[E. Pluribus Unum]

Sleep-deprived? No guns for you!

[luckystarmom]

Saw a sleep doctor last week. Doing a test at home next week.

[wastedyears]

Here come the weight sensors on our beds.

The government can pay for my medical bills, sans CommieCare, if they want me to sleep properly. I have endocrine disease and no amount of someone saying “you need to do this and this” is going to fix it without invasive procedures.

[ClearCase_guy]

Everyone is different. At most, I get 6 hours sleep a night. That's been going on for over 30 years. Doing fine so far.

I do like a 20 minute nap during the day if I can manage it.

[a fool in paradise]

With Obama and the Democrats in office? Not very well.

[txrefugee]

No chance. The Spurs are going to win the NBA Championship tonight!

[utahagen]

There's something fishy about this study’s assertions vis-à-vis how much sleep adults used to get. Married couples used to have much bigger families than they do today. George the Elder and Barbara Bush, for example, are neither Catholic nor Mormon, yet they had six children and that wasn't unusual. Now, any woman raising six children is going to be sleep-deprived for at least twenty years. No way did mothers of big families get 8 1/2 hours of sleep a night — ever.

[pallis]

If I get anywhere from three to six hours a day, I’m good to go. I had an uncle who couldn’t sleep more than three hours a day.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

The problem is that they want us to sleep in a unnatural manner ie 8 1/2 hours of uninterrupted sleep. That is not the way most of us sleep. Most of us wake up in the night and stay awake for a bit and then drop back off.

Then we run to the doctor and say that we can't sleep.

Instead just go to bed about an hour earlier and when you wake up enjoy your hour of wakefulness. Don't get on the computer or turn on the TV. Instead just enjoy some quality quiet time. Read, pray, do a crossword, draw or, if your spouse is awake as well, some cuddling and more.

Then drop back off. And awake in a few hours feeling refreshed.

[GOP Poet]

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[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Just finished my sleep studies, will be getting a CPAP machine soon. Sleep apnea seems to be the disease of choice for those of us over fifty and weight. Supposedly it causes all kinds of badness.

[GOPJ]

I’m tired of the nanny state... Edison slept very little and he did just fine. So have lots of other people.