What Happens If You Sleep Less Than 6 Hours?

what can you do if you have such bad insomnia that my body just does not let me sleep more than 6 hours most days I wake up right around 5 to 6 hours of sleep. once I wake up if I stay in bed I will just toss and turn but my brain just does not let me fall back alseep, I hate having insomnia most nights it takes me 45 minutes to a 1 hour an 30 minutesto fall alseep.

i sleep 6-7 hours regularly. i get all the energy i need when im fully awake to do the things i need to do during the day.

Shoot I'm a negative number in those stats! I've got chronic pain issues 24/7 I feel like somebody's beating my brains in with a baseball bat. I'm usually awake for about 72 hours straight before I pass out from exhaustion and sleep 2 to 3 hours then I wake back up because the pain is overriding the exhaustion. So I'm constantly exhausted I have no energy I have no drive the doctors used to give me sleeping medicine to help me get a full night's sleep but they won't do that anymore and it's extremely unhealthy for a person to live like this. Even if I got 4 to 5 hours of sleep every night I'm still increasing the risk of a heart attack or a stroke. But being awake for 3 days straight, sometimes I hit the four to five day mark. At the end of day 3 I start hearing things, I think I hear people talking in the other room even though I'm alone. By the morning of day 4 I'm hearing people talking in the same room and there's nobody there, towards the end of the day for I start seeing shadows in the corners at night twist and turn and start to take somewhat of a human form but they don't move from that point they just stay in the corner. Midday of day 5 every shadow I see takes human form and moves from its location across the room to a different location. This is the same thing that happens to people who use meth, the meth doesn't make you hallucinate, it's the lack of sleep!

A normal person is awake for 16 hours and they sleep for 8. During the 16 hours they're short-term memories are stored in the brain via a chemical that the brain creates. When you go to sleep at night when you start your REM sleep pattern. Your subconscious takes all of those short-term memories and organizes them from the most important to the least important. Then your brain converts those memories starting with the most important from a chemical process to an electrical process by creating new neuron pathways. When you wake up from REM sleep, that chemical is flushed out of your brain. This is important because that chemical can become toxic if too much of it stays in the brain for too long. People who do meth, if it was the drug that caused the hallucinations they would start the same day. But they'll do math for up to 4 to 5 days and get zero sleep, the longer this goes on the worst of hallucinations get. Because their brain has been continuously storing all of their short-term memories using that chemical process, and since they haven't gotten any sleep the brain has secreted far more of the chemical then it typically does, and that very chemical is what causes people to hallucinate and go insane. That's why when those people finally fall asleep say after day five, they may only sleep 2 to 3 hours, for what it means after all those short-term memories are sorted and organized their brain is not going to have enough time to convert all of them into long-term memories. They might get to keep the top 5% it just depends on how long they sleep and how long they've been awake. But as soon as they wake up the chemical is flushed from their brain, and the hallucinations are automatically gone, it's not a gradual process no matter how bad they were hallucinating before they fell asleep when I wake up the hallucinations are completely gone. I studied this because I go about 3 days without sleep and then I only sleep 2 to 3 hours every 72 hours, so I have to document everything important I use a calendar tomorrow doctor's appointments and things of that nature that I need to remember on certain dates and times, I've got a audio voice recorder that I will use if I have a thought about something an idea for a new program or something I'll record an audio notation so that when I go to sleep and wake up if that's something that didn't get converted and I completely forgotten it the audio notation will help me remember, and I've also got a app called color notes. It's like the sticky notes that you use in an office except it's an application you can create different color notes you can do just text or you can do bullet point list, I use the bullet point list for my grocery list. So I found a way to manage but a lot of times people ask me a question and I have no idea what you're talking about and they're like dude I talk to you 2 days ago we talked for an hour about this how do you not remember and I'm like I hardly remember anything over the past 3 days, just really important things, and even then there's a lot of important things that I don't remember

Evey first responder I know goes aith less than 6 hours of sleep

I'm in that population and it sucks. My CPAP isn't working as well as it used to and I am always wiped out. The doctor sending me for another sleep study to look into Inspire surgery, thankfully.

I sleep 3 to 4 hours most nights and at times I will sleep 5 to 6 hours at most on a weekend. I have always been like this.

Like last night, i went to bed at 11:30 PM got up and 1 AM and I have been up for 13 hours now and still going strong.

Many people like Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci practiced Polyphasic sleep where they would only have 2 or 3 naps a day for about 45 minutes a day.

Garbage no animal in nature sleep 8 hours with out having awareness. Or will be eaten

I only sleep for 3 minutes every 6 weeks if I’m tired or not and I feel amazing!

my natural sleep cycle is 2:am till about 7:00am and i don't work and go back to bed any time i want to but don't need it

Y'all keep saying I'm doing fine with less than 6 hours of sleep. Well, that's because that's what you feel is normal which really isn't. To be at your best and peak mind and body every day, you need consistent and enough sleep. Being fine is not that as being at your best.

Do it everyday! But about once a month, my body crashes, and I sleep for about 10 hours.

I feel better in the morning after a 4 hour sleep than a 8 hour one, but…in the evening I’ll need a 4 hour nap

Define impairment because I’m pretty sure the number of people running at 100% rounded to a whole number is fucking 0 lol

Then I must be a fucking alien

Before my traumatic brain injuries I could function on six hours of sleep a night.

I swear i run better on 5 hrs than 8 as i tend to have to force myself to sleep after 5-6

So me getting drunk a bottle of vodka going to sleep at like 2 3 am after work 12 to 7 and still wake up at 8 I don't even like it

To be honest, sleeping more doesn't ensure there will be no impairment either.

Lemme wake up after 4 hours and then lemme hit my two minute power nap the 0 becomes 0.0000000000000000001

Yea I only get like 3 or 4 hours sleep most nights and I still function but wouldn't say I feel great like hammered shit most of the time

Uhhhh… that’s me. I’ve been like this since I was a kid. Don’t remember the last time I slept more than 7 hours.

That guy definitely doesn’t live in California.