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

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Post by PhrosTT »

dlikhten wrote: post #80

If I get If I get 6-6.5 hrs of sleep, I am decent most of the day. If I get 7+ hrs of sleep, I am good. If I get 9 hrs of sleep, I be at my sharpest that day. Usually I get between 6 and 7 hrs of sleep a day (in bed by 00:00-00:40, wake up at 07:00) I also can get between 15-30 minutes of sleep on the bus and potentially another 15-30 on the way back. Things that affect my sleep, or ability to stay awake: 1) Coffee/S…

If I lift I usually feel worse the next day. This is because my body wants extra sleep to recover.

However, it does help me to fall asleep faster and I'm certainly not advocating NOT exercising.

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

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Post by jontas »

I find that if I work late (~11pm or so) I can't fall asleep for a few hours. Programming gets my mind wound up and wired in a way nothing else does, and I need some real relaxation time before I can sleep.

Unfortunately I find myself working that late all the time, which means I don't get to sleep until 1. Hoping to change that cycle soon, though.

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

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Post by nagrom »

JJMalina wrote: post #82
nagrom wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Beer may help you sleep, but it will, in my experience, leave you feeling groggy the next day and impair your performance more than you would have suffered through lack of sleep. There are many good reasons to drink beer, but to help you sleep and improve performance ain't one of 'em.

Like you mentioned, that in your experience it leave you groggy, personally I think this depends on the person and how their body reacts to beer. I've found that one beer (500 ml) at least an hour or two before sleep doesn't leave me groggy in the morning at all. If I drank beer right before sleep that probably wouldn't work well.

Well, one pint an hour or two before bed time wouldn't leave me groggy the next morning either, but it also wouldn't help me sleep at all ;-)

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

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Post by foz »

waldr wrote: post #86

I was getting around 4 hours sleep per night until I made a change and stopped taking my laptop to bed! Instead I make sure I leave it out of my bedroom and read a book to wind down for 30-45 mins before sleeping. This has drastically improved my sleeping patterns. As much as I thought spending an hour or 2 reading online before sleep would be ok, it'd send me into a cycle and I simply didn't sleep at all.

I have also found that reading a "real" book in bed is the most effective way for me to fall asleep.

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

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Post by gnosis »

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 bet a lot of them are unemployed. This survey should really be correlated with how many hours a day the person in question works. It's very likely those who can afford to sleep longer have to work less.

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Post by mindcrime »

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…

That's pretty close to my pattern as well. I get my best work done late at night, so there's a chronic temptation to stay up late... but when I was working the $dayjob, I had to be at the office by 9:30am, so I went sleep-deprived all week, then would crash hard late Friday night or early Saturday morning and sleep like 12 hours.

Left entirely to my own devices, I'd sleep about 8 hours a night, but I'd wind up gravitating to a pattern of staying up until 6 or 7 am, and then sleeping until 2 or 3 pm.

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Post by bane »

vgrichina wrote: post #32
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)

I agree, when I worked at a place where I could, I did, and it made the day much better.

Unfortunately, working on a contract at a customer location doesn't offer me much nap time.

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

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Post by bane »

umjames wrote: post #81
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…

Do the respiratory problems include sleep apnea? If so, do you use a mask?

I use a nose clip (sometimes called a nasal dilator) that has improved my sleep quality tremendously. I used to wake up feeling dizzy and cotton headed. I usually couldn't cognitively function until mid-afternoon and felt like I had a sinus infection every morning. It's made a huge difference. I wake up clear headed, my wife says I don't snore as badly, and I've started remembering my dreams again suggesting I'm getting quality REM sleep again.

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

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Post by bane »

finnw wrote: post #31
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.

My wife sleeps comfortably on a 6-7 hour schedule. That's just what she needs. We've tried to lock sleep cycles together, but I usually end up in pretty bad shape after 3 or 4 weeks, and she'll be perfectly fine.

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

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Post by vgrichina »

bane wrote: post #107
vgrichina wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I agree, when I worked at a place where I could, I did, and it made the day much better. Unfortunately, working on a contract at a customer location doesn't offer me much nap time.

Maybe you can try to explain customer that it is needed to improve your productivity? I think any sane customer would understand that.
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