| My child wakes me up every 90 minutes to 2 hours, and I sleep cumulative 5 hours per day. I find this awful sleep regimen affecting my health in many ways: 1. My memory is shoddy at best. It's bad enough that Google and Wikipedia have made my mind lazy, but with lack of sleep, it's worse. For some reason, pronouns (names, places, and co-workers) are very difficult to remember. 2. I eat a poor diet. Since I wake up at odd hours of the night, I eat more convenience foods to fill up my wrenched stomach. 3. I like to exercise, but it's damn hard to do on such little sleep. 4. I love my wife dearly, but spousal bickering is the worst at 4am. Based on my personal research, I recommend the author considers alternatives to cutting sleep. As an aside, I live in Minnesota, where it dark for extended periods of time during the winter. Vitamin D deficiency and seasonal affective disorder are REAL. I do not look forward to combined SAD and lack of sleep this winter. |