Are You Catching Up On Your Sleep In Your Retirement Years? (retired, movies)
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I'll never forget a story I read of a 106YO woman, interviewed, who supposedly slept a lot during her years, as much as 14 hours a day, and she attributed that to her longevity. I won't argue that sleep is very healing to the body, but 14 hours?
I'm trying successfully to up my sleeping hours from 8-10, but don't know if I'll even get it up to 12 hours, but I'm trying. Of course, I cheat, with 5 milligrams of Melatonin and 50mg. of Diphenhydramine.
Lots of extra "movies" to watch at night, as dreams are nothing more than movies to watch, but with no control over the actors or directors.
I had a roommate one time who slept 12 hours a night. I had never met anyone that slept that long at night, so for the first few weeks, I'd open his bedroom door to peak, wondering if he was still alive.
How about you? Catching up on some sleep these days, or are the go-go'ers, do-do'er's, restless types telling you it would be more healthy to get out there and go-go-go and do-do-do more?
Sort of. I generally stay up until 11-12 (it is just how I am wired, going to bed earlier just means tossing annd turning until then anyway), but wake up around 5 am. In the last couple years, I have been able to sleep in until 7 or 8.
It feels like an incredible luxury, those extra couple hours of sleep. Now I feel cranky if I don't get that extra sleep.
Still haven't been able to learn to nap, though, if it is mid-day and I am asleep, then I am sick.
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When I was working (2 -3 jobs all my life!) when I could, I'd sleep 12 hours a night! Then, when I retired from the university, I crashed; slept 16+ hours a night for a few months!
Now, totally retired, I sleep maybe 4 - 5 hours a night and at least once a week, skip at least one night and don't sleep at all. I don't fight it - if I'm not tired, why sleep??? My sleep doctor says when we get old, our sleep just falls apart. I have a sleep disorder so sleep isn't fun anyway: nightmares and weird stuff.
Just like my work days, early to bed, early rise. Just like my farmer grandfather. I'm a morning person and have always been - my sleep hasn't changed 9 yrs into retirement.
But after exercising most every day, I try to get in a power nap mid afternoon - really look forward to that. Sure wish I had one of those every day when I was a worker.....
I get about 6-7 hours sleep at night, retiring between ten and eleven, and invariably awake before daylight and the first birdsong. Most afternoons I fall asleep for a while in my chair, or lie down for a nap.
Generally, I fall asleep immediately and sleep like a rock, but now, at 79, I get up to pee if I wake in the night, maybe about half the time. But every once in a while, maybe every year, I suddenly get jetlag without lelaving home, for a couple weeks, I can't sleep at night nor stay awake in the daytime, and have lucid dreams, which I enjoy.
I feel decent if I can sleep 7 hours or so a night. The studies I have seen show most people do well with 8 hours but struggle to get that many.
Now for the person who slept 14 hours. That means she was awake for 10 hours a day instead of a more typical 18 hours. Although she lived to 106, she was only awake as much as someone who lived to 60. Poor woman lost a lot of her expected lifespan.
When I was working (2 -3 jobs all my life!) when I could, I'd sleep 12 hours a night! Then, when I retired from the university, I crashed; slept 16+ hours a night for a few months!
Now, totally retired, I sleep maybe 4 - 5 hours a night and at least once a week, skip at least one night and don't sleep at all. I don't fight it - if I'm not tired, why sleep??? My sleep doctor says when we get old, our sleep just falls apart. I have a sleep disorder so sleep isn't fun anyway: nightmares and weird stuff.
Would you give a few more details LDG? My bf has terrible sleep and while some may be untreated sleep apnea a lot has to do with vivid dreams he has every night that wake him up. Does your condition have a name? And how did you find your doctor?
My main difference is that my late DH was an early riser and wanted me up the same time as him. Now I can sleep in as late as I want. I usually go to bed about 9 and read for an hour or so. Wake up around 6-7.
If I have been active during the day, I usually can get to sleep well. If I haven't, it can take hours to really get to sleep. I think I am sleeping/waking rather than lying there completely awake. About 1/3 of a 10mg valium helps on nights like that.
On my own, I'm a 12-1 to 9-10 person. My current job is the first one that I've had in years where I've had to be in at 8. Being able to sleep until a little after 8 is great.
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