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Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

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Re: Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

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Post by finnw »

bane wrote: post #3

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…

> I'm also a supreme night owl, doing my best work around 6-9pm ...

Me too, and I get 6-7 hours of sleep a night, yet I do not feel "sleep deprived" at all.

Re: Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

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Post by vgrichina »

bane wrote: post #3

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…

Try adding a nap in the middle of the weekdays, it should make you feel much better (around half an hour should be enough)

Re: Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

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Post by DTanner »

kahawe wrote: post #15

Those with 10 and more hours each night on average: how do you do that, don't you miss those hours for doing stuff and do you just like it or would less hours actually make you feel tired and sleep-deprived?

Well, let's say you sleep 6 hours a night, and some one asks you: "If you slept 2 hours less each night, image what you could accomplish with that extra two hours every day. Just start sleeping 4 hours a night and eventually you'll get used to it!".

For some of us 10+ hours is a biological necessity, I've tried forcing myself to sleep exactly 8 hours a night for two weeks at a time and it destroys me mentally, every waking hour is torture because I'm so sleep deprived.

Re: Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

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Post by Tycho »

4-6 hours on week nights but I try to compensate by skipping 9 or 10 hours at weekends. The reason I get so little is spending too long in the office and then unwilling to simply go to sleep at normal time having enjoyed hardly any leisure time. Plus I start work at 6.30am.

Re: Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

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Post by jamii »

kahawe wrote: post #15

Those with 10 and more hours each night on average: how do you do that, don't you miss those hours for doing stuff and do you just like it or would less hours actually make you feel tired and sleep-deprived?

I vary from 6 to 10 hours depending on the season. It averages out.

Re: Poll: How much sleep do you get per night?

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Post by manuscreationis »

I think the real question is: "How much quality sleep per night do you get?"

I roll into bed around 10:30 or 11:00pm, to wake up at 6:30.

Assuming I sleep the whole time, that makes it look like I'd be getting about ~8 hours on average.

Factor in it takes about 20-30 minutes to fall asleep, brings it down to ~7:30 hours of sleep.

Factor in time spent tossing and turning during the night, laying in bed in that "I'm not fully awake, but I'm damn sure not asleep" mode, and that brings it down to at least ~5:00 hours of sleep, if not less. This isn't every night, but it is common.

Added to that, my s/o works odd hours, and so I get woken up at least once per night about 3 hours before 6:30 am no matter what, which means i'll spend the next 20-30 falling back asleep, if I can - some times it's a few hours of the aforementioned not sleeping / not waking phase.

On a good night, my quality sleep is probably 6 hours.

On a bad night, probably 2 to 3.

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