I’d always heard that people need less sleep as they get older. I don’t find that to be the case for me. When I was 25 or so, I could function just fine on five or six hours sleep, although not for days at a time. I could even do so hung over, although it might have been a little less comfortable…
Nowadays, I feel like crap if I don’t get enough sleep. And “enough” means at least seven hours. And it’s not even a case of my aging body revolting against various abuses, since I don’t even drink or smoke anymore…
But the really sucky thing is that it’s also harder for me to GET that required sleep these days, since I can’t seem to keep my eyes closed past seven or eight in the morning anymore…
Yawn…