I know I keep irregular hours, what with a 3rd shift job and all. But I notice that Clark keeps posting seemingly all day and night. Doesn't he have a day job? Doesn't he need sleep? Is perhaps there a deeper significance to his naming his company Necromancer Games and using Orcus as the logo/mascot? Or is he perhaps a similar incarnation to Chuck Norris who doesn't sleep because he merely waits instead? Curious minds want to know.
Sleep is for the weak.
First you sleep one night, then you sleep the next... before you know it, you're sleeping every night. For hours at a time. All that time, wasted in unconsciousness-- unless you are seeking Unknown Kadath...but few have that skill.
Break the addiction, stop sleeping.
-Ben.
Ha...the search for Unknown Kadath is a fools errand, better to search for elysium, where we are safe from the old ones wrath. Better to find it's green fields and warm sun, even if it means to sail beyond the sea and into the stars.
I dont sleep much. I operate on no more than 5 hours a night. I am going to bed in a few minutes at 3:30 am my time. I'll let myself "sleep in" tomorrow till 9 am or until my daughter wakes me, whichever is earlier.
Normally I go to bed about 2 am and get up at 7 am for work. I work all day. On nights I dont have board meetings, advisory counsel meetings, partner meetings, rules committee meetings, attorney meetings or am refereeing high school basketball games, I go straight home about 6 pm, have dinner with my lovely wife and daughter. The three of us goof around until her bed time, about 9 pm. Then my wife and I spend an hour or two. Then its cramming Necro or other responsibilities until 2 am. Then bed.
:)
Granted, tonite I am going to bed a little later becuase I was up drumming on Guitar Hero World Tour. I rule!
Clark
I dont sleep much. I operate on no more than 5 hours a night.
I need 8 hours of sleep and prefer more than that. But it does explain why I kept seeing you post at hours I knew you should have been asleep.
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As a life-long insomniac...I get the four hours of sleep thing.
Congratulations on having a pretty good life, Clark. More gamers need kids, a wife, and some sports thrown into the mix. And some faith, I dare to add.
In fact, I am willing to donate one of my kids to a good home. Four is too many. : }
I operate on no more than 5 hours a night.
You lucky bastard. I can't operate on that little sleep for more than a couple days at a time. I'm one of those people who is happiest with eight or more hours.
My wife needs 10 hours a night. I need 6. We did the math on how many more days of waking hours I get each year. It was scary.
Me and my S.O. are like that - I'm pretty fine with 6-7, she usually sleeps 10-12. I hadn't thought about the yearly total though.
"I need my sleep. I make no bones about it. I need eight hours a night, and ten during the day."
-Bill Hicks
~LAUGHTER~ Oh, that is a good one!
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My wife needs 10 hours a night. I need 6. We did the math on how many more days of waking hours I get each year. It was scary.
I'm about a 7 hour sleeper and my wife is about a 9 hour sleeper. Which means I tend to stay up about an hour or two later than she does. On those nights she feels compelled to keep me company till midnight she's generally pretty irritable the next day.
Your wife may get less awake time than you do but I bet life is better for you both when she gets all her hours of sleep.
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My wife needs 10 hours a night. I need 6. We did the math on how many more days of waking hours I get each year. It was scary.I'm about a 7 hour sleeper and my wife is about a 9 hour sleeper. Which means I tend to stay up about an hour or two later than she does. On those nights she feels compelled to keep me company till midnight she's generally pretty irritable the next day.
Your wife may get less awake time than you do but I bet life is better for you both when she gets all her hours of sleep.
Yes. Yes it is. And, Nerrat (my son) if you are reading. That is why you DON'T WAKE UP YOUR MOTHER IN THE MORNING!
Now, let's do the math. If Clark takes those extra 3 hours that most people devote to sleep and spends it on Necromancer stuff ... 1095 hours per year ... divided by an 8 hour work day = 136+ days a year. Wow!
I miss 5 hours of sleep. I've regularly been getting in 3-4 hours a night on weekdays ever since grad school, and then catching up on the weekends. Caffeine is my friend.
He will sleep when he's dead.
Maybe.
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I find I am functional on about 6 hours, but I cannot read anything without nodding off real fast. I can do do do, but cannot learn very well. Basically, if I know it like the back of my hand I am good to go, but if I am trying something new I look like an idiot (really, like an idiot). So, ironically, the first year of collecting Paizo was one where I hoarded but never read. Even before that I only glanced at my 3.5 books. If I sat down or laid down to read anything, I would wake up next to the book hours later. I am good for about a page and a half. I am therefore one of the worst read people of my group of friends.
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I need 6 hours to be fully functional, 4 hours to get by. My problem is that I am naturally working on west coast time even though I have spent my entire life in the eastern time zone. It's like having a permanent case of jet lag, and nothing I have tried has ever done the least little bit to changing my internal clock.
I can function perfectly well with 6, but really prefer 8... I can get by with 4 if I have to, but the people around me are generally not very happy because 5 or less hours of sleep and I turn into an A-hole.
No matter the amount of sleep I get if I'm up prior to 10 Am its like trying to function through mud. Generally I find I function well on minimally on 6 hours best. If more than 10 I'm lethargic the rest of the day. If less, I crash midday and unintentionally nap.
I need 6 hours to be fully functional, 4 hours to get by. My problem is that I am naturally working on west coast time even though I have spent my entire life in the eastern time zone. It's like having a permanent case of jet lag, and nothing I have tried has ever done the least little bit to changing my internal clock.
Due to a couple of extemely long flights I have had to try the "stay up a full 24 hours plus whatever will get you to bed at the right time in your new time zone" method a few times....It was pure hell, but it sure worked....If nothing else has helped, maybe give it a try...(just make sure if you do that you keep the balance between activities that are stimulating enough to keep you awake, but nothing that demands enough concentration to cause problems if you nod off the odd time...)
I've never had wings myself, I just know I've spent many I night to figure out time travel.
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I can function perfectly well with 6, but really prefer 8... I can get by with 4 if I have to, but the people around me are generally not very happy because 5 or less hours of sleep and I turn into an A-hole.
I'm a 4-hour guy. Never really occured to me maybe thats why I'm an A-hole.
My husband is a consistent 9 hour sleeper, which means he's usually in bed by 9pm. Sometimes he's in bed BEFORE our 10 year old is finished getting ready and all tucked in. :P
I, on the other hand, fluctuate between being an 11 hour to a 3 hour sleeper, depending entirely on where I am in my not-entirely consistent depressive/hypomanic cycle (I've been diagnosed as 'bipolar type 2') and how low/high the peak is.
Since I started taking medication I probably spend most of my time needing about 6 hours (usually midnight to 6am on weeknights), and only float down to 4 or up to 8 at the top and bottom of a typical cycle. However excessive levels of stress can push me to the outliers in either direction and can keep me there for longer periods.
(Truth be told, I love being in a high-end hypomanic stage as I have energy to burn and just get so much stuff done. I'd drop my med's in flash if I could stay there without risking the crash into deep depression that inevitably follows. :P)
:-j(enni)
I operate on no more than 5 hours a night.
I didn't realize that the demon lord of the undead is an elf.
I didn't realize that the demon lord of the undead is an elf.
That kind of talk may get you in trouble. :)
Me, I'm typically a 6-7 hour guy. I can occaisionally knock out a 10-12 hour sleep, but that's after being up for quite a while (72+ hours once while in the USAF).
I wish I could sleep less than 8 hours... I have that nasty habit. I could do lots more stuff if I could cut that to a 6 hour sleep, but the sheets get the best of me :D
Hmm... Get vs. need? I usually work 12 hour days. Every week, I work either one or two 24 hour shifts. About once every three weeks, I work a 48 hour shift. Hopefully with some sort of nap thrown in somewhere. My sleep/wake cycle is so screwed up that if I'm not working all night at least once a week, then I'll be sitting up staring at a wall somewhere anyway. Bottom line, I take whatever sleep I can get, when I can get it, wherever I happen to be. :)
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7 hours, fairly consistently as to duration, though not to sleep/wake times, which are all over the place. I can do less, but I pay for it after 3 or 4 days.
Occasionally I plan for 4 hours sleep, a work session or late-late movie of about 3 hours, then 4 hours till morning. It's surprisingly (exceptionally) creative time, but a bit tiring the next day. It doesn't fit in too well with socialising with other people.
At uni and on a few later occasions, I've done 48 or 72 hours awake trying to work, which everyone should try to know that they can do it. Again, fairly consistently, I hit a wall at 18 hours awake, feel like a complete zombie for about 2 hours, then if I can get through that, I'm all right.
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My wife needs 10 hours a night. I need 6. We did the math on how many more days of waking hours I get each year. It was scary.
about an extra day a week...
because she sleeps over 1/3 and you sleep about 1/4 of a day...
4 hours a day = 28 hours per week. 52 weeks per year...yup it's a lot, I do 6-7 as well, and my wife does 9-10...my twins currently do about 9...but one stays awake til 11 thinking before sleeping and the other falls asleep right away and wakes up at 6am...
I´m doing fine on about 6 to 7 hours sleep on the average, while sleeping more if I have the time, like sundays. I can do with four or five hours if need be, but I got to catch up within a few days.
I guess I´m going to test my limits next fall/winter, when I have to work eight hours a day and try to write my master thesis in my free time.
My wife needs at least 8 hours, more if she can get it. Several women mentioned on this thread seem to need more sleep than their men.
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I knock off between 1am and 3am most nights, and wake up @7:30 or so> I guess 4-6 hours is average for me. For the two evenings I don't need to get up the next day, I might not crash until dawn. I'll get up @ 11am on Sunday RPG day (game starts at one), and generally sleep/loaf around on my other day off.
About the only time I ever knock off early is if I have a headache for some reason. Aspirin and Tylenol do nothing for me, sleep is the only headache cure that works for me...
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Several women mentioned on this thread seem to need more sleep than their men.
Its apparantly a general truth.
Sleepeducation.com says the following: "Experts suggest that most men and women need about seven to eight hours of sleep each night. Yet there are many differences in how men and women sleep. In general women tend to sleep more than men, going to bed and falling asleep earlier. A woman’s sleep also tends to be lighter and more easily disturbed. Women are more likely to feel unrefreshed even after a full night of sleep."
My wife needs 10 hours a night. I need 6. We did the math on how many more days of waking hours I get each year. It was scary.about an extra day a week...
because she sleeps over 1/3 and you sleep about 1/4 of a day...
4 hours a day = 28 hours per week. 52 weeks per year...yup it's a lot, I do 6-7 as well, and my wife does 9-10...my twins currently do about 9...but one stays awake til 11 thinking before sleeping and the other falls asleep right away and wakes up at 6am...
Nice to hear that my wife is not the only sleepyhead female around... She gets cranky if she doesn't get a 10 hour beauty sleep :D
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I use to be really good at going on a little amount of sleep, sometimes I can readily pull it off, but not without a force of will. You see, a few years back I worked an unusual shift, which had me so fatigued by the end of the "work week" that I'd fall asleep while driving home, unless I pounded an energy drink before heading home. Even if that drink was a Red Bull, I could still get to sleep within a half hour of drinking it.
See, I worked this shift that would start on Friday night, at 10 PM and go until 11 AM Saturday when I would head home and sleep before returning Saturday night at 10 PM. After 11 AM Sunday morning I would head home, again, and get some sleep and then come back to work Sunday night, again at 10 PM before finishing my work week Monday morning at 11 AM.
Now the job did pay nicely, but damn me if it didn't screw up my ability to go on little sleep, daily. I use to get by on around 5 hours of sleep a night, now I range back and forth between 6 and 10, depending on if I use an alarm clock or not.
Man, with the exception of the Marines, living and working in Idaho screwed up my biological clock, for sleeping, more than any other time in my life, aside from the aforementioned caveat.
Thus, Clark's just messed up, man. Messed up. ;)