Sleep

[Cookie]

I`ll put this in here because:

a) we don`t have a "health" section

b) it does affect our ability to train.

Loosing sleep

[Melas Zomos]

I can always tell the difference when I get a good sleep and when I get a not so good sleep.
Having worked midnights for five years straight and then odd shifts I can certainly contribute to this thread.

[steve1]

my missus can always tell the difference when I get a good sleep and a not so good sleep lol funny thing is I'm always the last to realize
my son is fast approaching 5 months old and starting to teeth so i know quite a bit about the lack of sleep at the moment or rather interrupted sleep

[Cookie]

I can always tell the difference when I get a good sleep and when I get a not so good sleep.

On the occasions that I do sleep deeply & uninterrupted I wake feeling a completely different person with so much mental clarity its unreal.

Having worked midnights for five years straight and then odd shifts I can certainly contribute to this thread.

Shifts are bad. Done them myself.

my son is fast approaching 5 months old and starting to teeth so i know quite a bit about the lack of sleep at the moment or rather interrupted sleep

Good luck with that, I had a number of years of disturbed sleep when the first kid came along

[Melas Zomos]

Melas Zomos' sleeping tip #1

One of the best things I found to help is ear plugs.
The ones to get are a combination of beeswax, cotton & lanolin. By far they are the best for sleeping and for swimming.
Unlike the sponge ones, which are cheaper and that is the only advantage over the others, they do not seem to promote ear wax build up, irritation, or fall out .

[Cookie]

Not a fan of earplugs unless extreme measures are required. Wore them for years because of the industry I used to be in.

[Melas Zomos]

Not a fan of earplugs unless extreme measures are required. Wore them for years because of the industry I used to be in.

that is funny because I wore them for years and had to keep wearing them

I also got used to sleeping with them when I worked midnights as my property backs up to a semi busy road and I used that in conjunction with a fan (white noise) to mute it out. Damn rice mobiles and harleys!
Still sleep with a fan running and earplugs to this day.

[samurai69]

Not a fan of earplugs unless extreme measures are required. Wore them for years because of the industry I used to be in.

that is funny because I wore them for years and had to keep wearing them

I also got used to sleeping with them when I worked midnights as my property backs up to a semi busy road and I used that in conjunction with a fan (white noise) to mute it out. Damn rice mobiles and harleys!
Still sleep with a fan running and earplugs to this day.

we do the fan thing........white noise (pink and gray noise too) really helps, in portugal during the winter we had a cd that played "fan" white noise then the fan during the summer......now we just sleep with the fan on all the time


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[Melas Zomos]

we do the fan thing........white noise (pink and gray noise too) really helps, in portugal during the winter we had a cd that played "fan" white noise then the fan during the summer......now we just sleep with the fan on all the time.

Never heard of pink and gray noise, that is a new one to me. You pulling the wool over my eyes?

[samurai69]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_noise

ink noise or 1/ƒ noise is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is inversely proportional to the frequency. In pink noise, each octave carries an equal amount of noise power. The name arises from being intermediate between white noise (1/ƒ0) and red noise (1/ƒ2) which is commonly known as Brownian noise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_noise

Grey noise is random noise subjected to a psychoacoustic equal loudness curve (such as an inverted A-weighting curve) over a given range of frequencies, giving the listener the perception that it is equally loud at all frequencies.

This is in contrast to white noise, noise which is in fact equally loud at all frequencies but not perceived as such due to psychoacoustics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors_of_noise

While noise is by definition derived from a random signal, it can have different characteristic statistical properties corresponding to different mappings from a source of randomness to the concrete noise. Spectral density (power distribution in the frequency spectrum) is such a property, which can be used to distinguish different types of noise. This classification by spectral density is given "color" terminology, with different types named after different colors, and is common in different disciplines where noise is an important factor (like acoustics, electrical engineering, and physics). However, different fields may use the terminology with different degrees of specificity.

[Melas Zomos]

Thanks, now I am wiser.

What are you using for the pink and grey noise. The fan is white, do you need a cd for the others?

[samurai69]

Thanks, now I am wiser.

What are you using for the pink and grey noise. The fan is white, do you need a cd for the others?

i down loaded the cds for the others, TBH the white is best for sleep