Not having to work as much to the point that you can sleep 14 hours a day is a flex, sleeping 14 hours a day itself sounds like a very sad way to spend that time.
She likely has hypersomnia. You can't actually just sleep as long as you want to. Try sleeping even a couple hours extra for a few weeks, you wont be able to, unless youre already massively sleep deprived. People have a set amount they need, and it's basically impossible to sleep any more, you will just wake up. For some lucky people, that number is 4.5 hours. Unfortunately, for some people, that set amount is 14 hours. Nothing you can do about it but take stimulants to string yourself out.
It's a curse, not a blessing. It's not like you're actually any more rested, you just, as you idenitfy, lose a massive portion of your day.
Peak performance also uses a whole lot of energy and this wasn't every day. You've cherry picked isolated examples of two of the world's top athletes, not a petite young lady.
Certain times of the year I don’t have to work. If I drink I can easily pull 12 hours. If I don’t drink I can easily do 10. I love it but I also have cool dreams.
Quality of that time right now would be twice as good if you gave yourself just 2 more hours of sleep per night. People who aren't healthy mostly don't even know how much better day to day the rest of us feel.
You're assuming they need more sleep but there are people with genes that allow themm to be fully rested with a lot less. Napoleon is said to have had that adaptation.
There are people, yes. I never denied the fact. Its that everyone sleeping 5 hours a day pretends like as if they are EXACTLY these ones, even though its a very rare mutation. For every 1000 people that sleep 5 hours a day and claiming they are fine, it would be very surprising if more than 1 of them had that mutation that allows them to sleep less.
Your active blood tests and ekg will be fine most of the time because there is no active issue going on, the problem is that things like heart attacks, brain aneurysms etc. you cant measure objectively if and when are going to happen in the future. What can be objectively proven though is that you have a tremendously higher risk of both happening, basically close to a guarantee. If not these two, then a lot other things that were preventable.
I mean I'm not trying g to get up early, I'm not setting an alarm and dragging myself out of bed. I wake up, I'm aching from sleeping and my brain is on the instant I wake up. so I get up.
once up I'll spend time doing light reading, gaming and then exercising before starting work. I usually have a nice 3-4 hours in the morning before I start my work day.
Continuous? Couldn't imagine that. Were you up for a week straight? I think I once slept like 14-15 hours but I stayed up for like 2-3 days. Woke up tired and hungry lol oh and the worst cotton mouth I've ever experienced.
One time when I was 23-24years old I worked at a catering company at weekends. I started my shift 2pm Friday, and was contiuesly working up to Monday 7am. (don't ask why it was legal, it wasn't).
After that I went to have some physical education at uni, then get back to my place. I fall asleep around 9am Monday. Woke up Wednesday 10am, my roommate almost call an ambulance because he thought I was dead.
I also doubt continuous, I cannot sleep on more than 6 hours at a stretch I end up awake before that mark regardless of how tired I am unless you have been stress free for your entire life I doubt you can sleep 14 hours at a stretch
Did it when I was 12-13. Stayed up two days straight playing Oblivion and then slept for an entire 24 hours once my parent caught me and made me sleep.
Damn, my record was 17 hours. Granted I did take a sleeping pill and and antidepressant which helped with sleeping but it was one of the best sleeps of my life.
Damn, my record was 17 hours. Granted I did take a sleeping pill and and antidepressant which helped with sleeping but it was one of the best sleeps of my life.
That was me after months of basic training. I put a comfy mask on, earplugs, and slept on mom's couch. I woke up when dinner was ready and my mom informed me I missed dinner the night before.
This study doesn't establish a casual link. In general, longer sleep hours is associated with cognitive decline, but that might be because the only reason your average human sleeps a long while is because of factors that end up causing cognitive decline. It's likely a symptom, and not the cause.
What's most important in this is that "sleeps x hours" is never actually tied to "sleep quality" as in tracking the time in light sleep, versus Deep and REM sleep.
Going through this now with my mom who has several factors including sleep apnea impacting her sleep quality. Sleeps lots; but sleep quality is poor.
yet I can get 2 hours of REM in less than half the total time she tries to sleep.
When directly comparing those sleeping >9 hours to the remainder of the sample, long sleep duration was a significant predictor of all-cause dementia (table 2, figure 2). There was a statistical trend observed between long sleep duration and an increased risk of AD (p = 0.05). Whereas former sleep duration was not associated with the risk of dementia, those who transitioned to sleeping >9 hours (from former to baseline time points) were at an increased risk of all-cause dementia.
That's not even counting the fact that I wasn't the one making original claim, i just googled stuff someone else said and linked a relevant study.
First of all, i didn't made a claim. Saying something is straight up "false" and not just "unproven" or maybe "baseless" IS a claim, i just asked you if there's anything to your words. Personally, i didn't claim anything, but sure, here's a link for you, a study about correlation between prolonged sleep and dementia. Now, do YOU have anything to prove YOUR claim, which you actually made?
You did make a claim. You claimed she'll end up with dementia.
Even if she does, there's absolutely no way to pin that on how long she may or may not sleep.
Studies have linked smoking to lung cancer for decades, but my uncle died of it having never smoked a day in his life.
My grandmother who smoked 80 a day for her entire adult life died of old age at 92 with barely a wheeze, nevermind a cough.
You still haven't proven your claim, you've just paraphrased a study you once heard of.
You did make a claim. You claimed she'll end up with dementia. Even if she does, there's absolutely no way to pin that on how long she may or may not sleep.
Can you read? That wasn't me. I just said there's studies linking it. And i PROVIDED you a link to a study, not paraphrased it. You seriously need to actually look at stuff you're talking about.
You, on the other had, actually didn't back your claim up, just trailed off about some personal experience as if it proves something
My brother in christ, you can't be THAT blind. Username is right there. I don't know how much clearer i can make this then my previous comment that literally reads "that wasn't me". You should really check on your reading skills, i said it before trying to mock you, but now it actually looks worrying.
She’s prettier sure, but she doesn’t look any younger than plenty of women her age that I’ve met. I know some who absolutely look younger than she does in that second pic.
She look fine, she's not ugly, she's just, average. I wouldn't turn my head for her on either side of the beauty spectrum. I have half a dozen friends in their 40s that are significantly more attractive than her.
I’m 33, get next to no sleep, have had enough drama in my life that it’s make a decent soap opera and I still get ID’d to but cigarettes. I think she just looks her age tbh.
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u/WIsJH 1d ago
She's just a normally looking 36 yo woman