You feel as if you’re out of touch with humanity and you’re just existing. Not forgetting the endless headache. But now I’m back to 6-7 hours of sleep so I’m good 🙂
Not too bad… coffee in the morning and if I don’t eat during the day I don’t get sleepy! (Im a pt so I have early and late clients, couldn’t get more sleep if I wanted to)
Every few weeks I will go a night or two at 3-4 hours of sleep. It’s awful. I feel exhausted all day, but unable to sleep. I will power through it, and usually my work performance won’t suffer too bad. But I’ll randomly lose words and have to fumble for a moment, or zone out. It’s just awful.
Which part? Do you want to know what it feels like to not be able to fall asleep for hours? Or to wake up feeing like a pile of garbage? Do you want to know what it feels like to wake up with 4hrs of sleep then take on an ER shift?
Lots of anxiety. You plan your day around it yet you somehow don’t get any sleep. I would take the train/ bus for 2 hours after work just to go home, eat dinner quickly, go to sleep and lie in bed anxiously just to wake up before the alarm goes off again to shower and get ready to catch the bus again at 5 am for years and I’m honestly happy I’m out but I feel my sleep schedule will always be fucked
I developed urticaria by sleeping that much a night because I made time for video games. My allergist told me that I needed to take my sleep more seriously, so I’ve been working on getting to bed earlier.
2-4hrs 3 nights a week with a cold glass of pre-workout in the morn
4-5hrs 2 nights a week
10-12 on the weekend.
They say you can’t “catch up” on sleep, but I sure feel great, even if I might be paying for it behind the scenes later. The pre-workout is probably also going to be something i pay for at some point.
Tiring. I’ve kinda found the right balance between a non-opioid/non-addictive sleep aid (gabapentin) and a regular but non-harmful amount of alcohol (with the help of a psychiatrist btw). But it took me over 40 years of my life to get to something that kinda works. Some of us are just cursed with brain chemistries that won’t sleep.
Biting lead balls wrapped with aluminum foil while someone sticks needles in your eyes and boils your no touch zone with McDonald’s sprite. All while being strapped to an inverted table that’s fully swinging back and forth with children screaming in the next room
Honestly, it sucks. I feel like a zombie most of the day and my brain just doesn’t work right. It’s hard to focus, I’m constantly tired, and my mood swings are all over the place. Coffee helps a bit but it’s not a real solution. I try to catch up on sleep when I can, but it’s tough. Definitely not something I’d recommend if you can avoid it.
I feel good. I can’t sleep for 4 hours straight. I sleep for a maximum of 4 hrs and wake up, then sleep again. I love it that way because I dreamed a lot when I exceeded 4 hours of sleep.
It is very unhealthy in the long-term. Do not damage your health. Focus on getting enough quality sleep every day and take care of your health. Nothing is worth losing your health for.
Holy shit thats wild. I started sleeping 9hrs last year and I cant go back. I feel so fucking good. With the hr nap in the day sometimes too that shit is immaculate
I usually have 1-2 nights each week where my anxiety makes this happen. The first day after sucks but is manageable with fasting adderall and caffeine. The second time it happens is pretty unbearable and usually results in major loss of productivity and extreme emotional problems.
It feels like absolute shit. This is my sleep schedule every single night. I feel exhausted all the time and barely function. When I drink coffee it feels like someone is trying to jump start a car battery and it didn’t work. 10/10 don’t recommend this becoming a habit to anyone
I don’t do it anymore, but it involves consuming massive amounts of caffeine and nicotine, taking cat naps and then not getting out of bed on my day off.
It depends on what the day is like following the 3 – 4 hours’ sleep. Sometimes it works out better than it would have if i’d slept longer. And sometimes the day would have gone a helluva lot better if i’d gotten more sleep. There was a time, many years ago, when circumstances were much more consistent in my life, and things in general happened to be going great for me, and along with that i simply was unable to get more than 3 hours of sleep per day. Nowadays, i generally – but not always – feel the same level of crappy regardless of whether i get 3 – 4 or 6 – 9 hours of sleep.
When I used to abuse Adderall I used to get 3-4 hours sometimes no sleep for days it was horrible sleep is the most important thing for your mind, body and most importantly soul.
I’ve had this unintentionally for about 8 months now, all I can say is I can get easily irritated sometimes, like even the way someone walks or breathes does it, otherwise everything feels kinda slow, hours feel like days
Constant headache, cant focus very well, always tired except for that little rush of energy that seems to occur between 10:30 am and 2 pm, and you are much, much more susceptible to depression
Apparently, normal. My buddy and I need just about 4 to 5 hours of sleep. I had to research this and chat with a doctor because it’s been my entire life.
The craziest bit, only about 1% to 4% of the population experiences this. It’s deep REM sleep when we are out. Total body shut down. Not stress, not caffeine, not over exertion. Just normal.
What’s it like? F’n rad! I can stay up later and wake up early to enjoy the day. Downside, I’ve adjusted, but my sweetie sleeps in, so breakfast is usually done a few hours before she wakes up. I have to make mine separately so hers doesn’t get cold. I get to be more productive throughout the day.
I’ll start off with some background. I work a fast-paced job, a credit trader on the sell side, at a major investment bank. I’ve been on 3 to 4 hours of sleep since high school. Before my career, I was a serious soccer player. I played for the youth national team, for an academy in England, and then Division 1 NCAA. During my entire soccer career, I’ve lived on less than 4 hours of sleep per night.
Nowadays, I go to sleep at 2 or 3 and get up at 545 to be at the desk by 7. I log in to bbg on the way in and remain full throttle from the time I begin my commute until about 5ish when i do my final trades. I run my book, flash pnl, and commute home and arrive back around 645. Throughout the day, I never feel tired, never foggy. Simply put, I hate sleeping, it feels like a waste of my life. I’m not sure why im able to perform without sleeping, but all i can say is that i dont need to sleep. I’ll stay up and read all night dreading going to sleep. I fast until dinner, and sometimes I even skip that. I work out on a daily basis and have plenty of hobbies. I spend a few hours of 1 on 1 time with my kids, then I sit in my theater and read or watch movies all night. I feel like I live more in 1 day than others do in a week. Maybe I’ll only live until 60, but I won’t have regrets when I end up getting whatever illness I get from lack of sleep. I very much enjoy staying up all night and would not change that regardless of what happens or what anyone tells me.
I don’t drink alcohol or do any drugs at all. I don’t eat any carbs, processed foods, or fruit. I barely have caffeine and only drink coffee or espresso for the taste. I drink decaf almost exclusively. I still play soccer in a competitive league and feel like I’m doing fine health wise.
I’m just thankful I have a flexible work schedule from home because sometimes I have to make up for it and it can cost me practically the entire day. It’s not by choice, I’m on a medication that can intensify insomnia and some nights I barely sleep.
I don’t know. Doesn’t bother me that much. For whatever reason, I wake up, and I jump out of bed. I can only sleep so long. Drink an energy drink in the afternoon and I usually feel fine. It only really affects me if I sit down to do something like watch a movie. I’ll never make it through a movie, lol.
Sucks. You age quicker, gain weight faster, and get sick often.
I work in the oilfield so the hours are long. You barely have time to eat, shower, and sleep after your shift. Especially when you work 14-16 hours a day for 2-4 weeks straight. I’m 33 and have more whites in my hair than most guys in their mid 40s.
I often feel better on this much sleep. The summer when I was 15 I survived on about two hours a night for the whole summer. I have never gone as long since getting a job at 16 as my body is tireder. But the odd night of 3-4 hours now I usually feel great the next day, it does also usually catch up to me by the next evening though now that I’m 41 and if I’m not in work I will usually doze on the sofa.
I am in the process of an ADHD diagnosis so I’d say this is a good chunk of why my sleep was so disrupted at 15, I felt fantastic with so little sleep at 15.
Honestly, I’ve been doing it long enough now it seems like the normal. I definitely catch up on the weekends.
Normally go to bed around 2 AM and get up at 6-6:30 AM.
I still function what seems like normally. I often wonder at this point how improved I might feel if I could sleep normal hours.
Three kids, wife, dog, cats, busy work life – work from home, but travel semi-regularly.
Part of why I stay up late is just for some me time. Another part I think is a little psychological due to a break-in situation. After that, I started to stay up much later than before (which was still a little late)
I know they say some people are just more able to do that with no negative impact, but the general consensus is that it is so rare that it would be highly unlikely to assume I am amongst them.
I feel like I’d be more improved if I slept more, but I don’t feel the negatives too much. *shrug*
There’s an odd sense that you feel like you arent missing out on much life because you are awake most of the time but in reality you are missing out on all of life because you are doing everything whilst feeling exhausted so you arent fully present… it’s like constantly being in auto-pilot… arguably you are functioning but you arent fully experiencing because your brain filters out so much extraneous detail just to keep going… it’s bizarre.
5hrs here and I wake up refreshed and ready to go. I do 4hrs on some nights and feel the same. But I wish I used all that free time for something productive tho. I usually jump in bed at midnight and stay on my phone till 2 lol
Moments of being really tired, then awake with energy. I’m used to it by now. I feel like I wasted my time sleeping longer. I do feel better when I sleep longer.
I have a problem if my sleep cycle gets disrupted I can’t sleep consistently , I sleep in chunks of 3-4 hours while being tired.you will be frustrated all day will breakdown on smallest of things I noticed I can’t seem to control my emotions like tears will fall down my eyes on smallest of inconvenience, laugh like crazy on smallest of things .The headaches and poor digestion will keep you irritated, concentrating on anything feels near to impossible , the skin quality degrades , you seem to get ill rather quickly .
I was like this for a couple months… had trouble distinguishing between imaginary and real… would hear voices and had bad intrusive thoughts that didn’t seem to come from me.
Still awake here. 1:11 am. Will be up at 5 or 6. I’ll feel great after 2 cups of coffee. Catch up once a week. Illbsleep 6 -7 hours. I feel much better on less sleep.
I don’t know when I was more ornery: when I slept that little, when I was drinking heavily, or when I slept that little while drinking heavily. Hope that helps.
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You feel as if you’re out of touch with humanity and you’re just existing. Not forgetting the endless headache. But now I’m back to 6-7 hours of sleep so I’m good 🙂
It’s fine but once a week I catch up hard.
Depending on what your days look like, but generally, rough.
Not too bad… coffee in the morning and if I don’t eat during the day I don’t get sleepy! (Im a pt so I have early and late clients, couldn’t get more sleep if I wanted to)
Every few weeks I will go a night or two at 3-4 hours of sleep. It’s awful. I feel exhausted all day, but unable to sleep. I will power through it, and usually my work performance won’t suffer too bad. But I’ll randomly lose words and have to fumble for a moment, or zone out. It’s just awful.
Hell bc I usually sleep 3hrs a night. Lucky bastards!
This week, I’ve been struggling with a horrible cold, laryngitis, and persistent cough. I’d LOVE to be able to sleep a solid 3-4 hours.
Horrible
I used to only need 3-4 hours sleep to function, but as I’ve grown older, my sleep requirements have increased and I now need at least 6-7 hours.
It was great being able to function off so little sleep as I was able to read way more. Needing to actually sleep now fucking sucks.
Which part? Do you want to know what it feels like to not be able to fall asleep for hours? Or to wake up feeing like a pile of garbage? Do you want to know what it feels like to wake up with 4hrs of sleep then take on an ER shift?
The older you get the harder it is to function with that light of sleep. It comes with aches and pains and irritability and lack of concentration.
It hurts.
it’s awful
Lots of anxiety. You plan your day around it yet you somehow don’t get any sleep. I would take the train/ bus for 2 hours after work just to go home, eat dinner quickly, go to sleep and lie in bed anxiously just to wake up before the alarm goes off again to shower and get ready to catch the bus again at 5 am for years and I’m honestly happy I’m out but I feel my sleep schedule will always be fucked
like you’ve had no sleep at all. Almost feels like someone hit a pause button and resumes where you were 4 hours ago – tired
Fever Dream
It is awful, sheer agony. Emotions are fuzzy, words are hard to form, my natural wit suffers.
I developed urticaria by sleeping that much a night because I made time for video games. My allergist told me that I needed to take my sleep more seriously, so I’ve been working on getting to bed earlier.
2-4hrs 3 nights a week with a cold glass of pre-workout in the morn
4-5hrs 2 nights a week
10-12 on the weekend.
They say you can’t “catch up” on sleep, but I sure feel great, even if I might be paying for it behind the scenes later. The pre-workout is probably also going to be something i pay for at some point.
Tiring. I’ve kinda found the right balance between a non-opioid/non-addictive sleep aid (gabapentin) and a regular but non-harmful amount of alcohol (with the help of a psychiatrist btw). But it took me over 40 years of my life to get to something that kinda works. Some of us are just cursed with brain chemistries that won’t sleep.
I feel like a zombie most of the time 😂
tiring
It’s ok I guess
Biting lead balls wrapped with aluminum foil while someone sticks needles in your eyes and boils your no touch zone with McDonald’s sprite. All while being strapped to an inverted table that’s fully swinging back and forth with children screaming in the next room
Honestly, it sucks. I feel like a zombie most of the day and my brain just doesn’t work right. It’s hard to focus, I’m constantly tired, and my mood swings are all over the place. Coffee helps a bit but it’s not a real solution. I try to catch up on sleep when I can, but it’s tough. Definitely not something I’d recommend if you can avoid it.
You get that much sleep with a newborn and you just wonder how tf you got through it
It’s not bad sometimes, you just don’t want to do it too often…
It’s like sleepwalking it sucks
I feel good. I can’t sleep for 4 hours straight. I sleep for a maximum of 4 hrs and wake up, then sleep again. I love it that way because I dreamed a lot when I exceeded 4 hours of sleep.
Life starts to feel like one very long day and your memory starts getting hazy. Def dont recommend.
Miserable lol I’m struggling through a 12 hr shift with only 3 hrs of sleep.
It is very unhealthy in the long-term. Do not damage your health. Focus on getting enough quality sleep every day and take care of your health. Nothing is worth losing your health for.
Holy shit thats wild. I started sleeping 9hrs last year and I cant go back. I feel so fucking good. With the hr nap in the day sometimes too that shit is immaculate
I’ll put it to you this way, once I fell asleep standing up waiting to cross the street at a busy intersection
Not that bad. I have my days where I go to sleep at like 5am and wake up at like 2pm but it could be worse.
Fuck it we ball
Feels like being a crackhead but without the energy from the crack
It sucks man! Insomnia is a bitch:/
Chest feels heavy but hollow.
Eyes feel dull.
Sometimes back of the head is pulsating.
Groggy goggles.
Food and drink do NOT taste as good.
I usually have 1-2 nights each week where my anxiety makes this happen. The first day after sucks but is manageable with fasting adderall and caffeine. The second time it happens is pretty unbearable and usually results in major loss of productivity and extreme emotional problems.
It feels like absolute shit. This is my sleep schedule every single night. I feel exhausted all the time and barely function. When I drink coffee it feels like someone is trying to jump start a car battery and it didn’t work. 10/10 don’t recommend this becoming a habit to anyone
I sometimes feel better. I’m always tired though, due to sleep apnea.
I’m always tired.
I can fall asleep sitting, and sometime standing.
I don’t do it anymore, but it involves consuming massive amounts of caffeine and nicotine, taking cat naps and then not getting out of bed on my day off.
Not great, dude.
It happens to me if I drink too much coffee.
It depends on what the day is like following the 3 – 4 hours’ sleep. Sometimes it works out better than it would have if i’d slept longer. And sometimes the day would have gone a helluva lot better if i’d gotten more sleep. There was a time, many years ago, when circumstances were much more consistent in my life, and things in general happened to be going great for me, and along with that i simply was unable to get more than 3 hours of sleep per day. Nowadays, i generally – but not always – feel the same level of crappy regardless of whether i get 3 – 4 or 6 – 9 hours of sleep.
That was me until … 35? The bam! My body needs 8-9 hours. Such a weird switch. I had an entire day done by the time bf woke up at 11.
When I used to abuse Adderall I used to get 3-4 hours sometimes no sleep for days it was horrible sleep is the most important thing for your mind, body and most importantly soul.
I’ve had this unintentionally for about 8 months now, all I can say is I can get easily irritated sometimes, like even the way someone walks or breathes does it, otherwise everything feels kinda slow, hours feel like days
Constant headache, cant focus very well, always tired except for that little rush of energy that seems to occur between 10:30 am and 2 pm, and you are much, much more susceptible to depression
I may only sleep a few hours but i do lay there resting so its not as bad
PSA: Get some sleep, it’s crucial to your health (if you happen to be American, too bad).
Awful
Unpleasant. I don’t sleep well. I try to catch naps throughout the day when I can. 5-10 minutes at my desk.
Then again, 8 hours feels just as bad. I feel groggy all day if I sleep that long. Like I want to go back to bed all day.
About 6 hours seems to be the sweet spot for me. Like 6 hours solid sleep. Then I wake feeling good.
Bad but doable
Apparently, normal. My buddy and I need just about 4 to 5 hours of sleep. I had to research this and chat with a doctor because it’s been my entire life.
The craziest bit, only about 1% to 4% of the population experiences this. It’s deep REM sleep when we are out. Total body shut down. Not stress, not caffeine, not over exertion. Just normal.
What’s it like? F’n rad! I can stay up later and wake up early to enjoy the day. Downside, I’ve adjusted, but my sweetie sleeps in, so breakfast is usually done a few hours before she wakes up. I have to make mine separately so hers doesn’t get cold. I get to be more productive throughout the day.
I tend to fall asleep or nod off sitting down. Fortunately, my brain is maintaining awareness during driving. Been trying to fix it before it does.
It’s usually manageable, but if I don’t catch up I usually have an awful day. Short temper, low motivation, and feel like I have a fever.
I’ll start off with some background. I work a fast-paced job, a credit trader on the sell side, at a major investment bank. I’ve been on 3 to 4 hours of sleep since high school. Before my career, I was a serious soccer player. I played for the youth national team, for an academy in England, and then Division 1 NCAA. During my entire soccer career, I’ve lived on less than 4 hours of sleep per night.
Nowadays, I go to sleep at 2 or 3 and get up at 545 to be at the desk by 7. I log in to bbg on the way in and remain full throttle from the time I begin my commute until about 5ish when i do my final trades. I run my book, flash pnl, and commute home and arrive back around 645. Throughout the day, I never feel tired, never foggy. Simply put, I hate sleeping, it feels like a waste of my life. I’m not sure why im able to perform without sleeping, but all i can say is that i dont need to sleep. I’ll stay up and read all night dreading going to sleep. I fast until dinner, and sometimes I even skip that. I work out on a daily basis and have plenty of hobbies. I spend a few hours of 1 on 1 time with my kids, then I sit in my theater and read or watch movies all night. I feel like I live more in 1 day than others do in a week. Maybe I’ll only live until 60, but I won’t have regrets when I end up getting whatever illness I get from lack of sleep. I very much enjoy staying up all night and would not change that regardless of what happens or what anyone tells me.
I don’t drink alcohol or do any drugs at all. I don’t eat any carbs, processed foods, or fruit. I barely have caffeine and only drink coffee or espresso for the taste. I drink decaf almost exclusively. I still play soccer in a competitive league and feel like I’m doing fine health wise.
I’m just thankful I have a flexible work schedule from home because sometimes I have to make up for it and it can cost me practically the entire day. It’s not by choice, I’m on a medication that can intensify insomnia and some nights I barely sleep.
I don’t know. Doesn’t bother me that much. For whatever reason, I wake up, and I jump out of bed. I can only sleep so long. Drink an energy drink in the afternoon and I usually feel fine. It only really affects me if I sit down to do something like watch a movie. I’ll never make it through a movie, lol.
It makes for long days.
Better than 2 hours :p
Burning eyes, and jumpy at minor noises. It’s no life at all
sucks.
Sucks. You age quicker, gain weight faster, and get sick often.
I work in the oilfield so the hours are long. You barely have time to eat, shower, and sleep after your shift. Especially when you work 14-16 hours a day for 2-4 weeks straight. I’m 33 and have more whites in my hair than most guys in their mid 40s.
Fucking sucks.
I often feel better on this much sleep. The summer when I was 15 I survived on about two hours a night for the whole summer. I have never gone as long since getting a job at 16 as my body is tireder. But the odd night of 3-4 hours now I usually feel great the next day, it does also usually catch up to me by the next evening though now that I’m 41 and if I’m not in work I will usually doze on the sofa.
I am in the process of an ADHD diagnosis so I’d say this is a good chunk of why my sleep was so disrupted at 15, I felt fantastic with so little sleep at 15.
Fucked
Honestly, I’ve been doing it long enough now it seems like the normal. I definitely catch up on the weekends.
Normally go to bed around 2 AM and get up at 6-6:30 AM.
I still function what seems like normally. I often wonder at this point how improved I might feel if I could sleep normal hours.
Three kids, wife, dog, cats, busy work life – work from home, but travel semi-regularly.
Part of why I stay up late is just for some me time. Another part I think is a little psychological due to a break-in situation. After that, I started to stay up much later than before (which was still a little late)
I know they say some people are just more able to do that with no negative impact, but the general consensus is that it is so rare that it would be highly unlikely to assume I am amongst them.
I feel like I’d be more improved if I slept more, but I don’t feel the negatives too much. *shrug*
I need 7-9 hours of sleep or I would be mentally unstable, yawning all the day😴
the days become harder – can’t think, look terrible and then eventually getting so tired that parts of my body fall asleep, except I’m not.
This used to be me. It’s not much fun.
There’s an odd sense that you feel like you arent missing out on much life because you are awake most of the time but in reality you are missing out on all of life because you are doing everything whilst feeling exhausted so you arent fully present… it’s like constantly being in auto-pilot… arguably you are functioning but you arent fully experiencing because your brain filters out so much extraneous detail just to keep going… it’s bizarre.
Tiring
Well my sleep schedule depends on my actual schedule. Right now I’m studying for finals so I feel quite energized despite my lack of sleep.
Mid semester like February though? Fuck man.
A lot of the time auto-pilot lol
But I function well still. So my wife is always amazed.
I get constant second winds.
When I feel like it’s getting bad, I play catch uo for a night. Especially on night were the following day I know I will be driving a lot for work.
Driving sleepy is worst than driving drunk.
I actually slept by the beach once during a work day. Clocked out and took a nap in the lot for the park/beach.
Other than that, always regret the next morning with empty promises for the following night 😅
Note: according to my sleep tracker I still get a decent amount of REM and deep sleep each night. Even when conpared to my 6-7 hour rare nights
5hrs here and I wake up refreshed and ready to go. I do 4hrs on some nights and feel the same. But I wish I used all that free time for something productive tho. I usually jump in bed at midnight and stay on my phone till 2 lol
I’m tired
Not great 😑
Not fun
It’s not fun, the medication I take has given me insomnia and getting 3-4 hours of sleep is just shit overall.
I don’t recommend it.
Moments of being really tired, then awake with energy. I’m used to it by now. I feel like I wasted my time sleeping longer. I do feel better when I sleep longer.
I have a problem if my sleep cycle gets disrupted I can’t sleep consistently , I sleep in chunks of 3-4 hours while being tired.you will be frustrated all day will breakdown on smallest of things I noticed I can’t seem to control my emotions like tears will fall down my eyes on smallest of inconvenience, laugh like crazy on smallest of things .The headaches and poor digestion will keep you irritated, concentrating on anything feels near to impossible , the skin quality degrades , you seem to get ill rather quickly .
Eyebags.
It’s horrible.
It sucks. It feels like a concussion. I also need to take naps or I will fall asleep on my feet.
I was like this for a couple months… had trouble distinguishing between imaginary and real… would hear voices and had bad intrusive thoughts that didn’t seem to come from me.
You consciousness is muffled with a light static
I’m constantly angry at everything.
Still awake here. 1:11 am. Will be up at 5 or 6. I’ll feel great after 2 cups of coffee. Catch up once a week. Illbsleep 6 -7 hours. I feel much better on less sleep.
Was me with a newborn for a few months.
It was literal torture
Shit
I’m tired.
I don’t know when I was more ornery: when I slept that little, when I was drinking heavily, or when I slept that little while drinking heavily. Hope that helps.
I used to get 3-4 hours because it was “cool” (being a teenager is weird) but it was okay very tired waking-up but fine the rest of the day