Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

Are HN users chronically sleep deprived? Let's find out..

Approximately how much sleep do you get per night, on average?

Other questions related to the poll:

- Do you sleep continuously, or are you on a polyphasic sleep schedule?

- How does your sleep schedule affect your work and the rest of your life?

- Does the work you do affect your sleep?

I do about 6-7 on weekdays, then crash on weekends and sleep 12-13 hours. If I don't get my weekend crash and roll into the next week, I'm practically brain dead by the end of that week.

I have some respiratory problems that make the sleep quality not that great either and 6-7 often more like 3-5 depending.

I'm chronically sleep deprived. It's not healthy.

I'm also a supreme night owl, doing my best work around 6-9pm, and shutting down the brain to sleep is a constant struggle.

Don't do what I do, it's not good, but it's a vicious cycle I'm slowly breaking out of. I used to do 4-5 at night and crash 14-16 hours on weekends. So there's that.

Left to me own devices and no schedule, I'll fall into a cycle where I sleep 8.5-9 hrs, and consistently go to sleep at around 2am and wakeup at 10-10:30am. Sometimes it'll fluctuate and I'll go to sleep at 3-4am, but I'll always wake up about 8.5-9 hrs later, and I'll eventually stabilize on my 2-10 cycle.

I manage about 7 or 8 hours on weekdays. I used to get a good 9 hours until i moved into the new house. I find lack of sleep very severely affects my productivity the next day and can even continue onto the second. I would love to have a polyphasic schedule or even something that remotely alludes to it, but its difficult to pull off. I really value my sleep and i miss my afternoon naps. I used to wake up feeling extremely productive with afternoon naps.

i try get about 7.30 - 8 hours most week nights, and could get 10 or 11 during the weekend... Weekend, i probably wont go to bed till 2 or 3 am, but wont get up till 1 or 2pm... most week days in bed around 11 or 12, up for 7...

Ditto me. I know its not good for my health, trying to break free of the habit. I miss school days where I compulsorily had to get up early. Once you get up early you naturally goto bed early.