What Your Sleep Personality Says About Your Waking Life
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Also, more information on the same topic can be found in an article on Individual Variation and the Genetics of Sleep on Harvard's Healthy Sleep website.
Has anyone analyzed whether these "sleep types" are inherited traits or the result of work-related habits? A retired plant superintendent acquaintance says he still wakes between 5:30 and 6:00 am so he could be "at work" on time.
I find that I'm a combination of a few of those sleep personalities and there are some very valid points as to why we are a certain styles.
But one in particular made me laugh. The Dream Sleeper. I recant my dreams to my husband, not on a daily basis, but often. I remember from long ago about a technique of trying to recall your dreams when you wake up in the morning. I kept a journal because some of those dreams are downright hilarious and how the mind works when you go through your dream cycle. But to say that I may have a higher risk for schizophrenia? That's just too funny. (I guess telling any jokes about the voices in my head -which is clearly fake for the purpose of joke telling only- could be taken out of context then).
@ Anonymous_831: how 'bout "the Necessity Sleeper"? "the type who rarely sleeps eight hours"? Not exactly what you were going for I guess, but if you sleep late but wake up early by choice, I am guessing you sleep less than most people. If you are following this schedule because of work, but not by choice, maybe you fall under the "late sleeper who adapted to 9-5 workhours"?
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