I try to sleep in three hour chunks; I find that that's my natural cycle, so six hours is better for me than 7.5. I usually go to sleep around 10 and wake up around 5.
Poll: How much do you sleep?
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#12I honestly wish I could live on 6 hours of sleep; I feel like I'd get much more done that way. Since college, I've never been able to go without 9 hours of sleep without paying for it the next day or that weekend at the most.
It depends a lot on your physiology. A certain number of people need 8 or more hours to feel "good" when they wake up. You have to live with what you got :) Until someone invents some sleep supplements to cut down on sleep time or something.
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#13I pretty much need 8-9 hours of sleep on a routine basis to function normally. I can get by on ~7 for a few nights, but I am definitely less effective. Anything less than 6 hours, I basically feel like shit the next day and I can rarely (if ever) do that more than 1 or 2 nights in a row. After that, I'm done.
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#14My first child turned 14 months yesterday.
For the duration of his life I've operated on 5-7 hours total every night. I (and my co.) were just acqui-hired, but prior to that I was in the 5th year of startup hustle, which became infinitely harder with a newborn.
The difference is that I appreciate the value of sleep more than I did before. During a near-acquisition a few years ago I was sleeping 3 hours a night thinking this was the solution to deadlines.
For anyone who has lived through that first 6 months or so, you know you never really sleep. Even if you get 6 hours, it's peppered with wakeups, rockings, diaper changes and feedings.
Last night I slept about 5 hours and I feel the way I used to feel with 8. This could be a function of age, but I feel like my body is acclimating to an abbreviated sleep schedule. This has led me to believe that people who "need" 8 hours of sleep can train their body to need less.
That said, if you can sleep, for god's sake do it. Once this kid starts sleeping past 6:15 I'm going to go nuts on the weekends.
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#15I honestly wish I could live on 6 hours of sleep; I feel like I'd get much more done that way. Since college, I've never been able to go without 9 hours of sleep without paying for it the next day or that weekend at the most.
It depends a lot on your physiology. A certain number of people need 8 or more hours to feel "good" when they wake up. You have to live with what you got :) Until someone invents some sleep supplements to cut down on sleep time or something.
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I'm the same, it might be worth getting checked for delayed sleep phase disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder).
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#175 - 6 hours. I feel terrible all the time. I have stupidly never seriously tried to fix my sleep habits. I'm going to go to bed early tonight
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#18There is a lot of folklore about successful people needs 4, 3 and even 2 hrs of sleep, such as this article:
http://www.businessinsider.com/successful-ceo-sleep-schedule...
But I am not sure how much of that is being selective in truth telling (it is easier to state that one has gotten by with as little as N hours of sleep, even though that isn't one's average) and being competitive/boastful as it can be a mark of pride.
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#19A more interesting poll would accept a vector rather than scalar value. For me, over the last week, my sleep cycle:
Sunday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day
Monday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day
Tuesday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 2 different 1 hour naps in the day
Wednesday: 4 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day
Thursday: 5 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day
Friday: 5 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day
Saturday: 9 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day
Sunday: 10 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day
We had a deadline at work this week, and several times I stayed up late, writing code, trying to meet the deadline. So my sleep cycle was completely scrambled, last week and this week. I've been only partially catching up over the last 2 days.
I would think the average amount of sleep is less interesting than the variance people demonstrate, in their own lives, over the course of a month or a year.
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#20A more interesting poll would accept a vector rather than scalar value. For me, over the last week, my sleep cycle: Sunday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day Monday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day Tuesday: 3 hours of sleep at night, 2 different 1 hour naps in the day Wednesday: 4 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day Thursday: 5 hours of sleep at night, 1 hour nap in the day…
this isn't related, but do you by any chance work at Mississippi State?