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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

My mother has said of my brother and I since we were born. "He isn't satisfied burning the candle at both ends, he also takes a blowtorch to the middle."

My brother and I still sleep only 4 hours a night in our 40s

[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

How old are you in human years?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I would've thought that you were twins and thought that 8 hours of sleep meant for both of you together.

Not that I get 8 hours of sleep, mind you

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Ahh, I see the confusion, lol. No we just seem not to need any more sleep than that, much to my mother's dismay. She needs 7-8 hours a night.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

What other years might they have interpreted without the qualification?

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

How the fuck? 3 nights of not enough sleep and I want to kill myself and anyone who stands in the way of me getting some sleep.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I suspect my mother felt the same way. I don't know why my brother and I don't need sleep, we are not that much of an anomaly though. There have been a ton of famous people that had similar sleep patterns. We don't feel that 4 hours is not enough, in fact if I were to try to sleep more, my body will make me restless so that I get up.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, it's a gene.