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

[Bestival]

The whole 8 hours thing was basically bullshit made up to regulate how many hours people have to work, not sleep. The idea was 8 hours work, 8 hours leisure, 8 hours sleep.
Really, you only need between 4 and 7, except for the very young and the very old. Both less and more than that is actually sort of unhealthy.

I usually get between 5 and 6 hours on workdays, not because I'm obsessed with that whole 4-7 thing, but because I always end up reading, LOVE reading in bed.
Most of the time I'm in bed by like 22:00 or 23:00 or so, but then end up reading till around 01:00.
I try to really keep this rhythm going now, because I'm terrified of getting insomnia again. Had that a few years ago and it is absolute hell, 3 days awake, 3 hours sleep, 3 days awake.. after 2 weeks you start hallucinating, and everything happens in slowmo, horrible.


... So yeah, 6 hours.

 

[ResonanceSD]

after 2 weeks you start hallucinating, and everything happens in slowmo, horrible.

That sounds like it'd be awesome, I'd don a trench and some sunnies and walk around my own personal Matrix.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

I think life's just too short to spend a third of it sleeping. When death comes a'knockin', I'd like to invite him in for a Waldorf Salad and a cup of tea before we depart, and I'd like to feel like the trip was worth it.

Depending on what is going on, I like to keep sleep between three and six hours, with lazy Saturdays or Sundays sprinkled into the routine, if feasible. Staying in bed on purpose is so much more rewarding and awesome when it's considered a truly luxurious, decadent, special treat.

When I'm dead, I'll be lying around for eternity. Can't have that as long as I'm breathing.

Also, a little caffeine right before going to sleep makes for very efficient dreaming. Only if you're not very sensitive to caffeine, of course.

 

[Issurru]

My sleep schedule is all sorts of fucked up sometimes. I work at least 8 hours a day everyday of the week. But I try to spend time with family friends and my girlfriend. So it can vary from none to 8 or if I'm lucky 9. I usually try to get at least 5 or 6 hours a night but that doesn't always happen. Like for instance I had to work yesterday from 7-4 then babysat my girlfriends bosses grandkids till 11. So I'm pretty much falling asleep at my job as I type this

 

[C F]

Generally 8 hours, though sometimes I'll clock anywhere up to 11 hours if I feel like sleeping in. I try to fall asleep around 10:30 to 11 pm so I can start my day early without any problems or drawbacks.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I think life's just too short to spend a third of it sleeping. When death comes a'knockin', I'd like to invite him in for a Waldorf Salad and a cup of tea before we depart, and I'd like to feel like the trip was worth it.

I'd be yelling at him to fuck off whilst I rax.


And then challenge him to a game of TF2.

 

[Starik20X6]

I get around 8-9, I'm not usually up past midnight and I try to avoid sleeping away the mornings.

Why does waking up naturally feel so much better than waking up to an alarm, and why can't we all do that instead?

When the first rays of sunlight hit your eyeballs in the morning, your body begins producing endorphins to slowly bring you out of your sleep, which makes you feel refreshed when you wake up soon after. When you're woken by an alarm clock, your body is jolted from sleep to wake without the endorphins meant to ease you awake, thus you still feel sleepy and disoriented. That's why I always sleep with the blinds open on my window that faces east. Feels good man.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I get around 8-9, I'm not usually up past midnight and I try to avoid sleeping away the mornings.

Why does waking up naturally feel so much better than waking up to an alarm, and why can't we all do that instead?

When the first rays of sunlight hit your eyeballs in the morning, your body begins producing endorphins to slowly bring you out of your sleep, which makes you feel refreshed when you wake up soon after. When you're woken by an alarm clock, your body is jolted from sleep to wake without the endorphins meant to ease you awake, thus you still feel sleepy and disoriented. That's why I always sleep with the blinds open on my window that faces east. Feels good man.

You can get alarm clocks which throw light and don't make some stupid industrial honking noise too. If your house doesn't happen to have an east facing window.

 

[RipRoaringWaterfowl]

Around the regulation eight hour, though sometimes I have a bit of trouble falling asleep.

Hoping I don't end up an insomniac like my mum, that'd suck pretty bad.

 

[Username Redacted]

I am in bed for ~8 hours a night. I am asleep for ~5 of those hours. Hours are unlikely to be consecutive.

 

[Zeraki]

I had knee surgery about two weeks ago, so my sleep schedule right now is pretty much whenever I happen to fall asleep and wake up.

 

[octafish]

As a parent of a three year old and an 18 month old...not enough...never enough...given that any gaming I do is inevitably after the kids and wife are in bed, even less than not enough.

 

[MPerce]

I try to get about 8 hours because that's how much it takes for my brain to be at its best. That never happens, though.

7 hours is optimistic.

 

[deserteagleeye]

I've been getting around 10 hours, but I stay up until 3-4.

 

[SpAc3man]

6 to 7 on weeknights normally. I would like more but it gets hard to find the time. Friday night I normally get around 9 hours and Saturday I try to get about 8.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Let's see...In a normal school year I'll usually sleep from 6-7 hours a night. Then on weekends, depending if I have any priorities (A certain Pony related TV show in the morning, for example), I'll get the same amount. Otherwise roughly 10+ hours. Though I'm always sleepy...I usually sleep in class.

 

[Bat Vader]

If I go to bed at 6:00 AM I will usually fall asleep around 7:30 or 8:00 AM and wake up around 11:00 AM. It will take me about another hour or so to fall back asleep before I have to get up for work at around 2:00 PM.

I usually end up getting 4-5 hours of sleep a day. That is if I don't take sleeping pills though. If I take sleeping pills I usually end up getting 5 1/2-7 hours of sleep.

 

[DustyDrB]

Five is the norm, but I get less sometimes. I just stay up way too late, even when I have things to do in the morning.