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Do you get your8 hours sleep?

  • 05-09-2013 08:09AM
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    Site Banned Posts: 12 Shorc


    I've made a big effort recently to get 8 hours sleep per night, and it's paying off. Life is just more enjoyable. I've heard of people staying up all night studying for example, I think it's ridiculous, they'd be better off being awake, sharp, alert and productive for 16 hours.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    Never sleep for eight hours, most times a good deep six does me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,248 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    Seeing as how I just got less than 4 hours sleep just there .... up yours op :pac: *sips coffee* ahhh better.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    I usually get 6, nothing wakes me up in them mind. So they are a good 6.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    5 hours is grand.

    Thing is the earlier I get up the better. 9am am ill be ready to take on the world!!

    Yeah bitchhhh


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 175 ✭✭tosspot15


    8 isnt enough for me. Give me a good 9-10 and I'll be happy. If I'm undisturbed on a comfortable weekend I'd sleep for 12. My record stands at about 16, but that makes me feel horrible.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 12 Shorc


    New research suggests lack of sleep actually damages the brain.

    http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23932577


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭ectoraige


    I have three children.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,394 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Weekdays: about 6 hours

    Weekends: 9 or 10


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    About 6-7 weekdays.

    About 9 weekends.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    I'm lucky if I get 5. Usually 3-4. Over the past few weeks, 2-3. I'm like a fcuking zombie.


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  • Site Banned Posts: 12 Shorc


    Esoteric_ wrote: »
    I'm lucky if I get 5. Usually 3-4. Over the past few weeks, 2-3. I'm like a fcuking zombie.

    How come you get so little, you are aging your body and mind with that lifestyle.

    I didn't realise how much I was wasting my life by not getting 8 hours, without 8 hours I was enduring my day rather than enjoying it. I didn't even realise days could be enjoyed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    6-7 hours per night.

    Teething babies are great Craic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    nope get about 5 or 6 hours a night, worse at weekend, or if the GF is away then I usually just ... don't sleep really, its a solid gaming or TV binge that can last days. The odd powernap (20 mins max) does.

    There is a way if you have the time (and an understanding boss) that a 20 minute power nap once every 4 hours for a few weeks (you must be strict to the 4 hours hence the boss) will reset your clock in a way that thats all you'll need every day.
    Uberman Cycle: 20 to 30 minute naps every 4 hours, resulting in 6 naps each day. The uberman cycle is highly efficient, and usually results in feeling healthy, feeling refreshed upon waking and extremely vivid dreams. Many uberman-users report increased ability to lucid dream as well. However, the rigid schedule makes it near impossible to miss naps without feeling horribly tired. Blogger Steve Pavlina tried the cycle for 5.5 months and had amazingly positive results.He only reverted to monophasic sleep so that he could be on the same cycle as his wife and children. Read his articles and updates on the cycle here.

    More Here: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep-log-day-1/
    Other Sleep Cycles Here: http://www.highexistence.com/alternate-sleep-cycles/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    On a weekday when I'm not on holiday I'd get 2-4 hours. I have problems getting to sleep.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,029 ✭✭✭salacious crumb


    Two cats running the stairs all night and a gf who's on a ridiculous shift and who's alarm goes off at 3.35am, so no :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,050 ✭✭✭WesternZulu


    I'd be dead to the world if I didn't get my 8 hours sleep!

    Nothing worse than waking up and feeling wrecked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,394 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    I'd be dead to the world if I didn't get my 8 hours sleep!

    Nothing worse than waking up and feeling wrecked.

    I think it must be the change in seasons myself as it doesn't seem to matter how much sleep I get this week, I'm still wrecked :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    I usually get 5 hours a night.

    **** loads of coffee during the day and then binge on sleep sat/sun morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Reads like an after hours conversation between porn actors.
    realies wrote: »
    ... most times a good deep six does me.
    YbFocus wrote: »
    I usually get 6

    tosspot15 wrote: »
    8 isnt enough for me. Give me a good 9-10 and I'll be happy.
    Esoteric_ wrote: »
    I'm lucky if I get 5. Usually 3-4. Over the past few weeks, 2-3. I'm like a fcuking zombie.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,394 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    CruelCoin wrote: »
    I usually get 5 hours a night.

    **** loads of coffee during the day and then binge on sleep sat/sun morning.

    Shower first thing followed by a can of coke/club orange when I get in to the office works for me. Coffee here isn't great and I'm trying to cut back on the cappuchino's from the shop beside the office. :o


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    Usually 7-8 hours broken sleep a night. No different at the weekends. Once I wake up, I have to get out of the bed, even if still tired


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭YbFocus


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Reads like an after hours conversation between porn actors.

    That should be post of the day lads, I just made an idiot of myself laughing out loud for no apparent reason :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,255 ✭✭✭✭Esoteric_


    Shorc wrote: »
    How come you get so little, you are aging your body and mind with that lifestyle.

    I didn't realise how much I was wasting my life by not getting 8 hours, without 8 hours I was enduring my day rather than enjoying it. I didn't even realise days could be enjoyed.

    Insomnia, I don't get much choice in the matter!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,394 ✭✭✭✭_Kaiser_


    Esoteric_ wrote: »
    Insomnia, I don't get much choice in the matter!

    There's only one answer to that...



    .. Sorry! :o:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10 edrakes


    I need to get at least 8 hours sleep every night or I just feel absolutely exhausted for the whole day. I get annoyed as going to bed earlier won't help me get to sleep quicker either so if I'm up early in the morning and have had a sleeping pattern for a few weeks, it really does ruin the next day.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,096 ✭✭✭Reiketsu


    I usually get 6 during the week and 7 or 8 at the weekends. A bit longer if my daughter is with her grandparents at the weekend. I don't get up right away then either, just enjoy the fact I don't have to :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,563 ✭✭✭Duff


    Anything less than 4 and I'm a vegetable during the day. Usually get 5-6 hours on weekdays. 8-9 on weekends.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭heretochat


    I always try and get the 7 or 8 hours during the week.. Try but fail a lot of the time :confused:

    Weekends I go for mammoth 10 hours or so..

    I couldn't function on 2-3 hours...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I don't know how people do the powernaps during the day, without taking a sleeping pill It can take me 2-3 hours to fall asleep naturally, even if I'm wrecked.

    I used to sleep better it's only in the last few months that I'm finding it hard. I think too much when I'm lying in bed, I could be on the cusp of sleep then I'm wide awake again because I've remembered something else to ponder/worry over. :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 231 ✭✭remsburgsgirl


    pregnant & a 1 year old who wakes around 3 times a night ...... what is this 'sleep' thing you speak of

    I do miss my sleep though...my husband & I joke about weekends away, without the kids, in hotels with blackout blinds...a sleep getaway...how sad :D


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