Are you more likely to oversleep or undersleep? (1 Viewer)

[litc]

Oversleep by far
I managed to fall asleep mid sentence when younger and talking to my friends.

I just slept 11 hours but maybe it was bc I slept like 3 hours the past few days so idk

 

[Michael]

Wtf that’s not even close to being enough for me.. I have a good night’s sleep if I sleep for 9-10 hours.

I'm more inclined to believe that the 8 hours of sleep recommended has no basis on science; but as I said above, this study has many flaws. First of all the study subjects averaged 67.6 years of age. That makes the study hardly applicable for all the people on this forum. Second, they were all women, so it does not apply to men either. The data is adjusted which essentially mean they are not reporting what the investigators observed. And part of the data came from sleep questionnaires. That alone makes it very dubious since it relies on the memory of the subjects which extremely frequently fails. So don't take it so seriously. Apparently the studies on sleep are pointing to less sleep to be better; but those kind of studies are usually unreliable.

 

[Nezumi]

I'm more inclined to believe that the 8 hours of sleep recommended has no basis on science; but as I said above, this study has many flaws. First of all the study subjects averaged 67.6 years of age. That makes the study hardly applicable for all the people on this forum. Second, they were all women, so it does not apply to men either. The data is adjusted which essentially mean they are not reporting what the investigators observed. And part of the data came from sleep questionnaires. That alone makes it very dubious since it relies on the memory of the subjects which extremely frequently fails. So don't take it so seriously. Apparently the studies on sleep are pointing to less sleep to be better; but those kind of studies are usually unreliable.

Ohhh okay. But yeah, when you’re older you need less sleep.. so that makes sense then

 

[noctis]

Definitely undersleep
I'm sleepy rn

 

[Michael]

Ohhh okay. But yeah, when you’re older you need less sleep.. so that makes sense then

Well, whether or not we need more or less sleep depending on age and what is the optimal ranges is still left to be determined. What I think (and I should stress it's just my opinion) is that everyone should sleep until feeling well rested; but nothing more, and that's tricky to get.

 

[uran]

Oversleep

 

[PWSwan]

I fully intended to oversleep this morning, but my mom wanted coffee and a blood sugar check, so that idea went out the window.

 

[Jewel]

Oversleep

 

[Dreamer_of_Songs]

Oversleep.