My parents don't like me sleeping min 8hrs a day (on average i sleep 10hr).
I work a lot and sleep a lot. It's cheap and easy thing to do.
I belive it solves a lot of people's mental health issues
I work a lot and sleep a lot. It's cheap and easy thing to do.
I belive it solves a lot of people's mental health issues
Of course, everyone is different and maybe there’s a reason you may benefit from more.
But I wonder if sleeping more than ~8 hours is a symptom of something else (and possibly contributing to why your parents don’t like it).
Curious if someone else more knowledgeable than I weighs in.
Also, it probably wouldn’t hurt to bring up with your doctor (e.g. annual evaluation). I usually bring up anything that I feel is considered “not normal” (whatever that is).
But again, I could be way off.
Your partner may delude themselves into feeling "fine", but I'd guess it's more that they feel no different than the last time they did it. It's not even a conscious thing necessarily (although I have met people who proclaim, just a little too loudly, they only need <X hours of sleep in some sort of weird macho "ironman" flex).
It's possible; there are a VERY FEW people on the earth who need way less sleep/night than normal, but like multitasking it's a super small % and the number people who think they are in that % but aren't is massive.
Like the number of people (in the US, at least), who think they're in the "better than average" set of drivers.
If you aren't getting enough oxygen at night, your body will want more sleep than necessary under normal oxygen levels.