Comments on: The Great Sleep Experiment

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:03:28 +0000

I’d love to get more than 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night. I’ve just run out of time in the day!

And I never nap. I stopped napping when I was 18 months old. I’ve taken maybe 5 naps since then.

Robin, I quit caffeine 8 years ago, and I have to say it was worth it in the end because I was really overdoing it. I find that I get tired if I don’t drink enough water now. Though I’ll admit I’ve indulged in cheat-caffeine on a few desperate occasions, and I think I’m going to start doing that once a week or so, just to keep my inner caffeine addict quiet.

By: Patrick, the Space Lord

Patrick, the Space Lord — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:41:03 +0000

Yes, but I think you missed a few typos. I just looked it up, Diana’s wrong. It’s spelled aTHELetic…

By: robin

robin — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:45:37 +0000

Kelly, thank you.

Patrick, impressive.

By: Patrick, the Space Lord

Patrick, the Space Lord — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:45:17 +0000

asceticism?

I’m fairly ascetic. I lift weights 2-3 times a week, jog 3-6 miles per week, and now do yoga like stuff for 10-15 minutes a day.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:26:00 +0000

Diana: I’m weird too.

Robin: I totally enable you to have that Tall Half-Caf

By: robin

robin — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:48:58 +0000

Diana, you know I’m weird. Can’t speak for everyone else.

By: Patrick, the Space Lord

Patrick, the Space Lord — Thu, 24 May 2007 13:05:25 +0000

It’s hard to get 8 hours of sleep when A Few Good Men comes on after Jon Stewart.

YOU WANT THE TRUTH? YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 24 May 2007 12:21:01 +0000

I’m trying to understand the asceticism I’m seeing around here. Why is everyone so determined to give up things they enjoy?

Everything in moderation and don’t worry about it.

By: Elaine Magliaro

Elaine Magliaro — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:52:28 +0000

Robin,

I KNOW I have to change my sleeping patterns! I’m a true night owl. I may doze off on the sofa around eight or nine o’clock some nights–but if I have a nap of an hour or two, I’ll be wide awake until the wee hours of the morning. Just check my blog to see the times at which I’ve posted some of my blog articles. If getting 7-8 hours of sleep every night will help me lose some of the excess poundage I’ve been carrying around these last few years…it’ll be worth changing my slumber habits!

By: robin

robin — Thu, 24 May 2007 02:08:40 +0000

Little Willow, is that by choice or circumstance? I mean, if you were really, really exhausted, could you curl up and take a quick 20 just to take the edge off?