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[tablesaw]

Do three five-six hour sleeps == two nine-hour sleeps? I hope so, else work will be very difficult tomorrow. The nap that attacked me last night has turned my weekend into a three-day weekend of miniature days: six hours rest, ten hours awake. It's the same forty-eight hours, of course, but it lacks the continuity I need to do things like drive out to the beach and go shopping. I had planned to do that at about 5:30am yesterday, but instead I was asleep. Then I spent a good of the precious daylight trying to get back to sleep, an attempt which failed. Oh the places I could have, should have gone. But now it's four o'clock, and I need to get some foodage.

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The mathematics of sleep.

[westernactor.livejournal.com]

I sure don't think that five six-hour sleeping sessions are equivalent to two nine-hour ones, for exactly the reason you suggest. Of course, I tend to have weird ideas about things sometimes, but I think there's something ingrained in the human body that sort of expects to see a different kind of light when it wakes up than when it goes to sleep. (At least naturally, but since the invention of the electric light bulb and window shades, nature hasn't had a fair chance!) I think anything that differentiates day and night in sleep cycles--whatever your particular conception of those may be, and I know yours are different than mine--I definitely consider a good thing. But, of course, I've also read it argued that what matters most is consistency, so maybe all of this is far less important than that you get approximately the same amount of sleep every single night.