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Sleep Score is always Fair

‎12-18-2019 05:39

‎12-18-2019 05:39

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/41...ort-sleep-gene


I have always slept 4 hours since I was a child. I use to worry I couldn't sleep more than 4 hours. But I have always bounced out of bed with lots of energy and will go thru the day the same way around 11 I will feel like I am getting tired but wont fall alseep til 12 and I awake promptly at 4 am.


I have had many sleep studies and it shows once I lay down I am asleep within seconds , it was described like a light a switch that turns off. Then I awake the same way. Its not slowly its immediate and I wake up happy,talking, ready for the world.


I have been prescribed sleeping pills which never work i sleep 4 hours then i feel tired but awake.

This article explains people the short sleep syndrome, and finally I feel like it explains why I don't need sleep . Normally people stare at me, like there is something wrong if you don't get 8 hours.

 

I wear a fitbit to bed its always pretty much the same thing each night. I am awake 37 min I wake up thru out the night usually around midnight, Rem is 28 min Light 3 hrs and Deep 31. I do not dream or I never had one I could remember when waking up.

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‎01-03-2020 02:44 - edited ‎01-06-2020 23:43

‎01-03-2020 02:44 - edited ‎01-06-2020 23:43

Hi, 

I wish I can sleep only for 4 hours and be full of energy. I am overwhelmed with work and 6 to 7 hours is a must!

 

 

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‎07-31-2023 03:55

‎07-31-2023 03:55

I know you wrote this years ago, but this has really opened my eyes.  I generally work on about 5 hours of sleep.  My REM, Light and Deep are pretty similar to yours.  33mins Awake / 29 min REM / 3hr 24min Light / 35 min Deep.  It's amazing how close we are!

I also always thought I wasn't quite right, since I didn't get all the sleep that most people get.  Even if I try to sleep in, I tend to wake up around 6:30.  This even happens if I travel and the timezone is 5 hours different.  I still wake up around that time without using an alarm clock.

Yet, there is one major difference between us.  I ALWAYS feel tired.  I have gone to the doctors asking for help.  They have checked my iron levels and said I was fine.  There was nothing they could do for me.  It's been a major frustration for me.  Even though I feel like I should have more sleep, I just plain don't sleep more.

Anyway, thanks for the article.  It was interesting thinking about this being a possible genetic difference.

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