I've had sleep issues for most of my life, but sometime in the past few years things settled down. I started having less trouble falling asleep and staying asleep, and I usually got about six hours of sleep a night, and that seemed to be all I needed.<\/p>\n
But sometime around early September, in the last month or so of my being on leave, something suddenly shifted: I started regularly sleeping for seven and a half hours a night, and when I didn't get that much sleep, I was groggy and off-kilter all day.<\/p>\n
(I read many years ago that sleep tends to go in cycles that are roughly an hour and a half long; dunno if that's true for other people, but the length of time I sleep does tend to be a multiple of one and a half hours.)<\/p>\n
And that needing-more-sleep thing has continued to be true ever since. Sometimes I've been needing\/getting even more sleep than that: Saturday night and last night, I got well over eight hours of sleep and still woke up feeling like it wasn't enough. (But I think I've had a mild cold or something for most of this past week, so that might explain that.)<\/p>\n
All of which is fine; I've been hearing for years that most people need a full eight hours of sleep, even if they think they don't, so it's not unreasonable that I would too. But it's a little bit frustrating, because it means I have an hour and a half to two hours less time every day than I used to, and I already felt like I didn't have enough time in a day to do everything I wanted to. I'm trying to go to sleep a couple hours earlier than I used to (even though late night has often been my most productive time of day), but am still waking up around the same time as before, or sometimes later.<\/p>\n
I've been having even more trouble than usual making progress on various things, especially responding to email and working on various longstanding projects and blogging, and I think a lot of the reason for that is just having less time in a day.<\/p>\n
I'm aware that these are privileged-people problems. I have the time and leisure and lack of responsibilities and low stress levels to be able to get all the sleep I need, which I know many people don't. I'm certainly not suggesting that this is making my life particularly difficult.<\/p>\n
But it is a minor frustration. And it's part of why I've been posting so infrequently here, so I figured it was worth mentioning.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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