This post is very interesting and I’m excited to hear back from anyone who is going to experiment based on it. My experience with sleep deprivation is mostly centered around having children; my functioning is unquestionably impacted by that kind of fragmented and reduced sleep (especially emotionally) but maybe a solid yet shorter period of sleep would actually be fine. The trouble is I’m not sure how I’d check… because I’ve found that if I have an alarm set to go off in the morning, not only is it in itself staggeringly unpleasant, it makes me anxious enough that I sleep very poorly the night before. I’ve gone to a lot of effort to (kids and all) arrange that I can sleep in as late as feels right.
Hmm, we seem to have very different subjective experiences around sleep. While I’m sure that I would also feel bad if my sleep was disrupted at random periods, I have no issue with alarms and I feel like I sleep better with an alarm, knowing that I will not just sleep through everything I wanted to do in the morning...
This post is very interesting and I’m excited to hear back from anyone who is going to experiment based on it. My experience with sleep deprivation is mostly centered around having children; my functioning is unquestionably impacted by that kind of fragmented and reduced sleep (especially emotionally) but maybe a solid yet shorter period of sleep would actually be fine. The trouble is I’m not sure how I’d check… because I’ve found that if I have an alarm set to go off in the morning, not only is it in itself staggeringly unpleasant, it makes me anxious enough that I sleep very poorly the night before. I’ve gone to a lot of effort to (kids and all) arrange that I can sleep in as late as feels right.
Hmm, we seem to have very different subjective experiences around sleep. While I’m sure that I would also feel bad if my sleep was disrupted at random periods, I have no issue with alarms and I feel like I sleep better with an alarm, knowing that I will not just sleep through everything I wanted to do in the morning...
I’m like Alicorn, with the addition that I love disruption at random periods, because it lets me fall asleep again: pure pleasure.