Evanalyze

I used to barely sleep at all.  Staying up for 24 or 48 hours at a time was a weekly occurrence, and for the most part I could function decently up until I passed out.  And after a relatively short rest, I was right back at it.  I also found, while spending a summer without any real time commitments, that my natural sleep pattern was entirely capable of having me go to sleep at noon and wake up at 8pm.

Oh how that’s changed.  If I go two nights in a row with less than 8 hours of sleep I am in a world of hurt, three and I’m basically useless.

I’ve read the stories of Einstein needing 10 hours of sleep and DaVinci sleeping in 15 minute chunks, and I was always pretty comfortable with the idea that there is no “right” amount of sleep.  I’ve also heard that as people grow older than tend to need less sleep, which made sense for a lot of reasons.  So it’s a little puzzling that as I grow older I need more sleep.  Maybe I’m exerting myself more, although if I am it’s certainly not physically, despite my best efforts.

I’m so curious about what’s going on when I sleep that I actually bought an iPhone sleep analyzer application.  It was so useless that I won’t even waste time linking to it, but suffice to say that it didn’t lend any insight other than my room is relatively quiet at night except for my phone buzzing when I recieve emails.

Hopefully one day I’ll be on a sleep schedule that makes some sense to me.  Until then I’ll keep crashing at 9pm when I have to and desperately searching for health analysis from my mobile devices.