How many hours of sleep do you typically get (on a work night/school night/eve of some day where you have to be up at a respectable hour of the morning)?
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7.75 hours
Around 7.5 - 8 hours.
6-plus, but I would much prefer 8.
About 7 on most nights if I sleep through the night. Often I wake up at least once, and it can take me 30 minutes or more to go back to sleep.
I’m a night person and get a second wind about the time most people are thinking about going to bed. It’s 10:12 pm here, and I’m starting to get that second wind now. Plus I hate to see the day end. I hate getting up in the morning, though; I’m foggy and drowsy and itchy (allergies) and linger in bed as long as I can.
This is what inspired me to create the poll! Well, this and the thought “Why is Kimmy_Gibbler tired all the time?”.
I’d be most interested in a poll which showed the differences between men and women. Anecdotally, I think many women need 8 hours, and many men six.
6-9, typically around 8 ( ~12:30 - ~8:30 is pretty common ). I don’t function all that great on six and I am, unfortunately, prone to occasional bouts of insomnia.
<5 though I shoot for at least 5…
Alas, school tends to suck up those hours in the morning and insomnia at night.
I haven’t had a continuous eight hours of sleep for maybe seven years now.
I wake up in about four hours after I fall asleep and then every two hours after that.
I need ten hours to be fully rested.
Lucky for me my classes don’t start until noon and I live on campus.
I typically sleep 3-4 hours per night, with an occassional (like once every 10-15 days) 2 hour nap in the afternoon. Been this way for more than 20 years now. I get a lot done because of this, but I wish I could sleep 8-10 hours a day. I really like sleeping, I’m just not very good at it. I did have a 3 year stretch about 10 years back where I slept 6-8 hours per day/night, and that fuckin’ rocked.
I work the night shift and hate it. My body just has never adjusted to working at night and sleeping in day. I’ll sleep two hours, then wake up. Then a few hours later I’m tired and try to go back to sleep. It’s worse now that we only get about 8 hours of sunlight, I usually sleep through most of it in the wintertime.
I get 5-6 hours a night during the week. I don’t generally get off before midnight and I am up at 6:00am, 5:30am during the summer. I occasionally grab a nap for 10-15 minutes, most often if fatigue hits me driving home or in the middle of the arvo (like about now).
When I do sleep, I sleep pretty hard, though - a consequence of working out for a couple of hours most days.
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I prefer 8. Lately I have insomnia and get 5 or 6.
In bed at 11, up at 5 during the work week. Usually an extra hour on weekends.
I’m just the opposite: I work day shift and hate it. When I worked nights, I was so much more awake and able to do my job better. But since I’ve started exercising regularly, I have been able to sleep through the night. I’d still prefer to work overnights, though.
Tends to be around 5 1/2. 2 to 7.30ish, though I have been known to doze after for a little.
During the week I tend put myself to bed by 12-12:30ish, up at 7. Weekends are a crapshoot–my internal clock “wants” to run on a much longer day cycle, so I find myself staying up until 4-5AM if I’m not watching the clock.
Less than 5. Last night I got about 3.5. I’d tired most of the time and tend to catch up at the wkend by just staying in bed and having long lie-ins.
Insomnia is a bitch and it’s taken it’s toll on me mentally. I’m generally irritable and not firing on all cylinders. It’s a real pain.
Due to stress at work and family problems I have been averaging between 3 and 4 hours per night for almost a year. Sometimes I don’t sleep more than an hour per day for three days running. It really is a remarkable experience, of being always tired but unable to sleep.