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Dakota Johnson Sleeps for 14 Hours a Night

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Ramalangadingdong · 12/12/2023 17:08

Dakota Johnson recently gave an interview where she says she sleeps for 14 hours a night, does transcendental meditation twice a day and has a lot of baths - especially if she feels anxious. She doesn't eat breakfast (just a latte or something) and works out a lot, strength training and pilates.

I wonder what time she goes to bed and what time she gets up? Does anyone on here sleep for more than 8 hours a day? Anyone up to the challenge of trying? What do you make of this?

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Ramalangadingdong · 12/12/2023 18:45

Doyouthinktheyknow · 12/12/2023 18:31

I’m lucky to get 8 hours. Have insomnia so often awake for several hours in the night or awake at 5am.

i don’t have time for baths and meditation etc on top! I would love that life!

I wonder how she would cope if she had our lives.

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snowplacelikehome1 · 12/12/2023 18:48

Too much exercise?

WaitingForMojo · 12/12/2023 18:49

Eight hours isn’t enough for me. Never has been. I feel sick on seven hours.
I don’t sleep 14 hours though!! I could as a young adult.

DoubleTime · 12/12/2023 18:49

If she sleeps for 14 hours no wonder she doesn't eat breakfast. Its lunchtime when she gets up

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Ramalangadingdong · 12/12/2023 18:50

Peepshowcreepshow · 12/12/2023 18:45

I don't do 10+ hours regularly, because I have a job. However, on a Friday night I typically go to bed at 10.30ish and stay asleep until lunchtime on Saturday. If I'm particularly tired, I'll go for a wee and can easily go straight back to sleep for another couple of hours.
ETA: I've always been like this, my mother always said I slept hours as a child too. DD is the same, slept amazingly from tiny and still will do 15 hours straight on a weekend.

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That sounds great - and do-able. I might give it a go. I was raised to be out of bed by 7am. Any later and I feel really lazy or something but I would love to train myself to have a proper rest, especially at the weekend.

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PersephonePomegranate23 · 12/12/2023 18:52

Sounds tedious to me! Who wants to waste their life by sleeping through so much of it?

tallsmallmum · 12/12/2023 18:52

Another Big Sleeper here. it's just the way I am. apart from the children's welfare I'll prioritise sleep over everything. bring it on 😴

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Ramalangadingdong · 12/12/2023 18:52

snowplacelikehome1 · 12/12/2023 18:48

Too much exercise?

Could be. Too much exercise and too little food. Come to think of it I went through a period where I was constantly exhausted because of a strict diet. The other time I slept for hours and hours was when I was seriously anaemic.

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ChateauDuMont · 12/12/2023 19:00

She's probably trying to outdo Gwyneth in the hippy dippy stakes!

Gwyneth - I stick scented candles up my bum and drink herbal tea made from tulips that have been grown 2000ft above sea level and tended to by virgin goats.

Dakota - I sleep for 14 hours on a pillow made from the fibres of Buddhist monk's nostril hairs that they clip once a year and spin in total silence except for the singing of a Lark.

These pretentious prats will do anything for attention.

SwooningCamille · 12/12/2023 19:01

I am lucky to sleep for about 5 hours at a time. My ideal would be 7-8. (from 10pm - 6am, in a perfect world) I get up very early as I hate wasting the day, and being asleep feels like a waste, even if I've had a rubbish night. I have been like this since childhood.

ClaireEclair · 12/12/2023 19:05

She’s known for taking the piss in interviews. Maybe this is an example of this. Watch the Architecture Digest video where she pretends to be obsessed with limes and claims her ordinary outside table was made from the wood of a famous boat (can’t remember which one).

RunningFromInsanity · 12/12/2023 19:10

ClaireEclair · 12/12/2023 19:05

She’s known for taking the piss in interviews. Maybe this is an example of this. Watch the Architecture Digest video where she pretends to be obsessed with limes and claims her ordinary outside table was made from the wood of a famous boat (can’t remember which one).

I loved her interview after that where she said she’s actually allergic to limes, a set dresser had put them there and so she had to make up some BS about why she had a random bowl of limes in her kitchen.

VeronicaSawyer89 · 12/12/2023 19:11

I could absolutely sleep for 14 hours a night if I didn't need to get up. Sometimes I do at the weekend.

InattentiveADHD · 12/12/2023 19:21

I rarely get it but need about 9 hours sleep a night. I think that's a lot. I am ND so think my sleep isn't great quality hence needing so much. 14 hours seems extreme. How does she get anything done?!?

CyberCritical · 12/12/2023 19:24

I get at most 6 hrs, have had a handful of nights in the last 10 years where I've exceeded that.

Roussette · 12/12/2023 19:25

I haven't slept for more than 9 hours for decades, when I was a teen.

I'm lucky to get 6 hours, 7 is ideal

I find sleep boring and would love it if humans could just survive on 2 or 3 hours, it's such a waste of life.

theduchessofspork · 12/12/2023 19:28

I think if you regularly sleep for 14 hours a night, you need to see a doctor.

wite · 12/12/2023 19:31

I've always thought that Chris Martin looked as dull as ditchwater. He's sending her off to
Sleep.

DrCoconut · 12/12/2023 19:34

I've been running on fumes for the last 10 years or so. A combination of kids with additional needs, a stressful divorce and lone parenthood and perimenopause have seen to it that I seldom get more than 6 hours a night. I'd say around 5 most nights. I'm acclimatised to it now I think as I get through each day but I often wonder what it would be like to be able to go to bed earlier at 11 or so and sleep with no interruptions.

TheGhostOfTheOpera · 12/12/2023 19:46

I sleep regularly 12 hours.
im also awake about 2~3 hours in the middle of the night…. And the sleep I’m getting is never quality sleep so i still wake up shattered.

14 hours makes me think her sleep is crap and she needs that much to compensate for it.

mantyzer · 12/12/2023 19:47

spriots · 12/12/2023 17:55

What she actually said was

I'm not functional if I get less than 10. I can easily go 14 hours

To me that doesn't suggest she routinely gets 14 hours

My very sporty friend sleeps 10 hours a night. But once awake she never stops.

Josette77 · 12/12/2023 19:48

She didn't say that though!

This whole thread is mocking her for something she doesn't do.

Dakota is also hilarious. I hate how seriously and sensationalized quoted from interviews are shared.

TheGhostOfTheOpera · 12/12/2023 19:49

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 12/12/2023 17:58

She spends most of her life asleep. That's pretty sad imo

I’m not sure she has a choice?

Whatever the reason someone needs that much time in bed, I’m sure that they would feel crap/become ill if they don’t get it.

christmaspaws · 12/12/2023 19:51

I sleep a lot but have chronic conditions that have fatigue as a sort of side effect of them and the medication
Usually manage on 6hrs but sometimes nap after work for 2hrs
If I was left to my own devices I could sleep for 14hrs easily

BusySittingDown · 12/12/2023 19:57

Hmm Needing to sleep for more than 8-9 hours as a grown adult is surely the sign of a medical problem!