I know myself – I need to sleep at least 8 hours, or atleast-est 7 hours a day to be my normal self.
Whenever I get insufficient sleep, I tend to be grumpy, emotional and do/say stupid things; I would also not care about my image and outward appearance – I’d be extremelycincaiwith the choice of clothes I wear, usually wouldn’t even bother doing anything with my hair, and walk around looking like a drunk man.
I’d also lose the mood to do anything productive. I wouldn’t be in the mood to study, pay attention in class, meet people, play games, have conversations, attend meetings, make friends… nothing. All that I was in the mood for was to go home, crawl under the warm blanket, and sleep!
On top of that, my complexion would look really bad, my eyes would be completely swollen and bloodshot, and occasionally, my mouth would be hanging open unconsciously, looking totally stupid.
Yes, I acknowledge it and I really hate it. I know that there are people who can sleep like 3-4 hours per day and be perfectly fine with it. I admire the people who can, but I really just can’t! Can’t even do with 6 hours!
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Today’s Thursday. I haven’t had a good sleep since last Saturday! I heard that if you had insufficient hours of sleep, you’d have a ‘sleep debt’ to be compensated the next night. Let’s look at my case!
SATURDAY NIGHT - Slept at 7am and woke up at 10am – 3 hours of sleep.
Reason:
The nice black guys living right next to our unit were having an all-night-party! It was pandemonium! They were like blasting music all night – repeating the same playlist over and over again! Imagine that!
The music is still a small matter, but they were chatting and laughing and yelling on top of their voices at their unit’s rear garden, right outside my window!
I recorded the noise from my window, and it was recorded with zero noise from my room or anywhere else, all the noise that you can hear is exactly what I hear from inside my room. Check it out:
We slept at 7am – I woke up at 10am because I had to go out and meet someone at eleven.
No. of Hours away from a ‘good’ night’s sleep: 8 hours – 3 hours = 5 hours
Cumulative sleep debt: 5 hours
SUNDAY NIGHT – Slept at 5am and woke up at 7am – 2 hours of sleep.
Reason:
Couldn’t sleep – This happens all the time: Whenever I have an early class the next morning, I can’t sleep early. Doctors call it anxiety-induced insomnia, I blame it on the stupid early morning classes.
I had a lab session that morning followed by classes that continue through the day, ending at 7pm. 8AM-7PM of classes! 11 hours! Imagine the torture I went through! (Of course there were small breaks and gaps between some classes, but still…)
No. of Hours away from a ‘good’ night’s sleep: 8 hours – 2 hours = 6 hours.
TUESDAY NIGHT – Slept at 6am and woke up at 8am – 2 hours of sleep.
Reason:
Editing Photos + Ruined Plan – I used up the whole night… like… editing photos. Photos need to be edited and ‘improved’ before they can be published, to me they do!
Being not really a pro in image editing, I used up 3 hours doing just that. Practice makes perfect, right? Anyway, I had a stupid 8am class on Wednesday, so had to wake up early.
The reason behind why I slept so late is quite funny: I actually planned to skip the 8-10am class in the morning, and only go for the 11am-2pm class. That was because I wrongly read my lab schedule and thought that I was going to have a lab session the following afternoon at 2-5pm.
I wanted to skip the early morning lecture because a full day schedule of 8am – 5pm with few nights of lack of sleep would be totally disastrous.
It was only at 4am that night when I realized that there was no lab session the next afternoon, and that I misread my schedule; so it was then only I decided to go for the early morning class and tahan till 2pm, and rush home to sleep! It’s quite a stupid plan, I know.
No. of Hours away from a ‘good’ night’s sleep: 8 hours – 2 hours = 6 hours
WEDNESDAY NIGHT – Slept at 5am and plans to wake up at 11am – finally! 6 hours of sleep! But still not quite enough.
Reason:
Writing this blog entry! Writing a decent blog entry needs around 3 hours! At least for me! The time NOW (when I’m writing this) is 4.15am. I’ll probably fall asleep at around 5am, anyway… I’ll continue writing this entry tomorrow, good night!
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Hello! It’s Thursday afternoon now, yes I slept for 6 hours last night, so:
No. of Hours away from a ‘good’ night’s sleep: 8 hours – 6 hours = 2 hours
Oh my God… If the sleep debt thingy is really counted like this, then I’ll have to sleep for 22 hours + 8 hours = 30 hours tonight to fully replenish myself!
i understand what it takes for you to sleep with those African guys… haha… i have endured a quite big number of nights sleepless because of their parties and music when i was in melaka.
by the way it was a good entry
I know that there are people who can sleep like 3-4 hours per day and be perfectly fine with it. I admire the people who can, but I really just can’t! Can’t even do with 6 hours! 
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i understand what it takes for you to sleep with those African guys… haha… i have endured a quite big number of nights sleepless because of their parties and music when i was in melaka.
by the way it was a good entry