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How many hours sleep you get a night?

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    #32
    Penny Tration
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    About 6 hours usually. I could really do with more, I'm exhausted unless I get 7 hours of sleep, but I can't stomach the thought of being asleep by 10pm just to get up at 5am for work, so I'm usually asleep by 11-11.30pm.


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    #33
    NIMAN
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    Not enough.


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    #34
    lawlolawl
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    Maybe six hours and I'll wake up 2 or 3 times a night and just lie there having an existential crisis for a few minutes.


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    #35
    Rubberlegs
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    Usually sleep from about 11.30 till 3 or 4 if I'm lucky. Then doze on and off,toss and turn and torment myself worrying till the youngest is up at 7ish. I spend my life in a shattered daze :(


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    #36
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Mars Bar wrote: »
    12 hours and still tired? I recommend a trip to the doctor!

    Sleeping too long makes you more tired than not getting enough sleep.


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    #37
    Capt'n Midnight
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    **Timbuk2** wrote: »
    The amount of coffee I drink is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I've had.
    Sleep is a poor substitute for caffeine.


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    #38
    jester77
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    Around 5 hours on a good night.

    My typical day starts at 7 if the kids don't wake me earlier. Get them ready, get breakfast into them, off to the creche, then to work, home at 7:30, help get kids into bed. All that is done by 8:30, then start dinner, finished cooking and eating by 9:30. Clean up the house, odd jobs, done by 10:30. Then hit the gym for an hour or so. Get to sit on the couch around midnight, relax and watch a bit of TV until 2 and go to bed. Rinse and repeat.


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    #39
    pauliebdub
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    Sometimes as little as 3 hours. Sleeping pills help but make me feel very groggy the next day. I don't drink coffee or anything with caffeine and take plenty of exercise but nothing works. I'd give anything for a good night's sleep and to wake up feeling refreshed.


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    #40
    IamtheWalrus
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    pauliebdub wrote: »
    Sometimes as little as 3 hours. Sleeping pills help but make me feel very groggy the next day. I don't drink coffee or anything with caffeine and take plenty of exercise but nothing works. I'd give anything for a good night's sleep and to wake up feeling refreshed.

    Try psychotherapy.


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    #41
    beks101
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    About 5 during the working week when i have to get up at 5.30am, about 9 on weekends when I'll lie in until 9 or 10.

    Total night owl though. Love my bed but it's taken me about ten years to train myself to be in it before midnight.


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    #42
    TerrorFirmer
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    About 6 to 7 hours on average, sometimes an hour extra on weekends, but I think 6 to 7 is just what's ideal for my body as I always wake up after that time. As long as I get over 4 I'm OK the next day really (but wouldn't fancy it on an ongoing basis). My dad only sleeps around 4 hours a night and has done since I was young, not sure how he copes with that.


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    #43
    Rum Ham!
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    Usually 8 hours. I used to stay up quite late and get less but I've started going to bed earlier the last year or so. Was hard to get to sleep for a long time when I started going to bed earlier


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    #44
    midnight city
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    7 hours but id usually be up 2 or 3 times to the toilet.


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    #45
    LordSutch
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    6.


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    #46
    Cupcake_Crisis
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    I like at least 7. I rarely sleep all the way through, so an hour od that is taken up by tossing and turning or needing to use the loo. If I set my alarm and it says 'alarm set for 6 hours and....' I get very agitated.

    I can function on a lot less if I need to, but for no more than 2 or 3 days. I love my sleep.


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    #47
    whoopsadoodles
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    Usually between 6-7 depending on what's on. Tend to wake a couple if times during the night.

    Last night alarm was set for 5:50am and got to sleep about 11:30pm.

    Didn't wake at all during the night and so got a shock when the alarm went off.

    Tired now :rolleyes:


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    #48
    Shannon757
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    I slept from 12:30 to 5:30 and I'm not tired in the slightest. No caffeine either, just water.


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    #49
    notsoyoungwan
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    5-6 hours. Would love to be able to sleep-in but I always wake around 5.15/5.30am , on weekdays and weekends.


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    #50
    _Brian
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    About 6 when things are good. Bit of Insomnia creeping back in at the moment and it's 3-4 in recent days.


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    #51
    Riddle101
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    Between 6 - 8 hours. But it varies from time to time. Sometimes I end up sleeping well past my usual times on days when I'm not in work, and sometimes I can't sleep at night and would only get a few hours sleep. Sometimes only an hour.


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    #52
    Widdershins
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    5 or 6 hours lately. I start dreaming as soon as my eyes close, before I'm fully asleep. I thought you had to be asleep for some time before you could dream.


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    #53
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    During the week, 5-6.

    At the weekend I usually get in at least one 8-10 hrs.


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    #54
    FortuneChip
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    Somewhere between 4 & 6 at nighttime.
    Sometimes I might grab an hour straight after work or something (as a result of not getting enough sleep the night before, not the cause of not sleeping that night)


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    #55
    brock92
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭brock92


    I get 3-4 a night for last few weeks, newborn baby in our house
    Hope she will start sleeping a bit longer soon


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    #56
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Alpha_zero wrote: »
    I would love to Hibernate sleep for a year and then awake for the next

    That would be rotten. You'd be on your own for 8 hours a day.


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    #57
    OldMrBrennan83
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    #58
    Zillah
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    Glenster wrote: »
    That would be rotten. You'd be on your own for 8 hours a day.

    I would like to be on my own from 20-24 hours per day, so 8 would be a nice start.


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    #59
    Glenster
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    I'm in the bed with my eyes closed for 6 hours a night, sometimes 6 1/2.

    Sometimes it takes me a while to get to sleep, sometimes I oversleep by 10 minutes.

    Grown-ass people who moan about not getting enough sleep are annoying.


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    #60
    Glenster
    Registered Users Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭Glenster


    Zillah wrote: »
    I would like to be on my own from 20-24 hours per day, so 8 would be a nice start.

    Different strokes I suppose.


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    #61
    [Deleted User]
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    Not as many as my recent short but somewhat spectacular break down would suggest I need :)

    Been trying to scale back on some of my activities and put that time into sleep - but it has been a battle to decide which things to snip out of my life. So I am just working on hoping one break down was enough :)


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