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curious... does exercise (30min - 1hr of cardio for example) affect your need for rest? how many days can you go on 3hrs of sleep without getting tired anytime of the day?
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I'm 20 years old, and lift weights/run twice a week. I never feel like I need any extra sleep because of it (I may be physically more tired, but mentally I'm fine -- and generally too restless to sleep anyway). I've never tried to go consecutive days (purposefully) on low amounts of sleep, but I doubt it's something I could maintain. The only side effect I've noticed is I begin to crash inbetween noon and 3:00PM. If I can make it past that, I quickly bounce back.
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What happens if you get 7.5 hours of sleep a night every night during the week, do you still want to sleep all day on your day(s) off?
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Yes and no. While I'm still in bed, I'll continue to want to sleep. If I give in, I'll wake up every hour or two and re-evaluate. Once I'm actually out of bed, I feel fine though. I COULD sleep all day, but I never do (except last week when I had a nasty hang-over from mixing drugs).
I read about free-running sleep and just thought it was strange that while I only NEED small amounts of sleep, I COULD sleep as long as I'm permitted to. It's seems like the body
should eventually just be like "okay, enough is enough!" But I seem to lack that.