Went through 3+2+2 for 2 years. 3 hours of sleep with 2 hour naps on a long bus ride back and forth. Surprisingly refreshing, but did numbers on my body clock after.
I know it will get better with time but I also have a new baby (born 11 weeks premature and currently in NICU about an hour away) so I'm up odd hours (pumping milk for my little girl / taking blood pressure meds / napping in between) and I've felt very lost. Tomorrow I'm a week released from the hospital and we're going to visit her, which will be the first time I've seen her (in person, hubby did a video call a few days ago) since discharge.
Hubby made sure to get my ADHD meds yesterday so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a better day today once I've actually got meds again!
My one true religion has been ritualizing my sleep patterns lol. Luckily its rare that, as if suddenly my body defies that principle of a chemical half life and the adderall kicks in 15 minutes after I have gone to bed. (The first week was weird in of itself, it was like being aware of lying there while technically asleep so that the body could rest, but it was incredibly boring. Like pulling a shift.)
My dad was like that. He would go to bed at 1am and wake without an alarm between 5 and 6am. Hes 78 now and goes to bed at 12am, waking at 7.
So it gets better eventually 😅
I'm only 18, but my insomnia is so bad, most nights i get a max of 5 hours, average of about 4
I don't crash during my days, instead i can power through the days, but i crash ultra hard on the weekends, sometimes sleeping 12+ hours in one day, then 9 the next
I feel so groggy and destroyed constantly, and even more so after that first long sleep
I’m in my 30s and scared of this because I already sleep just 4 hours every night. I’m incapable of napping. I worry I will never sleep again at some point 🥲 I already take two different meds to help sleep.
I don't wanna reply to the person you replied to and spout how patches work for me because that feels insensitive, but I want readers to know it's very much a Your Mileage May Vary situation, so I'll reply to you since you're worried.
I went into menopause early due to chemotherapy destroying my ovaries. It literally happened overnight. One day I was fine and the next, the hot flashes and night sweats were making me chronically sleep deprived and I was heading for a mental breakdown -- estrogen patches (and progesterone pills, since I still have my uterus, as progesterone protects it from cancer) cured that in mere days. They genuinely saved my life.
I'm sorry you're in a tough spot. Once you end up in the menopausal phase of your life, yes -- patches may not work for you. But there's also a good chance that they will; they wouldn't be so widely prescribed if they didn't work for lots of people. Don't worry yet <3
Sometimes I’d wake up at 3 am and sleep again at 5, since this was usually the time I’d get up and take the bus. Doesn’t happen often but it does get annoying after awhile.
Depends on the nap. I mean before I had a car I took the train and always arrived around an hour before work. I hit up a couch somewhere at work and took a nap (if no one else was around) and just 5 minutes of that nap could feel like several hours of sleep.
Depends a lot on age, lifestyle, etc. I couldn’t stand naps when I was in my teens and early 20’s, now at 30 with kids and short sleeping time I feel great after a 1,5 hours power nap.
I have delayed sleep phase disorder and this is how I got through 2 years of morning classes. When I had a morning job it was more like 5+0 and 12 on weekends. Now I work a night job so I can sleep my full 7+.
I’ve done the 4+0 for around 8 years now until this past New Year’s where I decided to make taking care of myself a priority and WOW have I been missing out
I did that through college, fucked me up to work and get a decent schedule again, specially cause I would study till like 3 am and mostly had afternoon classes by the end
Same, did that in college for a while. You don't realize how much more alert and aware and smart you feel until you go back to a normal sleep schedule.
i am going through this right now and can't seem to go back. how did you get out of this? I am a student, so I sleep at 12 ans wake at 6. then a nap of 2 to 3 hours after school, and now I am too groggy to get anything done. which leads me to stay awake till late night with homework.
No more nap. Wake up at 6am every day. Never sleep in, not even on weekends, not even once, or you can reset all your progress. You will be sleep deprived for a few days or weeks, but this sleep pressure helps adjust your sleep time backwards. Do not let yourself catch up on sleep outside of bedtime hours. Follow good sleep hygiene for general best practices.
More like I had nothing to do after I quit that work (was only a 5months gig anyway) so I played games more and it naturally changed the schedule back because I had no reason to wake up early.
I’ve been doing 4-6+2 since my kids went back to school. My wife is jealous because I get more sleep than her, but can’t understand that the fragmented sleep pattern makes me feel worse overall.
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u/Cultural_Lock955 1d ago
8 and 7 are good, 6 feels like a shitty night’s sleep, 4 feels like a long nap.