Lessons from people who hardly need any sleep
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- Опубликовано: 14 май 2020
- In episode one of our video series Exceptional Humans, we crisscross the US, spending a day with Evans in Pennsylvania, and then following her to San Francisco, where she and her sister visited a lab so researchers could monitor their brains as they slept.
We get an inside view into cutting-edge research that’s challenging established wisdom on how much rest we all need, and see what it means for the future of a good night’s sleep.
This story was originally published on October 23, 2019.
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I sleep for 4 to 5 hours, if I try to oversleep, I feel lazy and demotivated the whole day sometimes accompanied by headache and I don't take tea coffee or alcohol. But I am very happy this way
As a medical student myself, I desperately need to be a short-sleeper
She needs to be a doctor
just check out sleep cycles there's a ton that exist
I manage med school with 10-13 hours of sleep a day. You can do it! :D
Whenever exam gets close I think I should be short-sleeper but after exam (in my free days that I rest and sleep too much) I dont' remember these things because of laziness . If we want to be studious in life we should give up our some desires such as resting too much .By the way I am medical student too and I will enter the exam 20 october and I came here :).
What everyone thinks it's like to be a short sleeper- all this extra time to accomplish my goals and learn new things
What its actually like to be a short sleeper- RUclips algorithm rabbit hole, movies, video games, working out.
YES 😂 mostly too because if I walk around and accomplish stuff I’ll wake everyone else up!
Here I am still groggy after 9 hrs of sleep every night, mine must be a condition too 😂
Sound more like to mutch sleep
Hypersomnia exists too. If you're concerned about your sleep/you feel like you're wasting your life sleeping, it might be worth getting a sleep test done to see how much REM sleep you're getting.
I've been sleeping 5 to 6 hours a night for as long as I can remember. All while being a truck driver, and a heavy equipment operator. I've always been a high energy person and I never drink coffee or depend on energy drinks. I didn't realize it was a genetic condition, and after talking to my mom she says she's the same way. Very interesting!
I cant slept longer than 5 hours. So glad i found this video. I thought this was a disease
Teacher, teach me your ways!
Screen Qween PH. well, she can’t. The video says it’s genetic. But yeah. More hours to do things...or to get bored (especially now during lockdown)
It's not learned! It is strictly genetic. And, it took me a large portion of my life to learn that it's normal for me and not to worry about it. Being in a culture that tells you you need 8 hours every night or you're going to die young, gave me years of angst, as a natural short sleeper. Now I realize I might even live long! Longevity runs on my mom's side as do weird sleep patterns, and night owlish habits. And my dad was a short sleeper, early bird. I go between sleeping anywhere from 3 to 5 hours per night. Now I got to figure out how to join one of these studies if they want me.
0:35 Never thought I would be so excited to see this tower. I'm currently rewatching the office and could not have been happier to have Scranton mentioned, and I have never been to Pennsylvania :D
I'm pretty sure the woman in the video is Pam's landlord. The one she set Michael Scott with. The sweet old lady on. the bus.
@@phillipjacobs9982 OMG it's her.
@@k.bradley4334 she looked so familiar when I first watched the video.
I need and want this so bad. Imagine being able to go to bed late at night and still be able to work out and do some chores before you go to work in the morning.
Yeah imagine staying up until 12 pm and waking up at 5 am
I can get very little sleep. It frustrates me if I wake up after 2 hours of sleep going to bed at 10pm waking up at 12am feeling like I slept a full night XD it's not unpleasant but it's weird. I listen to audiobooks it's cool to meditate as well, read sometimes etc..
This could be because of creatine? However I remember this happening since my teens hmm
That me too I hardly get any sleep
I sleep for 5 hours and feel refreshed
Incredibly fascinating series by you guys! Thanks
Just found out that I have this .. Doctors have been trying to fix me for years .. CPAP machine .. you name it, only to find out that there is nothing wrong with me! I only sleep 3 to 4 hours. Sometimes it's a blessing and sometimes a curse. I ended up being pretty much a loaner because of it. Apparently I've had this since I was a kid .. my mom always pushed me into morning paper routes because I was up all the time. My friend was doing a sleep study because she thought she had insomnia .. and she does .. but I did the same test and the tech said 'Oh, your one of those" that started the discovery. Now I use it to my advantage .. I can sleep 4 hours and drive 12 and never get tired! 🤠
I know that headache, but only after 10 hours of sleep
Kidding aside.. My mom is like this. its hard because she wants to go back to sleep but she can't so she just cleans or watch tv. I'm turning like her too.
Wow! All this time I just thought I was weird! Nice to know that I'm exceptional! 6 hours is a long night of sleep for me. Between 3 to 5 hours of sleep per night is what I've done most of my adult life. Finding The Sweet Spot for me, is probably between 4 and 1/2 and 5 and 1/2 hours. And now I know I'm lucky. I used to think this s*** was going to kill me! LOL
Same bro 😂 and I’m a marathon runner who also lifts…I’ll drain my body and still naturally only sleep a 4-6 hours max and be ready to go! And people would always be concerned about me but I even stopped taking any supplements to prove it was natural baby 😎🧬
I've always slept around 4-5 maybe 5.5 hours. I've only slept more than that on a handful of occasions and it always resulted in feeling groggy, tired and having a terrible pounding headache.
There were times in my life where I broke this sleep into short naps a couple times a day and that worked pretty well as well.
I rarely ever use an alarm. Sometimes I wake up too early and end up contemplating what should I do 😀.
My mom is the same she always goes to sleep at about midnight to 1 am and rises around 4.30 to 5 am without ever using an alarm.
I thought there was something wrong with me I always try to force sleep and get frustrated but I get about 2-3 hours a night if that. No caffeine intake at all.
Meanwhile I need 9 1/2 hours of sleep...
I am a short sleeper. I sleep 6 hours a night. I only slept 8 hours when I was pregnant. I don't own an alarm.
Just what i need
I only sleep 4-5 hours.
I knew a guy that slept 2 hours a night, his roommates said you could slap him and he wouldn't wake up.
we're counting on you, doc 😂
Only a third of last month did I get 7 or more hours of sleep, and it was usually on days after I had gotten only about four to five hours of sleep. I super rarely feel tired. I function just fine, I can still think and react quickly. I am pretty damn sure I have this gene or the other one they have found.
I don't think with a pill we're going to be more productive. Short sleepers aren't productive because they wake up earlier. But because once they wake up, they start doing tasks. xD. We always want to invent a new pill for everything instead of changing our habits. LOL
In the past year I have needed less sleep. I have radically changed my diet to low carbohydrate and keep eating to a specific time window of say 8-9 hours. I have fully digested my last meal before bed and normally go to sleep around midnight. I always wake up after 6 hours, feeling wide awake and alert. I think my diet has improved the efficiency of my brain chemistry. I don't feel sleepy in the day. Why doesn't the research include epigenetics, perhaps ketone energy resources. Would be another interesting factor
Do you have a list for all the Natural Short Sleeper gene candidates?
Wow! I’m a Morning Lark. (My grandma was a Morning Lark.)I go to bed at 8 P.M. and wake up at 4 A.M. I’m a teacher and I need to be in my classroom by 6 A.M. to prepare for the 6:55 A.M. bell.
I automatically wake up after 4h.
I‘m depressed and stressed.
Today I also got up after 4h. I had so much energy, my brain intensely active. I was thirsty, so I got a cup of water. Then, I had to force me to sleep again. Woke up 4h later, so, I had 8h of sleep. And I feel so horrible, my brain and body feels so heavy.
I‘m totally sure I only need 4h of sleep. But people say it is because I‘m stressed. So why do I got that much energy after 4h?!
Now… when I think back as a kid. I had to get to bed around 8 o’clock. And got up around 12pm. I remember this well because a series that I used to watch as a kid started at 12pm. (bernd the bread was the show). Then I got annoyed because the epsiode repeated itself lol
So I slept today at 6pm. its 11pm now i cant sleep anymore aAAAaaaa
I only sleep 3.5 to 4 hours. I thought something was wrong with me. I'm a natural short sleeper.
that wath interesthing, thanksth
My girlfriend is a short sleeper. Five hours is more than enough for her, she goes to bed at 1, and wakes up in the morning for work at 6. I on the other hand have a few sleeping disorders, so I don't even feel well rested after the normal 8 hours. I usually sleep about 12 hours. This means, my girlfriend has an extra 6 hours. You know what I could accomplish in 6 hours?!?
Yeah! That's what they all say! LOL!
5 hours?
Thats really so short?
Sadly, not for me.
Get more sleep. Not getting enough is dangerous and unhealthy
Several persons within my own family have, what we call "Short sleep syndrome". My mother sleeps 3-4 hours each night. I, myself sleep 5 hours each night on average and my younger brother sleeps 6 hours nightly. Each of us are highly successful and in my opinion, it is a benefit whereas most of our competitors are sleeping and whereas our known reputation is that we "Just don't sleep". In several aspects this has been a substantial benefit to our successes.
The negatives caused makes for several adjustments, For example: while living with persons who sleep 8 hours nightly as I go to sleep several hours after my wife but am awake before she wakes. I tend to leave the room or home so I do not disturb those who require more sleep. When completing physical exercise and diet programs there are many difficulties determining "What is normal for me".
I would be interested in helping with a study with hopes to understand my own self better and with hope to elevate additional aspects of my health.
It is difficult to exercise or diet properly when every basis for rest or sleep is set at 8 hours in which I physically cannot do.
Do you think it’s entirely genetic or is their something to your lifestyle that could cause this?
8 hours? I got narcolepsy and need about 13 :(
If I try to go to bed same time as every one else I toss and turn and they nap alot and I cant nap
Holy shit I literally have this, I had no idea it was a thing
This is why I didn't go to med school and got a bechelors instead
I also dont drink cafeen and just cant sleep as long as others
I like sleeping so I'll just say "good for her"😊
Sleep is good! And natural short sleepers do sometimes wish we could sleep longer! Even the short sleeper interviewed in the video said she wouldn't mind being able to sleep longer. It's okay to love your sleep! I sometimes surprise myself how little I need. And I like sleeping. Just only need so much. And I always wondered why were people complaining about jet lag? It never affected me. Enjoy your rest! We all need it just in varying amounts.
Can somone reach out to me I have had trouble going to bed when everyone goes to bed and I wake up before them it's not like a bad thing it's just I want my full nights sleep back
I'm 21 and smoke alot of pot to try and help but it just gets me lazy lol
Give me that pill once you scientists make it please
Hahaha sleeping 5hr is so common in Tokyo, which sucks
Students don't sleep at all explain that science! (As its 4:20AM...)
I sleep 12 hours no probs if I don't set an alarm :p
They are setting up their alarm clocks....
And the last thing is I dont dream like at all
It's the weed.
Haven't smoked in 3 months so no its not
Please get a new narrator.
Yeah, he is annoying.
@@Holland1994D very constructive my dudes. it's great to know people like you are spending their time trying to negatively influence someone's job due to their own specific preferences. such good people.
I sleep three hours a day...thats it...and I HATE IT! And she is ok with it? Nuts...
I don't know man she looks pretty tired to me
These kind of people will really be special kinds someday. No, not X-men kind of kinds 😂
So this channel is dead?
We age faster mentally lol
What a strange Genetic mutation. I love sleep.
first aaaaaand Crack Attack!!!!
you want me to take advice from a woman that USES AN HP!?
I thought all short leaders are smart. Then I saw Trump
Lol
Trump might be a short sleeper but he's jacked up on all kinds of s***. Pseudoephedrine. And Adderall. Probably with benzos to help him come down. Not to mention all that diet coke! Probably biochemically, it's a wonder he can sleep at all. And his brains are scrambled from all these things! LOL!
Crack cocaine is the answer.