needed less cope to get by. Whaddayaknow. Will try to do a more comprehensive State of The Me soon. For now: Life is pretty good on the whole, though I'm sick and tired (literally, not figuratively) at the moment. If me from just five years ago could have seen me now... wow, it would be a trip, I think. Things are different. Sometimes scary, but mostly I'm enjoying the ride.
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Date: 2010-11-01 09:49 pm (UTC)