When I was in my 20s and 30s, I needed at least 7 hours of sleep, preferably 8. Once I got to my 40s, I started waking up in the middle of the night, often for hours, and then falling back to sleep around the time I was supposed to wake up for work. I was going to work on 3 and 4 hours of sleep a night, and now I don’t know how I did it. I think I was chronically exhausted and just didn’t realize it.

Now in my 50s I am no longer working and I am sleeping better, more relaxed. Usually I sleep straight through, but I am ok with six or seven hours of sleep.

Topics: life, sleep, energy, behavior, patterns, lifestyle