- Joined
- May 22, 2007
- Messages
- 5,778
- Reaction score
- 1,327
Didn’t sleep well today. I went to bed at 6 and got up at 9.
8 hour a night crew checking in. In bed most nights before 10pm and up by 6am, sometimes 5am. No alarm unless I have to ensure I am up a certain time.
No matter the challenges or stresses in my life, I have always been able to sleep. Shut my mind down and just doze off. I realize now how much of a gift that is when I see how many people struggle to sleep and how much it impacts everything else in their life. Lack of sleep is like a multiplier for problems and impacts findings solutions.
Not to rub it in to non sleepers but I can also pretty much sleep on demand.
If I have a few hours to kill at any time of the day and decide I should grab a nap, I can usually make myself fall asleep within about 10 minutes.
If I am in another city for work and realize I will have a late dinner meeting and maybe drinks and social time that will go deep into the night and yet I have to be up early the next day and alert, I can simply find any time in the day and bank 20 or 2 hours sleep. Whatever I want, whenever I want.
Guys with sleep issues in my office hate me for that. lol.
My ex was like that. She always fell asleep in like 5 minutes.. in the meanwhile I was rolling in the bed for a good while.To continue on the theme of saying I am not trying to rub it in, as I rub it in...
I can also sleep pretty near regardless of noise or outside distractions as long as I know what to expect.
You could have someone working a jack hammer right outside my window and as long as I know to expect that noise it won't wake me. If unexpected it will wake me, I will recognize what it is and say 'ok go back to sleep' and pretty much immediately do so and not be bothered by it again.
On the flip side, if i can tell myself before going to sleep to listen for a noise and wake up and no matter how quiet, if it hits my ears i will immediately wake up. An example is if I tell myself to listen for someone coming home late at night because I need to talk to them. I will hear the door open and sometimes have even heard just the lock engaging and woke up when normally i would not hear any of that even they come in like an elephant.