Ah sleep

[Copper]

I always remember my dreams, right up until I want to remember them.

[xenon]

My son feels his dreams hard in the morning, but can't ever remember them. He woke up bawling the other day, but couldn't explain why (and he loves explaining things).

@89th - I'm finally on the in bed at 10 train.... took me couple of decades to get there. I still feel like I'm shortening my day even though I get up earlier. What clicked for me associating reading fiction (which I love to do, but rarely have time for) with getting in bed at 10 - I can read for as long as I want if I can get in bed at 10.... I never make it more than 10 mins though...

[George K]

Now that I'm retired, my sleep routine has changed a bit.

When I was working, I would be there at 6:15 or 6:45 - depending on where I was in the rotation. That meant a departure from home at about 5:55 or 6:25. I would go to bed at about 10, and sleep until my alarm went off at 5:15 or 5:25.

Now that I'm not working and have zero obligations, I go to bed around 9, usually falling asleep by 9:30. My 74 year-old prostate usually wakes me at about 3. Sometimes, I can return to sleep, but more often that not, I can't. So I'm up. I read the news, etc, and on a good day, after an hour or so, I can get back to sleep until 6. But that's rare.

Regardless, I'm out of bed by 6.

[89th]

@xenon Good for you! Coincidentally it's 9:57pm right now so I might as well head to bed and make it 2 for 2. I actually thought about cracking open a beer but I know once I do that I'll need a salty snack and then... boom it's midnight.

[jon-nyc]

I’ve been wearing a watch that tracks my sleep since 2016. In those 8 years I have gotten 8hrs of sleep exactly zero times. It’s just not in me.

Still in doing a bit better than you, 89.

[89th]

Well you have a fiancée, so I'd imagine there's less sleep.

Last night started well. In bed at 10, asleep at 10:17, but then my kid woke up at 10:45 so it wasn't until 11:45 that I made it back to sleep. Still, more sleep than if I had just waited until midnight!

[George K]

I never looked at my sleep history with my watch.

Interesting.

I don't know how it calculates the average time in bed, but that's absolutely wrong. No way I'm in bed from 9 to 9. Unless, it's counting the hour and a half to two hours that my watch is sitting in the charger.

[jon-nyc]

Do you sit in a recliner to watch tv? It may be (mis)counting that

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Ah sleep:

Do you sit in a recliner to watch tv? It may be (mis)counting that

Nope. But I do lie down, iPad on tummy, when I watch a movie or a tv series. That might be it.

[Nunatax]

@taiwan_girl said in Ah sleep:

@Aqua-Letifer That is interesting. Why is it (at least for me), that dreams, even if they are so vivid, are quickly forgotten? I will wake up from a dream and, wow!, it is super detailed, etc. but only 10 minutes later, I have trouble remembering it.

I experimented with lucid dreaming for some time for which I wrote down my dreams as soon as I woke up. Even a few keywords can help to easily recall dreams in detail. It‘s as if the process of writing down a dream signals your brain that it’s important to remember it.

Then again, there are a few dreams (mostly nightmares) I had as a child that I still remember. The brain is a strange thing.

[LuFins Dad]

Funny, I’m starting to hit the point that I feel better with less sleep.

[89th]

@George-K said in Ah sleep:

@jon-nyc said in Ah sleep:

Do you sit in a recliner to watch tv? It may be (mis)counting that

Nope. But I do lie down, iPad on tummy, when I watch a movie or a tv series. That might be it.

Yeah most likely. I check my watch each morning to see how the sleep went. It is smart to know pretty accurately when you are "in bed" and when you are asleep. About 98% accurate I find, although I don't really look at the "time in bed" metric as much as the "time asleep".

[George K]

[George K]

Last night's dream...

Mrs. George were at the Cheddarshack. Maggie and Boris were with us (impossible, because we didn't have cats when we had the Cheddarshack.

I told Mrs. George that we need another pet, and so, we adopted a baby fox.

Yeah, a fox.

[jon-nyc]

In the spirit of a you having owned birds and bunnies….

Where did it shit?

[Mik]

In the woods, just like the bear.

I frequently dream about current and past pets.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in Ah sleep:

In the woods, just like the bear.

I frequently dream about current and past pets.

That sounds pretty great.

This is the most recent entry from my journal. I have absolutely no memory either of the dream, or of writing this:

I worked for a female dentist from Jamaica NY who was lazy seldom there and treated everyone poorly.

[George K]

@jon-nyc said in Ah sleep:

In the spirit of a you having owned birds and bunnies….

Where did it shit?

Funny you should ask. In the dream, we had that conversation. I don't remember how it ended.