# How Much Do You Sleep **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 10, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-sleep/542602 "2010-06-10T01:22:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-sleep/542602/41 "2010-06-13T02:15:34Z")
I “suffer” from [segmented sleep](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep) complicated my medications that make me drowsy. I go to bed at my normal time, typically 9 pm and fall asleep fairly quickly. I wake up at midnight, and force myself to go back to sleep with meditation, which usually takes about half an hour. If I can’t get myself back to sleep, it is usually about 3 am by the time i can go back to sleep. I wake up at 5 am to take meds, and socializlize with hubby - breakfast and pills. I have a major sleep attack as in heroin addict quality nods. I couldn’t stay awake if you were prodding me with a gun. I go back to sleep at 6, and wake up at 8 or 830 and do whatever until shortly after my 1pm meds, which put me back to sleep, I wake up about 1.5 hours later or so and am good until my 9 pm meds, which pop me off into lala land shortly afterwards. # of the 7 meds I am on have drowsiness as a side effect :rolleyes: but if I don’t take them, I don’t have a very good chance of staying alive for very long. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-sleep/542602/42 "2010-06-13T02:20:08Z")
I usually get 6 to 7 hours during the week but closer to 8 or 9 on the weekends. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-sleep/542602/43 "2010-06-13T18:07:23Z")
I usually sleep 10 hours a night. I’m a hypersomniac. It’s not uncommon for me to drift off for 12 to 15 hours. My record for sleeping is about 30 hours straight. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-sleep/542602/44 "2010-06-13T18:53:55Z")
I’d prefer to sleep longer, but I find that, if I sleep more than 8 hours for more than a couple of days, I wake up very sore, and actually very tired, but sleeping only makes it worse. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-sleep/542602/45 "2010-06-13T19:04:04Z")
Thanks to my idiot dog, I can never sleep in, so I might get 7 hours on the weekend, but my usual weeknight sleep routine is 6-ish hours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-sleep/542602.md?page=2)