It is also called segmented sleep, and unfortunately I have it. Previously when perfectly healthy and unmedicated for anything, I have my entire life woken up at 2 am and back to sleep at 4 am. Used to drive the nanny and my mom insane. Amused the guy at the sleep study that I could literally sleep in a totally dark silent room, and wake up and go back to sleep on cue.
I go to bed at 11. I wake up at 2, go back to sleep at 4. Wake up at 5, take meds and eat breakfast. Back to sleep about 6 for an hour then back up. Meds at 1, asleep about 2 until 3, back awake. Meds at 5, luckily none of them are the oens that cause drowsiness so I am actually awake until 11. Evening meds are at 9.
5 of the 11 or so meds I take cause drowsiness. And to top it off, I am on a cough syrup to superss coughing so I dont blow a lung again and it has hydrocodone in it. Yay. another drug with sleepies as a side effect. Excuse me while I just change into different jammies, I haven’t been awake for a normal day in over a week.
Usually I get 6, often 7, so voted 6.5-8. I never nap. Some nights I only get 3 or 4, simply because I don’t feel like going to bed even though I have to get up in the morning.
Sleep comes easily to me - too easily I think sometimes. I’m out about 1 minute after I lie down usually. I used to have huge problems with oversleeping and napped a lot, but that was mainly because of my eating habits - my energy levels during the day, and my ability to get up in the morning, are pretty directly related to what I put in my body, not as much to do with how much sleep I got the night before. Oddly I feel much, much better on two little sleep, rather than too much. More than 8 hours, I feel hungover when I wake up and it can last for hours (body aches, nausea, headache). But I can do just fine for quite some time on 2-4 hours per night, as long as I get some.
This “segmented sleep” thing fascinates me. I’m always awake between about 5 and 6:30 am, which means invariably I tryandtryandtry to fall back asleep, and finally conk out … about fifteen minutes before my alarm, so then I’m dragged back up out of a sound sleep, which leaves me groggy. It blows. I need to start embracing the fact that I’m just gonna be up at that hour, and find something quiet to do (so I don’t wake up the Other Shoe) until I can fall back asleep.
Of course, that’d be a helluvalot easier if I didn’t have to be dressed and in an office about the time I’d naturally wake up for good… that whole stupid “being employed” thing…
Depends on whether I’m home or away camping solo. When I camp alone (which I love), I eat dinner around 6:30 and am in bed with lights out around 9. I then wake up naturally at about 8:15. Mr. Legs is completely inflexible about his schedule and so at home we eat dinner at 8:30 (or 8:45) and lights out at about 11:30 (I can’t sleep (a) with his light/booklight on, or (b) knowing he will wake me when he comes to bed, so no point in turning in earlier). I still wake up naturally at 8:15. When camping, I have energy; when home, I am tired and often have to nap to compensate for less night sleep. Mr. Legs is so resistant to change that he is not physically capable of altering the routine at all (which was in place until 15 years ago because of my odd work schedule at the time…15 years later he still has to adhere to it). So, ideally I guess I sleep a lot…in reality, rarely enough.
Anywhere between six and ten hours. The length doesn’t seem to matter; I always wake up refreshed ever since giving up caffeine. I used to wake up with a headache no matter how long I’d been asleep.
I get around 8-9 a night, but I really don’t know how much sleep I actually need. I’ve never gone to sleep and just slept until I felt like I needed to wake up. If it’s the weekend, the voice in the back of my head saying ‘you went to bed at 10pm, it’s now 11:30am, get your ass out of bed like a civilized person’ makes me get up.
I’d like to find out if I have a genuine sleep problem or if it’s just a combo of many factors - depression/anxiety meds, obesity, lack of exercise…
Typically around 6.5 hours. Somewhere around 6.5-7 is my ideal. Eight or more hours makes me feel pretty crappy. Less than six long-term does the same.
I almost always go to bed between 11 and 11:30. But when I wake and can’t go back to sleep is a crapshoot. Anywhere between 3 and 8 AM. And I cannot figure out why it isn’t constant. I’m retired so hardly ever have to get up at any particular time. Probably most often wake between 6 and 6:30 so I checked 6.5–8.