How many sleep hours do you get?

binarysoul

8-10 hours

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I've found out that one can stand man deprivations in life, but not sleeplessness.

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Daniel333

6 normally... sometimes 7 if I am lucky.

UnixGuy

7-5 hrs

sometimes 8 if I'm lucky.

when I sleep 5 hours or less for one or more days I feel dead, I try to compensate by sleeping 8 hours or so

JavonR

my rule of thumb is 9 hours of sleep per night. It can change depending how busy I am, but I like to keep it around that range

amp2030

I find it's more a function of when I wake up than how much total sleep I get. I'm a night-owl, I hate mornings. I try to get around 8h a night, but I feel more tired sleeping 12-7 than 4-10, despite the extra hour. In fact, I probably wouldn't be able to fall asleep at 12 anyway. And drastic timezone switches don't help either.

undomiel

I usually end up with 6 hours or less during nights that result in a work day next and 7, sometimes 8, for the nights leading to weekend days. I have sadly lost the art of sleeping in so I usually find myself awake at 3 or 4 am.

phantasm

Maybe 5-6 hours if I'm lucky. I've slept for as long as 15hrs and as little as 0 hours.

EdTheLad

At the moment i'm averaging about 4-5 hrs a night, roll on the Chrismas break.

royal

About 6.

ladiesman217

about 7. I wonder why some people can sleep as little as 3 to 4 hours and they still have the energy.

shednik

6-7 usually but usually the lesser

jamesleecoleman

I get about 6 hours during school days and 8-12 for the weekends.

cisco_trooper

binarysoul wrote:

8-10 hours .

I've found out that one can stand man deprivations in life, but not sleeplessness.

Wowsers. You are one lucky SOB. Enjoy it while you can...

I'd say I average about 6. I get 7 sometimes, but not very often. I do get 8 on Saturdays, but that's about it.

Back in the day I habitually rolled on 3 - 4 hours...EVERY DAY OF EVERY WEEK. I also found myself addicted to caffeine and suffering from psycho-motor agitation and it one day it caught up with me. During that period about once every six weeks I would fail to wake up when the alarm went off and I would sleep literally all day long and have no idea until I woke up around 8pm that night. Literally 15 - 20 hours of sleep.

keenon

about 6-7 on average.. i used to get only 3-5 per night

dynamik

I have problems falling asleep. I'd probably feel the best with around eight, but I usually get six or less.

nel

Around 6 usually give or take. depends on the workload etc you know...and that thing called xbox live

Kaminsky

Since my early teenage years it takes me hours for my brain to slow down enough for me to sleep. Otherwise I just lay there with my mind jumping from one random thought to another. Now mid 40s and still the same. Typically 5-6 hours a night if I am lucky. Sometimes less than that for days on end if I am worried about something.

My wife can sleep 9 hours a night no problem and my younger brother is even more irritating. He can practically fall asleep on request whenever he needs to.

Mrock4

I function best at 4-6 hrs. Any less, or any more and I am out of it. I do get 8-9 on the weekends though.

bertieb

I'd *like* around 8-9 hours. However, it depends on how much water my two dogs drink before they go to sleep... (so usually I get around 6 before being woken up)

dave0212

Generally 6-7 hours unless I get woken up by muppets at work at 2am (like last night) when I'm on call because they have f**ked something up

I need some

HeroPsycho

Usually 6-7 hours on the weekends, and 8-12 hours on vacations/holidays/weekends. I'm on vacation now, and I've been getting about 10 hours of sleep a night. It's very nice.

GT-Rob

If I work the next day, 4-6hrs tops.

If I have the next day off, 8-14hrs

Thankfully I have more days off than on (12hr shifts)

RussS

This IT game seems to cause sleeplessness. These days I usually 6/7 but often only 5/6 as I have been afflicted by waking at odd hours with the mind working overtime.
Back a few years when I was not in the industry, but running hotel maintenance and doing the band thing I would have 2/3 hrs for 3-4 nights and then 8/10 for a couple until I was balanced.
When I was a youngster - a solid 6. Back then though I slept like a log and nothing short of an airstrike would wake me. I could also sleep anytime and anywhere - like in the cab of my truck between races when I was racing motocross. My tech used to wake me in time to make the start line. Used to sleep a bunch at school too .... and the teachers never seemed to notice

The thing to understand is that anywhere from 5 - 9 is OK, but it is the quality of that sleep that is important. Having 12 hrs sleep is hopeless if you have one ear listening to a hard drive doing a partition recovery or something like that.

gorebrush

Around 5-7 weeknights, and 7-8 on weekends.

gojericho0

Anywhere for 6-8. I really need close to 8 to function my best though

photex

Most of the time I end up with about 5.5 hours.
Must add that I used to get more, but since I became a daddy I got cut back to 5.5 hours

vCole

Last night I got 8. Usually 6-8 hours.

LarryDaMan

dynamik wrote:

I have problems falling asleep. I'd probably feel the best with around eight, but I usually get six or less.

Me too. Ambien has been great for that. It has this weird effect on me of seemingly storing up dreams. When I take it, I don't dream... then when I don't take it, I dream constantly ALL night. I like Ambien too much.

Mishra

5-8 hours on the weekdays
7-12 hours on the weekends

Normally I am in bed at 10-11pm and wake at 5:30am which gives me 6-7 1/2 hours. On the weekends I get in bed around 1am to 10am-12pm.

jamesp1983

most of the time around 6.

jbaello

I really need 8 1/2 hours but just been getting 7 1/2 lately arghhh...