We have talked about Sleep Debt and Modafinil pills can help you stay awake for several days in a row.But how many hours of sleep is sufficient for us ? Although many factors influence how much sleep we really need, the common recommendation has been eight hours a night. But now a contrasting opinion has emerged on the internet.
Neil Stanley, sleep research expert, believes that everyone has their own individual "sleep need" which can be anywhere between three and 11 hours. "If you’re a three-hour-a-night person, you need three; if you're 11, you need 11."
Stanley has a simple solution to find out the amount of sleep that you require. Simply sleep until you wake naturally, without the aid of an alarm clock. Feel rested? That’s your sleep need.
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Reader Comments
I do that for years now but still people don't bother to reply to my personal emails. ; - )
Regards, Rohit
Written on 23/5/06 7:53 PM
for years i try to sleep without alarm clock but my mum and now boss don't agree =)
Written on 13/11/06 5:57 AM
, a scientist at the Sleep Research Unit at Loughborough University, has a new theory. He says that we don’t really need to sleep; we do it only because our brain is programmed. The tiredness we feel at the end of the day is produced by a mechanism in our brains, which makes us sleep. We are programmed to feel tired at midnight, even if we have spent all the day doing nothing. Dr. Meddis believes that when we don’t sleep we suffer a few symptoms, and that’s because we have disobeyed our’s brain programming. The answer is on the scientists, if they could locate and turn off the sleep mechanism in our brains that makes us feel tired, we could live completely normal lives without sleeping.
Written on 4/12/06 8:45 PM