need... my... bed...

[baratron]

Blergh. I feel horrible. Got 7 hours sleep last night, which is exactly the wrong amount. Oddly, I function a lot better on 6 hours sleep than on 7 - I believe it's to do with which phase of sleep I'm in when I get woken up. Some phases of sleep are deeper than others, so being wrenched out of them by an alarm clock makes you feel much worse than if you were in a shallow phase. Apparently.

Bloody hate being brain-fried by tiredness. It's a bit too similar to the brain-frying that depression does for me to feel entirely comfortable with it...

Comments

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I function a lot better on 6 hours sleep than on 7 - I believe it's to do with which phase of sleep I'm in when I get woken up.

Yep. Sleep is most refreshing when you get it in multiples of 90 minutes, which is why I try not to nap if I've only got an hour. I always wake up from an hour's nap feeling like I'm 30 feet underwater.

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

What the world needs is a hypnorhythmic alarm clock.
You tell it when you need to get up by, and it monitors your sleep cycle.
Then when you're at a good-to-wake-up point as late as possible without going over teh specified time, it wakes you up.
WWell, it's a nice idea anyway.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I'd buy one!