Indy and I moved last May in order to be closer to my school to save on gas an tolls (the tolls alone were $50 a month!) but this move also allowed me to gain a little more sleep as my commute went from 45 minutes down to 25 (20 if I manage to catch the lights right!)
Sleeping has always been one of my favorite activities. I can remember in elementary, and sometimes even in middle school, coming home and heading to the basement to watch a t.v. show and catch an hour snooze. Even now I feel my inner teenager. On the weekend, if uninterrupted, I can sleep a good 12 hours.
Now that school's in session, I wake up at 5:55am. This means I'm usually in bed by 11, and actually asleep around 11:30. It's anywhere from 6-7 hours of sleep a night, which is okay, but for me, seemingly never enough. From Kristen over at Popcornonthestove, I found a nifty site called Sleepyti.me. It's a bedtime calculator that will figure out when the best times are for you to fall asleep as to avoid waking up mid rem-cycle, which we all know is usually the start of a real grumpy day. I've actually tested with two of the bed times it gives for the wake-up time of 5:55 and maybe it's just in my head, but I swear it was easier to wake up and get moving the next day.
This got me thinking a lot about my sleeping habits. After bedtimes, I started looking up sleeping positions.
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I am a hard core "fetal" sleeper- part of the vast majority, apparently, so much so that Indy has woken me up many-a-night, by trying to push my knees away from his spinal cord, because that's where they end up most nights.
According to bettersleep.org, "fetal" sleepers "have a tough exterior, but are still sensitive and may appear shy, but warm up quickly." I find some truth in this super vague sleep-analysis-meets-horoscope.
This got me thinking about all the vivid dreams I have. I'm one of those people who, every night, has ridiculously vivid dreams, which I remember in detail the next morning (i.e.: this post.). Indy swears I'm a huge weirdo, and that his dreams are few and far between, and when he does dream, he never remembers them. This got me searching around about people who have vivid dreams and I found this article, which basically explains that creative people are able to remember their dreams better than other "non-creative" people.
How 'bout them apples? Score 1 for the Creative People!
Anyone else know any interesting "facts" about our sleeping habits?
I'm a freefaller. And I frequently remember my dreams.
ReplyDeleteIn my childhood, my older, precocious brother studied hypnosis and dreams. (He is now an astrologer.) He hypnotized me to remember my dreams. I was to wake immediately upon dreaming, write it down, go back to sleep. 45 years later I still have vivid memories of those dreams I wrote down in the middle of the night.
My mother used to say if you told someone your dream before you ate breakfast, your dream would come true. Since my dreams are frequently scary/creepy, I made a point of not telling about them until after breakfast. I mean, why would mommy lie?
First off- how AWESOME that your brother hypnotized you! I've always wanted to be hypnotized, but never had the opportunity. Crazy!
DeleteHaha, I've never heard of the "before breakfast" rule, but duly noted! My dreams are also frequently scary/creepy, so I'll keep that rule in my back pocket. My mom says that whatever your dream, usually the opposite is true- which I hope is the case some nights!!