Ah sleep
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@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.
@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.
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Funny, I’m starting to hit the point that I feel better with less sleep.
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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".
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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.
. Maggie and Boris were with us (impossible, because we didn't have cats when we had the Cheddarshack
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