When I was in high school the schoolday started at 7:30AM. Realistically, that meant most kids were waking up around 6 or 6:30. To get the recommended 9 hours of sleep, that would mean going to bed around 9PM. I can't imagine most of my peers - especially those on a sports team or with a job - were getting anything like the recommended amount.
I'd imagine it would have something to do with better organisation, going to bed earlier, and some method of avoiding endless TH-cam watching or video game playing late into the night.
Well I used to sleep for 9h30-10h when I was a teen, and the secret is... Going to bed??? If you know the time you should be asleep based on when you need to wake up, just add 30 minutes of wind down and that's it.
Studies have shown that teens' sleep schedules naturally shift later in the day all the time. If school didn't start so early, I think more teens would be getting the recommended amount, or at least be closer to it.
9 hours per night? Oh my gosh, that's rich! I went to a specialized high school with a lot of homework and got 4 hours per night. I graduated at number 3 out of 1327. :-)
Diana Peña (Asian stereotypical father) you lazy, you lazy child. First or nothing, second is for the weak. Hahaha you doctor. You doctor NOW! (This is a joke pls do get offended is just a joke(
I am 26, and I sleep about 10 hours at night. Sometimes I get even more than that. I haven't gone to check me but I feel ok and haven't had any trouble except for people concerned because I "sleep too much"
25, and experience tells me I need less sleep than a lot of people (6.5 feels enough if I'm sticking to a regular schedule). But these days I'm sleeping at wildly different times every night, which feels shitty.
I am in my 30's and I also sleep 10 hours on average. When I am forced to wake up before then I am grumpy, clumsy and unable to think strait. When I get all the sleep I want, I wake up super cheerful and full of energy.
ya, he kept repeating that I should probably sleep more, but I definitely get between 7-10 hours every day. If I get less I feel crummy for the day. [I'm 28 btw]
I love that he is saying sleep depends on your genetics and each person is different. It is a nice change from the recommended average that says you need to get this much or you will experience this this and this. I totally agree that it depends on the individual, and if you feel fine and are functioning as you're supposed to then you shouldn't worry too much about it. This is different if you're not sleeping that much, and you start to fail your classes, fall asleep in class, and your health starts to decline. As a college student, I know that sleep is something we often put on the back burner. As a college student, I also know that sleep is very important to your health and well-being. It sometimes is very hard to get the recommended amount of sleep a night when you have homework, a job, need to workout, eat healthy, be involved in extracurriculars, and somehow have time for a social life and fun. Sometimes sleep comes last on that list, and that isn't the healthiest choice, but if I feel fine the next day and still accomplished everything I needed to, I'd say thats pretty successful. I do think sometimes its hard to find a happy medium on how much sleep I should get each night to function well the next day. Sometimes when I don't sleep enough, I feel be even more stressed out because I stayed up all night, then if I was to just have slept and gotten what needed to be done the next day. I think with time, we will learn how much sleep we need individually, not by what the government tells us.
As a college student, this video is hits home to me like many others commenting. I am in a constant internal battle on balancing a healthy sleep schedule. I really like the statement that the amount a sleep an individual needs is based on their genetic make up. I know that my sleep schedule fluctuates by hours each night, some nights I get 7 hours, other nights I only get 5 hours. I usually base the time I go to bed on what I have going on the next day because I know what my body can handle and how much sleep I need to get through the next day. Its often a huge struggle to balance a healthy schedule when I have so much homework or studying to do, a house to keep up, extracurricular activities, family, working out, and cooking all of my own meals. Sleep is often the first thing on the list to get booted off, as it is one of the things I can go with out doing. But as long as I feel okay the next day I don’t see why we have to get the recommended amount of sleep, if I feel okay then I am going to continue with the routine that I’ve been doing. Now to think about other factors that influence sleep, I know that sometimes I could get a more quality nights sleep. People could get a better nights sleep and have it be more effective if phones were put away somewhere for the night that was not near the bed, if there was no televisions in any bedrooms, or if all distractions possible were completely eliminated. But then again it is up to the individual person to do this for themselves so if their routine works for them and they feel they are getting a quality nights sleep with their television on and their phone on their pillow next to them, then they will continue to do that.
I don't understand why so many people don't get enough sleep. I mean, once in awhile I'll stay up and only get 5-6 hours, but the majority of the time, I get around 8-10 or I get really unhappy. During vacations I start doing 11-12 hours every night. No wonder people hate waking up in the morning and need their coffee. It's miserable to do that every morning. Get more sleep people. It will make your life better.
That's what I'm telling myself every morning, but come nighttime I'm often wrapped up in something, or feeling unready for the next day to start, or excited about something, and it all leads to me not going to bed. I really wish I only needed 4 hours a sleep to be healthy and feel good. I know that's not the case, but it doesn't stop me wishing.
I mean, as a high schooler that plays two sports at a time, and also has a crapton of homework, you don't often get to bed until around midnight. Then you wake up at 6:30 the next morning, only getting about 6 and a half hours of sleep. The average teenager sleeping 9 hours estimate seems very high to me. I don't know anyone who is able to get to sleep by 9:30.
Why do you have to get up at 6 every morning? If it's for sports, maybe you should cut out one. You can always play with your friends on the weekends. If it's tiring you out more than it's benefitting your life, then cut it out. There is such a thing as doing too much. Then maybe you could get your homework done before midnight. I went to a highschool that gave double the amount of homework that most public schools give, and I always had enough time, if I prioritized it.
RainAngel111 As if you've researched the amount of homework every school gives you and you calculated that you're school gave you more. I'm pretty sure you don't know how much homework he gets so stop trying to top him in something you have no clue about. Also, funny how everyone expects people to give up their passions. You know the problem is never that the school gives way too much homework or that school/work is too long and unnatural for us as a species. He shouldn't have to give up sports just to compensate for a shitty society.
If it's something he's passionate about, he'll find time for it. He doesn't need to be in "organized sports" to play sports. Unless he's planning to become a professional sports player, playing on two different sports teams might be more harmful than it is helpful in the long run.
Going into the nursing profession I have had numerous classes including psychology, anatomy and physiology, nutrition, and biology that have all focused on the importance of sleep through various different perspectives. I have found one of the most interesting perspectives though through a Ted talk that focused on sleep and its effect on the brain. This talk brought up how a study was performed on how the cerebrospinal fluid clears waste products from the brain as we sleep. When we fail to sleep we do not allow waste products to be removed from the brain adequately. I understand scientifically how sleep is important to my health but then this raises the question as to how do you get enough? As a college student I take 16 credits, work 3 jobs, volunteer, and am a member of numerous clubs. With all this going on in my life it is easy to say I will get enough sleep but when push comes to shove I can't find enough time in the day. This leads to a constant state of being tired and trying to catch up on sleep rather than being in a routine of constant sleep habits. I think one important thing that both I and other college students can focus on is the fact that most of us take naps in the middle of the day. The naps can range from 30 minutes to hours. I think one thing I and many others fail to realize that this inhibits our ability to sleep later in the night. I take naps to catch up on sleep but then find myself unable to sleep at night. Another interesting point I have found when researching this issue is that having electronics such as a t.v, laptop, or phone near you or by you when you sleep inhibits being able to get a good nights sleep. I normally have at least my phone and possibly my laptop in bed with me at night. I have recently found for myself that I will not feel tired while watching shows or videos on my laptop but if i turn it off I will be asleep int he next five minutes. I am working on getting enough sleep for me and tracking how much sleep makes me feel good. As the video points out everyone is not the same and for some getting 8 hours may make a person feel the same as another does when they get 5 hours. I also think a factor that may effect this is what was done during the day. Days I do not do much physical activity I don't feel I need as much as I do when I am working out a lot. Something I wish this study would have looked into more is the fact about hitting a snooze button on an alarm and the effects of constantly going back to sleep and then being woken back up 5-8 minutes later by the alarm again. I will have to look into that as I often find myself doing this as well.
High school student here! Same problems! What you say makes a lot of sence. Also don't trust them Ted talkers 'cause they 're just trying to get funding, especially when you here them mention reduction of diseases suck as Alzheimer's (I watched this talk as well)!
All through school I could not wait for the weekend to sleep in. All during the week with school and practice, my days were long and then had to come home and do homework! Its hard to get a good amount of sleep along with making it a cycle. It is very important and I feel if school started later or ended earlier that a lot more kids would be rested and rejuvenated for the next day.
Dr. Carroll made some very valid points when it came to how much sleep the average person should get a night. When he stated that teens should get around 9-10 hours of sleep a night, it made me appreciate my mother because that is how much sleep she made me get every night in high school. How she achieved this was by taking my phone at the same time every night until I turned 18. She knew that if she did not take my phone at night that I would not get enough sleep, because I would be too busy scrolling on all of my social media pages every 2 seconds. That is also something that he spoke on, how when we are in the bed we barely spend that time sleep. We are either glancing at the television or on our phones. From experience I know not getting enough sleep at night can lead to me crashing during the middle of the day. Now that I am in college I do not get those 9-10 hours of sleep a night. That is something that Dr. Carroll also touched on, stating that poorer people spend less time sleep. Now don't get me wrong, I am far from poor. But being a college student is pretty close to it, I am up doing homework, studying, worrying about exams and things of that nature. While a poorer person might be worrying about bills and also maybe working several jobs. I can relate that not getting enough sleep can also effect my studying and how well I do on my exams. But really how realistic is it for a person like me to be as busy as I am with school, work, homework, and different organizations to get 8 hours of sleep a night and still maintain my good grades. It's difficult and that's where a lot of people get stuck at not finding a middle ground between both.
This is a very serious talk. Sleep has always been a difficult topic. Whether you are getting enough or to much is always the question. As a typical college student I only receive about 5-6 hours of sleep a night and this is substantially lower than the 7.25 needed. Not getting enough sleep can effect ones cognitive ability as well as getting to much sleep can effect your cognitive ability as well. Many people have the misconception of thinking by getting more sleep makes hem healthier, but that is not the truth. I really enjoyed the study mentioned done in Germany showing how much sleep really is natural. With out all the distractions pertaining to falling asleep in bed such as watching tv and browsing the internet the participants got to sleep much earlier. Another thing i found int resting was the notion that rich people get more sleep than poor people. But, if you think about it the stress and work loaded a less fortunate person may have may hinder the amount of sleep received. Overall i believe this was a very informative talk and can really help with someones health.
When he began talking about how modern technologies mess with our sleep patterns it really got me to really think about it. It is very true that with all that we have today it is easier to stay up later because there is light and entertainment available and we will sleep less at night because when we wake up there is not only coffee, as he mentioned in the video, to wake us up but there are other sources of caffeine such as pop and pill supplements. The study that was done was really interesting because they really figured out how much modern technology shapes our lives and daily patterns. The fact that the people in the study usually went to bed around midnight and ended up going to bed around 9:30 pm in the study is huge. A two and a half hour difference is huge to me when I think of all the work I could get done in that time or utilize that time to catch up on sleep. After the results of the study were revealed I found it odd that the average amount of sleep need was only 7 hours because all of my life I had heard that 8 hours is the ideal number of hours a person should sleep. What really hit home for me was when he mentioned that people don’t have efficient sleep because the bed/ bedroom is no longer just a place to sleep. It is where people go to relax and watch tv, or even in my dorm room that is where I go to eat and do my homework. Lastly what I found to be interesting about this video was the fact about how someone's economic standing could be effecting how much sleep they get every night. He said that out of the people who make $75,000 per year, only a small fraction of those people receive less than 6 hours of sleep per night while about half of those who make less than $30,000 per year will receive less than 6 hours of sleep per night. I started to think why this could be and the conclusion I came to was that the people who make more than $75,000 a year are usually higher up in whatever company they are in and not necessarily work less but they heavily rely on those below them to do the work and they therefore do not have to go to work as early. While those who are making $30,000 per year or less are usually the lower level people are there because they can get the job done and willing to get there as early as needed, and the early someone has to wake up to go to work the less sleep they will get.
Currently writing master thesis. when I tried to be well rested at around 8 hours of sleep, i spent all day sleepy. 7 hours wasnt much better, ruined my morning. perfect is 6 hours. I'm quite fit all day and not too exhausted after 10 hours of writing, reading and creating images. 27 years old.
Ah, the time I was in high school, if I recall correctly I used to sleep between 1:30 and 3 hours a night, if I slept. That is till my body said no and I had a nervous break down, took me nearly two years of sleeping 12 to 16 hours a day before my body said: yep, you can sleep like normal people now. Been sleeping between 7 to 8 hours a day for the past 5 years, can't say it's been bad for me.
There was something on British TV, c.30yrs ago, where a group of people lived in a replica Iron Age village for a year. They went to bed when it got dark and got up when it became light, so how much sleep they got depended upon the time of year. I'd assumed they would eat more in the Winter because it was colder, but in fact they ate less because they were less active.
I'm really interested in trying out polyphasic sleep schedules, I don't know if I have the willpower to make myself conform to one though. A lot more finicky than sleeping a solid block of time once a day, but it increases your productivity by a lot. It would also be nice to be able to dedicate some time to try out XKCD's 28 hour day, but that's hard if you have to plan to do anything with other people involved (work that you have to be at in person etc)
My son's high school starts at 7am. Given the evidence that adolescents get their best sleep between the hours of 6-8am, that's not only inconvenient, it's downright cruel.
I used to have erratic sleep patterns, some nights I'd get 8-10 hours sleep, others about 5-6, but since I started going to bed at the same time each night and getting 8 hours sleep, I have felt much better for doing that.
I get about 8 and a half hours during the week and 10 at the weekend. I've always been a long sleeper. (I'm 29) If I get less than this I'm quite exhausted. I study a lot though. There was a summer when I mostly just read, watched TV and played video games, I didn't need much sleep then.
Sleep is a very important aspect of any human being everyday life. It is said that without the proper amounts of sleep there can be many negative effects on the human body and performance. With the world we live in today I feel as though it is impossible to get the correct amount hours of sleep. In the video the guy talks about how teens are supposed to sleep 9-10 hours a night. With me being a college student and working full time to get by 9-10 hours of sleep seems unreal. My day starts at 8am every day. I work, attend class, and conduct homework every single day. I normally don’t go to sleep till about 1:30am or 2:00am every night and I perform okay with receiving approximately 6 hours of sleep. I believe that if an individual is performing okay with whatever they have to do with their everyday life then what is said in media etc. is irrelevant. As said in the video "Don't force yourself to get more sleep just because of some published average." I also believe that it all depends on how an individual's body reacts off of certain hours of sleep. If you are receiving less than average amounts of sleep and feel tired during the day then maybe you should consider more sleep but if you are feeling okay having enough energy during the day for whatever then it is okay to continue to receive less hours of sleep if that is the only things possible.
Lots of my friends stay up late on a regular basis (post-midnight) despite getting up 7 or earlier for work. But then they sleep in until almost noon on most weekends. I find that I can't sleep in (or take a nap) unless I am chronically exhausted or sick. I get to bed around 11:30 most nights and wake up around 7 or 7:30 most days. I usually wake up the same time on weekends as weekdays (even if I stay up later than usual) because my body seems confused by the idea of not going to bed and waking up at the same time every day. I don't really understand how my peers do it, unless they're mostly just operating in a perpetual state of sleep deprivation.
As a student growing up over the years for high school, middle school I felt as though I never was receiving enough sleep every night, and was causing my days to start off rough due to not getting enough sleep and having to get up for school super early which affected my tension span. Now coming from a college experience I believe that if schools began starting later the kids would receive more sleep, or the amount needed or suggested for the children and people to get. Another reason that would change the outcome would be that by starting school later kids would be more attentive and awake and alert and not just there half asleep and not paying attention to the teacher. If schools were to start later the changes would be affected in so many good ways causing students to receive better education and learn more.
+michael benzur you shouldnt exercise just before sleep as it increases your heart rate and makes it more difficult for your body to relax. its recommended to exercise at least 2-4 hourse before going to sleep. also, artificial light of your phone screen affects your melatonin production which is essential to get a proper sleep. i would say - try to start winding down by e.g. reading a book an hour before you go to sleep. no need to spend 3 hours on not doing anything
I usually do lights out at 10pm, and I wake up between 6:15 and 6:45 (depending on how I feel in the morning), and I turn off the computer and tv and such at 9, so I get about 8 hours or more sleep a night.
Sleep is a very important topic for me. Personally, I base my schedule around my sleep schedule because if I don't get enough rest, I'm VERY emotional. This video talks about how in order to find out the normal sleep pattern for humans, we'd have to go back to the stone ages. I have come to find that I get about the same amount of sleep as those who were "in the stone ages" rather than sleeping the amount of time before and after that study. While I do get enough sleep, I believe I am getting too much sleep. Usually when I wake up, I'm lethargic and need caffeine all day to keep me alive and not sleeping in a corner. Having too much sleep could also be messing with my cognition and decrease my life-span. But for the sake of my family and friends, I'll keep getting too much sleep so I won't be such an emotional wreck from exhaustion. For example, In the past week, I've been dealing with the stress of finals and I've been getting less sleep than the average five hours and forty-two minutes most adults get each night. The past three days I have been running on about 3 hours of sleep a night and mountain dew. It's very unhealthy and I've already had a mental breakdown and an anxiety attack and I'm not even half way done with finals. Even though too much sleep isn't good for you either, it keeps me sane and happy so I'lll take it.
You briefly mentioned some things *not* to do before bedtime if we want to get better sleep. What would be the kind of things that are better to do in the hours leading up to bedtime? And how far before bedtime should we start behaving this way?
High school screwed up my sleep schedule, and now if I go to bed earlier than about 11 PM I end up feeling dead tired the next day no matter what time I wake up. Spent peak season at Amazon going to bed at midnight and getting up at 5 in the morning to work a 10 hour shift.
Good timing. I haven't gotten even 5h of sleep in a night for over 2 weeks, most of those nights were absolutely no sleep. Colours look weird and I got so dizzy watching the subway pull into the station. I definitely need more sleep - the problem is getting it :/
I'm 24 and have been trying to get myself back into a better sleep schedule but sometimes it doesn't work out, and sometimes I can get the same amount of sleep (5-6 hours) and feel perfectly refreshed, while other times I doze off on the bus ride or at my desk at work. For example, I stayed up until about 4 o'clock working on costumes the other night, and woke up at about 9:45. So that was approximately six hours, and I felt great. But last night, I stayed up until 1 o'clock, and woke up at 5:45 (admittedly one less hour) and dozed off a lot until I felt the energy from my breakfast. I also usually work out from 18:30 to 19:30. Should that have a huge impact on my sleep? I know I should get back into a better routine of sleep but the school schedule makes that a bit difficult.
When you are a full time college student who likes to workout, has friends and has a lot of homework every day it is hard to get that 8 hours of sleep…just saying.
We get so caught up on how many hours we should sleep and for how long - everyone's situation is different, for example, someone working two jobs, or a mother/father a newborn, caring for someone with dementia 24 hours a day, surgical resident, etc. There's no right or wrong for anyone, my motto is just sleep when you're tired and try not to force yourself to any one particular standard. I have tried to get the standard 8 hours of sleep a night, just to lay in bed staring at the ceiling, it's just not my "clock". Almost 60 here and been going on 5 - 7 hours a night for most of my adult life (7 hours only on the weekend when I can sleep in) and doing just fine in a very busy work environment dealing with patients and having to think quick on my feet and having to stay physically active.
I know I'm getting an average of about 6 hours a night. I'd like to get more but my circadian rhythm won't let me go to sleep until about 11 pm. Silly work requires I be up by 5:30-6 am.
I’ve been comfortable sleeping 7-8 hours a night since I started highschool- so it may be recommended to get 9-10 hours for most teens, but I think if 7-8 works for you and you are a teen it’s probably just fine, right?
As I watch this video the sleep tracker on my phone says I have been awake for 18 hours and 7 minutes, and since I woke up at 7:30PM yesterday night, that means I should've gone to sleep 2 hours ago, but since the sun is still up and society demands I conform in order to participate, I will again force myself to stay awake for another 6 hours minimum (24 hours total) in order to simply function as a normal human person. C'est la vie.
I believe it's harder for teenagers to get the right amount of sleep that their bodies need because of the amount of stress and work that is put on them. They are expected to do phenomenal in school, play a sport or be a part of another extracurricular activity, have a job and hold other responsibilities. Our natural clocks are ignored because we are up so late doing homework or studying. We put sleep off in order to do other things, whether it's homework or catching up on our favorite TV shows. We have so much going on in our lives that we feel we don't have enough time to sleep.
In the "stone-age" study they had no electronics which meant that preparing meals and finding ways to entertain themselves required a lot more work. The only reason we sleep less than we used to is because a lot of things in life were made easier for us (physically) which means we don't need as much time to rest. When I was in high school I would run 12km every second day. On days I didn't run I slept 5-6 hours and on days that I did run I would sleep 6.5-7 hours. Imagine that, if you tire yourself out you need to sleep, who would have thought.
This was a very good and informational video, something I believe all those whom assume that they are not getting enough hours of sleep should watch. Conclusively the fact is as he stated in the video I believe too that everyone's sleeps intake is entirely up to them and their body make up. Personally I have studied my boyfriends sleep habits and compared them to my own. He is 21 years of age, very active, and of very good health. He sleeps on average 7.2 hours, he cannot sleep more than that. Me on the other hand, 21 as well and of (alright) health, not so active. I as well sleep 7.2 hours on average. Both our numbers are lower than the U.S. average and I believe are actually exactly were they should be. In saying that there is a basic number of hours people should get, I feel is ultimately wrong, but on the contrary I believe if research is done on different lifestyles there could be a common ground on where sleep could be proven most beneficial. Also staying that anything under that number would be harmful, I feel that is were the differentiation should be made.
I am a 26 year old graduate student and 7 hours has me feeling great. If I get an hour less or an hour more it is horrible. But I do have those days where I can't get through the day without taking a nap, but those luxuries only happen on the weekends.
As a pre-medical student, I have a very real perspective on how difficult it can be to balance a busy lifestyle full of classes and extracurricular activities with attempts to get a realistic amount of sleep each night. I appreciate the fact that this video gives the average amount of sleep needed as closer to 7 hours than the normally recommended 8 hours, but I will say that this is virtually impossible most nights for students with busy lives and jobs. I agree entirely with the comment, however, that we spend too much time as a society in bed but not actually sleeping, which is facilitated by our dependence on social media. I also agree with the idea that the needed amount of sleep is different between individuals, as I have noticed that there are significant differences in the sleep time I feel that I need and that of my friends and co-workers. I think that this video provides useful information for those college students that feel they benefit from the "all nighters" of studying as well. They should be made aware that your performance on tests and exams actually decreases from such behaviors, regardless of how much time you spent studying. It is actually to your benefit to get some sleep prior to exams, and allow your brain to rest so that you can think clearly.
Internet use at night, including research for homework and social media, could play a role in keeping teens awake, investigators believe. Rising obesity rates could also play a factor in this change. Lack of sleep can also take its toll on students who cannot pay as much attention during class as they otherwise could if they were well-rested. This can have an impact on their academic performance, as well as health
I'm confused by the average sleeping times, waking times and overall average number of hours of sleep in the examples. If the mean pre-test sleeping time is 23:42 and waking time 7:02, wouldn't the mean # of hours sleeping therefore be the difference between the two - 7h20m? How could the mean # of hours sleeping be shorter (or longer, for that matter) than the difference between the two means? Unless they were median values?
"Same for the group during the experiment. How come 9:37pm till 6:28am is 7h12m of sleep and not whooping 10h of sleep." Asked slightly sleep deprived viewer?
Average time spent asleep does not have to be exactly the difference between average falling asleep time and waking up time. Let me demonstrate with a simple example: Actual going to sleep times: Person 1: 20:00 Person 2: 20:00 Person 3: 22:00 Average going to sleep time: 20:40 Actual waking up times: Person 1: 7:00 Person 2: 8:00 Person 3: 10:00 Average waking up time: 8:20 Difference in average going to sleep time and average waking time: 11 hours 40 minutes Actual amount of time spent asleep: Person 1: 11 hours Person 2: 12 hours Person 3: 14 hours Average time spent asleep: 12 hours and 20 minutes Of course we see that 11 hours and 40 minutes does not match the actual average of 12 hours and 20 minutes. Hope that helps!
Person 3 slept 12h not 14h. Then the result is the same. This is true for all possible values, because: (w1+w2+w3)/3-(s1+s2+s3)/3 = w1/3+w2/3+w3/3-s1/3-s2/3-s3/3= w1/3-s1/3+w2/3-s2/3+w3/3-s3/3= ((w1-s1)+(w2-s2)+(w3-s3))/3
My partners father was part of a sleep study, but was rejected after a few days because his body didn't have a tiredness response, there were no physiological symptoms of needing sleep/sleepiness after three days without. What could cause this, especially seeing as every y chromosome having member of the family seems to be the same way?
If I only sleep 8 hours, I'm really tired. Of course it may only be like 7.5, accounting for falling asleep time. This usually happens when I have to get up for my 8 o clock class day. I don't get how so many people sleep so little, I cannot function well with that little of sleep, and it makes me miserable! I think I function best on 9 hours,of sleep, I try not to sleep more than that, but in the morning, if I feel like I can fall asleep again (since I sleep way better in the morning), I love to sleep a little longer. It's,the sleep, but there's also the fact that you get a lot of REM sleep in the mornings, and I like dreaming and remembering the weirdness that went on in my head as I slept.
Due to chronic pain, I get about an hour a night and after this happening for years, if I get any more then 4 hours, I am sick. I wake up and either puke, or feel hungover
I am a 20 year old college student and I would say that on average, even when I was in high school, I got an average of 6.5 to 7 hours a sleep at night. I would have to say that the way we live today with all of our technology, energy drinks, coffee etc. definitely affects the way people sleep, especially the teen population who are supposed to be getting 9-10 hours a sleep a night. The study of people transitioning from their normal lives to stone-age times shows how much technology affects their sleeping schedules. The advancement in technology affecting sleep schedules can be seen from comparison to people in the early 1940's who 85% got an average of 7 hours or more of sleep compared to the 1990's and now less than 70% of people get 7 hours or more a night. I do believe that different people need different amounts of sleep, everyone is affected differently by sleep just how everyone is affected differently by alcohol, proscription drugs, etc. You don't need to force yourself to get more sleep as long as you are functioning fine with the amount of sleep you are currently getting.
It is a common fact that in today’s world we, as a society, are not getting an adequate amount of sleep. But how can we fix that? Between school, work, family, hobbies, sports, and everything else we try to cram in to our already hectic lives, where do we find the time to get the recommended eight to nine hours of sleep each night? I know for a fact that I do not get as many hours of sleep as I should a night, especially during the week when I am up late doing homework and studying for my class. I also don’t see myself getting those recommended hours of sleep a night anytime soon either. In today’s day and age, it is typical for us to push sleep to the side and treat it as more of an “afterthought” than as a priority. With everything we throw on our plates to deal with daily it is no wonder that sometimes sleep is the last thing on our minds. And we continue to do that again and again, night after night even though we know that it isn’t good for our health, our emotional well-being…basically it is just not good for us as a whole. So why do we keep doing it? A lot of it points to the idea that we tell ourselves that we can function on a lot less sleep then what we actually can. This is far from healthy. Like the video stated at the end, everybody’s sleep needs are different. If you’re getting six or seven hours of sleep and feeling well-rested and energized than don’t worry about tacking on those extra hours of sleep that studies say you’re “supposed” to get a night just to say that you did. Like so many things are when it comes to a healthy lifestyle, sleep is one of those things that are different for different people.
Question: Are the people who make less than $30k a year getting less sleep because they are younger (and visa versa, as the people making more getting more sleep because of being older)? I make more money as a grown as adult, but have little draw to "go out" once I get home for work. Where as a young man, I had no money but a bike and a pocket full of fliers to punk shows and I would stay out all night. Connection?
I definitely agree that people nowadays are not getting a sufficient amount of sleep at night. As a college student, I am one of those individuals and only get about 6 hours sleep. Staying up late doing homework and waking up early for class is more than likely the reason for this. It is like a holiday if I ever get 8+ hours of sleep during the school year and that is pretty sad. I do not doubt that richer people get more sleep than poorer people and this is probably because they do not have to work near as much. Electronics are probably one of the biggest reasons that people do not get enough sleep aside from work and school. Not getting enough sleep can be dangerous for a person's health but quite frankly there is not much you can do about it. On the other hand, sleeping too much is just as bad for your health as not getting enough is.
There are so many reasons people do not get the right amount of sleep these days! There is just so much that is going on, and not enough time to take care of it. There is much accuracy in this video. For a long time I was averaging less than 6 hours of sleep. I found that I was the most miserable with less than 6 hours or more than 10 hours of sleep. 8 hours as mentioned, really does seem to work the best. Now, as far as the socioeconomic correlation with sleep- I absolutely believe poor people sleep less. Because most people who don't have a lot of money (such as college students like myself) are working very hard to get there- and this means using every second wisely. Also, nowadays there is such thing called a "night shift". Once in a while I will pick up an occasional 12 hour night shift, and this is the WORST thing I can possibly do for my body. We are not meant to sleep when there is sunlight- it is entirely difficult. There are just so many things that do not allow people to get the right amount of sleep, but as we all know.. Sleep is very important to health and success in life.
I remember near the end of a year of high-school, I was pretty much addicted to House and only got 2-4 hours of sleep a night because I'd watch as much as I could before bed. At the end of that year, when I finally could sleep in, I got a migraine. Also I bus during the day. How much my back hurts during my shift almost inversely correlates with how much sleep I got the night before. Maybe it's just an anecdote, but I should really go to bed. And who doesn't enjoy 8 hours of sleep?
My sleep is a disaster but its because of things beyond my control. Well not totally beyond, I take stuff and have strategies given to me. If you are lucky and do not live in an apartment where your room is really your only private place you should do nothing but use it for sleep. Do not study in it, watch TV in it, read your laptop in it, etc. Train your brain to recognize going in your room as a time to sleep. Even when my room was my only private area I went to the library and only did things in the common room as much as possible. It actually works pretty good. Be carful with Diphenhydramine (don't buy Zquil) its not a good long term sleep aid and melatonin is actually a steroid I think that we really do not fully understand. I also have an effect where the less sleep I get the more energetic I become (This does not last and leads to a crash, but 7 hours makes me feel awful). Something keeps me from sleeping well and the hallucinations of shadowy figures or in one case a pink and white anaconda in my bed can be scary haha. Hypnagogic hallucinations suck. Also try to not eat a lot before bed.
He said that in stone age conditions they went to sleep on average at they went to sleep at 9:37 PM and woke up at 6:28 AM, which is 8 hrs and 51 mins of sleep, but he said they slept for an average of 7 hrs and 12 mins. This doesn't add up.
I would love to hear your thoughts and findings on chronic fatigue. I have been diagnosed by my doctor to have chronic fatigue, now it may be related to my compromised immune system (hypogamoanimia) but others who have chronic fatigue do not have this link. I personally get about 5 1/2 to 6 hours of sleep a night. If I go 7 or more I have low energy, or feel sickly all day (unless I exhausted myself the day before then 8 hours is fine for me.). My Father and Grandfather both have the same sleeping schedule but as far as I know do not have chronic fatigue. So I don't know why it makes me feel sickly if I rest too much, or why I have it and none of my family (siblings included) have it.
I am 14 and I naturally sleep for ~ 4 hours. I meet and often excel the other people in my peer group who get a lot more. Many people say that I do not get 'enough sleep'.
I fondly remember the days I could easily sleep 10 to 12 hours on the weekends. Now a sleep in for me is 7 or maybe 7.5 hours. Most nights I get 5.5 to 6.5 hours. I'm tired all the time.
Everyone's sleep schedules are different and as he stated, you should not base your sleep schedule off of the national average. I know personally that I do not get enough sleep at night because of my phone. Once I lay in bed I scroll through various social medias and even watch some tv. I know this is very bad for my sleep schedule.
Now, heres the funny bit, because i definitely always sleep 12 hours. Even if i stay up til 4 am, i end up sleeping about 11-12 hours, and get up around the opposite time as when i went to bed. I realize that this is probably not normal, but i remember a study that people in olden times got up before the dawn and went to bed right before dusk, and got up at about 1 am to look at the stars and check the baby, which would mean about 12 hours up, 12 hours down, not counting weird seasonal changes.
ROFL. I averaged about 5-7 in high school, 2-4 in college, and 5-6 now, not taking into account the sleep apnea. 7+ hours of sleep? Maybe on Saturday if I'm lucky.
As a 15 year old, I can say that my friends and I usually do not even get six hours of sleep. I get about five hours of sleep every school night, sometimes less.
Poor people get less sleep...Gee, maybe stress or multiple jobs has some impact there - a big impact. Bill Gates could literally sleep whenever he wants to.
I get between 4 and 10 hours a night mostly due to a less than great work schedule. While the amount of sleep varies quite wildly, I don't notice much of a difference until I get less than about 5 hours. At that point I feel tired and worn down. I'm a bit curious if other people that have a work schedule similar to mine have the same shifts in the amount of sleep they get and at what point it starts to affect them.
My question is how do you get restful sleep? Not only does it take ages for me to get to sleep, I keep waking up in the middle of the night and even when I have slept for around 8 or more hours, I still feel like I haven't really gotten any.
Question: Do these seven hours include the twenty to forty minutes it usually takes people to fall asleep (from bed time only) or did they start counting from the time we enter non-REM N1?
I come from work at 7:30pm, eat, relax, spend time with my kid and shower and it is 10:30pm. I have to get up at 5:30 I simply don't have 8 hours to sleep. How does this work!? Either the people who make work schedules or the people saying 8 hours of sleep is required are stupid.
I agree that people are most likely not getting enough sleep at night. As a college student, I only get at least six hours of sleep. Some students get less than that. Having to wake up at 7am or 8am for class and then going to sleep round 2am or 3am due to doing homeworking or procrastinating about doing homework, only gives me about six hours of sleep. The fact that richer people get more sleep than poorer people seems about right. Also, I did not know that newborns should get up to 18 hours worth of sleep. It do not seem like they are sleeping that much when you are constantly getting up in the middle of the night making bottles. I agree that a lot of teenagers are not getting up to 10 hours worth of sleep. Majority of them are too busy being on their cell phones or social media to go to sleep at a reasonable time. Though, many teenagers that play sports lack the ability to get 9 hours of sleep because after practice: they have to eat, shower, and do homework. By the time they get into bed, its late at night. I agree that getting the correct amount of sleep is very important. However, with the duties that people have to fulfill in one day makes it hard to do so.
The numbers seem strange for sleep time lengths. For the people livng a modern lifestyle if they fell asleep at 11:42pm and woke at 7:02am they would be asleep for 7 hours and 20 mins not 5 hours and 42 mins. Maybe you meant they went to bed at 11:42 not fell asleep?
It really surprised me when the video said preschool kids should get 11-12 hours of sleep, school age kids should get at least 10 hours, and teens should get 9-10 hours. Preschool kids and maybe school aged kids are getting these recommended times, but teens are definitely not. I would get about 6 hours of sleep a night in high school, and would feel absolutely exhausted every morning. I was always puzzled when some of my friends would sleep the same amount of time and be fine. He mentioned that our need for sleep is likely genetic, and I'm assuming that my genes make me require more sleep than others. With a more flexible schedule at college, I try to get my homework done in the early afternoon so I can go to sleep earlier. I try to get 7.5-8 hours every night, and I have noticed a significant difference. I escaped the infamous "freshman fifteen" and actually lost about 5 pounds my freshman year. I drink less caffeine, which is ultimately better for my health. I also feel less stressed about things I need to get done, and I experience less side effects from this, such as less stress-related acne. I seriously believe my better sleeping habits have eased my transition from high school into college, and I hope I can keep these sleep habits throughout my life.
I find it shocking that the average for adults is around 7 and a quarter. Now I was always told get 8-9. I never knew that your genes could play a role into how much sleep you could need. I was always told 8-9 was a good average but getting more is great, I didn't know it could lead to a higher mortality rate. Now I average around 7.5 to a little less then 8 and I always feel great when I wake up so I happy to know that that could be my average. Because whenever I get more then that I just feel terrible and sometimes even more tired then when I went to bed.
If I get 6 hours of sleep a day, I'm okay. I get cranky if I get more than 8. I've worked at least a hundred hours a week before so I've adjusted somewhat. US doctors nowadays don't even come close to the hospital hours we used to put in.
I rarely get enough sleep, because I need 8-10 hours to feel fit. I can only go on 8 hours for a few days before feeling tired, and below 7, I'm not really productive at all. So it's pretty difficult for me to get enough sleep.
This is a strange video for me, because on average I get 10-12 hours of sleep per 24 hours, broken up into 2-3 sleeping periods. I also have no problem getting to sleep rapidly. Today I actually got 12.5 hours. So... not exactly someone who is struggling with lack of sleep.
What about naps? I get 6-8 hours of sleep a night but then sometimes take a two hour nap during the day. And by sometimes I mean at least 3 to 4 days a week. And I don't feel good until after my nap. It doesn't matter if I get 9 hours of 5 hours of sleep the night before; my body wants to take a nap during mid-day. But only if I get less than 10 hours of sleep a night. Hmmm.... Does that mean I should be getting 10 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period? I'm 23, btw.
Who does the graphics for HCT? I would love if they made graphics that were more than just straight quotes of what the doc is saying. Little animations maybe like with Crash Course?
I feel like a lot of the reason we don't sleep as much is because society demands it. So telling us to just "get better sleep" won't change the setup society has of large, unfair hours against employees.
Your statement brings up an interesting Utilitarian point. What benefits society more? The longer hours people are able to work based on sleep deprivation, or well rested workers that can work to their full potential. To truly answer this question from a Utilitarian standpoint, you would have to analyze the benefits and outcomes from both kinds of situation which is difficult to do. If you could somehow determine that the sleep is more important than working the most hours, than that situation would be the most beneficial to society, and therefore be in alignment with Utilitarian beliefs. However, if the study concluded that working longer hours on less sleep was more beneficial to the majority, then Utilitarian theory would indicate that to be the better option.
We already know that people only actually work around 6 hours in an 8 hour work day, so we could reduce working hours by an hour or two and not lose much productivity (I say "not much" because people probably would still not work the whole 6 hours in a 6 hour work day). At least in office jobs... I assume people with physical jobs actually work the whole time.
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When I was in high school the schoolday started at 7:30AM. Realistically, that meant most kids were waking up around 6 or 6:30. To get the recommended 9 hours of sleep, that would mean going to bed around 9PM. I can't imagine most of my peers - especially those on a sports team or with a job - were getting anything like the recommended amount.
I want to find these mystical teenagers who manage to get 9 hours of sleep per night and learn their secrets
Holly Taylor hello
I'd imagine it would have something to do with better organisation, going to bed earlier, and some method of avoiding endless TH-cam watching or video game playing late into the night.
Well I used to sleep for 9h30-10h when I was a teen, and the secret is... Going to bed???
If you know the time you should be asleep based on when you need to wake up, just add 30 minutes of wind down and that's it.
I was able to do it because I had almost no homework in Highschool
The key is finding out what it'll do to you if you don't sleep right, then fearing not getting it
Studies have shown that teens' sleep schedules naturally shift later in the day all the time. If school didn't start so early, I think more teens would be getting the recommended amount, or at least be closer to it.
I would love that so much.
RandomGamers4 Me, too.
9 hours per night? Oh my gosh, that's rich! I went to a specialized high school with a lot of homework and got 4 hours per night. I graduated at number 3 out of 1327. :-)
Diana Peña Dang!
Diana Peña (Asian stereotypical father) you lazy, you lazy child. First or nothing, second is for the weak. Hahaha you doctor. You doctor NOW!
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I am 26, and I sleep about 10 hours at night. Sometimes I get even more than that. I haven't gone to check me but I feel ok and haven't had any trouble except for people concerned because I "sleep too much"
26 here, and I sleep 8-9 hours at night.
25, and experience tells me I need less sleep than a lot of people (6.5 feels enough if I'm sticking to a regular schedule). But these days I'm sleeping at wildly different times every night, which feels shitty.
Do you, boo.
I am in my 30's and I also sleep 10 hours on average. When I am forced to wake up before then I am grumpy, clumsy and unable to think strait. When I get all the sleep I want, I wake up super cheerful and full of energy.
ya, he kept repeating that I should probably sleep more, but I definitely get between 7-10 hours every day. If I get less I feel crummy for the day. [I'm 28 btw]
could you do an episode about working the nightshift. pros/cons vs working dayshift. tnx. great show. just subsribed
I love that he is saying sleep depends on your genetics and each person is different. It is a nice change from the recommended average that says you need to get this much or you will experience this this and this. I totally agree that it depends on the individual, and if you feel fine and are functioning as you're supposed to then you shouldn't worry too much about it. This is different if you're not sleeping that much, and you start to fail your classes, fall asleep in class, and your health starts to decline. As a college student, I know that sleep is something we often put on the back burner. As a college student, I also know that sleep is very important to your health and well-being. It sometimes is very hard to get the recommended amount of sleep a night when you have homework, a job, need to workout, eat healthy, be involved in extracurriculars, and somehow have time for a social life and fun. Sometimes sleep comes last on that list, and that isn't the healthiest choice, but if I feel fine the next day and still accomplished everything I needed to, I'd say thats pretty successful. I do think sometimes its hard to find a happy medium on how much sleep I should get each night to function well the next day. Sometimes when I don't sleep enough, I feel be even more stressed out because I stayed up all night, then if I was to just have slept and gotten what needed to be done the next day. I think with time, we will learn how much sleep we need individually, not by what the government tells us.
As a college student, this video is hits home to me like many others commenting. I am in a constant internal battle on balancing a healthy sleep schedule. I really like the statement that the amount a sleep an individual needs is based on their genetic make up. I know that my sleep schedule fluctuates by hours each night, some nights I get 7 hours, other nights I only get 5 hours. I usually base the time I go to bed on what I have going on the next day because I know what my body can handle and how much sleep I need to get through the next day. Its often a huge struggle to balance a healthy schedule when I have so much homework or studying to do, a house to keep up, extracurricular activities, family, working out, and cooking all of my own meals. Sleep is often the first thing on the list to get booted off, as it is one of the things I can go with out doing. But as long as I feel okay the next day I don’t see why we have to get the recommended amount of sleep, if I feel okay then I am going to continue with the routine that I’ve been doing.
Now to think about other factors that influence sleep, I know that sometimes I could get a more quality nights sleep. People could get a better nights sleep and have it be more effective if phones were put away somewhere for the night that was not near the bed, if there was no televisions in any bedrooms, or if all distractions possible were completely eliminated. But then again it is up to the individual person to do this for themselves so if their routine works for them and they feel they are getting a quality nights sleep with their television on and their phone on their pillow next to them, then they will continue to do that.
I don't understand why so many people don't get enough sleep. I mean, once in awhile I'll stay up and only get 5-6 hours, but the majority of the time, I get around 8-10 or I get really unhappy. During vacations I start doing 11-12 hours every night. No wonder people hate waking up in the morning and need their coffee. It's miserable to do that every morning. Get more sleep people. It will make your life better.
That's what I'm telling myself every morning, but come nighttime I'm often wrapped up in something, or feeling unready for the next day to start, or excited about something, and it all leads to me not going to bed. I really wish I only needed 4 hours a sleep to be healthy and feel good. I know that's not the case, but it doesn't stop me wishing.
I mean, as a high schooler that plays two sports at a time, and also has a crapton of homework, you don't often get to bed until around midnight. Then you wake up at 6:30 the next morning, only getting about 6 and a half hours of sleep. The average teenager sleeping 9 hours estimate seems very high to me. I don't know anyone who is able to get to sleep by 9:30.
Why do you have to get up at 6 every morning? If it's for sports, maybe you should cut out one. You can always play with your friends on the weekends. If it's tiring you out more than it's benefitting your life, then cut it out. There is such a thing as doing too much.
Then maybe you could get your homework done before midnight.
I went to a highschool that gave double the amount of homework that most public schools give, and I always had enough time, if I prioritized it.
RainAngel111 As if you've researched the amount of homework every school gives you and you calculated that you're school gave you more. I'm pretty sure you don't know how much homework he gets so stop trying to top him in something you have no clue about.
Also, funny how everyone expects people to give up their passions. You know the problem is never that the school gives way too much homework or that school/work is too long and unnatural for us as a species. He shouldn't have to give up sports just to compensate for a shitty society.
If it's something he's passionate about, he'll find time for it. He doesn't need to be in "organized sports" to play sports. Unless he's planning to become a professional sports player, playing on two different sports teams might be more harmful than it is helpful in the long run.
Going into the nursing profession I have had numerous classes including psychology, anatomy and physiology, nutrition, and biology that have all focused on the importance of sleep through various different perspectives. I have found one of the most interesting perspectives though through a Ted talk that focused on sleep and its effect on the brain. This talk brought up how a study was performed on how the cerebrospinal fluid clears waste products from the brain as we sleep. When we fail to sleep we do not allow waste products to be removed from the brain adequately. I understand scientifically how sleep is important to my health but then this raises the question as to how do you get enough? As a college student I take 16 credits, work 3 jobs, volunteer, and am a member of numerous clubs. With all this going on in my life it is easy to say I will get enough sleep but when push comes to shove I can't find enough time in the day. This leads to a constant state of being tired and trying to catch up on sleep rather than being in a routine of constant sleep habits. I think one important thing that both I and other college students can focus on is the fact that most of us take naps in the middle of the day. The naps can range from 30 minutes to hours. I think one thing I and many others fail to realize that this inhibits our ability to sleep later in the night. I take naps to catch up on sleep but then find myself unable to sleep at night. Another interesting point I have found when researching this issue is that having electronics such as a t.v, laptop, or phone near you or by you when you sleep inhibits being able to get a good nights sleep. I normally have at least my phone and possibly my laptop in bed with me at night. I have recently found for myself that I will not feel tired while watching shows or videos on my laptop but if i turn it off I will be asleep int he next five minutes. I am working on getting enough sleep for me and tracking how much sleep makes me feel good. As the video points out everyone is not the same and for some getting 8 hours may make a person feel the same as another does when they get 5 hours. I also think a factor that may effect this is what was done during the day. Days I do not do much physical activity I don't feel I need as much as I do when I am working out a lot. Something I wish this study would have looked into more is the fact about hitting a snooze button on an alarm and the effects of constantly going back to sleep and then being woken back up 5-8 minutes later by the alarm again. I will have to look into that as I often find myself doing this as well.
High school student here! Same problems! What you say makes a lot of sence. Also don't trust them Ted talkers 'cause they 're just trying to get funding, especially when you here them mention reduction of diseases suck as Alzheimer's (I watched this talk as well)!
All through school I could not wait for the weekend to sleep in. All during the week with school and practice, my days were long and then had to come home and do homework! Its hard to get a good amount of sleep along with making it a cycle. It is very important and I feel if school started later or ended earlier that a lot more kids would be rested and rejuvenated for the next day.
Dr. Carroll made some very valid points when it came to how much sleep the average person should get a night. When he stated that teens should get around 9-10 hours of sleep a night, it made me appreciate my mother because that is how much sleep she made me get every night in high school. How she achieved this was by taking my phone at the same time every night until I turned 18. She knew that if she did not take my phone at night that I would not get enough sleep, because I would be too busy scrolling on all of my social media pages every 2 seconds. That is also something that he spoke on, how when we are in the bed we barely spend that time sleep. We are either glancing at the television or on our phones. From experience I know not getting enough sleep at night can lead to me crashing during the middle of the day. Now that I am in college I do not get those 9-10 hours of sleep a night. That is something that Dr. Carroll also touched on, stating that poorer people spend less time sleep. Now don't get me wrong, I am far from poor. But being a college student is pretty close to it, I am up doing homework, studying, worrying about exams and things of that nature. While a poorer person might be worrying about bills and also maybe working several jobs. I can relate that not getting enough sleep can also effect my studying and how well I do on my exams. But really how realistic is it for a person like me to be as busy as I am with school, work, homework, and different organizations to get 8 hours of sleep a night and still maintain my good grades. It's difficult and that's where a lot of people get stuck at not finding a middle ground between both.
Excellent video once again on an extremely important topic. Thanks Dr. Carroll.
This is a very serious talk. Sleep has always been a difficult topic. Whether you are getting enough or to much is always the question. As a typical college student I only receive about 5-6 hours of sleep a night and this is substantially lower than the 7.25 needed. Not getting enough sleep can effect ones cognitive ability as well as getting to much sleep can effect your cognitive ability as well. Many people have the misconception of thinking by getting more sleep makes hem healthier, but that is not the truth. I really enjoyed the study mentioned done in Germany showing how much sleep really is natural. With out all the distractions pertaining to falling asleep in bed such as watching tv and browsing the internet the participants got to sleep much earlier. Another thing i found int resting was the notion that rich people get more sleep than poor people. But, if you think about it the stress and work loaded a less fortunate person may have may hinder the amount of sleep received. Overall i believe this was a very informative talk and can really help with someones health.
I would get more sleep but there are too many Healthcare Triage videos I haven't watched yet.
When he began talking about how modern technologies mess with our sleep patterns it really got me to really think about it. It is very true that with all that we have today it is easier to stay up later because there is light and entertainment available and we will sleep less at night because when we wake up there is not only coffee, as he mentioned in the video, to wake us up but there are other sources of caffeine such as pop and pill supplements. The study that was done was really interesting because they really figured out how much modern technology shapes our lives and daily patterns. The fact that the people in the study usually went to bed around midnight and ended up going to bed around 9:30 pm in the study is huge. A two and a half hour difference is huge to me when I think of all the work I could get done in that time or utilize that time to catch up on sleep. After the results of the study were revealed I found it odd that the average amount of sleep need was only 7 hours because all of my life I had heard that 8 hours is the ideal number of hours a person should sleep. What really hit home for me was when he mentioned that people don’t have efficient sleep because the bed/ bedroom is no longer just a place to sleep. It is where people go to relax and watch tv, or even in my dorm room that is where I go to eat and do my homework. Lastly what I found to be interesting about this video was the fact about how someone's economic standing could be effecting how much sleep they get every night. He said that out of the people who make $75,000 per year, only a small fraction of those people receive less than 6 hours of sleep per night while about half of those who make less than $30,000 per year will receive less than 6 hours of sleep per night. I started to think why this could be and the conclusion I came to was that the people who make more than $75,000 a year are usually higher up in whatever company they are in and not necessarily work less but they heavily rely on those below them to do the work and they therefore do not have to go to work as early. While those who are making $30,000 per year or less are usually the lower level people are there because they can get the job done and willing to get there as early as needed, and the early someone has to wake up to go to work the less sleep they will get.
Currently writing master thesis. when I tried to be well rested at around 8 hours of sleep, i spent all day sleepy. 7 hours wasnt much better, ruined my morning. perfect is 6 hours. I'm quite fit all day and not too exhausted after 10 hours of writing, reading and creating images.
27 years old.
you should make a billboard that says "correlation does not mean causation" or something like that.
When you're a teen its hard. People push you to do a lot, so you can get into a good college. If you do what is expected, you can't get enough sleep.
Ah, the time I was in high school, if I recall correctly I used to sleep between 1:30 and 3 hours a night, if I slept. That is till my body said no and I had a nervous break down, took me nearly two years of sleeping 12 to 16 hours a day before my body said: yep, you can sleep like normal people now. Been sleeping between 7 to 8 hours a day for the past 5 years, can't say it's been bad for me.
There was something on British TV, c.30yrs ago, where a group of people lived in a replica Iron Age village for a year. They went to bed when it got dark and got up when it became light, so how much sleep they got depended upon the time of year. I'd assumed they would eat more in the Winter because it was colder, but in fact they ate less because they were less active.
I'm really interested in trying out polyphasic sleep schedules, I don't know if I have the willpower to make myself conform to one though. A lot more finicky than sleeping a solid block of time once a day, but it increases your productivity by a lot.
It would also be nice to be able to dedicate some time to try out XKCD's 28 hour day, but that's hard if you have to plan to do anything with other people involved (work that you have to be at in person etc)
Great as always Aaron!
My kids would definitely get plenty of sleep if school didn't start so damned early. I would much much rather it start at 10 the earliest.
My son's high school starts at 7am. Given the evidence that adolescents get their best sleep between the hours of 6-8am, that's not only inconvenient, it's downright cruel.
Lisa Blair exactly. My kids are natural late sleepers, I hate waking them up for school. Its like unnatural torture.
I agree. Traffic is troubling for many.
But then we'd get out so late (6pm) and we'd have less time to do stuff before it got dark.
I used to have erratic sleep patterns, some nights I'd get 8-10 hours sleep, others about 5-6, but since I started going to bed at the same time each night and getting 8 hours sleep, I have felt much better for doing that.
Half of all teenagers get more than 9 hours of sleep? that's funny
I get about 8 and a half hours during the week and 10 at the weekend. I've always been a long sleeper. (I'm 29) If I get less than this I'm quite exhausted. I study a lot though. There was a summer when I mostly just read, watched TV and played video games, I didn't need much sleep then.
Sleep is a very important aspect of any human being everyday life. It is said that without the proper amounts of sleep there can be many negative effects on the human body and performance. With the world we live in today I feel as though it is impossible to get the correct amount hours of sleep. In the video the guy talks about how teens are supposed to sleep 9-10 hours a night. With me being a college student and working full time to get by 9-10 hours of sleep seems unreal. My day starts at 8am every day. I work, attend class, and conduct homework every single day. I normally don’t go to sleep till about 1:30am or 2:00am every night and I perform okay with receiving approximately 6 hours of sleep. I believe that if an individual is performing okay with whatever they have to do with their everyday life then what is said in media etc. is irrelevant. As said in the video "Don't force yourself to get more sleep just because of some published average." I also believe that it all depends on how an individual's body reacts off of certain hours of sleep. If you are receiving less than average amounts of sleep and feel tired during the day then maybe you should consider more sleep but if you are feeling okay having enough energy during the day for whatever then it is okay to continue to receive less hours of sleep if that is the only things possible.
Lots of my friends stay up late on a regular basis (post-midnight) despite getting up 7 or earlier for work. But then they sleep in until almost noon on most weekends.
I find that I can't sleep in (or take a nap) unless I am chronically exhausted or sick. I get to bed around 11:30 most nights and wake up around 7 or 7:30 most days. I usually wake up the same time on weekends as weekdays (even if I stay up later than usual) because my body seems confused by the idea of not going to bed and waking up at the same time every day. I don't really understand how my peers do it, unless they're mostly just operating in a perpetual state of sleep deprivation.
As a student growing up over the years for high school, middle school I felt as though I never was receiving enough sleep every night, and was causing my days to start off rough due to not getting enough sleep and having to get up for school super early which affected my tension span. Now coming from a college experience I believe that if schools began starting later the kids would receive more sleep, or the amount needed or suggested for the children and people to get. Another reason that would change the outcome would be that by starting school later kids would be more attentive and awake and alert and not just there half asleep and not paying attention to the teacher. If schools were to start later the changes would be affected in so many good ways causing students to receive better education and learn more.
before sleep:
no lying down, no excercising, no internet... what should i do?
sit down reading a book? seriously someone explain
+michael benzur you shouldnt exercise just before sleep as it increases your heart rate and makes it more difficult for your body to relax. its recommended to exercise at least 2-4 hourse before going to sleep. also, artificial light of your phone screen affects your melatonin production which is essential to get a proper sleep. i would say - try to start winding down by e.g. reading a book an hour before you go to sleep. no need to spend 3 hours on not doing anything
Ragnar Rokflyt
but also no lying down.
I usually do lights out at 10pm, and I wake up between 6:15 and 6:45 (depending on how I feel in the morning), and I turn off the computer and tv and such at 9, so I get about 8 hours or more sleep a night.
Sleep is a very important topic for me. Personally, I base my schedule around my sleep schedule because if I don't get enough rest, I'm VERY emotional. This video talks about how in order to find out the normal sleep pattern for humans, we'd have to go back to the stone ages. I have come to find that I get about the same amount of sleep as those who were "in the stone ages" rather than sleeping the amount of time before and after that study. While I do get enough sleep, I believe I am getting too much sleep. Usually when I wake up, I'm lethargic and need caffeine all day to keep me alive and not sleeping in a corner. Having too much sleep could also be messing with my cognition and decrease my life-span. But for the sake of my family and friends, I'll keep getting too much sleep so I won't be such an emotional wreck from exhaustion. For example, In the past week, I've been dealing with the stress of finals and I've been getting less sleep than the average five hours and forty-two minutes most adults get each night. The past three days I have been running on about 3 hours of sleep a night and mountain dew. It's very unhealthy and I've already had a mental breakdown and an anxiety attack and I'm not even half way done with finals. Even though too much sleep isn't good for you either, it keeps me sane and happy so I'lll take it.
Going with what works best for you is really the smartest thing. I do great off around eight hours of sleep, but my husband needs at least nine.
I agree generally soeaking if you woke up without an alarm you had enough sleep.
You briefly mentioned some things *not* to do before bedtime if we want to get better sleep. What would be the kind of things that are better to do in the hours leading up to bedtime? And how far before bedtime should we start behaving this way?
This video inspired to go to be at 8:00 rather than 11.00. Thank you.
High school screwed up my sleep schedule, and now if I go to bed earlier than about 11 PM I end up feeling dead tired the next day no matter what time I wake up. Spent peak season at Amazon going to bed at midnight and getting up at 5 in the morning to work a 10 hour shift.
Good timing. I haven't gotten even 5h of sleep in a night for over 2 weeks, most of those nights were absolutely no sleep. Colours look weird and I got so dizzy watching the subway pull into the station. I definitely need more sleep - the problem is getting it :/
I'm 24 and have been trying to get myself back into a better sleep schedule but sometimes it doesn't work out, and sometimes I can get the same amount of sleep (5-6 hours) and feel perfectly refreshed, while other times I doze off on the bus ride or at my desk at work. For example, I stayed up until about 4 o'clock working on costumes the other night, and woke up at about 9:45. So that was approximately six hours, and I felt great. But last night, I stayed up until 1 o'clock, and woke up at 5:45 (admittedly one less hour) and dozed off a lot until I felt the energy from my breakfast. I also usually work out from 18:30 to 19:30. Should that have a huge impact on my sleep? I know I should get back into a better routine of sleep but the school schedule makes that a bit difficult.
When you are a full time college student who likes to workout, has friends and has a lot of homework every day it is hard to get that 8 hours of sleep…just saying.
We get so caught up on how many hours we should sleep and for how long - everyone's situation is different, for example, someone working two jobs, or a mother/father a newborn, caring for someone with dementia 24 hours a day, surgical resident, etc. There's no right or wrong for anyone, my motto is just sleep when you're tired and try not to force yourself to any one particular standard. I have tried to get the standard 8 hours of sleep a night, just to lay in bed staring at the ceiling, it's just not my "clock". Almost 60 here and been going on 5 - 7 hours a night for most of my adult life (7 hours only on the weekend when I can sleep in) and doing just fine in a very busy work environment dealing with patients and having to think quick on my feet and having to stay physically active.
I know I'm getting an average of about 6 hours a night. I'd like to get more but my circadian rhythm won't let me go to sleep until about 11 pm. Silly work requires I be up by 5:30-6 am.
I’ve been comfortable sleeping 7-8 hours a night since I started highschool- so it may be recommended to get 9-10 hours for most teens, but I think if 7-8 works for you and you are a teen it’s probably just fine, right?
As I watch this video the sleep tracker on my phone says I have been awake for 18 hours and 7 minutes, and since I woke up at 7:30PM yesterday night, that means I should've gone to sleep 2 hours ago, but since the sun is still up and society demands I conform in order to participate, I will again force myself to stay awake for another 6 hours minimum (24 hours total) in order to simply function as a normal human person. C'est la vie.
I believe it's harder for teenagers to get the right amount of sleep that their bodies need because of the amount of stress and work that is put on them. They are expected to do phenomenal in school, play a sport or be a part of another extracurricular activity, have a job and hold other responsibilities. Our natural clocks are ignored because we are up so late doing homework or studying. We put sleep off in order to do other things, whether it's homework or catching up on our favorite TV shows. We have so much going on in our lives that we feel we don't have enough time to sleep.
In the "stone-age" study they had no electronics which meant that preparing meals and finding ways to entertain themselves required a lot more work. The only reason we sleep less than we used to is because a lot of things in life were made easier for us (physically) which means we don't need as much time to rest. When I was in high school I would run 12km every second day. On days I didn't run I slept 5-6 hours and on days that I did run I would sleep 6.5-7 hours. Imagine that, if you tire yourself out you need to sleep, who would have thought.
This was a very good and informational video, something I believe all those whom assume that they are not getting enough hours of sleep should watch. Conclusively the fact is as he stated in the video I believe too that everyone's sleeps intake is entirely up to them and their body make up. Personally I have studied my boyfriends sleep habits and compared them to my own. He is 21 years of age, very active, and of very good health. He sleeps on average 7.2 hours, he cannot sleep more than that. Me on the other hand, 21 as well and of (alright) health, not so active. I as well sleep 7.2 hours on average. Both our numbers are lower than the U.S. average and I believe are actually exactly were they should be. In saying that there is a basic number of hours people should get, I feel is ultimately wrong, but on the contrary I believe if research is done on different lifestyles there could be a common ground on where sleep could be proven most beneficial. Also staying that anything under that number would be harmful, I feel that is were the differentiation should be made.
I am a 26 year old graduate student and 7 hours has me feeling great. If I get an hour less or an hour more it is horrible. But I do have those days where I can't get through the day without taking a nap, but those luxuries only happen on the weekends.
As a pre-medical student, I have a very real perspective on how difficult it can be to balance a busy lifestyle full of classes and extracurricular activities with attempts to get a realistic amount of sleep each night. I appreciate the fact that this video gives the average amount of sleep needed as closer to 7 hours than the normally recommended 8 hours, but I will say that this is virtually impossible most nights for students with busy lives and jobs. I agree entirely with the comment, however, that we spend too much time as a society in bed but not actually sleeping, which is facilitated by our dependence on social media. I also agree with the idea that the needed amount of sleep is different between individuals, as I have noticed that there are significant differences in the sleep time I feel that I need and that of my friends and co-workers. I think that this video provides useful information for those college students that feel they benefit from the "all nighters" of studying as well. They should be made aware that your performance on tests and exams actually decreases from such behaviors, regardless of how much time you spent studying. It is actually to your benefit to get some sleep prior to exams, and allow your brain to rest so that you can think clearly.
9-10 hours? After school started my average is about 3 hours.
Internet use at night, including research for homework and social media, could play a role in keeping teens awake, investigators believe. Rising obesity rates could also play a factor in this change. Lack of sleep can also take its toll on students who cannot pay as much attention during class as they otherwise could if they were well-rested. This can have an impact on their academic performance, as well as health
I'm confused by the average sleeping times, waking times and overall average number of hours of sleep in the examples. If the mean pre-test sleeping time is 23:42 and waking time 7:02, wouldn't the mean # of hours sleeping therefore be the difference between the two - 7h20m? How could the mean # of hours sleeping be shorter (or longer, for that matter) than the difference between the two means? Unless they were median values?
"Same for the group during the experiment. How come 9:37pm till 6:28am is 7h12m of sleep and not whooping 10h of sleep." Asked slightly sleep deprived viewer?
Average time spent asleep does not have to be exactly the difference between average falling asleep time and waking up time. Let me demonstrate with a simple example:
Actual going to sleep times:
Person 1: 20:00
Person 2: 20:00
Person 3: 22:00
Average going to sleep time: 20:40
Actual waking up times:
Person 1: 7:00
Person 2: 8:00
Person 3: 10:00
Average waking up time: 8:20
Difference in average going to sleep time and average waking time: 11 hours 40 minutes
Actual amount of time spent asleep:
Person 1: 11 hours
Person 2: 12 hours
Person 3: 14 hours
Average time spent asleep: 12 hours and 20 minutes
Of course we see that 11 hours and 40 minutes does not match the actual average of 12 hours and 20 minutes.
Hope that helps!
Person 3 slept 12h not 14h. Then the result is the same.
This is true for all possible values, because:
(w1+w2+w3)/3-(s1+s2+s3)/3 =
w1/3+w2/3+w3/3-s1/3-s2/3-s3/3=
w1/3-s1/3+w2/3-s2/3+w3/3-s3/3=
((w1-s1)+(w2-s2)+(w3-s3))/3
Przemyslaw Zych It seems you are correct. My mistake.
My partners father was part of a sleep study, but was rejected after a few days because his body didn't have a tiredness response, there were no physiological symptoms of needing sleep/sleepiness after three days without. What could cause this, especially seeing as every y chromosome having member of the family seems to be the same way?
"Surfing the internet" .... definitely should be sleeping haha awesome video :)
What about naps? How do they affect this "sleep" thing?
... and why am I up at midnight watching this video?
If I only sleep 8 hours, I'm really tired. Of course it may only be like 7.5, accounting for falling asleep time. This usually happens when I have to get up for my 8 o clock class day. I don't get how so many people sleep so little, I cannot function well with that little of sleep, and it makes me miserable! I think I function best on 9 hours,of sleep, I try not to sleep more than that, but in the morning, if I feel like I can fall asleep again (since I sleep way better in the morning), I love to sleep a little longer. It's,the sleep, but there's also the fact that you get a lot of REM sleep in the mornings, and I like dreaming and remembering the weirdness that went on in my head as I slept.
Due to chronic pain, I get about an hour a night and after this happening for years, if I get any more then 4 hours, I am sick. I wake up and either puke, or feel hungover
I am a 20 year old college student and I would say that on average, even when I was in high school, I got an average of 6.5 to 7 hours a sleep at night. I would have to say that the way we live today with all of our technology, energy drinks, coffee etc. definitely affects the way people sleep, especially the teen population who are supposed to be getting 9-10 hours a sleep a night. The study of people transitioning from their normal lives to stone-age times shows how much technology affects their sleeping schedules. The advancement in technology affecting sleep schedules can be seen from comparison to people in the early 1940's who 85% got an average of 7 hours or more of sleep compared to the 1990's and now less than 70% of people get 7 hours or more a night. I do believe that different people need different amounts of sleep, everyone is affected differently by sleep just how everyone is affected differently by alcohol, proscription drugs, etc. You don't need to force yourself to get more sleep as long as you are functioning fine with the amount of sleep you are currently getting.
I find I work best on 8.5 hours. I can function on 7, but not for extended periods of time. Too much sleep isn't necessarily better, I've found.
It is a common fact that in today’s world we, as a society, are not getting an adequate amount of sleep. But how can we fix that? Between school, work, family, hobbies, sports, and everything else we try to cram in to our already hectic lives, where do we find the time to get the recommended eight to nine hours of sleep each night? I know for a fact that I do not get as many hours of sleep as I should a night, especially during the week when I am up late doing homework and studying for my class. I also don’t see myself getting those recommended hours of sleep a night anytime soon either. In today’s day and age, it is typical for us to push sleep to the side and treat it as more of an “afterthought” than as a priority. With everything we throw on our plates to deal with daily it is no wonder that sometimes sleep is the last thing on our minds. And we continue to do that again and again, night after night even though we know that it isn’t good for our health, our emotional well-being…basically it is just not good for us as a whole. So why do we keep doing it? A lot of it points to the idea that we tell ourselves that we can function on a lot less sleep then what we actually can. This is far from healthy. Like the video stated at the end, everybody’s sleep needs are different. If you’re getting six or seven hours of sleep and feeling well-rested and energized than don’t worry about tacking on those extra hours of sleep that studies say you’re “supposed” to get a night just to say that you did. Like so many things are when it comes to a healthy lifestyle, sleep is one of those things that are different for different people.
I'm a junior in high school and I'm getting between 6-7 hours on a school night, 9-10 on a weekend.
Question: Are the people who make less than $30k a year getting less sleep because they are younger (and visa versa, as the people making more getting more sleep because of being older)? I make more money as a grown as adult, but have little draw to "go out" once I get home for work. Where as a young man, I had no money but a bike and a pocket full of fliers to punk shows and I would stay out all night. Connection?
Can you do an episode about possible causes/consequences of getting far too much sleep (i.e., 12+ hours)?
I definitely agree that people nowadays are not getting a sufficient amount of sleep at night. As a college student, I am one of those individuals and only get about 6 hours sleep. Staying up late doing homework and waking up early for class is more than likely the reason for this. It is like a holiday if I ever get 8+ hours of sleep during the school year and that is pretty sad. I do not doubt that richer people get more sleep than poorer people and this is probably because they do not have to work near as much. Electronics are probably one of the biggest reasons that people do not get enough sleep aside from work and school. Not getting enough sleep can be dangerous for a person's health but quite frankly there is not much you can do about it. On the other hand, sleeping too much is just as bad for your health as not getting enough is.
There are so many reasons people do not get the right amount of sleep these days! There is just so much that is going on, and not enough time to take care of it. There is much accuracy in this video. For a long time I was averaging less than 6 hours of sleep. I found that I was the most miserable with less than 6 hours or more than 10 hours of sleep. 8 hours as mentioned, really does seem to work the best. Now, as far as the socioeconomic correlation with sleep- I absolutely believe poor people sleep less. Because most people who don't have a lot of money (such as college students like myself) are working very hard to get there- and this means using every second wisely. Also, nowadays there is such thing called a "night shift". Once in a while I will pick up an occasional 12 hour night shift, and this is the WORST thing I can possibly do for my body. We are not meant to sleep when there is sunlight- it is entirely difficult. There are just so many things that do not allow people to get the right amount of sleep, but as we all know.. Sleep is very important to health and success in life.
if only my mum saw this when i was a teenager
i would have got the 12 hours i only enjoyed on weekends every night
I remember near the end of a year of high-school, I was pretty much addicted to House and only got 2-4 hours of sleep a night because I'd watch as much as I could before bed. At the end of that year, when I finally could sleep in, I got a migraine.
Also I bus during the day. How much my back hurts during my shift almost inversely correlates with how much sleep I got the night before.
Maybe it's just an anecdote, but I should really go to bed. And who doesn't enjoy 8 hours of sleep?
My sleep is a disaster but its because of things beyond my control. Well not totally beyond, I take stuff and have strategies given to me. If you are lucky and do not live in an apartment where your room is really your only private place you should do nothing but use it for sleep. Do not study in it, watch TV in it, read your laptop in it, etc. Train your brain to recognize going in your room as a time to sleep. Even when my room was my only private area I went to the library and only did things in the common room as much as possible. It actually works pretty good.
Be carful with Diphenhydramine (don't buy Zquil) its not a good long term sleep aid and melatonin is actually a steroid I think that we really do not fully understand. I also have an effect where the less sleep I get the more energetic I become (This does not last and leads to a crash, but 7 hours makes me feel awful). Something keeps me from sleeping well and the hallucinations of shadowy figures or in one case a pink and white anaconda in my bed can be scary haha. Hypnagogic hallucinations suck. Also try to not eat a lot before bed.
He said that in stone age conditions they went to sleep on average at they went to sleep at 9:37 PM and woke up at 6:28 AM, which is 8 hrs and 51 mins of sleep, but he said they slept for an average of 7 hrs and 12 mins. This doesn't add up.
I would love to hear your thoughts and findings on chronic fatigue. I have been diagnosed by my doctor to have chronic fatigue, now it may be related to my compromised immune system (hypogamoanimia) but others who have chronic fatigue do not have this link. I personally get about 5 1/2 to 6 hours of sleep a night. If I go 7 or more I have low energy, or feel sickly all day (unless I exhausted myself the day before then 8 hours is fine for me.). My Father and Grandfather both have the same sleeping schedule but as far as I know do not have chronic fatigue. So I don't know why it makes me feel sickly if I rest too much, or why I have it and none of my family (siblings included) have it.
I am 14 and I naturally sleep for ~ 4 hours. I meet and often excel the other people in my peer group who get a lot more. Many people say that I do not get 'enough sleep'.
I fondly remember the days I could easily sleep 10 to 12 hours on the weekends. Now a sleep in for me is 7 or maybe 7.5 hours. Most nights I get 5.5 to 6.5 hours. I'm tired all the time.
Everyone's sleep schedules are different and as he stated, you should not base your sleep schedule off of the national average. I know personally that I do not get enough sleep at night because of my phone. Once I lay in bed I scroll through various social medias and even watch some tv. I know this is very bad for my sleep schedule.
Now, heres the funny bit, because i definitely always sleep 12 hours. Even if i stay up til 4 am, i end up sleeping about 11-12 hours, and get up around the opposite time as when i went to bed.
I realize that this is probably not normal, but i remember a study that people in olden times got up before the dawn and went to bed right before dusk, and got up at about 1 am to look at the stars and check the baby, which would mean about 12 hours up, 12 hours down, not counting weird seasonal changes.
ROFL. I averaged about 5-7 in high school, 2-4 in college, and 5-6 now, not taking into account the sleep apnea. 7+ hours of sleep? Maybe on Saturday if I'm lucky.
Aaaah, sit still!
Left right left it's bugging me. :)
As a 15 year old, I can say that my friends and I usually do not even get six hours of sleep. I get about five hours of sleep every school night, sometimes less.
Poor people get less sleep...Gee, maybe stress or multiple jobs has some impact there - a big impact. Bill Gates could literally sleep whenever he wants to.
I get between 4 and 10 hours a night mostly due to a less than great work schedule. While the amount of sleep varies quite wildly, I don't notice much of a difference until I get less than about 5 hours. At that point I feel tired and worn down. I'm a bit curious if other people that have a work schedule similar to mine have the same shifts in the amount of sleep they get and at what point it starts to affect them.
I'm watching this video at 4:30 AM...
Timothy Mueller-Harder Got me beat I watching at 1am
+emconite101 2.35am for me
+Brittany White 2:40 mwhuahaha
0:40 Too small a sample. What if two of them have mutations that give them weird sleep schedules?
Could you kindly also address the quality of sleep of a nap during the day compared to that of sleeping at night?
Thanks.
My question is how do you get restful sleep? Not only does it take ages for me to get to sleep, I keep waking up in the middle of the night and even when I have slept for around 8 or more hours, I still feel like I haven't really gotten any.
Question: Do these seven hours include the twenty to forty minutes it usually takes people to fall asleep (from bed time only) or did they start counting from the time we enter non-REM N1?
No
I come from work at 7:30pm, eat, relax, spend time with my kid and shower and it is 10:30pm. I have to get up at 5:30
I simply don't have 8 hours to sleep. How does this work!? Either the people who make work schedules or the people saying 8 hours of sleep is required are stupid.
I agree that people are most likely not getting enough sleep at night.
As a college student, I only get at least six hours of sleep. Some
students get less than that. Having to wake up at 7am or 8am for class
and then going to sleep round 2am or 3am due to doing homeworking or
procrastinating about doing homework, only gives me about six hours of
sleep. The fact that richer people get more sleep than poorer people
seems about right. Also, I did not know that newborns should get up to
18 hours worth of sleep. It do not seem like they are sleeping that much
when you are constantly getting up in the middle of the night making
bottles. I agree that a lot of teenagers are not getting up to 10 hours
worth of sleep. Majority of them are too busy being on their cell phones
or social media to go to sleep at a reasonable time. Though, many
teenagers that play sports lack the ability to get 9 hours of sleep
because after practice: they have to eat, shower, and do homework. By
the time they get into bed, its late at night. I agree that getting the
correct amount of sleep is very important. However, with the duties that
people have to fulfill in one day makes it hard to do so.
The numbers seem strange for sleep time lengths. For the people livng a modern lifestyle if they fell asleep at 11:42pm and woke at 7:02am they would be asleep for 7 hours and 20 mins not 5 hours and 42 mins. Maybe you meant they went to bed at 11:42 not fell asleep?
According to how many hours should I sleep, I'd have to go to bed at 8:45-9:45pm. And at that time I still haven't eaten.
It really surprised me when the video said preschool kids should get 11-12 hours of sleep, school age kids should get at least 10 hours, and teens should get 9-10 hours. Preschool kids and maybe school aged kids are getting these recommended times, but teens are definitely not. I would get about 6 hours of sleep a night in high school, and would feel absolutely exhausted every morning. I was always puzzled when some of my friends would sleep the same amount of time and be fine. He mentioned that our need for sleep is likely genetic, and I'm assuming that my genes make me require more sleep than others. With a more flexible schedule at college, I try to get my homework done in the early afternoon so I can go to sleep earlier. I try to get 7.5-8 hours every night, and I have noticed a significant difference. I escaped the infamous "freshman fifteen" and actually lost about 5 pounds my freshman year. I drink less caffeine, which is ultimately better for my health. I also feel less stressed about things I need to get done, and I experience less side effects from this, such as less stress-related acne. I seriously believe my better sleeping habits have eased my transition from high school into college, and I hope I can keep these sleep habits throughout my life.
What are your opinions on biphasic and polyphasic sleep cycles?
I find it shocking that the average for adults is around 7 and a quarter. Now I was always told get 8-9. I never knew that your genes could play a role into how much sleep you could need. I was always told 8-9 was a good average but getting more is great, I didn't know it could lead to a higher mortality rate. Now I average around 7.5 to a little less then 8 and I always feel great when I wake up so I happy to know that that could be my average. Because whenever I get more then that I just feel terrible and sometimes even more tired then when I went to bed.
If I get 6 hours of sleep a day, I'm okay. I get cranky if I get more than 8. I've worked at least a hundred hours a week before so I've adjusted somewhat. US doctors nowadays don't even come close to the hospital hours we used to put in.
When they showed the amount of sleep certain countries get on average, with Mexico being second, does that exclude siestas during the day?
I'm watching this in bed right now and I know it's bad.
I rarely get enough sleep, because I need 8-10 hours to feel fit. I can only go on 8 hours for a few days before feeling tired, and below 7, I'm not really productive at all. So it's pretty difficult for me to get enough sleep.
I feel afraid I don't sleep enough. I am sleeping about 5 hours and I wake up feeling great but I always worry about these things.
This is a strange video for me, because on average I get 10-12 hours of sleep per 24 hours, broken up into 2-3 sleeping periods. I also have no problem getting to sleep rapidly. Today I actually got 12.5 hours.
So... not exactly someone who is struggling with lack of sleep.
What about naps? I get 6-8 hours of sleep a night but then sometimes take a two hour nap during the day. And by sometimes I mean at least 3 to 4 days a week. And I don't feel good until after my nap. It doesn't matter if I get 9 hours of 5 hours of sleep the night before; my body wants to take a nap during mid-day. But only if I get less than 10 hours of sleep a night. Hmmm.... Does that mean I should be getting 10 hours of sleep in a 24 hour period? I'm 23, btw.
if you feel good i wouldn't worry if you sleep a tiny bit over the average and you feel good.
Who does the graphics for HCT? I would love if they made graphics that were more than just straight quotes of what the doc is saying. Little animations maybe like with Crash Course?
I'm a 17 year old Canadian, and basically everyone I know at school gets from 5-8 hours of sleep per night.
I feel like a lot of the reason we don't sleep as much is because society demands it. So telling us to just "get better sleep" won't change the setup society has of large, unfair hours against employees.
yeees! i agree 100% this society is not sustainable
Your statement brings up an interesting Utilitarian point. What benefits society more? The longer hours people are able to work based on sleep deprivation, or well rested workers that can work to their full potential. To truly answer this question from a Utilitarian standpoint, you would have to analyze the benefits and outcomes from both kinds of situation which is difficult to do. If you could somehow determine that the sleep is more important than working the most hours, than that situation would be the most beneficial to society, and therefore be in alignment with Utilitarian beliefs. However, if the study concluded that working longer hours on less sleep was more beneficial to the majority, then Utilitarian theory would indicate that to be the better option.
We already know that people only actually work around 6 hours in an 8 hour work day, so we could reduce working hours by an hour or two and not lose much productivity (I say "not much" because people probably would still not work the whole 6 hours in a 6 hour work day). At least in office jobs... I assume people with physical jobs actually work the whole time.