Sleeping

Luxie

Sanjuro wrote: »

Weekdays, usually about 6 hours.

Although I've been having vicious bouts of insomnia recently.

Snap. I can stay awake all night, and at best I'm at that stage where I'm asleep enough to be dreaming but not deeply asleep enough to be 'out of it'.

So I can go around like a zombie all day, and then it gets to 11.00 or whenever, and I'm wide awake again.

Maybe I should get a job where I work nights.

Cathmandooo

8

7 hours when I've work in the morning, could easily sleep 12 hours on the weekend, I love my sleep! Used to love my nap on the train home from work, but I don't get the train anymore.

Piste

During college usually 7/8 (not counting dozing off in lectures/library), sometimes 9 if I can get myself to bed for 11. At the weekend when I dont have to get up I'm usually recharging after the week so more than 12. During Summer if I'm not working and have nothing to get up for, easily 10+ hours a night.




I sleep more than almost anything.

o1s1n

8

Piste wrote: »

During Summer if I'm not working and have nothing to get up for, easily 10+ hours a night.




I sleep more than almost anything.

I was like that for years. Especially in college (and those long jobless summers)

Got really interested in Lucid dreaming. Of course you have to sleep to do that..so I spent even longer in bed.

Then I realized I was sleeping my life away. I'll have plenty of time to do that when I'm dead.

Saying that, I'm really looking forward to my Saturday lie in!

kfallon

Prob get on average about 7, find it impossible to lie in tho unless I've a really bad hangover!

Luxie

o1s1n wrote: »

I was like that for years. Especially in college (and those long jobless summers)

Got really interested in Lucid dreaming. Of course you have to sleep to do that..so I spent even longer in bed.

Then I realized I was sleeping my life away. I'll have plenty of time to do that when I'm dead.

Saying that, I'm really looking forward to my Saturday lie in!

Hmm I think that's what I've been doing.

Luxie

kfallon wrote: »

Prob get on average about 7, find it impossible to lie in tho unless I've a really bad hangover!

Opposite, I can wake up impossibly early if I've been out the night before.

Dudess

7

I don't require that much sleep - five/six hours a night will do me. I'm on evening shifts at the mo and can't sleep til stupidly late, yet I still wake early-ish so I might only get three or four hours' sleep, but it's fine. If anything, a long sleep makes me absolutely drained. I would avoid taking sleeping tablets. Once, I took a hayfever tablet with obvious sleeping tablet properties, and it knocked me out for 15 hours and I was just more tired after that than I've ever been. Strange how it goes...

That said, I could never NOT sleep - the relatively short sleeps I have are still essential for me, and my heart goes out to insomniacs. Must be awful.

o1s1n

8

Luxie wrote: »

Hmm I think that's what I've been doing.

I got to a point where going to sleep was like going on some mad adventure. It was amazing. There are devices you can get are meant to help you lucid dream. I found what worked for me was to stay up really late and then sleep with curtains open. When the sun came up and shone on my face face it would kick it all off.

I've heard nicotine patches have crazy effects on your mind while you're sleeping too. I'd have tried it out if I knew about it back then.

But we all have to work I guess. 6/7 hours a night with work and I can't remember any of my dreams at all anymore

RobbieTheRobber

I got a sleep cycle app for my iphone which uses body movements to try and wake you in a 30 minute window before your alarm time when your not in deep sleep.

Have found I do wake up less tired although that could be down to the fact that once i started monitoring my sleep i noticed i was getting an average of about 4 1/2 hours a night and tried to change that.
I was never realy that tired except for a half hour os so when I woke up.

Strange

Cheap Thrills!

I'm a sleep fiend. I love sleep more than anything. I sleep about 10 hours a night (more if I could)

I could sleep for 24-48 hours no problem. Pure pleasure!

I view sleeping as a recreational activity. I fall asleep the minute my head hits the pillow.

But I can't 'nap' during the day, y'know that madness of sleeping for an hour or something.....just can't do it. If I know I have to be up in less than 4/5 hours then I can't relax enough to drop off. I'll just have pure stage fright.

I can't believe some people said they didn't like sleep and think sleeping's a waste of time!!! :eek: Insanity!

stovelid

5

Getting 3-4 at the minute.

Usually I need/get between 6-7 a night.

rainbow kirby

7

Very rarely more than 8 hours a night, and usually more like 6.

Luxie

o1s1n wrote: »

I got to a point where going to sleep was like going on some mad adventure. It was amazing. There are devices you can get are meant to help you lucid dream. I found what worked for me was to stay up really late and then sleep with curtains open. When the sun came up and shone on my face face it would kick it all off.

I've heard nicotine patches have crazy effects on your mind while you're sleeping too. I'd have tried it out if I knew about it back then.

But we all have to work I guess. 6/7 hours a night with work and I can't remember any of my dreams at all anymore

Not sure I'm keen myself, but I love how 'realistic' they were, and I'd 'wake up' periodically, but then 'fall asleep' again, and the dream just picked up where it left. Like a nightly soap opera or summat.

Fago!

Bout 10-12 a weekday. more on a weekend.

mikemac

5

4 realy, maybe 5 at weekends.

Used to work nights and 3 cycle shifts for months at a time.
You'll soon manage to cope

People in work seem surprised at how few hours, works for me I guess

Head down to the car in the carpark at lunch somedays, a 20 minute nap and you feel great

Davidius

I generally need at least 8 to properly function but I'd have to be sleeping for almost 10 hours to feel completely well rested.

I don't get nearly enough in college. Last year I averaged 6-7 hours and found it hard to think straight as well as making my voice sound weak.

PeterIanStaker

5

I get between 4 and 6 hours a night, but then sometimes I do a night shift and that really screws up my sleep pattern, especially when I do 8pm - 8am a few days in a row.

Adyx

5

I only sleep when I'm tired so I could stay awake for up to 2 days at a time then sleep. Even when I am sleeping regularly, it's usually just for 3 or 4 hours at a time but I might do this twice in 1 "day".

Prof.Badass

After being an undersleeper my whole life I've gone the other way in the last year or so.

I'd rather be a 7 hour person like i used to be though. You feel so much fresher and motivated to do stuff. Now I'm just lazy and groggy the whole time (sounds kinda counter-intuitive but if I sleep too much my brain decides there's nothing urgent in my life so I can take it easy).

Also, this thread can basically be renamed "who has to get up early in the morning" :pac:.

kylith

I get about 6 hours during the week and about 10-12 hours at the weekends. I love weekends.

itac

7

For me, it averages about somewhere between 5-6 hours, depending on the night (and of course, the company:D).......I rarely sleep properly though, 2 hours here, an hour there, another hour or two, and some "hit the snooze" button time, and that's usually my night.

Unless of course, I have to be up ridiculously early and then sleep is nigh on impossible....been like that for the last 15 years or so though, so I'm kinda used to it....