I have read a previous post on here about less sleep when meditating regularly. I was told but other mediators you eventually need less sleep. However, I am finding this is not the case for me. For my body to get good rest I need nine hours of sleep of night, sometimes ten. I push my body pretty hard physically so I never thought much of it.
After spending a couple months at a meditation centre, meditating and sleeping less, coming back home, still meditating but sleeping seven or eight hours, after a few months my body finally said, "Sorry, I need the sleep. I cannot function". I am now back to sleeping nine to ten hours a night. If I am tired I cannot focus or do my job because of it. I was making mistakes, obvious mistakes I would not make otherwise. I end up being so exhausted all the time I cannot focus.
I am finding the notion of a meditation practice and less sleep to be untrue for me. Sure, I have benefited in other ways to make time, like eliminating pointless activities such as television. I am doing something more fruitful, like meditation, or even other wholesome activities. But, less sleep, nothing. It doesn't work. It's bullshit.
