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popClingwrap t1_j62plji wrote

I think this is probably just down to the individual. Personally my sleep patterns are pretty flexible. A couple of nights ago I met up with some friends and we drank some wine, talked nonsense till the early hours of the morning and I ended up sleeping on a sofa. This is pretty unusual for me, especially on a week night, and i was a bit groggy the next morning but I just went to bed a bit earlier the next night and was back on track. I'd imagine that all kinds of things will influence your sleep though - diet, fitness, age, stress levels. Not to mention immediate stuff like whether you have a full belly, a full bladder, a blocked nose.

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skizzybwoi t1_j62f9lj wrote

It could depend on age and how much exercise you get. Younger folks who exercise can sleep late one night and be fine the next. A 40 year old who hasn’t worked out in a decade will have trouble readjusting.

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BackRowRumour t1_j63017q wrote

Shut up! You're not my real dad!

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EasterBunnyArt t1_j63kn4s wrote

Go eat some fruit and go for a 30 minute walk.

And while we are on the subject, damn it Timmy clean your room and take a shower!

  • definitely not a dad.
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SkyWizarding t1_j63pi20 wrote

This. Never really had an issue with sleep schedule until my workout routine dipped after having a kid and I'm in my early 40s

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Ok_Teach110 t1_j62uo3f wrote

If you want to understand sleep I highly recommend Matthew Walker - Why We Sleep. Also rated by many many health professionals.

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pseudohemoptysis t1_j63kpjq wrote

Here's what I remember from reading the excellent Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, recommended elsewhere in this thread:

There are two unrelated cycles that help us get to sleep. One is our circadian cycle, or the "is it time to be awake or asleep right now?" cycle. Your body has a sense of whether it's daytime or nighttime, based on exposure to light, internal timekeeping, and some other factors. So you're naturally more awake during the day and get sleepy at night. This can get messed up when we travel to a different time zone -- we call this jet lag.

The other is the sleep pressure cycle, or the "how tired am I?" cycle. There's a chemical in our bodies called adenosine that builds up while we're awake, and gets cleared out while we're asleep. This chemical makes us feel sleepy, generating "sleep pressure" that helps us fall asleep.

So if you wake up and go to sleep at the same time every day, your sleep pressure cycle and your circadian cycle line up: when night falls, you have a lot of adenosine built up, so you can fall asleep more easily. But if you oversleep one day, you start making adenosine later in the day, so you have less at nighttime. Your circadian rhythm tells you you're sleepy, but you don't have as much sleep pressure, so it's harder to fall asleep. So maybe you lie awake for a long time and wake up late the next day, too, perpetuating the problem. For a lot of people, once the cycles get out of whack, it's hard to get them back into sync.

As other people have said, everyone's different. Some people have no problem with flexible sleep schedules. For me, making sure I go to bed and wake up at the same time every day has been AMAZINGLY helpful. I used to have terrible insomnia, and now it's much milder.

If this is something you struggle with, I definitely recommend reading Why We Sleep. It's not a self-help book, but I found it really helpful in understanding my own sleep issues.

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yet_another_pervert t1_j629ar2 wrote

What are you talking about? Feeling groggy due to bad or short duration sleeping in the morning does not mean you will sleep worse the next night.

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Ratnix t1_j62ubkq wrote

For me, it is because i have to force myself to sleep on a schedule that isn't what my body wants to be on.

I'm a night owl. If i let my body set its own sleep sleep, I'd be going to sleep sometime between 6am-9am. If i ever get an extended period of time off from work and just sleep when I'm tired, instead of going to bed at a time that i can get a good night sleep in order to get up for work, that's the schedule I'll be on within a week.

I unfortunately have to leave for work at 5 am, so i simply can not let my body set its own sleep schedule. I have to go to bed at the same time 7 days a week. Just staying awake 2-3 extra hours, say on a Friday or Saturday night, means that when i need to go to bed in order to get up for work Monday morning, I'm simply not tired enough to sleep. And it'll take me 2-3 days to get back onto my forced sleep schedule, during which I'll be a zombie until I'm able actually get a good night's sleep in the schedule I'm forced to sleep.

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Hot_Reflection2855 t1_j63m4k1 wrote

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome? Sounds like it. That’s what I have and it is nooo joke!!

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Senpai_Embr t1_j66rudx wrote

I'm glad I'm not the only one!!! I'm sorry you know my pain

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danklordgaston t1_j62i7jk wrote

Meanwhile the lack of sleep would mean I’m struggling to stay awake the next evening, finally giving in at 22:00 only for my body to wake me completely at 01:00 leaving my sleep routine fucked for weeks lol

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