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View Poll Results: How much do you sleep on an average night?
0-2 hrs 2 1.31%
2-4 hrs 4 2.61%
4-6 hrs 36 23.53%
6-8 hrs 79 51.63%
8+ hrs 32 20.92%
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Old 03-21-2007, 06:41 AM   #41 (permalink)
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I like about 7 to 8 hours, but sometimes only get 6. On weekends I sleep until I want to get up. That usually works out as about 8 hours anyway. Sometimes it seems like no amount of sleep is enough - I have no idea why. Recently I have been going to sleep at about midnight and find myself quite awake at about 7 am which is weird for me because I really like my bed. Go figure...
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Old 03-22-2007, 07:21 AM   #42 (permalink)
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As I have grown a bit older and the choice to be a responsible adult who must manage day to day activity - the priority of sleep seems to become less and less.

4-6 hours is all I need.
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Old 03-22-2007, 07:37 AM   #43 (permalink)
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Sleep is a really big issue for me. If I get too much I get a migraine and if I get to little I also get a migraine. I have to get exactly the same amount every night. 8 hours is perfect for me.
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Old 03-22-2007, 07:47 AM   #44 (permalink)
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I usually make do with 4-6 hours.

The amount of sleep I've been getting for the past few years has been a lifetime high for me. I've had reoccurring bouts of severe insomnia ever since the age of 8. At its worst, I went for periods longer than a week without any sort of healthy sleep. I've been studied, evaluated, and been prescribed just about every sleep medication there is.

It turns out that the best cure for my insomnia was getting married and procuring a bunch of animals. I don't know what it is, but having my wife and a bunch of furry critters in bed seems to trigger some kind of den instinct that works every time.
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Old 03-23-2007, 10:38 AM   #45 (permalink)
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I try to get about the same amount of sleep each night. Usually 7 to 8 hours. This never really works long though - I'm often going to bed later Friday nights or Saturday nights or getting up later Saturday or Sunday mornings. I'm also one of those people that can get migraines from a f'ed up sleep schedule...luckily the migraines don't happen often.
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Old 03-23-2007, 05:33 PM   #46 (permalink)
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6-8 hours.
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Old 03-23-2007, 10:58 PM   #47 (permalink)
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I don't think I've ever felt that I slept "too much" like some people are saying. I seem to possess a bottomless pit of sleep requirement.

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I'm quite jealous. I wish I had such a malleable schedule.
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Old 03-24-2007, 07:26 PM   #48 (permalink)
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I can estimate that I get around 6-7 hours of sleep on any typical night.

But here comes the kicker:

If for any reason I stay awake past midnight or beyond 75 min. of my usual ahem... *bedtime*(I usually go to bed around 9 or 10), my body needs a FULL 12 HOURS OF REST in order for proper functions to resume.

It's rightly strange, but let's set up the scenario: say I go out on the town to several clubs and don't get home until 2a.m. I would not be able to get up any earlier than 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, and what really sucks about this is that my internal clock has now been reset, causing my body to believe it is morning like any other day although I may awaken late in the afternoon.

So, I go about being an insomniac for a couple of days before I can properly revert back to the Snooze Groove that I am used to.

It's righty bizarre.
I wonder if anyone else here functions similarly?

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Old 03-24-2007, 07:44 PM   #49 (permalink)
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I'm lucky if I get 2 hours. I think this past week I've had a total of 5 from Sunday until today.

give me some of that


i'm a 4-6'er .. i consider sleep to be a necessary evil.
i'd rather not, but i'd rather not be tired, either.

consistency is key, for me.

even on weekends ... the alarm wake-up time stays the same.
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Old 03-24-2007, 08:31 PM   #50 (permalink)
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if i go undistubed i can sleep 12+ hours.

if im on speed i can go without any for days..weeks. lmao

usually 6-8 gets me good.
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Old 05-29-2007, 02:10 PM   #51 (permalink)
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The insomnia has taken ahold again.

I'd be lucky to get in a good four hours a day.

I think I need to get some well-deserved rest.
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Old 05-29-2007, 03:19 PM   #52 (permalink)
 
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Going from my last 10 years (undergrad/teaching/grad school) of pulling several all-nighters a semester, and generally getting less than 6 hours of sleep a night (if I was lucky), I think I've entered a fairly balanced stage now that I'm no longer taking coursework. Even though I have to wake up early for the fish factory, I still get at least 6 hours, often closer to 7 on weekdays, and 9+ on the weekends. Being married helps a lot with this pursuit... and not being in a long-distance relationship anymore (now we're just a few feet apart, lol)!

But, I know this is just a lull for a few years before we start having kids... then the sleep will drop again to ungodly levels. Let's not talk about that.
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Old 05-29-2007, 03:29 PM   #53 (permalink)
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5-10. so voted for 6-8

sometimes it's great to wake up and notice that you went around the clock.. 12+ hrs means although that there has been some serious partying the preceeding dayz..
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Old 05-29-2007, 04:58 PM   #54 (permalink)
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I need at least 12 hours and that's my average. Sometimes I only get 8-10 hours, but on other days I sleep up to 16 hours. I spend more time in bed than anywhere else ^_^
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Old 05-29-2007, 09:01 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Well I said I need 8+ hours, but see it does ask how much do I average, so that would be different. In an ideal world I'd sleep 9 hours per night and would feel great. I usually get between 4 and 6 though. I stay up for most of the night and sleep until about 11am. I start work in the afternoon though, so that's why. I love sleeping and I love my bed. I have slept ridiculous amounts at times (like 14 hours) and then I feel like shit, mostly guilty for sleeping so long, but sometimes I think my body needs it. If I go days with very little sleep I start to feel like I used to when I was methed out, and that's not good. Sometimes people don't realize how bad constant lack of sleep is. Well for me anyways. When you start feeling like you did on drugs, not a good thing haha. I wish my sleeping patterns were more consistent though. I wish I could go to bed earlier too, but I am so much a nightowl.
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Old 05-30-2007, 02:56 AM   #56 (permalink)
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I need at least 18 hours of sleep every day, without which i just cannot go on being the super-human, opera composing, masterpeice painting, sonet writing, charity fundraising, cancer curing HeGod that i normally am.

Most of the time i'm lucky to get by on 8, or i start getting really testy.
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Old 05-30-2007, 02:54 PM   #57 (permalink)
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There's a bit of a discrepancy here... the title of the thread is "How much sleep do you need?" but the poll asks how much I sleep on an average night. Those are two very different questions.

I need around 8-10 but I have learned to function on the 6 I get on an average night. I can even function on 4 a night for less than three nights in a row if I have to.
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Old 05-30-2007, 06:16 PM   #58 (permalink)
 
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I'll note that i need 6 to 8 hrs like i said before but to clarify, ITS NON STOP!
if the fucking cat wakes me up again, i'm going to install a spring door so that it's always closed.
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Old 06-01-2007, 09:52 AM   #59 (permalink)
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I used to require 9 hours of sleep, if not more. I'm not sure why that was, but anything before 9 hours would make me feel groggy.

Now things have changed. I can have anywhere between 6-8 hours of sleep and I'm good to go!

I wonder why this is..
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Old 06-08-2009, 12:27 PM   #60 (permalink)
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I get 6-8 Hrs of sleep!!
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Old 06-08-2009, 12:34 PM   #61 (permalink)
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between 1 and 4. I never get more with my work/schooling
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Old 06-08-2009, 01:32 PM   #62 (permalink)
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I get about 4 hrs on a good night.
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Old 06-08-2009, 02:30 PM   #63 (permalink)
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4-6.

My favorite parts of the day are late night and early morning when it's still dark. So I have this little window where I can catch some z's yet still get my happy-me-time.
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Old 06-08-2009, 02:55 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Ideally, about 7.5.
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