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Now that you are retired, do you sleep better than when you were working full time? Or have you been conditioned after all those years of getting by on less than the ideal 8 hours?
Now that you are retired, do you sleep better than when you were working full time? Or have you been conditioned after all those years of getting by on less than the ideal 8 hours?
I sleep better not that I am subscribing to 8 hours all the time.
My sleep schedule is much more broken in retirement than when working. The schedule was more full, less flexible, and more tiring when working so it seemed sleep was needed but now I never know. Maybe I just can't handle the change, but after eight years in retirement I don't expect any real improvement.
After almost 2 years retired my sleep patterns are essentially unchanged. Still fall asleep very early and get up almost as early (without an alarm clock) as I did while working for 35 years, and wake/get up for an hour or two around 1-3am some nights (once or twice a week) - as always. YMMV
I've always needed a lot of sleep and my father was the same way. He could fall asleep anywhere and that has happened to me, too. On the other hand my mother and sis cannot take naps because then they can't sleep at night.
WELL....I take naps every chance I get. And I don't have a problem sleeping at night. Thus, I am getting more sleep in retirement. However, I still wake up at the same time in the morning. 6:00 am. That may be due to the cats who both demand to be fed early whether I am retired or not.
Along with a nap in the day, it has been argued that this is the natural pattern of human sleep. A case has been made that maintaining such a sleep pattern may be important in regulating stress.... typically individuals slept in two distinct phases, bridged by an intervening period of wakefulness of approximately one hour. Peasant couples, who were often too tired after field labor to do much more than eat and go to sleep, awoke later to have sex.People also used this time to pray and reflect, and to interpret dreams, which were more vivid at that hour than upon waking in the morning. This was also a favorite time for scholars and poets to write uninterrupted, whereas still others visited neighbors, or engaged in petty crime.
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