I am a very light sleeper and it usually takes 1-2 hours for me to fall asleep. I got like 1000 things on my mind when I go to bed at night, not necessary negative stuff, but it just makes it very hard to sleep.
Exactly the same way... Plus that I wake up 4-5 times during the night, and might take hours to get back to sleep.
It's usually somewhere around 10 hours from I go to bed until I get up, but on average I probably don't sleep more than 5-6 hours during that time.
It's better now than it used to be, though... I have a business where I have set the standard that the customers should get support 24/7/365, and a comprehensive response within one hour... For almost 4 years I run that *myself*, every day, all year around... It could be 2-3 days without any sleep at all, sometimes. (When my upstream provider had some issues.)
I even run it from the hospital, recovering from surgery... (the surgery itself luckily didn't take more than a couple of hours), and from my sickbed having the flu and high fever, more than once.
Considering I'm not so young any more (45), had heart surgery already at 35, a small stroke at 36, another at 40, and have to take medication against chronic high blood pressure, it was getting dangerous.
Luckily I could finally afford hiring some help, and now it's only 1-2 nights a week that I need to take care of customer support, so I sleep much better now... :asleep:
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