Gamers and Sleep

#1

Amaryllis

9 Frags – +

So, everyone knows not sleeping enough is bad for you. It can contribute mental impairments, cardiovascular disease, obesity, etc. I've been wondering if the sleeplessness non-casual gamers sometimes go through is caused by their love of gaming or if their sleep problems are made a little more bearable by games.

Put simply, do you feel that video games have an impact on your sleep?

So, everyone knows not sleeping enough is bad for you. It can contribute mental impairments, cardiovascular disease, obesity, etc. I've been wondering if the sleeplessness non-casual gamers sometimes go through is caused by their love of gaming or if their sleep problems are made a little more bearable by games.

Put simply, do you feel that video games have an impact on your sleep?

#2

thrasher

15 Frags – +

Sleep? What is this "sleep" you speak of?

#3

suln

9 Frags – +

Yes.

#4

Goat_

1 Frags – +

Not really, I never really play after 10pm just don't feel like it, gaming also makes me kinda tired.
Trying out for teams and going over matches again, while trying to fall asleep though have cost me some sleep ;)

#5

MR_SLIN

26 Frags – +

sleep is for the weak

#6

Waldo

1 Frags – +

If I didn't have to think at 7 AM each morning, I would probably sleep once every 2-3 days. Sleep is boring & #5

#7

FFG

16 Frags – +

i havent slept in like 10 years

#8

JLelong

2 Frags – +

I sleep at night.

#9

phAZE

9 Frags – +

i find myself staying up watching tf.tv and like mge-ing sometimes. but then i sleep in class :D

#10

Turin

0 Frags – +

I finish video games at midnight+ and have to be at school at 6:50. Why do I do this to myself?

#11

bl4nk

8 Frags – +

hehe sleep

#12

kirby

18 Frags – +

If anything, my procrastination to get off the internet in general and go to sleep is more of a problem than video games themselves.

#13

shortbus

0 Frags – +

i get off at 11 and wake up at like 6:15 so not too bad but not too great either. some people just need more sleep than others.

#14

watt

11 Frags – +

stopped 6s because of no sleep

#15

Lunacide

2 Frags – +

I had a terrible and probably very unhealthy sleep schedule for about 2 months. Sleep at like 9 AM wake up at 6 PM. When I had things to do during the day I would just run on coffee and then crash. Once I got a job it started to even it self out, and now I have a "normal" schedule. So I don't really think playing games the whole time really contributed to it, mostly just having nothing to do all day.

#16

kiri

0 Frags – +

for me sleeping 10 hours a day is actually a bigger problem than playing videogames 3 hours a day

i should probably switch those numbers

for me sleeping 10 hours a day is actually a bigger problem than playing videogames 3 hours a day

i should probably switch those numbers

#17

Hellbent

Momentum Mod

0 Frags – +

No one ever needed sleep now did they

#18

cosmophilic

5 Frags – +

Something about staring at a screen makes it hard to sleep. It's easy to get stuck to it late at night. I don't use it myself, but some people swear by a little program called flux that changes the colors on the screen at night to try to mitigate the moth to a lightbulb feeling.

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

Something about staring at a screen makes it hard to sleep. It's easy to get stuck to it late at night. I don't use it myself, but some people swear by a little program called flux that changes the colors on the screen at night to try to mitigate the moth to a lightbulb feeling.

http://stereopsis.com/flux/

#19

Nicholas_

2 Frags – +

I'll sleep when I'm dead :>

#20

Artem

2 Frags – +

Im trying to go to sleep at like normal times because I am really off my game when im tired and lethargic.

#21

flippers

0 Frags – +

I always take one really easy low course load course with an online module for an alternative way to finish work so that i can have on class for nap time, <3 you nap time, also: HIGH SCHOOL ADVANTAGES

#22

PapaSmurf323

1 Frags – +

ILL SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD

#23

pharaoh__

20 Frags – +

http://i.imgur.com/wWbAYfa.png

[img]http://i.imgur.com/wWbAYfa.png[/img]

#24

RoodY

0 Frags – +

I used to do experiment with my sleeping schedule.

I used to sleep 3 hours + 3 nap of 15 min forn about two months

I used to do experiment with my sleeping schedule.

I used to sleep 3 hours + 3 nap of 15 min forn about two months

#25

capnnofapn

3 Frags – +

before i fall asleep i think sleeping is the stupidest thing ever. after I wake up I wish I went to bed earlier ;_;

I will never be happy.

before i fall asleep i think sleeping is the stupidest thing ever. after I wake up I wish I went to bed earlier ;_;

I will never be happy.

#26

GTSBY

0 Frags – +

I personally can only take so much gaming in a day before I need to sleep/do something else the rest of the day.

#27

Darkstar

1 Frags – +

pharaoh__http://i.imgur.com/wWbAYfa.png

Pharaoh and I up until 5am just bullshiting, lol. we don't sleeeeeeep

[quote=pharaoh__][img]http://i.imgur.com/wWbAYfa.png[/img][/quote]

Pharaoh and I up until 5am just bullshiting, lol. we don't sleeeeeeep

#28

DunderBro

3 Frags – +

had no computer for a week and it was one of the best weeks I've had in a while, now that I have a computer I just sit here, and dont sleep...

Fuck I'm weak

had no computer for a week and it was one of the best weeks I've had in a while, now that I have a computer I just sit here, and dont sleep...

Fuck I'm weak

#29

Noona

0 Frags – +

How much sleep is enough would you think? On average I sleep 7-9 hours a night during school weeks. On breaks it sometimes varies to around 12-15 :P How much sleep do you guys get?

#30

panzerxiii

2 Frags – +

I generally have a really tight internal clock that doesn't let me sleep more than 8 hours before waking up. But when I am really exhausted sometimes I can sleep for 16+ hours a day :P