Poll: So, how much sleep do you actually get per night?

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CyanideSandwich

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I have a test first period of school tomorrow, yet here I am doing nothing of real value at 11:22pm. How late I stay up doesn't seem to affect my alertness in the mornings, yet I just completed a term of psychology focusing on sleep so I know how important REM sleep is and how devastating sleep deprivation can be to the brain, so I limit myself to 11:30pm now, when I used to stay up past 1:00am basically every night. Goodnight, fellow Escapists.
 
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Well last week was like this:

Sunday-Monday: 1 1/2
Monday-Tuesday: 14
Tuesday-Wednesday: 4
Wednesday-Thursday: 4
Thursday-Friday: 7
Friday-Saturday: 10
Saturday-Sunday: 4, then 2 hours awake, then 4

I've never really had a pattern of sleep in my entire life. I've stayed awake for three days simply because I couldn't get to sleep, but then I've slept for 18 hours because I didn't have any reason to get up.

I should point out that last week I was at work as well, so all of these end with getting up at some point between 7:30-8:00 in the morning and working a full 8 1/2 hour day.
 

Diddy_Mao

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During my work week I tend to go to sleep on average around 5:00am and wake up at 11:30am.
 

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Around 7-9 hours but at the moment it's 7 hours.

I would get more sleep if my bloody parent stop waking me up whenever they go to the toilet at night! (I'm a light headed sleeper so any noise outside of my room wake me up easily.)
 

Richardplex

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Kaleion said:
1 AM?
Please I've made it a week without sleeping[footnote]This behaviour isn't endorsed or recommended by me, side-effects include having no idea what you're doing, being completely unable to concentrate and hallucinations.[/footnote], anyway considering that I normally go to sleep anywhere between 2AM and 4 AM and tend to get up at 8AM I'd say anywhere between 6 and 4 hours, but considering that it normally takes me around half an hour to fall asleep let's say anything between 6-3 and a half hours, though one time I did sleep for 3 days, but that was after said week without sleeping, and may have been a short coma.
You only hallucinate after a week? Lucky you, that starts happening after the first day of all-nighting for me. 2 nights plus and I get violently ill after I sleep.

OT: 1 am? that's when I start my last 1 hour run. I normally go to bed around 3 in the morning these days, spend 2 hours trying to sleep and wake between 10 and 1, so it's quite varied, 5-8 hours.
 

Alssadar

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My natural sleeping habits usually dictate getting 8 hours. I mean, with summer and all, I'm free to sleep whenever I want to.
But when I go to bed at 12:30, I wake up at 8:30; sleep at 1:30, get up at 9:30. It's randomly how my body works.

But during the schoolyear, I get around 6 hours, as I go to bed 'round midnight and wake up around 6:30.
 

Aerosteam

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No matter what time I go to sleep, It's always 9 hours if I wake up on my own.
 

King of Wei

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I try for 6 but usually end up getting 4 or less because I'm constantly thinking about work and other such nonsense.
 

manic_depressive13

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It really depends. I rarely go to sleep before 4am, but depending on whether I have to go anywhere the next day the amount of sleep ranges from 3 hours to 12 hours. At the moment between I have three days off a week. I probably get 10 hours sleep on each of my days off and about 3-4hours on my working days, which averages out to a respectable 6-7 hours sleep per night.
 

Zio_IV

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Where's mah insomniac option?

Been going 43 months without sleep. Christ I love not having to sleep. It's just so convenient.
 

Bazaalmon

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I tend to get 8-9 hours per night if it's a weekday and I have stuff to do eg. school, job, whatever.
Weekends tend to be slightly less, but I still feel better with the smaller amount I get because I don't need to wake up to an alarm clock. I hate alarm clocks.
Why does waking up naturally feel so much better than waking up to an alarm, and why can't we all do that instead?
 

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DVS BSTrD said:
I am bit of an insomniac though.
Making your avatar suit you surprisingly well.
OT: About four to six hours a night. Feel like shit most of the day, but it works.
 

Ledan

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Sleep at night? What a ridiculous concept!
I only sleep between 6 and 12 in the morning.
 

rokkolpo

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Workdays: I get around 7-9 hours.

Weekend: I either do not sleep or do not even get out of bed. (Because I didn't sleep the other day)
 

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Richardplex said:
Kaleion said:
1 AM?
Please I've made it a week without sleeping[footnote]This behaviour isn't endorsed or recommended by me, side-effects include having no idea what you're doing, being completely unable to concentrate and hallucinations.[/footnote], anyway considering that I normally go to sleep anywhere between 2AM and 4 AM and tend to get up at 8AM I'd say anywhere between 6 and 4 hours, but considering that it normally takes me around half an hour to fall asleep let's say anything between 6-3 and a half hours, though one time I did sleep for 3 days, but that was after said week without sleeping, and may have been a short coma.
You only hallucinate after a week? Lucky you, that starts happening after the first day of all-nighting for me. 2 nights plus and I get violently ill after I sleep.
No, I'm pretty sure it started on the third day, but I managed to stay up from a Saturday to a Sunday, which would be 5 nights without sleeping? Something like that, my recollection of the events is pretty hazy and I'm pretty sure that rock that I called pumpkin mountain wasn't really talking to me., it was awful, I'm pretty sure I was convinced that everybody wanted to kill me to, but I think that was the reason that I wasn't sleeping, and I probably thought that before I started hallucinating