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Amateur! Wait till you hit 65. I'm slowly becoming Darth Vader. Machines to make me breathe, eyes that can't see, ears that can't hear and teeth that shatter on the softest food. Luckily they haven't started replacing any of the inside bits.... yet.
PS: this is just the short list of stuff.
I describe adulthood as an ever-increasing amount of rituals to maintain normal.
Oh god yes!!! it takes an hour of smearing gels and snorting powders just to go to bed. Then I have to do it again next morning.
After 40? Lmfao. People, just take the time to care for yourself. Eat balanced meals, don’t over eat, stop watching TV all the time and go for a walk.
Take it from someone nearing 50 who took gluttony to the max by 35. I feel better today, than I ever did in my younger adult years because I stopped being a typical american.
I'm sixty, and I agree. The best time to start taking better care of yourself is when you hit 18. The second-best time is right now.
For the past 16 years, I've steadily improved my diet and exercise habits. I feel pretty good, compared to what I hear others complain about. I sleep about seven solid hours per night, typically waking up once around 3AM. I'd like to get more, but I've accepted that ~seven is all I need, because I can't sleep longer.
I think when you hit 45, you need to make a choice. You can choose to put in the effort or not. No one can do it for you, and no one else really cares whether you do. In fact, some people will actively discourage you, sadly enough.
1000% agree.
If you're in your 20s, start building good habits now. Your future self will thank you.
The reason this post connects with people is that it validates a very well understood connection between aging and difficulty sleeping
Turning around and invalidating people in response and telling people its their own fault is frankly silly. Just because you resolved your sleep/health issues by taking better care of yourself doesn't mean everyone else struggling with sleep is just an unhealthy bum who should do better
Aging tends to bring with it sleep problems that aren't caused by lifestyle factors associated with poorer health, and even in cases where someones health issues are because theyre not taking good enough care of themselves, telling those people its their own fault generally overlooks socioeconomic factors- it usually amounts to blaming people for being poor, or mentally unwell
Source: I have a severe sleep disorder and at 27, I've seen a multitude of sleep doctors (and am still searching for a Dr who is knowlegable enough about my condition to try and help me beyond what I'm already doing) and spent a fair chunk of my life at this point sitting across from one discussing sleep issues
Yeah well,
I exercise, eat healthy and am not American.
My sleep is still fuck.
Take your high horse and ride it into the sunset.
I've been hit by 7 cars. What is your excuse?
All at the same time?
Commuting by bike exclusively, and training for racing from 2009-2014. I only ever got hit by 2 SUVs at one time, but that is the one that broke my neck and back in 2014. Most of the rest were from people turning in and out of driveways or parallel parking spots. In the six crashes, three I rode away from with only road rash from going down. Three of the seven were totalled SUVs. I was faster than most e-bikes before lithium battery e-bikes were really a mass market thing. Back then, I averaged around 400 miles per week on the bike. I was one of the most hardcore roadies out there.
My dad warned me about using bicycles and motorcycles on the public roads based on his experience in the 50s. It was dangerous even then, and it's only gotten worse with the number of cars and roads designed strictly for automobiles in general. Driving in traffic in a big car is scary enough; the people out there are insane.
I looked into an e-bike for getting to work a few years back. The range and time would have worked, and I travel during the light hours. But I couldn't find a safe way to make it happen, even through back roads. Probably for the best, eventually someone would probably have got me.
Hot
I'm an OFFICE WORKER
Try not to get hit by any cars on the way through the parking lot!
Damn, that joke falls pretty flat when you change dicks to cars.
All cars are driven by dicks
I am at the stage where I either sleep 4 hours or sleep 12 hours
Yea my sleep schedule is destroyed
And the best part is you don't know which one you'll get when you go to bed.
Barely standing awake at 10 fighting to keep your eyes open when you finally go to bed? Wide awake at 1 in the morning.
Browsing the internet at midnight because you are clearly not tired? You open your eyes and it's mid afternoon.
40+ here and the only reason why I don't sometimes sleep well is because I chose to play games until 2am.
I feel like my body wants to stay up for 30 hours followed by 14 hours of sleep.
I need a different planet.
at 35 I need the ear plugs, the right temperature, to feel clean, the eye mask if there's any light source at all, and to lay on my left side with a 7cm thick pillow at just the right angle so my head rests without touching the occipital area
I sleep in a big bed with my wife
Pretty much my wife since 35. Good news is she no longer gets mad at me for sleeping like a rock with little effort.
So my only major issue is my normal brand of shoes changed thier foot bed insert and it wholly fucked up my back and knee after a week.
I thought I just needed to break them in, I've had to buy a new pair of shoes that don't maim me instead now, which is a new experience at 38.
But have you tried 3 or 4 beers?
That causes me to fall asleep quickly and then wake up 2 to 3 hours later feeling exhausted
Then it messes with my sleep the rest of the week....
You gotta stick with it to see results
Ooh boy just you wait til you realize you're just napping in between having to wake up to piss 3 times in the night.
Is "a fan" here a person who stands next to your sleeping body in the dark and watches you? In that case I don't want one.
I sleep well as long as my wife is there. She can roll us from one side of the bed to the other or off it even and I'll continue sleeping like a rock. The moment she's sick or has trouble sleeping is when I also have trouble sleeping, which is fine with me.
I do sometimes miss being younger and sleeping any where, any time though.
Need a CPAP machine too.
I can feel myself dying
Barley husk pillows are the bomb.
Ultra firm but able to squish with your head. Stay cool too
Can confirm. I need 14 hours in bed to get 6 hours of sleep.
Just sleep on that futon again for a month. You will sleep like a baby when you sleep in bed again.
In my 20s and made a sleep pb recently. 16hrs continuous
That much melatonin will give you weird sweat nightmares. I just mention this because a lot of people think more mg = more sleep but at 10+ mg melatonin does real weird shit to your REM cycle. Most evidence shows that the optimal dose is often less than 1 mg. Just in case you're curious.
Best thing for sleep was a CPAP (in my case anyways). I can make a cocoon with blankets and even cover my head since I can breathe via the machine. Best I've ever slept.
It's good to reevaluate your habits now and then. Because with time, they always accumulate. And changing them is good for mental flexibility and against neurodegenerative diseases in higher age too.
45: $20,000 in sinus surgery so you aren't halfway suffocating while you sleep.
Sometimes I like to sleep on the floor. It's nice.
