"I'm a pretty deep introvert to begin with, so I really like the 'me time' that this gives me. I have fallen asleep on occasion when I let myself get bored, but then it ruins my sleep that night, because I already got part of it out of the way."ĭo you ever wish you had a normal sleep cycle? It's happened, but I rarely feel the need. The only time I ever remember dreams is when I'm sick, because I don't sleep as well." "I also sleep so deeply that if I dream, I don't remember any of it. They cleaned me, changed my pyjamas, put me in the living room, and I woke up a couple hours later, wondering how I ended up on the couch in the living room.
#SLEEPLESS ELITE COUPLE HOURS OF SLEEP WINDOWS#
"When I was a little kid, we had a storm that blew out all the windows in the north end of my house, including my bedroom, and my parents came in and saw the rain pouring down on me. What does he do with all the extra time? Does he ever wish for a normal schedule? Check out his answers below. Still, we were able to track down one such sleeper, Hank Driskill, to find out what life is like on the sleepless side. There are few studies about them in part because they're so hard to find. These people have become quite a focus of our curiosity ever since Ying Hui Fu, PhD, a professor at the University of California San Francisco, led a team in 2009 that discovered a genetic mutation that might explain why some people can get by with far less shut-eye than the rest of us.ĭespite growing interest, it's unclear exactly how many true "short sleepers" are out there - what we do know for sure is that these folks, who also tend to be upbeat and highly energetic in general, are rare. Although many believe they're functioning just fine on less than the recommended seven-to-nine hours per night, there really are a select few among us (the " sleepless elite," as they've been called) who need only three to four hours of sleep to function. Fact: Far too many of us are sleep-deprived.
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