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Low-quality sleep increases glaucoma risk, new study suggests

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I've always feared I'd have some repercussions for my bad sleep. I suffer from night terrors and sleepwalking. I've regimented myself down to very specific sleep patterns where I turn off my lights, take a shower, and abstain from any phone or screen. I sleep about 7 hours, but if you look at a smartwatch, I end up walking around incessantly about every hour. It's super annoying.

Are you unaware of the walking around unless you look at the watch? Just curious, it’s a big ambiguous from the wording.

So I knew I slept walk because I would wake up probably a few times a month just standing in a doorway or something. But after monitoring my watch, I realized I pretty much do it every night because it tracks me as walking. Sometimes I don't walk, but I am awake according to its motion sensors and my heart rate

That's wild - I'm sorry to hear that, it sounds unnerving. I wonder if there are other passive ways to prevent sleepwalking - like a weighted blanket to make it harder for your sleepy self to get out of bed? Pardon my naivete...

Don't apologize at all. I honestly don't think there's a way besides tying myself down. I did make my bedroom lock which apparently I'm unable to figure out in my sleepwalking phase

Maybe you need to put on a suit covered in bells. If you lay still it'll be quiet, but if you wake up the incessant jingling will wake you up. Lol I don't know why but I feel like there has to be some simple but clever way to deal with this. Not a cure, but something that let's you have some control over it.

Maybe if you can't sleep walk all over the place you'll naturally just go back to bed. Like I wonder if you maybe moved a dresser in front of your bedroom door after entering, if then your sleepwalking self would be trapped in your bedroom and get bored. I really have no idea how this works but I'm curious

I do think a dresser would probably stop me but mostly likely I'd just stub my toe and wake myself up. haha. My sleepwalking brain really gets out of whack when I'm traveling. I end up waking up because it gets lost unlike home where it finds its way back to my bed. lol

Seek a medical professional, many hormones reduce with age, including; control of body movement, need to urinate, etc.

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If you snore badly. Wake up sweaty. Heart racing. Or bad sleep in general. Waking up exhausted.

Get a sleep study. You may have sleep apnea. Which is your body starving for air. A cpap can be a dramatic life changing device.

I have a lot of that, unfortunately sleep study (even in lab) didn’t surface anything.

Definitely feels like modernity fights quality sleep way too much.

CPAP was too invasive for me. So the therapist prescribed a dental appliance that is nothing more complicated than forcing your lower jaw to jut out a bit. Worked great!

I know low-quality sleep is the cause of a lot of diseases and bad daytime conditions, and still, it's difficult to have high-quality sleep.

It takes a long time to fall asleep when I go to bed, and I'm so bored I can't stop browsing social media, it always ends up with 2~5 hours!

Recently I bought a Kitchen Safe (time locking container) to force me to stop using my phone. And it works! I can't do anything other than sleep. Still, it takes a lot of time to fall asleep, but if I continue this, I believe I can become a good sleeper! (It helps to reduce phone time in general, I recommend it to anyone.)

Try listening to a non-exciting podcast, played at 75% speed. It works for me. Lex Fridman's voice/tempo is perfect. The Overcast app can be set to turn off after N minutes.

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker audiobook makes me fall asleep by chapter 2.

Meditation audio can also work, but for me, the gaps of silence are too long, and my brain starts churning/processing. (I know the point of meditation is to overcome this.)

You should check out Andrew Huberman's videos about sleep on YouTube.

I found that strategies to get my core body temperature down towards the evening, combined with morning light exposure and exercising daily have made a huge difference for me. I'm tired at night and just want to go to sleep. I have a lot more tips, but most of it you can get from Huberman.

Thanks, I'll check them! Those self-improve materials don't always work for me, but sometimes I can find some good points that resonate with my lifestyle. I hope to find them in his videos.

Or they have a common root?

Good catch. If they did it would be stress.

FYI: Association of sleep behaviour and pattern with the risk of glaucoma: a prospective cohort study in the UK Biobank : https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/11/e063676

How does one measure sleep quality?

Whelp, kids are worth it though ;)

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