@Dr Karan Dr can you do a video on waking up in the middle of night to urinate and not being able to sleep again? I've been experiencing it the past few weeks, waking up at around 4 or 5 and can't sleep well again and I don't know if it's too unhealthy for me or if it affects my hormones since I do bodybuilding
@@safs3098 my advice would be just try and not drink anything say an hour hour an a half before bed that way you should of already peed and whatever was in ya system shouldn't force you to wake up
I auto diagnosed myself with chronic fatigue at this point cause there's no fucking way I'm always tired and exhausted. I probably have adhd but I'll never know officially cause no money 👍
He didn’t my mention that it’s sleep cycles, the more late into the sleep cycle you wake up the more fresh you are I guess 3 and 9 hit for u at the ends of sleep cycles
@@pyerackthat's how it's supposed to be. Sleep is very dynamic so if someone doesn't touch grass and plays video games and watch tiktok and sits and eats Cheetos all day will probably never sleep even 6 hours because there isn't enough sleep drive.
You may be eating too much meat causing your body to overwork when digesting which puts you in a constant state of sluggishness as meat requires 1-3 days to digest. Try to go plant base for a week and see the results in your energy levels sky rocketing. I know from experience.
@@onyx_might72 Thanks for the feedback. I’m mostly vegetarian and I can get away with 8 hours, I just feel more energized with 9-10, but I’ll be sure to mention this to others if they’re sluggish and big on meat, makes sense.
Same, but I don't drink caffeine, my vitamin D levels are good, and I don't have sleep apnoea 😂 The sleep specialists have no idea why I don't feel refreshed by sleep.
Once, years ago when I was laying in bed, I closed my eyes briefly and when they were open, it was morning. It was like I hadn't actually slept at all, but I still felt great and refreshed in the morning. It was incredible, like it I had only blinked.
ever since i got my sleeping in order and sleeping for 8-10 hours a day for a year i’ve noticed that having less sleep doesn’t effect me as much is it did before. i can run off of 5 hours of sleep without feeling sick or slow. i can feel myself becoming excited to get up right before i wake up and bed times now are like “alright let’s get this over with” rather than “finally, sleep”
Sometimes 6 hours isn’t enough, and sometimes it’s fine. Sometimes 10 hours makes me feel super refreshed, and other times 10 hours kills me for the rest of the day. I don’t know how that works Q_Q
Think of it like a battery. You can charge at different percents. Short charge on low battery= not enough charge. Long charge on not as dead battery= overcharge, bad for the health of battery
I think consistency is also important, at least for me. I usually sleep 4-5 hours a day (always been this way, about 15 years at this point). I work 7 days a week so most of fhe time I go to sleep and wake up at regular times. When I do take a day or two off and my routine changes, I sometimes sleep 7-8 hours but I wake up drained and foggy.
I only felt fresh when I consistently slept 7 hours a day for a week, not just once or twice. Though I also feel good when I sleep 9 to 10 hours. I once slept 16 hours and felt like I came back from the dead (It was when I was really stressed). Anyways, If you never feel fresh, that means you sleep too little, try 7 hours for a week and see how you feel.
@@everythingsfinett3903 I remember when I once slept for 16h straight without waking up to urinate :D I just opened my eyes like nothing happened like I never fell asleep :D I felt very well that day but unfortunately now it would feel like a waste of time to sleep for that long again xD
You brought up a good point. Many people don't know the last time they felt 'fresh' after waking up. And also too many people are lazy lmao, they oversleep and then feel dull. Somehow, you gotta figure out your 'sleep'...
I remember taking a high level class from a professor with a doctorate at one of the best universities in the United States on sleep… He explained that sleep debt was a reality and that a lot of people got used to not sleeping enough in a similar way people got used to a continuous pain. It was there, you just ignored it better. Also that statistics showed that people would, on average, do much worse in basic simple tests on 6 hours of sleep than on 8 but would not even think they were doing worse, thinking they were in their usual condition. He (and the various sources he gave us) also said that some people that could indeed function on a few hours of sleep, that they were a thing (linked to genes), but were exceedingly rare. The overwhelming majority are just used to not sleeping enough. (Hell, I underwent a period when I was sleep deprived, only when my friends told me I was irritable and acting different did I realize it was affecting me). I’m going to go ahead and trust my professor specialized on sleep working in a reputable university and all the research he and his colleagues conducted and presented to us students.
Dr Karan is generally speaking a trusting source in that he does his research but he also tends to oversimplified and the few nuances he puts are often lost on shorts like these. Socyeah, i would take it with a grain of salt.
Dude....... 🙄 all dr. Karan is saying is that 7-8 hrs of sleep being the standard for EVERYONE is a myth... Hes not saying ppl who need 8hrs of sleep (or more) dont exist... Hes just saying to sleep however much your body NEEDS to sleep and to not hold your body hostage to a standard that doesnt serve it, because we are not all cookie cut beings. Sleep debt is absolutely a very real thing and your professor does sound awesome 😁 nothing like learning from a qualified individual 🤘🏽
My understanding is that he's saying that each individual's sleep needs are going to be dependent on their body. I do think he should've said that sleep debt is a serious issue that everyone overlooks, as a doctor. But med school requires you to function on basically no sleep so who knows.
@@cembaturkemikkiran4109the key thing is it sounds like you are usually getting 2 full REM cycles per 24hrs and that's arguably the most important thing because that's when your brain processes waste and many important physiological functions are most efficiently conducted. I have a circadian rhythm disorder resulting in basically no "biological clock" so I've been on both sides of the 8 hours argument functioning just fine on a schedule like yours then flipping to sleeping more than my cats +14hrs and still feeling like death because I wasn't hitting REM sleep. At the end of the day sleep is weird and we need definitely to learn more about it.
@@cembaturkemikkiran4109 I agree with you. But no study is going to have that large of a sample size. The point of the sample size is to get a group of participants that representative of a whole.
As a child, I've always been taught the 8 hours thing and I wanted to do my best and aim for that. However, I would get pissed at myself if I woke up after only 5-7 hours lmao. I'm the type who is unable to sleep again once I wake up and naps during the day is just not my thing. Over time, I just accepted that I can never sleep 8 hours unless I am super tired. One thing I am very sure of though is that I HAVE to wake up right before the sun rises. I noticed that if I wake up when it's already very bright outside, it affects my mood negatively throughout the day (lazier, unproductive, etc.). Dawn hours is just so pretty.
Since i am a medical student 5th year, i am working in a hospital in Bulgaria and giving night shifts because of the studying i am sleeping on shifts, 4 hours during the night and than 3-4 hours during the day. As i can tell one neurologist said that in the past B.C. The normal sleep schedule was a few hours divided the whole day and it was the normal circadian rhythm back in time. So the goal for me is just feeling fresh and productive 😊
Dr.Karan did a video about getting complete sleep cycles- sleep cycles are approximately 90 minutes and so a nap should be 90 minutes or possibly 180 minutes. He didn't mention it in the video but a night's sleep would extrapolate out to 6 hours, 7.5 hours, 9 hours or 10.5 hours. I usually work two 8 hour shifts a day and even 6 hours of sleep doesn't happen a lot of times so I am often running on 4.5 hours of sleep when I can't get 6. It's taking some getting used to, but I'm doing pretty good. I have to be really careful with my caffeine intake and working out is totally exhausting, but amazingly, the kind of tired I have been feeling is less like constant exhaustion and my brain is forced to economize so I have been enjoying a new kind of mental clarity.
Yes, but some chronotypes, those that make you fall asleep later and wake up later, are the worst to live with, because people, school, work and much more things won’t wait for you to get your perfect sleep rhythm… and you either try to live not according to your natural rhythm and are always tired, or you’re always late to everything 😢
Yup, but also knowing that means you can keep an eye out for jobs with a late shift. Yknow, maybe dont become a bin man, maybe be the person sorting the mail in the evenings to be posted out the next day.
An ex-gf of mine actually has a genetic condition (I can't remember what it's called) where she only needs about 4 hours of sleep each night. And she's like never tired, quite the opposite actually. She's very happy-go-lucky, high energy, very physically active, and driven. And I'm very jealous of this, I feel like I never have enough hours in the day 😂
Yes but this mutation is according to renowned sleep scientist Dr Matthew Walker far, far less likely to occur for you than you being struck by lightning, the probability of which is roughly 1/12500.
It’s called Short Sleeper Syndrome and I’m in the same boat lol. I only sleep 5 and a half to 6 hours a night and I’m never tired. It’s caused by a gene mutation.
Plenty of studies show we need 8 hours. Biggest mistake in my life was going through my 20s and 30s thinking I felt fine on little sleep. "Feeling fresh" if you never sleep 8 hours is distorted.
Studies also show that a single period of sleep is not the natural pattern either, 8ish hours is good, but ideally, it's divided into two periods of sleep, with a small time of wakefulness in between.
On average, yes. But this is not always the case for everyone, hence why 8 hours is a myth and it's really an individual basis, as stated in the video. It's why we have night owls, early birds, etc.
@@kaylynnanson6231 True, but also most of us are average, even when we don't think so. A lot of people live a hectic life, sleep way less than they naturally need, and think that's fine 'cause they have forgotten what normal feels like. All the while their health and performance suffers for it.
I never feel fresh no matter how much or how little i sleep, only on certain circumstances that have 0 to do with how much sleep i get i wake up feeling with energy
I learned this the hard way when I had a baby. Slept in 45-90min increments for months. Could technically get 8h sleep per day but was still delirious and hallucinating 😬😬
I think being an owl made it difficult for me to figure out what this proper amount of sleep actually was. As an owl whose job's hours favored larks, it felt like more of a matter of "did I get enough sleep to function" rather than "do I feel refreshed". A recent ability to sleep in more through the week helped me figure out that my body actually seems to like two hours beyond that "good enough" level. I don't feel like I have to take a nap every afternoon or evening, and my blood pressure and stress levels seem to have improved, too.
@@DrKaran it’s so frustrating, that even my friends don’t really believe me that I’m a real owl. They always assume it’s just a matter of habit and you could train yourself differently. It’s a real struggle.
@@DrKaran nobody is naturally an owl, our circadian rhythm is not built like that. It’s just stupid people being irresponsible, but their bodies get used to it. Anyone who says they are a night owl probably are dumb
@@lemonlime8949well you must be an owl because that's a pretty dumb comment. Night time preferences have no effect on intelligence, to assume it does is just ridiculous.
If I don't have nothing going on the next day (work, etc.) I tend to let my body decide when I need to wake up. Sometimes it's 6 hrs and sometimes 10 or anywhere in between.
Same. Max sleep hours needed is 10. Unfortunately, my parents think that if I sleep early, I'll automatically wake up early. But it sadly doesn't work like that. My sleep schedule is kind of fucked up too. Idk how to change it according to my body.
I’ve always said this. Especially since this cycle is based on the male’s 24 hour hormone cycle. Some weeks a woman will be more sleep while other weeks less. During menstruation I need a looooot.
Absolutely! Some days (usually right after my period, 7-12 range) I can get 4 hours and be having a great time. Some days (right before or during my period) I can't stay AWAKE for 4 hours. Also, my appetite swings just as much. Though I haven't payed enough attention to the pattern yet, I know I can go from not wanting to eat a bite to being ravenous in a matter of a day.
I’m the same exact way I was always so worried because all u see is 7-8 hours any less and u risk heart attack or diabetes at like 30 years old but lately I just said screw I’m just going to sleep when I’m tired since I can’t force myself to go to sleep anyway I just accept it
Only--- really lazy people can sleep that long... And people don't have a worry in the World... most people sleep on average about maybe 4 to 5 hours.... 8 hours is a really really long time
@@davidharris6484 4 to 5 is not for most people, the 7 to 8 is for most people that is why it is so widely known, 7 to 8 is most, some need less and some need more. Hell i sleep 8 every day and still sleep longer in the weekends because my body needs it
I recommend the book "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. Based on countless studies and data on why this is a pretty bad idea and is a detriment to your cognitive ability and health.
I had to wait til my parents fell asleep to move about. A flashlight, books to read, research to do, baskets or weaving then one day they found me in the closet reading😂😂 took away all my lighting.
I've had long periods of time where I would just go to sleep when I feel tired and wake up when I felt ready to wake up, and something I noticed was that my awake times would slowly shift, because I was awake about 18-20 hours while my amount of sleep stayed the same.
I'm convinced my body is hard wired to be a night owl, because no matter what I try to change, I'm always groggy from morning till afternoon and only fully start functioning from the evening to like 5 AM
@@oblivion_4014 screentime yea, sugar and carbs, cola addiction would do that to ya, but I don't workout and I don't nap afternoons unless I completely skip sleep for some reason
When I was in my early 20s I was a night owl. Then I started to get dark circles under my eyes, and felt horrible. I soon began to appreciate getting rest during the night. And the sunshine from the first early morning light. ❤
@@shadowkyber2510Yea, depends on their specialty (and if they work at a hospital). I have noticed the doctors who have their own clinics tend to have a better work-life balance as opposed to the doctors who work at hospitals (because they don’t have much control over their schedule and hospitals tend me to be open for more hours than a regular clinic).
I found that waking up during the end or transition period during a sleep cycle is more important than anything. In college I tried it out and found that sleeping around 6 hours and waking up in that point of the cycle did more for me than anything else. Even with less hours of total sleep I still woke up easy and lasted longer than more sleep off cycle. I could sleep 3 hours and wake up fresh, but it wouldn't last long enough for the whole day.
Thank you doc... I had been sleeping 6 hours a night as a teenager and then couple of hours in the late afternoon. My parents gave me hell for doing so... After I entered 20s I never took naps, no matter what... Just recently I started taking naps in my 40s, after work and it only happened a few times, but it feels good and I think I will stick to it if I feel so...
Yep. I feel this is true. It totally depends on the state your body is in. At times I need only 5-6 hours. Other times I need 10 hours depending on my activities.
I remember I called getting too much sleep overcharging cause me getting 9+ hours of sleep just negatively affects me and gives me a massive headache while I function best around 5-8 hours of sleep.
I'm not a morning person. I feel groggy in the morning regardless of how much sleep I've had or what time i went to bed and woke up. I think I've only woken up fresh once or twice in my life. However, my morning grogginess usually goes away after a few hours. If it doesn't go away, that means I probably didn't get enough sleep the previous night
Idk if my rhythm is completely messed up or if I was just born this way, but I am dead tired the entire day. Literally so fatigued I can barely keep my eyes open. But come night, around like 10 pm to 1 am, I get this incredible burst of energy. I am wide awake and can easily stay up until 7-8 am without yawning once no matter if I slept 1 or 10 hours the previous day. It is somewhat hard on daily life, as most things happen during the day and I’m not sure how to ‚fix‘ it or if I even can.
You're a total night owl ❤. I share your experience with being I can be a totally tired zombie crying for sleep during the afternoon, but 10 o'clock pm happens and it's like party time! Let's sing and dance and cook. Absolutely maddening. My best friend switched from being first to third shift for the better work assignments and pay differential now so I text her to keep her company while she works. She's now understanding the joys of being a night owl, though she's always done some sort of shift work her entire life as a Healthcare worker.
@@betteryourlife865I'm also a night owl, if I go to sleep at 8pm because I'm tired I will wake up around 10pm. My body thinks 8pm. is naptime, because I don't generally wake up in the middle of the night when I fall asleep at 2-3am
Oh look another human with my screwed up sleep cycle. I am the most wide awake between 9pm and 4 am. I know it's time to go to bed when the sun comes up.
Yeah.. unless I specifically sleep all night (from about 12am to 7-8am), I usually just sleep most of the day and stay awake all night. It feels very comfortable to me. I’ve never been a morning person and I’m also a heavy sleeper, so if I commit to a nap, I am usually down for 2-4 hours. I usually supplement my sleep by just napping as needed. If I’m tired, I respect my body and give it rest. Otherwise I go about my business.
I feel weird lately. Ever since my new partner came over I have been able to sleep like a functioning human being. I haven't been able to do that for more than a week since my early teens (late 20s now). It's like this wave of relaxation came over me and I no longer have to worry. I'm enjoying this time in my life because I'm afraid it's just temporarily, but it feels so good.
This is because a partner causes physiological changes in the body, the release of oxytocin and other neurotransmitters does actually cause that wave of relaxation. Having a romantic partner completes you in a sense, because not only do you now feel fulfilled, you get all the health benefits - physiological, psychological and physical health improves - you may even live longer. Do a little research if you want.
When I was still going to school, I'd barely get over 6 hours of sleep most nights because of my night owl tendencies. Things was, I always felt more awake on the nights I got less sleep than the nights I did with almost 8 hours. When I told a friend this, he looked at me like I'd grown a second head. If I still kept in contact, I'd send him this.
I used to need pitch black rooms when trying to sleep and I would wake up groggy no matter how many hours of sleep. Recently I've been waking up naturally with the sun and I've been feeling a lot better rested. Our bodies are programmed to send signals and wake us up when the sun's up.
Some of us, yes. We are programmed to get up at different times, as variance increases survivability usually. In the case of sleep, variance allows more people to remain safe as we can want the sleepers of dangers. But in most areas genetic variability is going to show up because it's so useful across all domains and in particular when conditions change.
I still sleep in pitch black room and get up using a cheap smartlight as an alarm instead of a blaring alarm... The blaring alarm is a secondary and tertiary backup... I usually get a good night's rest with 6 hours sleep...
@@am529 Omg finally someone else who's like this. The sun coming up is my body's trigger to sleep. I've found that personally, despite everyone's insistence that screens before bed ruins sleep schedules, mine is closer to socially acceptable if I use a bright screen shortly before when I want to sleep.
I work nightshift and sometimes go to sleep when it's fully bright in my room because I don't have blinders or blackout curtains, only regular ones that let in a shitton of light and barely cover all the windows, yet I still sleep completely fine
Oh, I definitely need 7.5 to 8 hours of sleep. My brain does not work well with less than 7.5 hours of sleep. I can't concentrate on my work. I'm continuously yawning. It's just awful. Not to mention, I find myself to be in a bad mood the whole day.
I can't remember the last time I woke up feeling refreshed. I think I need 7.5 hrs, but I rarely even manage to get 6. I feel miserable pretty much every single morning, and it's been this way for decades. I feel like I'm losing years of my life because of lack of sleep.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou if getting enough sleep will really make you happier, i think you should try to find a way to unload your day so that you could rest/sleep more
I think that the time you wake up is most important. If I wake up at 9-10am, as long as I had a decent amount of sleep, it won’t change whether I slept 10hrs or 5hrs, I’ll always feel the same. But even when I sleep any amount of time between 4 and 10hrs and wake up at 7, I feel absolutely horrible when I wake up. Lucky for me, that’s every morning as school makes me.
I recall watching a video somewhere, and while im not sure its true, it mentioned that this makes sense since perhaps our ancestors needed people awake at different times
Do you consistently sleep for 6 hours though? Could it be that when you sleep for 8 hours your body changes state to resting rather than 'going'? Four nights in a row I slept between 2 to 4 hrs each night being ad active as ever. When I returned to my normal 7 to 8 hours I was dragging for days.
@@MsMinoula i think it would be a matter of completed sleep cycles rem vs non rem? i think im well rested in 5 hours of sleep vs a 6 hour one because i'd be in the middle of a rem sleep in a 6 hour one if i get woken up. Oh, and sleeping sideways helps too i think versus lying on my back. i always wake up side ways or almost always. i imagine it like pulses or waves on the sea cleaning the proteins away and goes through the spine...?
@@mnm2156 My comment wasn't about you, but I see you sleep for 5 hours... sorry but Research after research has proven this is not enough. You need to diiscuss this with a doctor, someone that will see your case specifically, take into account every aspect of your life, even where you live. Neither that someone that pushes you to sleep more, nor one that says "if you feel good it's fine" because what if this person has higher stress levels and that's why they are alert and fine without much sleep, but this harms their body? In your case it may be this, or something else, or nothing, you may be fine as you say but please check.
My mother always used to say to me when growing up, that I was the type of person who needs to sleep a good 10 hours. Personally, I always thought she was BS'ing because she wanted me in bed a couple hours earlier than all my friends were up at; which made it so I missed shows they were watching and I wasn't able to. (parents out there, this matters more than you might think. If the discussions during recess are about those shows... you have nothing to talk about except things your friends give close to zero craps about. Which in turn makes you less interesting to be around, which in turn means you have less friends growing up. Again, may seem unimportant, but it's not.) Fast forward many years later... She wasn't entirely wrong I tend to feel kind of sleepy still and not really refreshed unless I do two things perfectly, or the main thing close enough. I have to sleep for some multiple of 1.5 hours, and it can't be broken except in maybe cases when I wake up midway to relieve myself. But depending on what time of sleep I had before that happens, I might stay up anyways afterwards. The multiplier of 1.5 that tends to work out best for my tiredness? 7. 7x1.5=10.5 hours of sleep. My mother would often say that if I got less than 10 hours, but more than 11 hours; I was often cranky. Well, that's the only part she was wrong about. I wasn't cranky, so much as I had less capacity for patience for people around me. But life today doesn't give a person much time for sleep. 10-11 hours? hah. I get by on 6 hours, because it's a perfect multiple of 4 x 1.5hours, and then catch up on the weekend with a couple 12's, 8 x 1.5; and regulate for the weekdays again by staying awake a bit later into the first shift day and sleeping in closer to my shift instead to get the 6 hours. This, works well enough. Not super fresh, but not super tired either.
Since I was about 9 years old, I've only required 3 hours sleep, but, never more than 4 hours of sleep since I was 9 years old. I'm over 50 now, and it's not changed. Never groggy. Early to Rise & Last to Sleep.
😂 same. I rarely ever feel refreshed waking up. It’s like I’ve never even slept since it rarely ever feels rested 😩. I also constantly look like a zombie/drug addict and my mom never fails to remind me of it lol
the most awake I've ever felt was one time when I had gotten 2 hours of sleep the past 2/3 days. It was weird, I felt so energetic and refreshed. I went outside on a walk and it was the most enjoyable walk I've ever had, like any sign of depression was just gone. Next day after proper sleep I was back to normal sadly
Idk but that might be adrenaline because thar amount of sleep is not good at all. So hormones come into action to keep your body alert. Thanks what i am thinking. (Commimg from a person who had once not slept at all and has leeched iff ir 3 hrs before)
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My body: “You need 22 hrs to feel fresh”.
Lol!
@Dr Karan Dr can you do a video on waking up in the middle of night to urinate and not being able to sleep again?
I've been experiencing it the past few weeks, waking up at around 4 or 5 and can't sleep well again and I don't know if it's too unhealthy for me or if it affects my hormones since I do bodybuilding
@Dehcik is there any way to just not wake up and keep it a few more hours? I wake up at 7 anyway
@@safs3098 my advice would be just try and not drink anything say an hour hour an a half before bed that way you should of already peed and whatever was in ya system shouldn't force you to wake up
@danielcoppock I tried bro, not just 1 hour, I didn't drink water 4 hours before bed. Still woke up.
"Why were you late?"
"Sorry, I just needed enough sleep to feel fresh."
"You've been gone for 3 days!"
me fr TwT
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🤣😂!
Sorry ... My clock proteins were running late
This actually happens.
* wakes up after 6 hrs of sleep *
* feels fresh * * goes for a walk & comes back *
Eyes & mind: okay, we need to sleep
So true 🤣
Same here
@@Okay-vf9vbHow do you know that based on a single comment??
@@perhaps1094don’t even bother with people like these. They just assume things to fit their predetermined beliefs
@@Okay-vf9vbbros making ↑ excuses
My body: “you need at least 25 hours of sleep a day to feel fresh”
Maybe you are on wrong planet
@@cikengraham maybe…
Relatable
Sounds like you are depressed
@@istvantoth3775 No. He just tried to be slick, but overexagerated it
Sleeps without an alarm:
*Wakes up one week later*
true tho one day i forgot set my alarm and woke up at 7pm (i slept at 3am)
😂😂😂😂
@@SuchFlareno way bro there’s just no way
@@Contemplatingspider yes, there is.
@@ContemplatingspiderIt's happened to me too.
I can feel fresh after 4 hours of sleep, but that doesn't mean its enough because the freshness doesn't last long.
True, you’ll feel that afternoon crash
Facts
Lol😂
@@Jeagletboard then I'll have a 90 minute nap......
@@lynnalborough9672my naps last far too long 😂
I can’t even remember the last time I’ve felt refreshed and ready for the day, no matter how many hours of sleep I get 😩😭
im not a doctor or anything, but could be lack of vitamins,minerals etc
@@ReptilezDznProbably depression, too.
which the deficiancies are promoting@@FranciumBoron
could be sleep apnea
I auto diagnosed myself with chronic fatigue at this point cause there's no fucking way I'm always tired and exhausted. I probably have adhd but I'll never know officially cause no money 👍
Some times i feel fresh at about 3 hours, and other times i feel fresh about 9+. My rhythm is finicky.
He didn’t my mention that it’s sleep cycles, the more late into the sleep cycle you wake up the more fresh you are I guess 3 and 9 hit for u at the ends of sleep cycles
For me it literally just depends on how much physical activity I did during the day.
@@pyerackthat's how it's supposed to be. Sleep is very dynamic so if someone doesn't touch grass and plays video games and watch tiktok and sits and eats Cheetos all day will probably never sleep even 6 hours because there isn't enough sleep drive.
I wish I can never feel fresh unless over 10hrs
@@arrow2380false
My body with only 5 hours of sleep: 💃🏽
My body with a full 10 hours of sleep: 🧟
Exactly that's what happens with me.. The more I sleep, the more tired I feel.. I am good with 5-6 hrs daily and 8 hrs after once in a week
Getting too much sleep is also a negative, makes you feel groggy
It depends on your quality of sleep too.. quality and quantity= best sleep
Wrong emoji, here you go 💃
Does happen like that sometimes you feel worse off
People used to judge me and call me lazy, but I really feel the most rested with 9-10hrs of sleep.
You may be eating too much meat causing your body to overwork when digesting which puts you in a constant state of sluggishness as meat requires 1-3 days to digest. Try to go plant base for a week and see the results in your energy levels sky rocketing. I know from experience.
@@onyx_might72 found the vegan
Some people really need more sleep to function. Teenager especially often need 9-10 hours to be replenished properly, but it varies heavily
Einstein too had a sleep of 10 hours.
@@onyx_might72 Thanks for the feedback. I’m mostly vegetarian and I can get away with 8 hours, I just feel more energized with 9-10, but I’ll be sure to mention this to others if they’re sluggish and big on meat, makes sense.
the "yes" caught me off guard
SAME LMAOOO I was wondering if it was from the video or idkkk 😭
Finally an excuse for my awful sleep schedule
I always wake up tired regardless of how much sleep I get 💀
Caffiene fiend, like me 😂
Get your vitamin D levels checked
i feel more refreshed NOT falling asleep
Sleep apnoea. Get a sleep test done. Very common.
Same, but I don't drink caffeine, my vitamin D levels are good, and I don't have sleep apnoea 😂
The sleep specialists have no idea why I don't feel refreshed by sleep.
Once, years ago when I was laying in bed, I closed my eyes briefly and when they were open, it was morning. It was like I hadn't actually slept at all, but I still felt great and refreshed in the morning. It was incredible, like it I had only blinked.
That implies a good sleep
@@kuriokudesufr 💀
Glitch in the matrix
I’ve had that happen to me before too
happened to me too
ever since i got my sleeping in order and sleeping for 8-10 hours a day for a year i’ve noticed that having less sleep doesn’t effect me as much is it did before. i can run off of 5 hours of sleep without feeling sick or slow.
i can feel myself becoming excited to get up right before i wake up and bed times now are like “alright let’s get this over with” rather than “finally, sleep”
Did practice sleep hygiene? Or figured out when you sleep best and used that?
Sometimes 6 hours isn’t enough, and sometimes it’s fine. Sometimes 10 hours makes me feel super refreshed, and other times 10 hours kills me for the rest of the day. I don’t know how that works Q_Q
same bro. same problem.
Think of it like a battery. You can charge at different percents. Short charge on low battery= not enough charge. Long charge on not as dead battery= overcharge, bad for the health of battery
6hours if im sleeping without worry
stay hydrated before bes
I think consistency is also important, at least for me. I usually sleep 4-5 hours a day (always been this way, about 15 years at this point). I work 7 days a week so most of fhe time I go to sleep and wake up at regular times.
When I do take a day or two off and my routine changes, I sometimes sleep 7-8 hours but I wake up drained and foggy.
"How fresh you feel when you wake up"
That's a thing?
Can't say I've ever experienced that
I only felt fresh when I consistently slept 7 hours a day for a week, not just once or twice. Though I also feel good when I sleep 9 to 10 hours. I once slept 16 hours and felt like I came back from the dead (It was when I was really stressed). Anyways, If you never feel fresh, that means you sleep too little, try 7 hours for a week and see how you feel.
@@everythingsfinett3903 I remember when I once slept for 16h straight without waking up to urinate :D I just opened my eyes like nothing happened like I never fell asleep :D I felt very well that day but unfortunately now it would feel like a waste of time to sleep for that long again xD
i forget when was the last time i feel fresh waking up...
felt it once in my life
can never reach that high again 😢
You brought up a good point. Many people don't know the last time they felt 'fresh' after waking up. And also too many people are lazy lmao, they oversleep and then feel dull. Somehow, you gotta figure out your 'sleep'...
Sometimes i wake up after 6 hours and sometimes 12.
It's nice to wake up when it's still dark out, feels like i have so much more time to just chill
Same
I usually need 4-5 hours and I’m good. If I sleep over that, I’m even more tired.
Same! Fed up of people telling me this is “wrong”. That’s what I need, what makes me feel good so it’s ok.
Due to my anxiety my sleep is mixed up from 8 hours to 4 hours this made me feel a lot better 😂😅
I remember taking a high level class from a professor with a doctorate at one of the best universities in the United States on sleep…
He explained that sleep debt was a reality and that a lot of people got used to not sleeping enough in a similar way people got used to a continuous pain. It was there, you just ignored it better.
Also that statistics showed that people would, on average, do much worse in basic simple tests on 6 hours of sleep than on 8 but would not even think they were doing worse, thinking they were in their usual condition.
He (and the various sources he gave us) also said that some people that could indeed function on a few hours of sleep, that they were a thing (linked to genes), but were exceedingly rare. The overwhelming majority are just used to not sleeping enough. (Hell, I underwent a period when I was sleep deprived, only when my friends told me I was irritable and acting different did I realize it was affecting me).
I’m going to go ahead and trust my professor specialized on sleep working in a reputable university and all the research he and his colleagues conducted and presented to us students.
Dr Karan is generally speaking a trusting source in that he does his research but he also tends to oversimplified and the few nuances he puts are often lost on shorts like these. Socyeah, i would take it with a grain of salt.
Dude....... 🙄 all dr. Karan is saying is that 7-8 hrs of sleep being the standard for EVERYONE is a myth... Hes not saying ppl who need 8hrs of sleep (or more) dont exist... Hes just saying to sleep however much your body NEEDS to sleep and to not hold your body hostage to a standard that doesnt serve it, because we are not all cookie cut beings. Sleep debt is absolutely a very real thing and your professor does sound awesome 😁 nothing like learning from a qualified individual 🤘🏽
My understanding is that he's saying that each individual's sleep needs are going to be dependent on their body. I do think he should've said that sleep debt is a serious issue that everyone overlooks, as a doctor. But med school requires you to function on basically no sleep so who knows.
@@cembaturkemikkiran4109the key thing is it sounds like you are usually getting 2 full REM cycles per 24hrs and that's arguably the most important thing because that's when your brain processes waste and many important physiological functions are most efficiently conducted. I have a circadian rhythm disorder resulting in basically no "biological clock" so I've been on both sides of the 8 hours argument functioning just fine on a schedule like yours then flipping to sleeping more than my cats +14hrs and still feeling like death because I wasn't hitting REM sleep. At the end of the day sleep is weird and we need definitely to learn more about it.
@@cembaturkemikkiran4109 I agree with you. But no study is going to have that large of a sample size. The point of the sample size is to get a group of participants that representative of a whole.
As a child, I've always been taught the 8 hours thing and I wanted to do my best and aim for that. However, I would get pissed at myself if I woke up after only 5-7 hours lmao. I'm the type who is unable to sleep again once I wake up and naps during the day is just not my thing. Over time, I just accepted that I can never sleep 8 hours unless I am super tired.
One thing I am very sure of though is that I HAVE to wake up right before the sun rises. I noticed that if I wake up when it's already very bright outside, it affects my mood negatively throughout the day (lazier, unproductive, etc.). Dawn hours is just so pretty.
Dawn hour is the best ❤🌇🌄🌅
Wish I had your issue
its exactly the same for me too
@@Fortunecookeee😂same wish I wish for
@@Fortunecookeee yeah me too
Since i am a medical student 5th year, i am working in a hospital in Bulgaria and giving night shifts because of the studying i am sleeping on shifts, 4 hours during the night and than 3-4 hours during the day. As i can tell one neurologist said that in the past B.C. The normal sleep schedule was a few hours divided the whole day and it was the normal circadian rhythm back in time. So the goal for me is just feeling fresh and productive 😊
Dr.Karan did a video about getting complete sleep cycles- sleep cycles are approximately 90 minutes and so a nap should be 90 minutes or possibly 180 minutes. He didn't mention it in the video but a night's sleep would extrapolate out to 6 hours, 7.5 hours, 9 hours or 10.5 hours. I usually work two 8 hour shifts a day and even 6 hours of sleep doesn't happen a lot of times so I am often running on 4.5 hours of sleep when I can't get 6. It's taking some getting used to, but I'm doing pretty good. I have to be really careful with my caffeine intake and working out is totally exhausting, but amazingly, the kind of tired I have been feeling is less like constant exhaustion and my brain is forced to economize so I have been enjoying a new kind of mental clarity.
Yes, but some chronotypes, those that make you fall asleep later and wake up later, are the worst to live with, because people, school, work and much more things won’t wait for you to get your perfect sleep rhythm… and you either try to live not according to your natural rhythm and are always tired, or you’re always late to everything 😢
Yup, but also knowing that means you can keep an eye out for jobs with a late shift. Yknow, maybe dont become a bin man, maybe be the person sorting the mail in the evenings to be posted out the next day.
And ofc..
I rolled that type, because why not.
I hate everything about my brain.
@@Fem_V do a stat reroll! Mulligan!!!! 🤣😂
Or you can do both! 😊
@@Fem_VHave you tried exchanging it for a refund?
An ex-gf of mine actually has a genetic condition (I can't remember what it's called) where she only needs about 4 hours of sleep each night. And she's like never tired, quite the opposite actually. She's very happy-go-lucky, high energy, very physically active, and driven. And I'm very jealous of this, I feel like I never have enough hours in the day 😂
My anemic self could never
bipolar type 1?
Yes but this mutation is according to renowned sleep scientist Dr Matthew Walker far, far less likely to occur for you than you being struck by lightning, the probability of which is roughly 1/12500.
Ugh I wish I had that
It’s called Short Sleeper Syndrome and I’m in the same boat lol. I only sleep 5 and a half to 6 hours a night and I’m never tired. It’s caused by a gene mutation.
its really fun hearing this and knowing that i dont know anyone who feels fresh waking up no matter how much, how little or what time they woke up
Plenty of studies show we need 8 hours. Biggest mistake in my life was going through my 20s and 30s thinking I felt fine on little sleep. "Feeling fresh" if you never sleep 8 hours is distorted.
Studies also show that a single period of sleep is not the natural pattern either, 8ish hours is good, but ideally, it's divided into two periods of sleep, with a small time of wakefulness in between.
On average, yes. But this is not always the case for everyone, hence why 8 hours is a myth and it's really an individual basis, as stated in the video. It's why we have night owls, early birds, etc.
@@kaylynnanson6231 You can sleep 8h no matter what type you are. It's usually 7-9h also.
@@kaylynnanson6231 True, but also most of us are average, even when we don't think so. A lot of people live a hectic life, sleep way less than they naturally need, and think that's fine 'cause they have forgotten what normal feels like. All the while their health and performance suffers for it.
I never feel fresh no matter how much or how little i sleep, only on certain circumstances that have 0 to do with how much sleep i get i wake up feeling with energy
"Remember it's not the quantity but the quality of sleep that matters."
I would say both kinda matters
Bosses when their workers are about to kill themselves from living like shit:
Literally no lmao, pretty much all sleep in the same in terms of quality, unless your constantly being woken up by stuff
@@sharrpshooter1 all sleep is certainly not the same in quality. Lots of science has been done on this.
I learned this the hard way when I had a baby. Slept in 45-90min increments for months. Could technically get 8h sleep per day but was still delirious and hallucinating 😬😬
If I'm doing really well with my sleep schedule, I only need 7 hours, but if I'm not doing a great job with it, I need 9 lol
Yes definitely can be influenced by external factors such as caffeine intake , activity levels, alcohol consumption etc etc
Sameeee
Same here
@@DrKaran does nicotine affect it
Yeah, I used to sleep only for 4-5 hours but from few days I'm very sleepy... I feel like sleeping the whole day
I need a clock repairman to enter my cells
Thank you for this, often times I wake up very early and feel refreshed, but when I sleep for a long time I feel tired getting up.
I think being an owl made it difficult for me to figure out what this proper amount of sleep actually was. As an owl whose job's hours favored larks, it felt like more of a matter of "did I get enough sleep to function" rather than "do I feel refreshed".
A recent ability to sleep in more through the week helped me figure out that my body actually seems to like two hours beyond that "good enough" level. I don't feel like I have to take a nap every afternoon or evening, and my blood pressure and stress levels seem to have improved, too.
Yep society restricts the sleeping patterns of those who are naturally owls
Let's start a revolution
@@DrKaran it’s so frustrating, that even my friends don’t really believe me that I’m a real owl. They always assume it’s just a matter of habit and you could train yourself differently. It’s a real struggle.
@@DrKaran nobody is naturally an owl, our circadian rhythm is not built like that. It’s just stupid people being irresponsible, but their bodies get used to it. Anyone who says they are a night owl probably are dumb
@@lemonlime8949well you must be an owl because that's a pretty dumb comment. Night time preferences have no effect on intelligence, to assume it does is just ridiculous.
If I don't have nothing going on the next day (work, etc.) I tend to let my body decide when I need to wake up. Sometimes it's 6 hrs and sometimes 10 or anywhere in between.
Same but sometimes I wake up at 7 thinking I have to do something
today i woke up with 3 or 4 hours of sleep, and I really felt fresh.
Me who sleeps 12 hours a day and still feel tired and sleepy for the rest 12 hours🙂
Oh man, my body needs like 8.5/9.5 hours of sleep a night.... it sucks
Same I need 9hours of sleep.
Same. Max sleep hours needed is 10. Unfortunately, my parents think that if I sleep early, I'll automatically wake up early. But it sadly doesn't work like that.
My sleep schedule is kind of fucked up too. Idk how to change it according to my body.
Hahaha, if I don’t use an alarm, I’m sleeping for 12-14 hours. 10 hours doesn’t sound bad to me xD
@@nancyfancy9825 lemme guess, you've asian parents right?
@@channelclosed218 Yep, pure Indian haha.
I’ve always said this. Especially since this cycle is based on the male’s 24 hour hormone cycle. Some weeks a woman will be more sleep while other weeks less. During menstruation I need a looooot.
That part
Without birth control I literally will go 1-3 days without sleeping on my period and it is absolutely terrible
Absolutely! Some days (usually right after my period, 7-12 range) I can get 4 hours and be having a great time. Some days (right before or during my period) I can't stay AWAKE for 4 hours. Also, my appetite swings just as much. Though I haven't payed enough attention to the pattern yet, I know I can go from not wanting to eat a bite to being ravenous in a matter of a day.
Why do you need to loot?
It's not a male thing, the Earth rotates on 24 hour cycles 💀
Source: Trust me bro, i'm a doctor
Well he is.
My boss says I only need 5 minutes before I have to start my next shift.
Thanks for this because I could never sleep 8 hours and I thought there was something not right with me.
I’m the same exact way I was always so worried because all u see is 7-8 hours any less and u risk heart attack or diabetes at like 30 years old but lately I just said screw I’m just going to sleep when I’m tired since I can’t force myself to go to sleep anyway I just accept it
Only--- really lazy people can sleep that long... And people don't have a worry in the World... most people sleep on average about maybe 4 to 5 hours.... 8 hours is a really really long time
@@davidharris6484 4 to 5 is not for most people, the 7 to 8 is for most people that is why it is so widely known, 7 to 8 is most, some need less and some need more.
Hell i sleep 8 every day and still sleep longer in the weekends because my body needs it
@davidharris6484 *4 to 5 hours is a lot, u must not have much to do, I only need an hour of sleep per night*
I recommend the book "Why We Sleep" by Matthew Walker. Based on countless studies and data on why this is a pretty bad idea and is a detriment to your cognitive ability and health.
Me convincing my mum I can run on a few hours of sleep after she catches me on my PC at 5 am.
Exactly what I was looking for
I had to wait til my parents fell asleep to move about. A flashlight, books to read, research to do, baskets or weaving then one day they found me in the closet reading😂😂 took away all my lighting.
@@thebossmj79 😂
😂😂😂😂best
Bahaha 😂 you reminded me of my son 👍🤣 he would be sleeping later on the day 🤣🤣
that 2 hour nap is better than any 8 hour sleep
"YES" out of nowhere
My body definitely needs 12 hours of sleep to feel fresh
I only sleep around 4-5 hours a day due to exams.
But I always feel like if I’m sleepy when I wake up, and awake when I’m supposed to sleep.
Saaaaameeeeee
Then sleep 2hrs more don't take stress due to exams
When you feel awake study that time
Me after 4 hours of sleep everyday but still fresh because of coffee
I've had long periods of time where I would just go to sleep when I feel tired and wake up when I felt ready to wake up, and something I noticed was that my awake times would slowly shift, because I was awake about 18-20 hours while my amount of sleep stayed the same.
This is something so nuanced and delicate it shouldn’t had ever been cut into a clip.
I'm convinced my body is hard wired to be a night owl, because no matter what I try to change, I'm always groggy from morning till afternoon and only fully start functioning from the evening to like 5 AM
Reduce screentime,reduce sugars and carbs, workout and nap afternoons
bruh fr
this is because you dont sleep enough, and if you do its because you use your phone before bed.
maybe its cause you stay up until 5 am? Duuh
@@oblivion_4014 screentime yea, sugar and carbs, cola addiction would do that to ya, but I don't workout and I don't nap afternoons unless I completely skip sleep for some reason
"third birds" lol. They really couldn't think of another bird to call the people in the middle
that "yes" startled the shit out of me
When I was in my early 20s I was a night owl. Then I started to get dark circles under my eyes, and felt horrible. I soon began to appreciate getting rest during the night. And the sunshine from the first early morning light. ❤
i actually noticed that when i get 6 hours of sleep i feel a lot more awake throughout the whole day than when i get 8
My Mom: **Sets alarm 12 hours from now and will still hit snooze**
so thats why i feel refreshed after 2 hours of sleep
I legit haven’t ever felt fresh when I’ve woken up ever since I was like 5 years old and I have no idea what this waking up feeling fresh thing is
If I sleep less than 8 hours I'm just a cranky bastard the rest of the day.
Fun fact - Doctors don't get 8 hours of sleep
Fun fact - some of them would. Out of the millions of doctors in the world, surely atleast 1 does
@@shadowkyber2510Yea, depends on their specialty (and if they work at a hospital). I have noticed the doctors who have their own clinics tend to have a better work-life balance as opposed to the doctors who work at hospitals (because they don’t have much control over their schedule and hospitals tend me to be open for more hours than a regular clinic).
the depression makes me either go a week no sleep or a week left sleep straight
I found that waking up during the end or transition period during a sleep cycle is more important than anything. In college I tried it out and found that sleeping around 6 hours and waking up in that point of the cycle did more for me than anything else. Even with less hours of total sleep I still woke up easy and lasted longer than more sleep off cycle. I could sleep 3 hours and wake up fresh, but it wouldn't last long enough for the whole day.
Thank you doc...
I had been sleeping 6 hours a night as a teenager and then couple of hours in the late afternoon. My parents gave me hell for doing so...
After I entered 20s I never took naps, no matter what...
Just recently I started taking naps in my 40s, after work and it only happened a few times, but it feels good and I think I will stick to it if I feel so...
Naps are amazing (take it from a 20 year old)
I love my siesta
I have an easier time falling asleep when taking a nap than when im trying to sleep for the night.
@@Ikajo Yeah... Same here.
@@Ikajoalmost like your body wants to take a nap
Honestly i get this. My body after like 6-7 feels totally fine. But like i try for 8 and i feel dead.
Yep. I feel this is true. It totally depends on the state your body is in. At times I need only 5-6 hours. Other times I need 10 hours depending on my activities.
The thumbnail looked like an Osu! map
I remember I called getting too much sleep overcharging cause me getting 9+ hours of sleep just negatively affects me and gives me a massive headache while I function best around 5-8 hours of sleep.
I'm not a morning person. I feel groggy in the morning regardless of how much sleep I've had or what time i went to bed and woke up. I think I've only woken up fresh once or twice in my life.
However, my morning grogginess usually goes away after a few hours. If it doesn't go away, that means I probably didn't get enough sleep the previous night
My body: I don't care how long do you sleep, you'll feel bad anyway
"Clock proteins" is the most "bro trust me bro" level of science ive ever heard
Idk if my rhythm is completely messed up or if I was just born this way, but I am dead tired the entire day. Literally so fatigued I can barely keep my eyes open. But come night, around like 10 pm to 1 am, I get this incredible burst of energy. I am wide awake and can easily stay up until 7-8 am without yawning once no matter if I slept 1 or 10 hours the previous day. It is somewhat hard on daily life, as most things happen during the day and I’m not sure how to ‚fix‘ it or if I even can.
You're a total night owl ❤. I share your experience with being I can be a totally tired zombie crying for sleep during the afternoon, but 10 o'clock pm happens and it's like party time! Let's sing and dance and cook. Absolutely maddening. My best friend switched from being first to third shift for the better work assignments and pay differential now so I text her to keep her company while she works. She's now understanding the joys of being a night owl, though she's always done some sort of shift work her entire life as a Healthcare worker.
Maybe you need to go to sleep at like 8pm when you’re still tired 😂
@@betteryourlife865I'm also a night owl, if I go to sleep at 8pm because I'm tired I will wake up around 10pm. My body thinks 8pm. is naptime, because I don't generally wake up in the middle of the night when I fall asleep at 2-3am
Oh look another human with my screwed up sleep cycle. I am the most wide awake between 9pm and 4 am. I know it's time to go to bed when the sun comes up.
Yeah.. unless I specifically sleep all night (from about 12am to 7-8am), I usually just sleep most of the day and stay awake all night. It feels very comfortable to me. I’ve never been a morning person and I’m also a heavy sleeper, so if I commit to a nap, I am usually down for 2-4 hours.
I usually supplement my sleep by just napping as needed. If I’m tired, I respect my body and give it rest. Otherwise I go about my business.
I feel weird lately. Ever since my new partner came over I have been able to sleep like a functioning human being. I haven't been able to do that for more than a week since my early teens (late 20s now). It's like this wave of relaxation came over me and I no longer have to worry. I'm enjoying this time in my life because I'm afraid it's just temporarily, but it feels so good.
This is because a partner causes physiological changes in the body, the release of oxytocin and other neurotransmitters does actually cause that wave of relaxation. Having a romantic partner completes you in a sense, because not only do you now feel fulfilled, you get all the health benefits - physiological, psychological and physical health improves - you may even live longer. Do a little research if you want.
Do not let your partner go
@@foodeater1236let itt goooo
@@Savage-en1ms💗 All praise to the Almighty Creator ☝🏽🌌💖💫
Enjoy mate!
Me: "So how many hours do we need ay?"
My body: "..."
Me: "Good"
"clock proteins"
hey its my time of the day of!- *narcolepsy kicks in*
When I was still going to school, I'd barely get over 6 hours of sleep most nights because of my night owl tendencies. Things was, I always felt more awake on the nights I got less sleep than the nights I did with almost 8 hours. When I told a friend this, he looked at me like I'd grown a second head. If I still kept in contact, I'd send him this.
I’m gonna be real with you, when I do that it’s because I’ve barely had rem sleep and will face a crash later in the day
krissycats1 did you read "One of us is lying"?
@@sokol2629 I did not
I usually sleep for 7 to 8 hours... But for some unusual reason I feel so refreshed after 2 hours of sleeping and I haven't crash at all yet
I may not need 8 hours of sleep, but I can confirm that 4 aren't enough
I used to need pitch black rooms when trying to sleep and I would wake up groggy no matter how many hours of sleep. Recently I've been waking up naturally with the sun and I've been feeling a lot better rested. Our bodies are programmed to send signals and wake us up when the sun's up.
Some of us, yes. We are programmed to get up at different times, as variance increases survivability usually. In the case of sleep, variance allows more people to remain safe as we can want the sleepers of dangers. But in most areas genetic variability is going to show up because it's so useful across all domains and in particular when conditions change.
I still sleep in pitch black room and get up using a cheap smartlight as an alarm instead of a blaring alarm... The blaring alarm is a secondary and tertiary backup... I usually get a good night's rest with 6 hours sleep...
speak for yourself. sunrise lulls me to sleep
@@am529 Omg finally someone else who's like this. The sun coming up is my body's trigger to sleep. I've found that personally, despite everyone's insistence that screens before bed ruins sleep schedules, mine is closer to socially acceptable if I use a bright screen shortly before when I want to sleep.
I work nightshift and sometimes go to sleep when it's fully bright in my room because I don't have blinders or blackout curtains, only regular ones that let in a shitton of light and barely cover all the windows, yet I still sleep completely fine
Meanwhile, all the literature: wtf is he saying
Facts, I need around 10-12 hours of sleep to feel refreshed
Oh, I definitely need 7.5 to 8 hours of sleep. My brain does not work well with less than 7.5 hours of sleep. I can't concentrate on my work. I'm continuously yawning. It's just awful. Not to mention, I find myself to be in a bad mood the whole day.
Same case with me... I can't do anything at all day.. And day js wasted if I don't get min 7 he
I can't remember the last time I woke up feeling refreshed. I think I need 7.5 hrs, but I rarely even manage to get 6. I feel miserable pretty much every single morning, and it's been this way for decades. I feel like I'm losing years of my life because of lack of sleep.
dude i hope you fix that
@@NnLd Me too, but I'm not hopeful. It seems like I just get busier and busier.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou if getting enough sleep will really make you happier, i think you should try to find a way to unload your day so that you could rest/sleep more
My body, to decide how much i need to sleep each day:
*Rolls several dices*
I've always just looked at it as that's the amount of sleep you usually can't go wrong with
I have realised this- the more happy you are the previous day, the better you feel after waking up even after sleeping the same i do everyday.
I think that the time you wake up is most important. If I wake up at 9-10am, as long as I had a decent amount of sleep, it won’t change whether I slept 10hrs or 5hrs, I’ll always feel the same. But even when I sleep any amount of time between 4 and 10hrs and wake up at 7, I feel absolutely horrible when I wake up. Lucky for me, that’s every morning as school makes me.
after an hour from an all nighter i feel fresher
I recall watching a video somewhere, and while im not sure its true, it mentioned that this makes sense since perhaps our ancestors needed people awake at different times
Honestly.... this man has helped me more than any doctor I have ever seen...
Probably because he’s a doctor himself (?) funnily enough
I swear to God, I wake up fresher with a 6 hour sleep than 8 hours.
similar to mine, only that it's 5 hours for me. 8 hours feels like i need an extra hour or 5! 😂
Do you consistently sleep for 6 hours though? Could it be that when you sleep for 8 hours your body changes state to resting rather than 'going'? Four nights in a row I slept between 2 to 4 hrs each night being ad active as ever. When I returned to my normal 7 to 8 hours I was dragging for days.
@@MsMinoula i think it would be a matter of completed sleep cycles rem vs non rem? i think im well rested in 5 hours of sleep vs a 6 hour one because i'd be in the middle of a rem sleep in a 6 hour one if i get woken up. Oh, and sleeping sideways helps too i think versus lying on my back. i always wake up side ways or almost always. i imagine it like pulses or waves on the sea cleaning the proteins away and goes through the spine...?
@@mnm2156 My comment wasn't about you, but I see you sleep for 5 hours... sorry but Research after research has proven this is not enough. You need to diiscuss this with a doctor, someone that will see your case specifically, take into account every aspect of your life, even where you live. Neither that someone that pushes you to sleep more, nor one that says "if you feel good it's fine" because what if this person has higher stress levels and that's why they are alert and fine without much sleep, but this harms their body? In your case it may be this, or something else, or nothing, you may be fine as you say but please check.
Me with depression: says here i need a full 3 to 5 business days of rest
My mother always used to say to me when growing up, that I was the type of person who needs to sleep a good 10 hours. Personally, I always thought she was BS'ing because she wanted me in bed a couple hours earlier than all my friends were up at; which made it so I missed shows they were watching and I wasn't able to. (parents out there, this matters more than you might think. If the discussions during recess are about those shows... you have nothing to talk about except things your friends give close to zero craps about. Which in turn makes you less interesting to be around, which in turn means you have less friends growing up. Again, may seem unimportant, but it's not.)
Fast forward many years later...
She wasn't entirely wrong I tend to feel kind of sleepy still and not really refreshed unless I do two things perfectly, or the main thing close enough.
I have to sleep for some multiple of 1.5 hours, and it can't be broken except in maybe cases when I wake up midway to relieve myself. But depending on what time of sleep I had before that happens, I might stay up anyways afterwards.
The multiplier of 1.5 that tends to work out best for my tiredness? 7. 7x1.5=10.5 hours of sleep.
My mother would often say that if I got less than 10 hours, but more than 11 hours; I was often cranky.
Well, that's the only part she was wrong about. I wasn't cranky, so much as I had less capacity for patience for people around me.
But life today doesn't give a person much time for sleep. 10-11 hours? hah.
I get by on 6 hours, because it's a perfect multiple of 4 x 1.5hours, and then catch up on the weekend with a couple 12's, 8 x 1.5; and regulate for the weekdays again by staying awake a bit later into the first shift day and sleeping in closer to my shift instead to get the 6 hours.
This, works well enough. Not super fresh, but not super tired either.
I cannot feel fresh with less than 10 hours of sleep
Since I was about 9 years old, I've only required 3 hours sleep, but, never more than 4 hours of sleep since I was 9 years old. I'm over 50 now, and it's not changed.
Never groggy.
Early to Rise & Last to Sleep.
Thats a luck.
Also just pay attention at the potential slightly faster ageing.
Me showing this to my parents after being caught up at 4 am
Everytime my grandparents wake me up at 7:00 I feel like trash for 2-3 hours
Problem is when your body doesn't sleep till is late at night, but your job definitely wants you to be wake up early in the morning
Going to bed at 0200 and getting up at 08/0900 has always been my body’s preferred recharge time. Lol
Top shelf zaza disrupted my circadian rhythm
This guy is proof that doctors aren’t always right.
LMAO! "how fresh you feel when you wake up"
honey, i got the fibro, waking up is a constant nightmare and I cannot wait to die.
😂 same. I rarely ever feel refreshed waking up. It’s like I’ve never even slept since it rarely ever feels rested 😩. I also constantly look like a zombie/drug addict and my mom never fails to remind me of it lol
the most awake I've ever felt was one time when I had gotten 2 hours of sleep the past 2/3 days. It was weird, I felt so energetic and refreshed. I went outside on a walk and it was the most enjoyable walk I've ever had, like any sign of depression was just gone. Next day after proper sleep I was back to normal sadly
Idk but that might be adrenaline because thar amount of sleep is not good at all. So hormones come into action to keep your body alert. Thanks what i am thinking. (Commimg from a person who had once not slept at all and has leeched iff ir 3 hrs before)