In my early 30's, and while i cant go a day or more without sleeping anymore, i also sleep MUCH less than i used to. Used to be i required 8-12 hours in order to feel rested at all, but now, i average 4-6 hours a night, and I can not possibly sleep any more than that. Often i will sleep for 2 hours, wake up for a bit, sleep for another 2, wake up for a bit, and either be done sleeping entirely, or do it again for another 2. Not every night, but this is my common sleep schedule now.
I usually am up until midnight/1am most days. I do like to nap more, which is a more recent thing.
Id say thats about the time i tend to finally fall asleep no matter when i decided to lay down. I used to think of it as insomnia because i cant really force myself to go to sleep any earlier, but I think its less insomnia and more of a natural way of sleeping that was constantly being messed with by the modern world.
I'm jealous. I'm in my early 30's and I function the best when I get 8-9 hours of sleep.
I wish it would have kicked in when i was a bit younger instead. I quit doing construction because I couldnt possibly get enough sleep to even make the drive to and from the jobsite safe, my health and safety is far more valuable that the money i was making, so i told them if i couldnt work less than 14 hour days i wasnt going to keep working for them. I could likely manage it these days with the lesser requirement for sleep, though i probably wouldnt, because everyone else was fueled by cocaine and meth and it just isnt worth being crushed. No thanks. Ill take my self employment and being poor, but having enough free time to enjoy being a caveman, over being middle class and busting ass all day long.
There is an app called sleepy time. It calculates your sleep rhythms, so you can tell it when you want to sleep and it will tell you what times to wake up at Ideally, or tell it when you want to wake up and it will give you the different times to fall asleep so you wake up at the end of a sleep cycle.
why would i need some technology to do what I'm already naturally doing? I dont even use an alarm clock. I get up either right before the sun comes up, or pretty close to right after it comes up, and ive got my windows blacked out. And Im not tired when i wake up. Nor do i really choose when to go to sleep, whether i lay down to sleep at 9, or 12, just varied amounts of time spent laying down doing nothing until my body decides to go to sleep.
My advice would be to NOT use any app or anything to try and manipulate your sleep schedule, let what happens happen and learn to work with it. Unless your a lazy fucker thats always late because you sleep in all the time, then maybe use an alarm clock.
I feel MUCH better these days after letting nature take over and not trying to artificially manipulate it like i used to.
You don't need an app, but the study of sleep is pretty interesting. There are people who take it to the extreme and will sleep for exactly one sleep cycle in the night, and then 12 hours later, they sleep for one more sleep cycle. They aren't tired at all, have a ton of energy BUT it requires great dedication to a schedule and being able to not be bugged in the middle of the day to get a nap in. They get to do a lot more with their lives as they sleep very little, but the dedication is extreme and if they miss on of those cycles, their day is fucked.
I only thought the subject might be of interest to you since you said you sleep less as you have gotten older, and maybe you would want to sleep even less without any bad side effects.
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