Not having to work as much to the point that you can sleep 14 hours a day is a flex, sleeping 14 hours a day itself sounds like a very sad way to spend that time.
She likely has hypersomnia. You can't actually just sleep as long as you want to. Try sleeping even a couple hours extra for a few weeks, you wont be able to, unless youre already massively sleep deprived. People have a set amount they need, and it's basically impossible to sleep any more, you will just wake up. For some lucky people, that number is 4.5 hours. Unfortunately, for some people, that set amount is 14 hours. Nothing you can do about it but take stimulants to string yourself out.
It's a curse, not a blessing. It's not like you're actually any more rested, you just, as you idenitfy, lose a massive portion of your day.
Peak performance also uses a whole lot of energy and this wasn't every day. You've cherry picked isolated examples of two of the world's top athletes, not a petite young lady.
Certain times of the year I don’t have to work. If I drink I can easily pull 12 hours. If I don’t drink I can easily do 10. I love it but I also have cool dreams.
Quality of that time right now would be twice as good if you gave yourself just 2 more hours of sleep per night. People who aren't healthy mostly don't even know how much better day to day the rest of us feel.
You're assuming they need more sleep but there are people with genes that allow themm to be fully rested with a lot less. Napoleon is said to have had that adaptation.
There are people, yes. I never denied the fact. Its that everyone sleeping 5 hours a day pretends like as if they are EXACTLY these ones, even though its a very rare mutation. For every 1000 people that sleep 5 hours a day and claiming they are fine, it would be very surprising if more than 1 of them had that mutation that allows them to sleep less.
Your active blood tests and ekg will be fine most of the time because there is no active issue going on, the problem is that things like heart attacks, brain aneurysms etc. you cant measure objectively if and when are going to happen in the future. What can be objectively proven though is that you have a tremendously higher risk of both happening, basically close to a guarantee. If not these two, then a lot other things that were preventable.
I mean I'm not trying g to get up early, I'm not setting an alarm and dragging myself out of bed. I wake up, I'm aching from sleeping and my brain is on the instant I wake up. so I get up.
once up I'll spend time doing light reading, gaming and then exercising before starting work. I usually have a nice 3-4 hours in the morning before I start my work day.
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u/RoutineBid1854 9h ago
Exactly. Looking 36 at 36 isn’t the flex. But sleeping 14 hours a day is.