Re:Nootropics
by jon-wood on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @04:28AM
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Have a baby. Your sleeping less is my average night's sleep, split into two or three chunks. Amazing how easy it is to get to sleep when you've spent the last two and a half years in a low level state of exhaustion ;)
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I've always marveled at how parents do it. Really, you are the true hero's in the world ;)
There's not much choice so you just don't sleep. Takes a bit of getting used to. After a while you jump into bed at 10pm when before you had children you'd go to sleep at 2am and become a 'normal person', sort of.
Split the night with the other parent (if not a single parent). Gets you ~5-6hrs/night even during the worst of it.
Trade sleep-in days on the weekend.
A combination of luck (definitely) and technique (maybe) can have 'em sleeping through the night in 2-3 months, so it's not necessarily a long-term problem.
I'll second baq here - I used to be someone who went to bed sometime between midnight and 1am, then rolled out of bed about 9am, and started work about 10. Now if I feel really daring I might go to bed at 11, knowing at the very latest I'll be getting up at 7am, more typically I'm in bed shortly after 10.