You turn your right lobe off, you turn your left lobe off...(sleep thread)

Reginald

You do the hokey pokey and ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

This thread is about sleep, something every living thing on this planet does.

Bugs sleep:

Spoiler:

Bugs sleep.

Dolphins sleep(1/2 of the brain at a time, but not for the first month of life at all). Unihemispheric sleep is actually pretty common!

Here is an excellent radio program (Radiolab!) regarding sleep amongst all animals. I really recommend listening to it!

http://www.radiolab.org/2007/may/24/

There is also an entire industry around sleep and sleep related accessories. Have you ever shopped for a bed and tried to compare prices, only to learn that the mattress industry obfuscates that ability? It is truly a racket. However, spending money on a nice mattress may be one of the best investments one can make in life. We sleep 1/3 of our life.

So, let's talk about sleep. What's your favorite way to sleep? How many hours do you sleep? What is your favorite bed type? Do you sleep lightly or like a log? And the grand question: Why do we need sleep at all?

Beasteh

i get angry if i dont get my 10 hours in

KalTorak

My preferred method is to drift off while listening to Bob Ross or Garrison Keillor.

Sheri

I love to sleep

Jasconius

sleep is gangbusters

Beasteh

i drool a lot

also shift around a lot in the fetal position

i talk demonic in my sleep

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I don't fall asleep very easily
: (

LTM

Coincidentally, I think I get through my days unihemispherically sleeping.

At night, I try to become as unconscious as possible, for as long as possible.

Raijin Quickfoot

I have 2 kids. I forgot what it feels like to sleep.

Reginald

I wake up at 7:15 am pretty much every day, regardless of alarm clock. On Saturdays, I just curse and snuggle up and go back to sleep. It's like a lifetime of conditioning.

Rolo

jerk off and cry myself to sleep erry day

Edcrab

I am finding it increasingly harder to sleep and so I guess I should consult a doctor

Sars_Boy

I fucking love Sleep.

LTM

Rolo wrote: »

jerk off and cry myself to sleep erry day

Oh, memories.

GreasyKidsStuff

I don't have much trouble falling asleep, unless I'm trying to force myself to after being awake for a short time. Really depends on how tired I am. But on average my day-to-day sleep routine is pretty consistent. And I'm not a light sleeper at all, I'm usually out like a light for the whole time.

I hate waking up for work/school.

edit: For the past 8 months I've been living in residence at my university, which involved going from a queen-sized bed at my parents' house to a twin(?) size here. It was a jarring adjustment at first but now I love it. Bumping back up to a queen when I move into my new apartment next month.

Tossrock

It takes me about 45 minutes to an hour to fall asleep, on average

on the one hand, it sucks a lot

on the other, I recently realized that spending that much extra time on introspection each day has probably had a profound effect on my personality and development

so, shrug

Janson

I love sleep. I day-dream about sleeping constantly.

I don't always get good-quality sleep, so I am always left wanting more. I have sleep apnea, which doesn't help matters, either!

Right now I sleep in two shifts, roughly 5 pm - 7 pm and 1.30 am - 6 am, to fit around Mori's schedule. It's not working too badly!

Aphostile

I sleep terribly, am constantly switching between states of rested and not, regularly get less than 6 hours of sleep a night, and can't wake up without an alarm.

I would leap at the chance to never sleep again ever.

Darmak

I sleep anywhere from 3-10 hours a day, depending on whether I forget to check a clock and stay up too late playing games or something. I really should sleep more though.

Tossrock

I wonder if there's a correlation between difficulty falling asleep and introversion

Reginald

I used to take stuffed animals and set them up as vigilant guards around my bed when I slept as a child. I am fairly sure they are the reason I am alive to this day.

Darmak

Reginald wrote: »

I used to take stuffed animals and set them up as vigilant guards around my bed when I slept as a child. I am fairly sure they are the reason I am alive to this day.

To protect from nightmares or actual people/things? Because I did it to ward off nightmares. I also gave the stuffed animals the toy weapons and armor and such from my plastic toys if they'd fit them so they could better defend me. :oops:

Dichotomy

I hate sleep

lostwords

I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. I also have my internal alarm clock set so that I wake up around 6:30 am everyday, even weekends and it is the devil. Naps keep me going.

zen-

I sleep amazingly. Like I can fall asleep on a hardwood floor using my arm as a pillow.

It is a blessing, and a curse.

BugBoy

I usually sleep pretty well

except last weekend, when I had a recurring dream in which I desperately needed to catch a train, but I kept falling asleep

falling asleep in the dream made me wake up in life and vice versa

I was very tired the next morning

Reginald

From the beast under the bed.

Darmak wrote: »

Reginald wrote: »

I used to take stuffed animals and set them up as vigilant guards around my bed when I slept as a child. I am fairly sure they are the reason I am alive to this day.

Nightmares. When I was growing up I didn't even have a regular mattress, so I slept on a small air mattress and would build a wall around me.

Reginald

Shakespeare and Cervantes referred to sleep as death. When we close our eyes and turn off our brains, where do we go?

Oghulk

Sleep is the cousin of death

Look Out it's Sabs!

I love me some cold temperatures for when I sleep.

Trying to sleep when its all hot is just the worst for me.

Peccavi

I'm in bed right now!



My apartment needs more furniture

Bedigunz

I sleep about 6.5 to 7 hours a night. If I can't get to sleep then I run through the 1986 Transformers Movie in my head (I have it memorized word for word when I watched it 3x a day as a kid) then I usually fall asleep.

If I have to wake up before 7:30am (which is every weekday) then I'm exhausted no matter how much sleep I get. Alternatively, I can goto bed at 5am and wake up at 8am and be refreshed.

mcp

I can't sleep very well unless my thunderstorm cd is playing.

and it's either just underwear, or nothing.

can't sleep with clothes non.

LTM

Bedigunz wrote: »

I sleep about 6.5 to 7 hours a night. If I can't get to sleep then I run through the 1986 Transformers Movie in my head (I have it memorized word for word when I watched it 3x a day as a kid) then I usually fall asleep.

I used to do this with Wayne's World when I couldn't sleep.

Janson

<3

Arang

I feel most comfortable on my left, facing a wall,

but only seem to fall asleep on my back,

but always seem to wake up on my right

guess I've got brain problems!

mcp

Does someone sit in that chair and watch you or something?

worksintheory

sleep is a myth

I don't believe in it

Janson

mcp wrote: »

Does someone sit in that chair and watch you or something?

I just don't really have a better place to put it

Mori likes to sit on it and use the bed as a foot rest when he's reading!

Arang

why doesn't mori just read in his own tiny bed to the right there?

Hunter

My brain forgot how to sleep and it's fucked with my health for years. Sleep study after sleep study, meds, and surgery and at least now I'm almost getting kind of a normal night of sleep sometimes maybe.