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    George K
    wrote on 14 Aug 2024, 23:38 last edited by
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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.

    "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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    • X xenon
      14 Aug 2024, 23:28

      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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      89th
      wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 02:58 last edited by
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      @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.

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        jon-nyc
        wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 09:12 last edited by
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        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.

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        Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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          89th
          wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 12:19 last edited by
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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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            George K
            wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 12:30 last edited by George K
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            I never looked at my sleep history with my watch.

            Interesting.

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            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.

            "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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              jon-nyc
              wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 13:06 last edited by
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              Do you sit in a recliner to watch tv? It may be (mis)counting that

              Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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              • J jon-nyc
                15 Aug 2024, 13:06

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

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                George K
                wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 13:18 last edited by
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                @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.

                "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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                • T taiwan_girl
                  14 Aug 2024, 16:41

                  @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.

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                  Nunatax
                  wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 13:48 last edited by
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                  @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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                    LuFins Dad
                    wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 14:04 last edited by
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                    Funny, I’m starting to hit the point that I feel better with less sleep.

                    The Brad

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                    • G George K
                      15 Aug 2024, 13:18

                      @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.

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                      89th
                      wrote on 15 Aug 2024, 14:23 last edited by
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                      @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".

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                        George K
                        wrote on 17 Aug 2024, 00:42 last edited by
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                        "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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                          George K
                          wrote on 19 Aug 2024, 01:39 last edited by
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                          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.

                          "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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                            jon-nyc
                            wrote on 19 Aug 2024, 01:58 last edited by
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                            In the spirit of a you having owned birds and bunnies….

                            Where did it shit?

                            Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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                              Mik
                              wrote on 19 Aug 2024, 02:16 last edited by
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                              In the woods, just like the bear.

                              I frequently dream about current and past pets.

                              "The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell." Simone Weil

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                              • M Mik
                                19 Aug 2024, 02:16

                                In the woods, just like the bear.

                                I frequently dream about current and past pets.

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                                Aqua Letifer
                                wrote on 19 Aug 2024, 02:35 last edited by
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                                @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.

                                Please love yourself.

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                                • J jon-nyc
                                  19 Aug 2024, 01:58

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

                                  Where did it shit?

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                                  George K
                                  wrote on 19 Aug 2024, 11:14 last edited by
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                                  @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.

                                  "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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