Hi all, for the past 4 or so years I've been running on roughly 6 hours sleep a day/night with the occasional 40-60 hour stint of sleep deprivation (busy schedule, college in day work at night), whilst I'm certain it has had absolutely no beneficial effects on my body I could survive on this much and was even very active (moreso than 95% of people I work with).
The past week or so college has died down and I have been leaving the power wire for my computer at work so that when I get home I am more inclined to just go to bed (which has been working fantastically), however, when I wake up now it seems to take me a couple of hours to actually get with it. Also the bags under my eyes are now more prominent than before and I seem to be more fatigued throughout work. On the other hand my hands don't seem to be as cold as often and I feel like I'm not running on as much adrenaline as I used to.
Does anyone have any explanations for this? The only thing I can think of is that my body is thinking due to the extra few hours it can spend more time healing and maybe I'm interrupting this process prematurely? Like now that I'm getting 8 hours in my body is thinking I can stretch to 10 or so which isn't happening and thus, my body is suffering for it?
I'm not inclined to give the extra hours sleep up but am still puzzled by this reaction, has anyone had a similar experience and will it die down?
The past week or so college has died down and I have been leaving the power wire for my computer at work so that when I get home I am more inclined to just go to bed (which has been working fantastically), however, when I wake up now it seems to take me a couple of hours to actually get with it. Also the bags under my eyes are now more prominent than before and I seem to be more fatigued throughout work. On the other hand my hands don't seem to be as cold as often and I feel like I'm not running on as much adrenaline as I used to.
Does anyone have any explanations for this? The only thing I can think of is that my body is thinking due to the extra few hours it can spend more time healing and maybe I'm interrupting this process prematurely? Like now that I'm getting 8 hours in my body is thinking I can stretch to 10 or so which isn't happening and thus, my body is suffering for it?
I'm not inclined to give the extra hours sleep up but am still puzzled by this reaction, has anyone had a similar experience and will it die down?