I feel like I've slept 35 total hours in the last week. Between travel, sleeping on floors, early morning breakfasts and meetings, late night drinks (and Cantor's!) I just feel a little bit like I'm sleep walking. I never used to be this way. I used to function on four or five hours of sleep a night month problem. Somewhere along the way, I think when I was in NYC, my system established an 8 hour minimum.
On the train back to Boston, the guy across the table (I took Amtrak B-Class) from more looked at me as I was dozing in and out of consciousness and said one word: "age.". This seems counterintuitive to me. I always figured you need less sleep between the ages of say 18 and 50. Little people need the sleep because they are growing. Older people need the sleep because their systems run slower. To use a car analogy: kids are the Tesla's, 18-50 year olds are regular cars (some Fords/GMs and some BMWs/Jaguars) and older people are Mercedes Benz's with Diesel engines (not sure if that last part of the analogy works...at all).
I don't know. I just thought that at my current age, health, regimen I would be able to function well with ~5 hours a night. Not the case. Man, I need coffee.
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