Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
For better or worse, I inherited the "no sleep" thing from my father's side of the family. In general, it's difficult for me to sleep more than 4-5 hours at a stretch. Only exceptions being if I've gone multiple days without sleep, if I've been deprived of 4 hours of sleep for more than a couple days, if I'm ill or in major pain, or if I've medicated. My dad and his dad were both the same way.
Then again, my sleep patterns would tend to qualify as "atypical". Basically, unless in the middle of an anxiety attack or other "too many thoughts" condition, I usually fall asleep within a couple minutes of laying down. Doesn't even matter where: as a kid it could be as "weird" a place as the crook of a tall tree on a windy spring day. In addition to my "fall-fast"/"fall-anywhere" sleep patterns, my dreams usually start even before it feels like I've fully settled in to sleep. My brain seems to make the most of its down time so that it doesn't need a lot of time to get the same degree of recharge that others require double the time for.
The real thing that told me that "4-5 hours is normal for me" was when I'd had apnea-correcting surgery in my late 20s. The apnea had caused my sleep-need to go beyond 14hrs/day. The day after the surgery (and throughout the post pain-meds recovery-period), my sleep-need dropped back to the pre-apnea 4-5 hours of sleep.
Apnea's no joke. It eventually got to the point that, even with such protracted sleep-periods, I was still so sleepy that I had become narcoleptic from it. The narcolepsy resulted in a couple car accidents and several more near-misses. It was the devolution to driving problems that ultimately led to the surgery (CPAP exacerbated rather than alleviated the problem). Fortunately, and, far more frequently, the apnea-impairment was detectable soon enough to usually allow me to pull over to the side of the road to nap now. This was something that pissed off my GF at the time because she'd be expecting me to meet her someplace at time 'X' and I'd not get there until time 'Y' because I'd had to pull off to sleep. And, since this was the mid-90s, the possibility of calling to say "gonna be late: need to nap on the way" just wasn't there.
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For better or worse, I inherited the "no sleep" thing from my father's side of the family. In general, it's difficult for me to sleep more than 4-5 hours at a stretch. Only exceptions being if I've gone multiple days without sleep, if I've been deprived of 4 hours of sleep for more than a couple days, if I'm ill or in major pain, or if I've medicated. My dad and his dad were both the same way.
Then again, my sleep patterns would tend to qualify as "atypical". Basically, unless in the middle of an anxiety attack or other "too many thoughts" condition, I usually fall asleep within a couple minutes of laying down. Doesn't even matter where: as a kid it could be as "weird" a place as the crook of a tall tree on a windy spring day. In addition to my "fall-fast"/"fall-anywhere" sleep patterns, my dreams usually start even before it feels like I've fully settled in to sleep. My brain seems to make the most of its down time so that it doesn't need a lot of time to get the same degree of recharge that others require double the time for.
The real thing that told me that "4-5 hours is normal for me" was when I'd had apnea-correcting surgery in my late 20s. The apnea had caused my sleep-need to go beyond 14hrs/day. The day after the surgery (and throughout the post pain-meds recovery-period), my sleep-need dropped back to the pre-apnea 4-5 hours of sleep.
Apnea's no joke. It eventually got to the point that, even with such protracted sleep-periods, I was still so sleepy that I had become narcoleptic from it. The narcolepsy resulted in a couple car accidents and several more near-misses. It was the devolution to driving problems that ultimately led to the surgery (CPAP exacerbated rather than alleviated the problem). Fortunately, and, far more frequently, the apnea-impairment was detectable soon enough to usually allow me to pull over to the side of the road to nap now. This was something that pissed off my GF at the time because she'd be expecting me to meet her someplace at time 'X' and I'd not get there until time 'Y' because I'd had to pull off to sleep. And, since this was the mid-90s, the possibility of calling to say "gonna be late: need to nap on the way" just wasn't there.