One of my best friends seems to do well with 5 hours (everyday!). Then, there are my Japanese colleagues who are in the office at all hours. My mom didn't (not sure about nowadays as I don't live with my parents anymore) seem to need much sleep either; she used to go to bed quite late and still woke up much earlier than I did.

Me, I can't function with less than 7 hours. In fact 7 is a push and normally I need 8 to start acting like I have a brain at all. If I've had a bad week then I simply can't seem to wake up and virtually sleep through the weekend to make up.

If only I can sleep less, then I probably have more time to practise

Somewhere between 7 and 9 hours, usually.

Less than about 6 and half, and I'll know about it...

5 hours is probably usual for me; I'm fine with 4 usually though. I tend to go to bed a lot earlier than that suggests because my parents go to bed around 10/11 and make me go to bed then as well (Dad can hack my computer and turn it off remotely )

Exactly 7 hours. I fall asleep easily and then wake up exactly seven hours later. Yes, I know...

8 is my usual number for weekdays. If I get 7, I'm usually a bit of a state. If I only get 6 I can muddle through, i.e. getting 6 hours is better than getting 7 hours.
Weekends...I can happily sleep 10 or 11 hours at weekends, and then have an hour nap in the afternoon

Having said that...recent changes to medication mean I am (a) sleeping less at weekends; and (b) able to cope if I end up with consecutive days of <8 hours!

I like to have around four and a half hours to feel that I have had a decent night's sleep. If I am really tired I can manage five but then will be wide awake. If I am unwell, which doesn't happen often, i will go to bed and sleep for around twenty-four hours and then be fully mended! This happens about once every couple of years when I catch really heavy colds and am too groggy to do anything.

To be properly healthy and functioning well I need about 6.5 hours.

I can function adequately for several weeks on as little as 3 hours, but at gradually diminishing capacity, ending up feeling and looking awful ... and it takes a week of sleeping 8-9 hours to recover.

If I am doing a lot of physical exercise (running, swimming, heavy manual work) the basic requirement goes up to 7 to 8 hours.

I admit: I notoriously need 9-10 hours. I can just about function with 8, but everything under that makes me feel awful.
Not always possible to get that much sleep though, but if I can, I do (and then my bf has to trick me out of bed with a cup of coffee right under my nose ) ...

About 4 hours, although I'm not quite managing that at the moment. Although, being a stereotypical teenager, I'll happily sleep in whenever possible.

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

I average about 5 hours.

I need about 9-10 hours in bed but I wake a lot in the night.
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 think I would need about 7-8 hours sleep if i did the same thing every day, but (especially in the holidays) I tend to have a few days of about 4-5 hours, then one or two of 12 hours when I start feeling constantly shattered. Its really not very good, but I find it impossible to settle on anything regular.

I think if I'm actually living an active enough lifestyle, I probably only need about 7 and can easily function on less. I go to bed between 12 and 1 and then wake up about 7. What is the problem is getting out of bed when I don't have to. Once I'm out of bed, I'm totally fine.

I was getting really tired about a month ago, and I started sleeping 8-9 hours most nights. I actually found that made it worse, not better. The tiredness turned out to be related to lack of exercise rather than not sleeping enough. Too much time working a desk job made me drowsy. I'm definitely looking forward to studying, and eventually singing teaching - so much less computer time!

I need about 8-9 hours on a school day (any less and I'll be crabbit and moany for most of it )! At weekends I can happily sleep for 10-11 hours, which is terrible, I know! I'm usually very energetic ALL the time!

I sleep around 3-4-5 am.

wake up like 7-8-9 am.. so don't really need too much =D

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).

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

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

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.



I seem to feel permanantly tired these days, and even fall asleep at my desk

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

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

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!

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.

Normally 5-6 hours on average

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.

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

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

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.

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"!!!!

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

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.

I can function fine on 3 hours sleep a night for over a month..then i'll have a weekend where I just sleep lol!

I don't sleep much in the day. Occasionally. Once very recently I did fall asleep in the afternoon and the phone really shocked me into wakefulness! But I had been up from 5am till 11pm the night before.

But maybe 5-6 hours a night will do.

The cheek of it, I'm impressed I can be heard in London, maybe if I shout a little louder I'll be heard in Loch Ness!

Too few....... ....and junior isn't to blame either - it's just my lack of self-discipline and my love of reading!!!!! (Or should that be another ?)

8 - 9 hours is perfect. Can't lie-in though, so need to go to bed early!!

During the week, if i'm at school/work, i generaly get between 8 and 9 hours of uninterrupted sleep. At the weekend i can easily sleep for 12 hours. Although I tend to be more tired after waking up from 12 hours sleep than after 8 hours ...

I need at least 8. Have needed more since I went deaf Go figure. Only thing I can think of is that I have to concentrate a great deal to hear conversation, and get tired.
Was absolutely awful when the girls were babies, could barely string a sentence together.
Bev.

Around 8 is good for me. My natural body clock is set at going to bed between 12 and 1 and getting up between 8 and 9. Unfortunately, even if I have to get up at 5.30 or 6 (which I do two days a week), I find I can't go to bed earlier than normal - so I end up feeling shattered all day .

When I was diagnosed with severe exhaustion a few years ago, I think I didn't do much else other than sleep for the first month...sometimes I would feel as if I'd just walked into a wall and had to go to sleep there and then - quite often I couldn't even get up the stairs or undress or anything, I just had to SLEEP.

So I am pretty jealous of all these people who can survive on 3-6 hours a night!

If they gave out Olympic medals for sleeping, I guess I'd be in with a pretty good chance of gold...

Before I hurt my back, I used to need 7-8 hours. Any less than 6 and I was hopeless all day.

Now I'm lucky to get 2 or 3 hours, and find myself sleeping during the day

My problem is the day when I teach til 9, sometimes it's a bit later if a student wants to talk afterwards - takes me ages to wind down, I never get to bed until 12 at the earliest, then I'm up at 6am, teaching 7 classes, choir and hymn practice plus my own choir in the evening - so I'm BUSHED the day after !

10-12 hours
how i love being on holiday

Usually around 7 or 8 hours But I LOVE having a good proper long sleep!
I have survived without sleep for 37 hours though. I think that's pretty impressive!

Over the holidays, i've been getting about 12-14 hours sleep! but on school days, i get about 7, and its torture! i go to bed at about 11, and have to be up at six, so at the weekend, i have a lie in and get 12 hours, but from september, i dont get that any more, seeing as i have to take an early bus for my piano lessons and choir rehersals/new organist job.

Jacob.

I know I've already answered this but have re-read the question and - actually, I sleep at night......