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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
You are very lucky. You can accomplish a lot more than the average person that needs 8 hours of sleep. I wish that I could do that. I sleep for 9 hours many nights because I wake up to go to the bathroom every 3 hours. Therefore I never make it to the deep type of sleep like you are experiencing. And no - the change of daylight savings time did NOT affect me. I am messed up either way.
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For 45 plus years it was great. 30 straight days of call was easy, sick kids, no problem. Grocery at midnight was pure bliss. One can fill 20 hours a day easily working 50-60 hour weeks.
After I returned (retired for 7 days) to work my Covid 2 year stint, decided to try retirement again.
We don’t have 24/7 gyms, grocery, to fill 20 mind numbing hours.
If I run at midnight CC will always stop and ask if you are OK, until they get to know you. I can read a book a day easily, but here the thing, when you have a spouse that sleeps 8-10 hours a day. You are basically trying to find ways to accomplish things that don’t require lights or noise.
Now I understand why my dad worked into his 80s. Money wasn’t the driving point but it was filling the 20 hours of awake time.
It has been brought to my attention that my dad in his mid 70s started sleeping only 3 hours. Have contacted his 2 living brothers to see if they reduced sleep time later in life. This may be the key it’s not daylight saving time, but REM is moving to the next chapter.