If this is true, it puts my recent experience into context. After starting to meditate daily for 40 to 60 minutes, I noticed that my sleep requirement drastically reduced and I began waking earlier. Prior to this, I was a consistent sleeper, getting almost exactly 8 hours a night and not feeling rested if I didn’t.
Most recently, I have been sleeping more like 6 hours a night and sometimes even less. I’ve also been waking up sometimes as early as 5:00am. I was expecting to experience some deficits after the 1st day or 2 of getting less sleep, but I’ve been continuing on like this for weeks now with no negative effects that I’ve been able to observe. This could be a form of bias (name, anyone?) though, much like people who have had alcohol will say they drive more carefully and thus aren’t more dangerous, when in fact, they are.
This could be a form of bias (name, anyone?) though, much like people who have had alcohol will say they drive more carefully and thus aren’t more dangerous, when in fact, they are.
Actually, sleep deprivation is known to damage self-assessment (case I’m thinking of was in a study inducing chronic sleep deficits); not sure if this has a name.
If this is true, it puts my recent experience into context. After starting to meditate daily for 40 to 60 minutes, I noticed that my sleep requirement drastically reduced and I began waking earlier. Prior to this, I was a consistent sleeper, getting almost exactly 8 hours a night and not feeling rested if I didn’t.
Most recently, I have been sleeping more like 6 hours a night and sometimes even less. I’ve also been waking up sometimes as early as 5:00am. I was expecting to experience some deficits after the 1st day or 2 of getting less sleep, but I’ve been continuing on like this for weeks now with no negative effects that I’ve been able to observe. This could be a form of bias (name, anyone?) though, much like people who have had alcohol will say they drive more carefully and thus aren’t more dangerous, when in fact, they are.
Actually, sleep deprivation is known to damage self-assessment (case I’m thinking of was in a study inducing chronic sleep deficits); not sure if this has a name.