Ghostwriter
My doctor called. She is not happy with my sleep. I have been wearing the sleep tracker and she receives the reports. I stopped looking at them because, well, I found it depressing. I thought I had a great night’s sleep and the report would say 20 minutes of light sleep was all I got.
She then lined out the short term consequences of sleep deprivation and then marched right on to the long term consequences. Normally I like her, but today she was not a ray of sunshine, she was a down right rain cloud.
So I think we should figure out together how much we really know about sleep deprivation.
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Reducing your sleep time as little as an hour and a half causes a reduction of daytime alertness by as much as 32%.
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A heart attack can be caused by long term sleep deprivation.
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Sleepiness in the daytime can impair your cognative ability.
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Everyone requires at least six hours of sleep in a 24 hour period.
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Sleep deprivation is likely to encourage overeating and weight problems.
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Sleep deprivation when pregnant can contribute to fetal ADD.
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We should all just stop right now and take a 15 minute nap!
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Sleep disruptioin is one of the predictors of institutionalization of the elderly.
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Patients with moderate sleep apnea perform as poorly as drunk drivers.
I agree with all the claims. I also have too little sleep and have to fix it somehow.
I didn’t sleep enough unfortunately. I worked at night with a lady with Alzheimer’s. Whenever I can nap for an hour every day.
I go through periods of sleeping and not sleeping. There are nights when I stare at the ceiling waiting for the alarm clock to sound.
There are nights when the alarm clock sounds and startles me.
to sleep, perchance to dream…
I have got accumulative 90 %
I thought I slept well but all that tossing I do perhaps will show on that monitor and so may be I do not sleep well?
Having said that there are people around me who are active but hardly sleep if what your doctor says is correct.
I’ve been managing on about 4 hours of sleep a night; but I know that it can cause all of those things that you mentioned. I did an article here on Virily a while back about sleep deprivation. Good post.
Hope you can get the sleep and rest you need. I usually manage on 6 hours of sleep but sometimes I wake up much too quickly say after about 4 hours and if I cannot sleep I get up and do stuff and then take a nap later on but it throws off my day.