Try falling asleep at different times, and recording your difficuly-to-get-up on some arbitrary scale. Record (approximately) how much time asleep you get along with this.
The “recommended” 8 hours may not be optimal for your physiology.
Disclaimer: Not a doctor, nor an expert in sleep, in any way… This is just from anecdotal evidence. (Girlfriend sleeps about 5-6 hours a night, and is functional. Friend can’t function without sleeping 9.)
If you find an amount of sleep that is testably better than the alternatives, at least this might help.
Oddly, I find 8 hours of sleep is the worst for me. I do vastly better on 6 or 10 hours of sleep. So there may be multiple optimums, and not necessarily following an intuitive pattern.
I’ll propose an experiment:
Try falling asleep at different times, and recording your difficuly-to-get-up on some arbitrary scale. Record (approximately) how much time asleep you get along with this.
The “recommended” 8 hours may not be optimal for your physiology.
Disclaimer: Not a doctor, nor an expert in sleep, in any way… This is just from anecdotal evidence. (Girlfriend sleeps about 5-6 hours a night, and is functional. Friend can’t function without sleeping 9.)
If you find an amount of sleep that is testably better than the alternatives, at least this might help.
Oddly, I find 8 hours of sleep is the worst for me. I do vastly better on 6 or 10 hours of sleep. So there may be multiple optimums, and not necessarily following an intuitive pattern.