The Friday Five for 10 January 2014: Sleep

[anais_pf]

These questions were written by lillibet in the LJ community thefridayfive and posted there by me. :)

1. How many hours of sleep do you like to get in a night? Apparently my body wants nine whole hours a night. At nine hours, I am rested, calm, even-tempered and cheerful.
2. How many hours of sleep can you survive on indefinitely? I have gone for very long periods on

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[jdquintette]

Nine hours a night would be heaven, but is often not possible, since I tend to work nights (gigs, and delivering pizza) and have obligations during the day as well. When a large part of your income derives from minimum wage shit-jobs, you tend to put in a lot of hours to try to make ends meet.

The shrink at the Musicians Clinic has me on sleep medication (hydroxy-zine) which seems to be working. He refers to sleep as "nature's anti-depressent." I'm not sure if I'd go that far, but since I started taking this stuff I actually look forward to going to bed.