How Much Sleep Do You Need? - Professor Of Neuroscience, Russel Foster

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[AverageGuy]

Can't wait to get old so i can wake up early.

[Vidyut_Gore]

So glad to see this emerging advice. I've always needed less sleep. I even used to joke I wasn't born to sleep. I'll do it when I'm dead. When I was younge, in times of stress (not permanently) I could be alert for a week around the clock with just small naps any time of the day or night when I felt sleepy. Now I'm approaching 50 and 6 hours is my usual. Eight hours if I'm extra tired. Many think I have insomnia. I don't. I fall asleep within ten minutes of my head hitting the pillow, never toss and turn, etc whatever people do and wake up when I'm done. Can do it in comfortable beds, hard floor, bus seats, anywhere. No such thing as inability to sleep. I just wake up when I'm done.

It has increased as I get older, but not even close to 8-10 hours every night. If I sleep ten hours (rare on long train journeys or when homebound + winter + pandemic) I wake up groggy while I wake up alert and raring to go with 6 hours, no problem. As I grow older and am trying to care for my health, the increased need for sleep used to make me feel guilty about not having good habits, etc, but it just doesn't work. And even at this age, it is easier to skip sleep altogether than it is to stay asleep for ten hours in terms of alertness.

[razabadass]

Damn it! I thought it’s the full episode, fingers crossed for the full episode! Raza :)

[razabadass]

Thank you for the beginner friendly feeling pointers on sleep there! Raza :)

[Skoopyghost]

We Icelanders have bright summers with long days. In summer season. I can sleep 2 or 1 hours, and I'm fine, but I sleep 8 hours in the winter.

[razabadass]

Fingers crossed! I’ve been trying to think about the topic of sleep for me so fingers crossed! Raza :)

[hanskazan]

In your vacation go to bed every day the same time and look at the average time you wake up without alarm, thats your best time to sleep

[BASKETBALL_UNI]

Repent and receive life from Christ and be saved in Jesus mighty name amen.

[hackersaqib]

Hi ali abdaal
We have ali I'm common 😅😅 that's niceeee

[simateimourianmotlagh]

Could you help me how we can calculate the suitable sleep hours for ourselves?

[MelFlagg]

Why do you never add the links at the end of the video in when you point to them?

[skatedd]

How do you help people that cannot sleep at all like being awake for three weeks I'm not actually sleeping for 6 months

[amyjy]

Ali… did you forget to plug the full episode in the video

[wellbodisalone]

The quality of getting eight hours of deep sleep is also important.

[jl]

I have the biggest crush on Ali!!❤😊✔️✨

[Slicky]

new studies says we only need 3 hours sleep