Meditation And Sleep Hours

[Saarah]

So I remember in Leo's enlightenment video he mentioned enlightened people need less sleep. Also yesterday during my meditation I was thinking how people are always doing because they're afraid to stop, but I thought isn't it crazy how we're doing something constantly without a break by just being such as through meditation? Then I thought what if enlightened people sleep less because they take that time to just be without keeping their mind ticking all day.

Recently I've been battling with issues of sleeping more than I'd like and not being able to wake up early so I'd like to see if meditation and being more has an effect 

So I wanted to see if you're a regular meditator say more than a month you meditated daily, and if you can recall or even let me know after a few days what hours of sleep you feel your best at, maybe I'd see a correlation. It has just been the weekend so if you got to sleep your own hours you may remember 

I made usernames of the poll visible so I can see who voted for what hours to see the correlation directly however I've never used the poll function before so if that doesn't work so well please also submit your hours for each question as a post, thanks! 

[ChimpBrain]

I noticed within the first few days of beginning meditation that I was naturally waking up about an hour before my alarm feeling completely rested. Currently I'm still sleeping less than I used to pre-meditation but instead of waking earlier I'm going to bed later. I'm just one person and my experience is subjective obviously but take it for what it's worth. 

[SkyPanther]

23 minutes ago, ChimpBrain said:

I noticed within the first few days of beginning meditation that I was naturally waking up about an hour before my alarm feeling completely rested. Currently I'm still sleeping less than I used to pre-meditation but instead of waking earlier I'm going to bed later. I'm just one person and my experience is subjective obviously but take it for what it's worth. 

I have noticed the same thing; I used to go to sleep at around 10 or 11, and got up at 9am. Now I get up at 5:30am; I meditate about one hour and thirty minutes, sometime two hours a day (except weekends).

[Saarah]

@ChimpBrain @SkyPanther Thanks for your input guys, that's quite interesting! 

[Narvanna21]

There's a theory in my country that if you were at one point of awakening, even if you were sleeping you would still be conscious. I heard one time that some monk are aware that they were dreaming and they could remember a lot of detail about it. Keep going, I think meditation will help :)

[Man in the Mirror]

Before i started meditating, i preferred to get at least 8 hours of sleep a night. After i started meditating, i found myself naturally waking up about an hour earlier than usual.