How Many Hours A Day Do You Sleep?, Just curious Options

[Czerny]

I need about 9-10 hours in bed but I wake a lot in the night. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
A 4 hour stretch is good going, mostly I wake every 2-3 hours, usually I fall asleep then have fairly vivid dreams which wake me.

I'm quite similar. I'm curious to know whether people who get by on 6-7 hours or even less have very 'good quality', deep sleep (i.e. they don't wake up repeatedly).

[Rosemary7391]

Well, once I'm awake, I'm awake for good usually!

[liebe_klavier]

i have to sleep between 7 to 8 hours. could do with 6 hours though, but i would need some naps in the day.

[janexxx]

Oh I wish I needed less...I need at least 8, if I don't get it I have to catch it up later on. Ideally 10 hours a night would suit me fine. Think of all the stuff I could do if I could get by on less.

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I seem to feel permanantly tired these days, and even fall asleep at my desk (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

[Panthera]

I'm curious to know whether people who get by on 6-7 hours or even less have very 'good quality', deep sleep (i.e. they don't wake up repeatedly).

Interesting, though I don't think quality has anything to do with quantity in my case. I sleep very deeply - actually, I've never woken up during the night and rarely dreams. Still, I need 7-8 hours (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[mwl1]

I need less sleep than I used to - I must have adapted to having a lot to do of an evening!

[Miss Ross]

I don't really sleep very much at night but have started falling asleep during the day of late. I mean, it's not intentional or anything, I just suddenly find that I can't stay awake. Rather annoying really, particularly when I'm with someone interesting! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

[anacrusis]

Having had to get up two and three times a night to look after a family member for several months, I spent the best part of half a year getting only two or three consecutive hours, and only five or six in all each night...it took me three weeks off work to recover after the situation eased; I'd much rather have about eight hours. Ten ends up being too many though - I wake up stiff and headachy.

[oldnotes]

Normally 5-6 hours on average

[BerkshireMum]

I usually sleep for around 6 hours, but every so often I need to "catch up" by having some long lie-ins, so I suspect 7 hours would be better for me! I just like to have an hour or so to unwind after everyone else is in bed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[lottie]

I sleep between 3 and 8 hours.

If it's only 3 then I'll fall asleep in the afternoon regardless of what I'm doing!!! Very unsociable. I also don't function well and find work difficult so I prefer more. But sometimes I'm too 'wired' to sleep, or have an issue running through my mind which keeps me awake.

But I'm even worse if my sleep is constantly interrupted.. with a sick dog, or OH's snoring or bad dreams etc. Then I'm like a zombie.

7-8 hours is bliss and makes me happy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/party1.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Rarely I've managed 10hours but I don't any better for it and am annoyed at the waste of time!!!

[fsharpminor]

I'm an 'early to bed , early to rise' man. But it certainly hasn't made me 'wealthy and wise'
I like to be in bed by 10.30 - 11, though I usually read for a while before turning off the light.
Weekdays I'm out of bed at 6.15-6.30. Weekends a bit later. So I reckon I get 7 hrs sleep most nights.

[missypiano]

I enjoy running around naked on hills too much at night to allow myself to sleep all that much!

I average about 5 hours.

Well I used to sleep about 6 hours a night but lately my sleep has been disturbed by this weird guy running around naked on top of the hills screaming at the top of his head "I might not have my grade 5 piano but I've got Ad-lib and I'm in love"!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[jay77]

Hmm ... A lot less than I would like to!
I get up at 6 most days and don't go to bed until around 11/11.30 at the earliest because the evening is my best presented op. for study. My two year old is having trouble sleeping at the moment so I am normally up twice/three times a night and in 7 weeks my darling son is due to be born - more sleepless nights!
Surprisingly enough, I don't have bad shadows/bags atm (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[jod]

9 hours if I don't have a disturbed night.

Sleep is the best therapy for Fibro, unfortunately fibro suffers often have disturbed nights.

Still I do try.